Karim Aïnouz's "Last Dance", written by Emily Ziff Griffin with Adrien Brody, Rachel Zegler and Ben Platt in the cast, takes €200,000 (roughly $234,000) for Berlin's INFLAMÁVEL in the autumn round of regional funder Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, which splits €4.3 million (~$5 million) between 14 productions and 10 development projects. Mohammad Rasoulof's "Grey Matter" and Axel Ranisch's UFA Fiction feature "Deine Freunde" get the top grants at €700,000 (~$820,000) each, Lone Scherfig's "Honeytrap" for Zentropa Berlin gets €400,000 (~$470,000), and İlker Çatak and Helene Hegemann take €300,000 (~$350,000) each for Dogma 25 films, Çatak's "Dogma 25 - Heureka" with Leonie Benesch and Hanna Schygulla. Development money goes to Kirill Serebrennikov's "Urninge" and Volker Schlöndorff's "Afrika"; 62 projects applied for €14.24 million (~$16.7 million).
Berlin Funds Adrien Brody and Rachel Zegler Starrer "Last Dance"