The German-Turkish Co-Production Development Fund, run by Berlin-Brandenburg's Medienboard, Hamburg's MOIN Filmförderung and Meetings on the Bridge, the Istanbul Film Festival's co-production platform, awards €121,000 (~$142,000) to seven feature projects in development. The largest grants go to Tayfun Pirselimoğlu's "The Power Plant" (Gataki Films, Grandfilm Produktion), €25,000 (~$29,000), and €20,000 (~$23,000) each to Onur Saylak's "Adem and the Others" (Liman Film, Ay Yapım, Electric Sheep) and Çağla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti's "Chen & Gan" (İİ Film, Klinkerfilm, Elzévir Films); Aslı Çavuşoğlu's "Ancestors", Onur Sefer's "Leviathan", Seyfettin Tokmak's "When the Sky Fades Away" and Cüneyt Kaya and Enes Ateş's "Berliner" share the rest. Founded in 2011, the fund backed İlker Çatak's "Yellow Letters", which won the Golden Bear at the 2026 Berlinale.
Seven New German-Turkish Films Backed by Fund Behind Golden Bear Winner "Yellow Letters"
