The Berlinale World Cinema Fund has awarded production and distribution funding of €165,000 ($223,000) to eight films.

The jury made their selection from 121 submissions from 43 countries and chose the following features:

Production funding

Los Hongos
Dir: Óscar Ruiz Navia (Colombia). Production: Burning Blue & Contravia Films, Colombia. Feature film.
Funding: €30,000.

Benjamín o el Planetario
Dir: Carlos Machado Quintela (Cuba). Production: Rizoma, Argentina. German partner: M-Appeal. Feature film.
Funding: €35,000.

Ejercicios de la Memoria
Dir: Paz Encina (Paraguay). Production: Autentika Film, Germany. Documentary.
Funding: €35,000.

Te Prometo Anarquía
Dir: Julio Hernández Cordón (Guatemala). Production: Interior 13, Mexico. Feature film.
Funding: €30,000.

In the Last Days of the City
Dir: Tamer El Said (Egypt). Production: Zero Production (Egypt). Documentary.
Funding: €20,000.

Distribution funding

Coming Forth by Day
Dir: Hala Lofty (Egypt). German distributor: Arsenal für Film und Videokunst e.V. Release in Germany: Nov 14, 2013.
Funding: €4,357.50.

Carne de Perro
Dir: Fernando Guzzoni (Chile). German distributor: déjà-vu film UG. Release in Germany: Jan 23, 2014.
Funding: €5,000.

Workers
Dir: José Luís Valle (Mexico). German distributor: Bildkraft. Release in Germany: Dec 12, 2013.
Funding: €5,000.

Jury members included film scholar and curator Viola Shafik, documentary producer Marta Andreu, distributor and producer Jan De Clercq and WCF project managers Sonja Heinen and Vincenzo Bugno.

The fund was set up by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Berlin International Film Festival, and is backed by Germany’s Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, in cooperation with the Goethe Institut, with the support of the Federal Foreign Office.

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