Federal Act
on Film Production and Film Culture
(Film Act, FiA)

¹ Fin­an­cial as­sist­ance is provided:

a.

ac­cord­ing to cri­ter­ia re­lated to qual­ity (se­lect­ive pro­mo­tion);

b.

ac­cord­ing to cri­ter­ia re­lated to suc­cess (suc­cess-linked pro­mo­tion);

c.

ac­cord­ing to cri­ter­ia re­lated to loc­a­tion (loc­a­tion-linked pro­mo­tion); or

d.

ac­cord­ing to the con­tri­bu­tion made to the di­versity and qual­ity of the films on of­fer in all parts of the coun­try (di­versity pro­mo­tion).⁶

² The Fed­er­al De­part­ment of Home Af­fairs (FDHA) de­term­ines the re­quire­ments, in par­tic­u­lar the re­in­vest­ment ob­lig­a­tions, and the pro­ced­ure.