The German Federal Film Board promotes the constitution of the German film economy and the creative artistic quality of the German film as a precondition for its success at home and abroad. It awards promotion in the fields of film, video, screenplay, advanced training, research and advertising measures.

The World Cinema Fund supports films which are uniquely aesthetic, tell memorable stories and authentically reflect the cultural background of the regions in which they are made. It has previously focussed Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia as well as Southeast Asia and the Caucasus.

The MEDIA Mundus programme supports cooperation projects between European professionals and professionals from third countries, to the mutual benefit of the European audiovisual sector and that of third countries. The education and training of students, professional forces and teachers from third countries, the support of distribution, promotion, screening and diffusion of European works in third country markets and of audiovisual works from third countries in Europe as well as general activities is subsidised.

The European Fund for Co-Productions Eurimages supports European trilateral and bilateral co-productions as well as the distribution of European film- and TV-productions. The funding activities in public film lending are restricted to films and renting agencies of Eurimages Member States otherwise excluded from application for related public grants provided by the European Union. Thus it wants to advance cooperation between the EU-Member States and the States of Central and Eastern Europe in the field of film production and public lending.