28/02/2014 - New films by auteurs Terence Davies and Jaco Van Dormael, as well as local directors, receive funding from Luxembourg

Earlier this month, Film Fund Luxembourg announced the recipients of its latest round of funding. A total of €9,496,751 was handed out to three short films, five features and a transmedia project.

By far the biggest portion of production aid went to the new project by Luxembourg-based director Christophe Wagner, whose first fiction feature, the Luxembourgish-language thriller Blind Spot [+see also:
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interview: Christophe Wagner
film profile], was a huge box-office hit, selling more tickets than The Amazing Spider-Man. His new project is called Eng nei Zäit (A New Time), and will be produced by Samsa Film and its Belgian partner Artémis Productions. They received a total of €2,608,660.

The new project by Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael (Mr Nobody [+see also:
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interview: Jaco Van Dormael
interview: Jaco Van Dormael
film profile], Toto the Hero) is called Le tout nouveau testament (The Brand-new Testament). A co-production by Juliette Films, French company Après le Déluge and Belgian firm Terra Incognita, the title received €1.8 million.

Receiving just a smidgen less is Sunset Song [+see also:
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interview: Terence Davies
film profile], the adaptation of the Lewis Grassic Gibbon novel by British auteur Terence Davies (The Deep Blue Sea [+see also:
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interview: Terence Davies
film profile]). It will be produced by Sunset Song Ltd and co-produced by Iris Productions, and was given €1,788,398.

A similar amount, €1,740,274, went to Tout, tout de suite (Everything, and Everything Now), a film that will be directed by French actor Richard Berry, and which will be co-produced by Bidibul, Legende and Nexus Factory.

The last feature project to receive backing is Le Chant des hommes [+see also:
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The short-film recipients are directors Claude Kongs, Virgile Bage and Julie Schroell, who received amounts ranging from €120,000 to almost €150,000.

Lastly, director Beryl Koltz (Hot Hot Hot [+see also:
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