03/03/2022 - On this occasion, the country’s film agency has granted its support to 18 new projects, including those by Jaco Van Dormael and Fien Troch

Director Jaco Van Dormael, who has received €1.5 million for his adventure-western Dogboy

The Film Fund Luxembourg has announced the recipients of its first round of funding for 2022. On this occasion, the body has awarded aid to a total of 18 projects. In detail, these include six fiction features, two animated features, three documentary features, one live-action series, one animated series, one documentary series, one docu-fiction series, two shorts and one VR work.

Half of the projects have received development bursaries. The selected productions are Loïc Tanson’s fiction feature Josy (€60,000, a Six Letters production), Medhi Hmili’s fiction feature Les saisons de Jannet (€30,000, produced by Tarantula Luxembourg), Gary Seghers’s live-action series Ghost Society (€30,000, staged by Wild Fang Films), Ali Samadi Ahadi’s animated feature Go With the Floh (€60,000, produced by Amour Fou Luxembourg), Julie-Schroell’s documentary feature Au-delà des murs (€120,000, staged by a_Bahn), Stéphan Roelants’ documentary feature Le Monstre, le miroir brisé (€30,000, a Mélusine Productions presentation), Fabrizio Maltese’s Blue (€51,850, produced by Joli Rideau Media), Alain Tshinza’s documentary series Boxing Stories (€60,000, staged by Wady Films) and a_Bahn’s collective VR work You Can Call Me Max (€60,000).

Meanwhile, Eric Lahmène’s Ausser Otem is the project in receipt of the production grant of the biggest magnitude (€2,225,000). The drama, set to enter production in August, is being staged by Samsa Film in co-production with undisclosed Belgian partners. The other backed projects are Jaco Van Dormael’s adventure-western Dogboy (€1,500,000, produced by Bac Cinema in Luxembourg, in co-production with the UK, Spain and France), Fien Troch’s dramedy Holly [+see also:
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