26/06/2024 - New projects by the Dardenne brothers, Hlynur Pálmason, Nadav Lapid, Emin Alper and Valentyn Vasyanovych are among the selection

Director Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, whose new project The Young Mothers' Home has been selected (© Fabrizio de Gennaro/Cineuropa)

The results of the second Eurimages Project Evaluation Session of 2024 have just been announced. Further to recommendations made by independent experts meeting online, the Executive Committee of the Fund has decided to support the co-production of 31 feature films, including 6 documentaries and 3 animations, for a total amount of €8,760,000. Of the 31 co-production projects supported during the session, 13 are to be directed or co-directed by women. This represents 49.54% of the total funding awarded.

The films supported include the new work by acclaimed directors such as brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (whose latest film Tori and Lokita [+see also:
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film profile] won the 75th festival’s Special Prize at Cannes) who have received €400,000 for The Young Mothers' Home (Belgium/France), which sees them trying their hand at an ensemble story focusing on several young women’s experience of motherhood. Other well-established filmmakers that have received funding for their new projects are Iceland's Hlynur Pálmason, with €500,000 for On Land and Sea (Denmark/Iceland/France) his follow-up to his Cannes sensation and Academy Award submission Godland [+see also:
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interview: Hlynur Pálmason
film profile]; Israel-born, France-based Nadav Lapid, with €370,000 for Yes (France/Germany/Israel), his new film after the Berlinale Golden Bear winner Synonyms [+see also:
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interview: Nadav Lapid
film profile] and the Cannes Jury Prize winner Ahed's Knee [+see also:
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interview: Nadav Lapid
film profile]; and Turkey's Emin Alper, with €250,000 for Salvation (Turkey/Netherlands/Greece), his new film after his acclaimed Burning Days [+see also:
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interview: Emin Alper
film profile].

Other established filmmakers that have received funding for their new projects are Ukraine's Valentyn Vasyanovych (Venice's Orizzonti winner with Atlantis [+see also:
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interview: Valentyn Vasyanovych
film profile]), with €70,000 for To the Victory! (Ukraine, Lithuania); Kosovo-born, Germany-based Visar Morina (Father [+see also:
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film profile], Exile [+see also:
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film profile]) with €160,000 for Hatixhe and Shaban (Germany/Kosovo/Albania/Slovenia); Canada's Geneviève Dulude-De Celles (Berlinale's Generation Kplus Crystal Bear winner with A Colony), with €420 000 for Blue Flower (Canada/Bulgaria); the Netherlands' Jaap van Heusden, with €468,000 for In Alaska (Netherlands/Canada); the Netherlands' Mike van Diem, with €400,000 for Our Girls (Netherlands/Austria/Belgium); Austria's Jakob Moritz Erwa, with €319,000 for Valeska (Germany/Austria/Belgium); Romania's Tudor Cristian Jurgiu, with €155,000 for On Their Own (Romania/Italy).

The supported second fiction features are One Year of School (Italy/France) by Italy's Laura Samani (Small Body [+see also:
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film profile]) with €500,000; Dust (Belgium/Greece/Poland) by Belgium's Anke Blondé with €400,000; and Volcano (Netherlands/Belgium) by the Netherlands' Mees Peijnenburg with €150.000.

The supported first fiction features are and Wolf Grrrls! by Spain's Claudia Estrada Tarascó with €500,000 (Spain/Belgium); Save the Dead (France/Armenia) by France's Tamara Stepanyan with €450,000; Kika (Belgium/France) by Belgium's Alexe Poukine with €200,000; Permanent Being (Netherlands/Spain) by Spain's Juan Palacios with €50,000; Bells of Kabul (France/Germany/Belgium) by France's Chabname Zariab with €390,000; La Baleine (France/Belgium/Spain) by France's Sylvère Petit with €200,000; Sevda (Switzerland/Belgium) by Switzerland's Ufuk Emiroglu with €360,000; Tiger Martindale's Survival Experts (Latvia/Lithuania) by Latvia's Pavels Gumennikovs with €228,000.

The financed animation films are Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake (Spain/France/Belgium) by Spain's Irene Iborra with €500,000; Sjap & King (Netherlands/Belgium) by the Netherlands' Mascha Halberstad with €400,000 and Jim Queen (France/Belgium) by France's Marco Nguyen and Nicolas Athané with €223,000.

Regarding the supported documentaries, the titles are Gabin, a Youth in the Backland (France/Germany/Switzerland) by France's Maxence Voiseux with €200,000; Imago (France/Belgium) by France's Déni Oumar Pitsaev with €150,000; Fatna, a Woman Named Rachid (France/Morocco/Belgium) by France's Hélène Harder with €100,000; Three Sisters (Austria/France/Germany) by France's Massoud Bakhshi with €97,000; Moon Diary (Belgium/Spain/Netherlands) by Belgium's Vanessa Del Campo with €90,000; and Kartli (France/Georgia) by Georgia's Tamar Kalandadze and France's Julien Pebrel with €60,000.

Lastly, the Eurimages Executive Committee has also agreed to award a total amount of €571 698 to 64 cinemas members of the Eurimages-Europa Cinemas network, based on their 2023 programming.