09/04/2025 - New films by Cristian Mungiu, Albert Serra, Kantemir Balagov, Héléna Klotz and Colm Bairéad are among the selection

Director Cristian Mungiu, whose project Fjord has been supported (© Fabrizio de Gennaro/Cineuropa)

The results of the first Eurimages Project Evaluation Session of 2025 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 23 feature films, including 5 documentaries and 2 animations, for a total amount of €7,183,000. Of the 23 co-production projects supported during the session, 12 are to be directed or co-directed by women. This represents 39.13% of the total funding awarded.

The films supported include the new work by acclaimed directors such as Romania's Cristian Mungiu (winner of the Palme d'or with 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days [+see also:
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film profile] and whose last three films played in the Cannes competition), who has received €500,000 for Fjord (Romania/France/Norway/Denmark/Sweden), a film revolving around two families, a Romanian one which has moved to the village where the mother was born and a Swedish-Norwegian one, living in a small remote Norwegian village, starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve (read news); and Spain's Albert Serra (whose latest fiction film Pacifiction [+see also:
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Other established filmmakers that have received funding for their new projects are Russia's Kantemir Balagov, with €471,000 for Butterfly Jam (France/Germany/Belgium), his follow-up to the acclaimed Closeness [+see also:
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film profile]; France's Héléna Klotz, with €150,000 for The Girls Who Wouldn't Stop Talking (France/Belgium), her follow-up to the acclaimed Atomic Age [+see also:
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interview: Héléna Klotz
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film profile]), with €150,000 for A Detour via Diane (Belgium/France); Serbian actress-director Mirjana Karanović (A Good Wife [+see also:
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The supported second fiction features are Mary Rose (Ireland/Belgium) by Ireland's Colm Bairéad, his follow-up to the acclaimed The Quiet Girl [+see also:
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The supported first fiction features are Get Up Stand Up (Netherlands/Greece) by the Netherlands' Mari Sanders, with €390,000; Glory B (Greece/Italy/UK) by Greece's Konstantinos Antonopoulos, with €340,000; and Low Expectations (Norway/Denmark) by Norway's Eivind Landsvik, with €291,000.

Regarding the financed animation films, there are two titles in this session: Children of Liberty (France/Luxembourg) by France's Léahn Vivier-Chapas and Rémy Schaepman, with €500,000, and Melvile (Belgium/France/Luxembourg/Canada) by France's Fabrice Nzinzi and Belgium's Romain Renard, with €450,000.

As for the supported documentaries, the titles are Good Is Good (France/Switzerland) by Switzerland's Elsa Amiel (Pearl [+see also:
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