24/06/2025 - New films by Pawel Pawlikovski, Nanni Moretti, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Radu Jude, Lukas Dhont and Felix van Groeningen are among the selection

Director Pawel Pawlikovski, whose project 1949/Vaterland has been supported (© Red Carpet Report on Mingle Media TV)

The results of the second 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 35 feature films, including 5 documentaries and 2 animations, for a total amount of €10 738 000. Of the 35 co-production projects supported during the session, 13 are to be directed or co-directed by women. This represents 39.41% of the total funding awarded.

The films supported include the new work by acclaimed directors such as Poland's Pawel Pawlikovski (Oscar winner for Ida [+see also:
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interview: Pawel Pawlikowski
film profile] and Cannes Best Director winner for Cold War [+see also:
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Q&A: Pawel Pawlikowski
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film profile], whose latest film A Brighter Tomorrow [+see also:
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interview: Radu Jude
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film profile]), who has received €300,000 for Diary of a Chambermaid (France/Romania), a story about a Romanian woman who travels to France to work for a French family and joins an amateur theatre company working on an adaptation of Octave Mirbeau’s The Diary of a Chambermaid; as well as Belgium's Lukas Dhont (Cannes Caméra d'Or winner for Girl [+see also:
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interview: Eden Dambrine
interview: Lukas Dhont
interview: Lukas Dhont
film profile]), who has received €500,000 for Coward (Belgium/France/Netherlands), and Felix van Groeningen (Cannes Jury Prize winner for The Eight Mountains [+see also:
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Other established filmmakers that have received funding for their new projects are Hungary's Kornél Mundruczó (Cannes' Un Certain Regard winner White God [+see also:
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interview: Kornél Mundruczó and Kata W…
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interview: Adina Pintilie
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interview: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Val…
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interview: Bart Van Langendonck
interview: Michaël R. Roskam
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interview: Marie Kreutzer
interview: Marie Kreutzer
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interview: Bertrand Mandico
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interview: Bertrand Mandico
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Q&A: Marco Martins
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interview: Michal Blaško
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interview: Ivo Felt
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interview: Paul Negoescu
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The supported second fiction features are Dua (Switzerland/France/Kosovo) by Kosovo's Blerta Basholli (winner of the Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Competition Grand Jury Prize for Hive [+see also:
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The supported first fiction features are Ducks (France/Germany) by France's Neary Adeline Hay, with €500,000; Pipaluk (France/Denmark) by France's Thierry Machado, with €500,000; and Species (France/Belgium) by France's Marion Le Corroller, with €352,000; The Indies (Switzerland/Spain) by Switzerland's Pauline Julier and Nicolas Chapoulier, with €280,000; Spring Cleaning (North Macedonia/Greece/Slovenia/Serbia) by North Macedonia's Marija Apcevska, with €210,000; and The Rumour (Denmark/Sweden) by Denmark's Amalie Næsby Fick, with €190,000.

Regarding the financed animation films, there are two titles in this session: Dansker (Denmark/Luxembourg/Netherlands/Sweden) by Denmark's Jonas Poher Rasmussen, with €500,000 and Yugly (Belgium/France) by Belgium's Jérémie Degruson and France's Yanis Belaid, with €500?000.

As for the supported documentaries, the titles are Autumn of the Patriarch (Norway/Germany/Croatia) by Russia's Anna Bogoliubova and Norway's Torstein Grude, with €150,000; The Siege of Paradise (Ireland/Switzerland) by Ireland's Gar O'Rourke, with €110,000; Our Seeds (Turkey/Germany/Greece) by Turkey's Erhan Arık, with €90,000; War on Women (Estonia/Germany) by Estonia's Maris Salumets, with €90,000; and The Gods Must Be Mistaken (Germany/Slovenia/Italy/Croatia) by Slovenia's Jakob Krese, with €80,000.