At its 157th meeting held from 9 to 12 December in Berlin, the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund agreed to support 15 fiction films and one documentary project for a total amount of €3,399,600. The share of eligible projects with female directors examined at this Eurimages Board of Management meeting was 14.71%; 18.75% of the projects supported were directed by women; €764 000 was awarded to these projects, representing 22.47% of the total amount awarded.

The projects selected:

Margrete - Queen of the North [+lee también:
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entrevista: Charlotte Sieling
ficha de la película] - Charlotte Sieling (Denmark/Sweden/Norway/Poland) (€470,000)
The Blue Star [+lee también:
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entrevista: Javier Macipe
ficha de la película] - Javier Macipe (Spain/Argentina) (€190,000)
Beautiful Minds [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] - Bernard Campan, Alexandre Jollien (France/Switzerland) (€380,000)
Compartment Number 6 [+lee también:
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entrevista: Juho Kuosmanen
ficha de la película] - Juho Kuosmanen (Finland/Estonia/Germany) (€280,000)
Matadero [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] - Santiago Fillol (Argentina/France/Spain) (€170,000)
Three Times Nothing [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] - Nadège Loiseau (France/Canada) (€226,000)
Petite Fleur [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] - Santiago Mitre (France/Argentina/Belgium/Spain) (€330,000)
Rosilene - Ico Costa (France/Portugal) (€100 000)
Broadway [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] - Christos Massalas (Greece/France/Romania) (€170,000)
Holy Spider [+lee también:
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entrevista: Ali Abbasi
entrevista: Ali Abbasi
entrevista: Zar Amir Ebrahimi
ficha de la película] (working title: The Long Night) - Ali Abbasi (Denmark/Germany/Sweden/France) (€410,000)
To Sail Close to the Wind - Gregoris Rentis (Greece/France) (€90,000) (documentary)
Eureka [+lee también:
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entrevista: Lisandro Alonso
ficha de la película] - Lisandro Alonso (France/Germany/Portugal/Argentina) (€170,000)
Snow and the Bear [+lee también:
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entrevista: Selcen Ergun
ficha de la película] - Selcen Ergun (Turkey/Germany) (€68,000)
The Wall [+lee también:
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entrevista: Philippe Van Leeuw
ficha de la película] - Philippe Van Leeuw (Belgium/France/Denmark) (€45,600)
Great Yarmouth - Provisional Figures [+lee también:
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entrevista: Marco Martins
ficha de la película] - Marco Martins (Portugal/France) (€190,000)
Labour Day [+lee también:
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entrevista: Mladen Djordjević
ficha de la película] - Mladen Djordjevic (Serbia/Bulgaria/Greece/Montenegro) (€110,000)

The Board of Management of the fund also agreed to support 16 requests for payment submitted by 11 distributors as part of the Distribution Support Programme (Support for “marketing and publicity costs”), as well as several promotion activities in 2020 (read more here).

Lastly, they further decided to grant Eurimages patronage to the next edition of Meeting Point - Vilnius (30 March - 1 April 2020), to suspend new grant awards for the year 2020, to launch a call for partnership proposals during 2020 which will be used to select partnerships to be implemented from 1 January 2021 and, to unanimously recommend the renewal of the mandate of Roberto Olla, Executive Director of Eurimages for a new term, starting on 1 July 2020.