The results of the third 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 33 feature films, including 10 documentaries and 5 animations, for a total amount of €9 696 000. Of the 33 co-production projects supported during the session, 12 are to be directed or co-directed by women. This represents 29.38% of the total funding awarded.

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The films supported include the new work by acclaimed directors such as Portugal's Miguel Gomes (Cannes Best Director winner for his latest film Grand Tour [+lire aussi :
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Other established filmmakers that have received funding for their new projects are Angolan-Portuguese director José Augusto Octávio Gamboa dos Passos (known as Zézé Gamboa) with €390,000 for Aleluia (Portugal/France/Cabo Verde); Austria's Wolfgang Fischer with €380 000 for Southwest (Germany/France/Austria); Spain's David Pérez Sañudo with €500,000 for Bilbao 1983 (Spain/Belgium); Latvia's Juris Kursietis with €266,000 for Tabita (Latvia/Netherlands/Lithuania); Romania's Daniel Sandu with €300,000 for The Cherubs (Romania/Bulgaria); Hungary's Mihály Schwechtje with €150,000 for Democracy Work in Progress (Hungary/Germany/Czechia); and Turkey's Berkun Oya with €400,000 for Thank you Charlotte (France/Greece).

The supported second fiction features are Sound of Silence (France/Greece) by Greece's Joyce Nashawati (Blind Sun [+lire aussi :
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The supported first fiction features are March 14th (Spain/Belgium/Lithuania) by Spain's Alberto Gross Molo, with €320,000; The Place of Eternal Summer (Italy/Belgium) by Italy's Maddalena Ravagli, with €300,000; and The Outsider Within (France/Belgium) by France's Zoé Cauwet, with €150,000.

As for the supported documentaries, the titles are The Whale Mystery (Norway/Denmark/Sweden) by Norway's Tonje Hessen Schei, with €306,000; My Father the Iceman (Poland/Denmark) by Poland's Łukasz Kowalski, with €150,000; The Standard Man (Sweden/Poland/Denmark) by Sweden's Erik Lavesson and Tomas Stark and Poland's Weronika Mliczewska, with €150,000; Orsoq - Seasons of Solitude (Denmark/Finland) by Denmark's Inuk Silis Høegh, with €140,000; Sanda Dia (Netherlands/Belgium) by the Netherlands' Miriam Guttmann, with €130,000; The City that Ate Souls Away (France/Belgium) by France's Diane Sara Bouzgarrou and Thomas Jenkoe, with €110,000; Silence of the Lams (Ireland/Finland) by Ireland's Ciarán Deeney, with €100,000; Home Court (Greece/Bulgaria/Netherlands) by Greece's Elpida Nikou and Rodrigo Hernandez, with €90,000; Welfa(i)re (Czech Republic/Slovakia) by Czech Republic's Adéla Komrzý with €85,000; and The Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Norway/Germany/Sweden) by Norway's Lene Berg, with €54,000.

Regarding the financed animation films, there are five titles in this session: Cyrano (France/Luxembourg/Italy) by France's Guillaume Gallienne (Me, Myself and Mum [+lire aussi :
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