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 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 played in the Cannes competition and whose first documentary Afternoons of Solitude won San Sebastián's Golden Shell last year) who has received €500,000 for Out of this World (France/Spain/Latvia/Germany), which explores the eternal rivalry between Russia and the USA, following in the wake of an American delegation travelling to Russia at the height of the Russia-Ukraine War.

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 and Beanpole; 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 and Spirit of Ecstasy; Belgium's Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni (Madly in Life, The (Ex)perience of Love), with €150,000 for Diane In the Loop (Belgium/France); Serbian actress-director Mirjana Karanović (A Good Wife), with €250,000 for Evil Is Evil. Folk Play (Serbia/France/Croatia/Slovenia); Belgium's Patrice Toye (Tench), with €400,000 for The Assignment (Belgium/Germany/Netherlands); Dutch-Curaçaoan director Eché Janga (Buladó), with €350,000 for Killabees (Netherlands/Belgium); and Bangladesh's Rubaiyat Hossain (Made in Bangladesh), with €250,000 for The Difficult Bride (France/Portugal).

The supported second fiction features are Mary Rose (Ireland/Belgium) by Ireland's Colm Bairéad, his follow-up to the acclaimed The Quiet Girl, with €500,000; The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands (Sweden/UK/Belgium) by Costa Rican-Swedish director Nathalie Álvarez Mesén (Clara Sola), with €500,000; Green Eyes (France/Belgium/Sweden) by France's Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh (Gagarin), with €390,000; and The Excursion (Norway/Lithuania/Sweden) by Norway's Fanny Ovesen, with €375,000.

The supported first fiction features are 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 Dentro (France/Switzerland) by Switzerland's Elsa Amiel (Pearl), with €120,000; Behind the Green Curtain (Ireland/Belgium/Netherlands) by Ireland's Neasa Ní Chianáin, with €110,000; Listening to the World (Ukraine/Sweden/Germany) by Ukraine's Yelizaveta Smith, with €97,000; Yugo Goes to America (Serbia/Croatia) by Serbia's Aleksa Borković and Filip Grujić, with €60,000; and From a Body to Another (France/Belgium) by France's Mariana Otero, with €39,000.