The results of the second Eurimages Project Evaluation Session of 2026 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 3 documentaries and 4 animations, for a total amount of €10,212,000. Of the 33 co-production projects supported during the session, 16 are to be directed or co-directed by women. This represents 48.32% of the total funding awarded.

The films supported include the new work by acclaimed directors such as Denmark's Nikolaj Arcel (The Promised Land), who is preparing My Fairytale Life (Denmark/Germany), a biopic of writer Hans Christian Andersen (read news), with €500,000; Spain's Isaki Lacuesta (One Year, One Night), who is working on Close to Me (Spain/Belgium), about two friends growing up in the 1980s in a small Catalan town, with €500,000; and Spain's Fernando Franco (Wounded), who is in pre-production for Lorca (Spain/Belgium), which portrays the last days of writer Federico García Lorca, with €300,000.

Other established filmmakers that have received funding for their new projects are Canada's Monia Chokri, with €500,000 for Neither Day nor Night (France/Canada); France's Clément Cogitore, with €500,000 for Rivo Alto (France/Italy/Belgium); France's Léa Fehner with €500,000 for Isabelle (France/Belgium); Greece's Elina Psykou, with €390,000 for Patrimonial Fears and Other Illusions (Greece/Netherlands/Cyprus); Romania's Bogdan Mirică with €190,000 for Magnum Opus (Romania/Poland); Serbia's Srđan Dragojević with €316,000 for International Women's Day (Serbia/Germany/Croatia/Romania/Bulgaria/Slovenia); Serbia's Bojan Vuletić €125,000 for The White Week (Serbia/Slovenia/Croatia/Montenegro); and Belgium's Stephan Streker, with €150,000 for The Silence of God (Belgium/France).

The supported second fiction features are Mulatresse Solitude (Belgium/Luxembourg/France/Netherlands) by Belgium's Baloji Tshiani (Omen), with €400,000; Heavens Don't Care (France/Belgium/Armenia) by Russia's Kira Kovalenko (Unclenching the Fists), with €400,000; Aref (France/Cyprus/Belgium) by France's Camille Vidal-Naquet (Sauvage), with €375,000; To Live in a Shout (Spain/Greece) by Spain's Diana Toucedo, with €500,000; Evaporated (France/Germany/Belgium/Italy) by France's Koya Kamura, with €390,000; My Name is Lily (Cyprus/Belgium) by Cyprus' Yianna Americanou, with €425,000; and The Black Dog (France/Belgium) by France's Nyima Cartier, with €194,000.

The supported first fiction features are Three Ages (Spain/Italy/Belgium) by Spain's Jiajie Yu Yan, with €390,000; Lisa & Lilly (Sweden/Estonia) by Sweden's Julia Lindström, with €300,000; Culebra Cut (France/Panama/Belgium/Italy) by Panama's Ana Elena Tejera, with €260,000; Achinos (Greece/Croatia) by Greece's Iris Baglanea, with €250,000; Rosa Candida (France/Greece/Belgium) by France's Clara Lemaire Anspach, with €171,000; A Song that Slays (Italy/Canada/Switzerland) by Italy's Maureen Frances Scarpelli, with €150,000; Ama (Luxembourg/Japan/Italy/France) by France's Yuki Kawamura, with €91,000; and Happy Days (Ukraine/Spain) by Ukraine's Vladlen Odudenko, with €70,000.

As for the supported documentaries, the titles are The Odyssey of the Deep (France/Switzerland) by France's Jacques Lœuille, with €300,000; The Kingdom (France/Belgium) by Belgium's Samira Hmouda, with €150,000, and A Satellite for Burulai (Switzerland/Germany) by Antonin Lechat and Suium Sulaimanova, with €109,000.

Regarding the financed animation films, there are five titles in this session: Karmic Knot (Latvia/Germany) by Latvia's Signe Baumane, with €350,000; The Wolf (France/Luxembourg) by France's Benjamin Massoubre and Fursy Teyssier, with €450,000; Night Tram (Czech Republic/France/Slovakia) by the Czech Republic's Michaela Pavlátová, with €340,000; and Saajve (Sweden/Norway) by Sweden's Oskar Östergren Njajta, with €176,000.