Peter Greenaway's 'Walking To Paris' among Eurimages awardees

Eurimages is to plough $4.7m (€4,444,000) into 18 feature films and two documentaries, following its latest meeting in London from March 9-12.

Among the titles to receive support is Walking To Paris, from British auteur Peter Greenaway, which received $300,000 (€280,000).

The biopic of sculptor Constantin Brancusi is being made with Dutch producer Kees Kasander. The film will focus on the 18 months when a 27-year-old Brancusi walked through Romania, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and France.

The film is due to begin shooting this month in Switzerland. 

Speaking to ScreenDaily about the feature early this year, Greenaway said: “Along the way, living off the land as his years of being a shepherd boy had taught him, he had adventures - comic, violent, sexual and romantic - and certainly formative of his future sculpture, constantly building sculptures out of found materials – wood, stone, sand, snow and ice - leaving a trail of abandoned experimental temporary sculptures across the landscapes of Europe.”

The project to receive the biggest sum was Un Petit Boulot, a France-Belgium co-production from director Pascal Chaumeil, whose last title was English-language comedy-drama A Long Way Down, starring Pierce Brosnan and Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul.

The new film will be produced by Gaumont and Belgium’s Scope Pictures.

Scoring the second largest amount was Hans Petter Moland’s A Conspiracy Of Faith, the third instalment in the Department Q series of Danish crime thrillers. It secured $425,000 (€400,000).

The film, produced by Zentropa, follows the highly successful The Keeper Of Lost Causes and The Absent One. Sundance Selects already has North American distribution rights for the film.

Full list

Câini / Dogs (Romania, France, Bulgaria), €140,000
Directed by Bogdan Mirică
Produced by 42 Km Film
Coproduced by EZ Films, Argo Film Ltd
Supported by Romanian National Film Centre (CNC)

Chronia Polla / Happy Birthday (Germany, Greece, France, Cyprus), €150,000
Directedby Christos Georgiou
Produced by Twenty Twenty Vision
Coproduced by Filmproduktion/Pallas Film, Christos Eleftherios Georgiou, Manny Films, Lychnari Productions

El Dorado (Portugal, France), Documentary, €35,000
Directed by Salomé Lamas
Produced by Proline Media
Coproduced by O Som e a Furia, Shellac-Sud (Production)

El Olivo / The Olive Tree (Spain, Germany), €480,000
Directed by Icíar Bollaín
Produced by Moreno Films S.L./El Olivio, AIE
Coproduced by Match Factory

Flakeslaskepot FRA P / A Conspiracy of Faith (Denmark, Germany), €400,000
Directed by Hans Petter Moland
Produced by Zentropa Entertainments (Den)
Coproduced by Zentropa Hamburg (Ger)

Kharms (Russia, Lithuania, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), €160,000
Directed by Ivan Bolotnikov
Produced by Proline Media
Coproduced by Tremora Uab, Manufaktura Production

La femme de la plaque argentique (France, Belgium), €276,000
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Produced by Les Productions Balthazar
Coproduced by Film-in-Evolution, Frakas Productions

Meester Kikker / Mr.Frog (Netherlands, Belgium), Childrens film, €291,000
Directed by Anna van der Heide
Produced by Bosbros BV
Coproduced by Prime Time

Monk (Netherlands, Belgium), €190,000
Directed by Ties Schenk
Produced by Viking Film/Les Films D’Antoine
Coproduced by A Private View Bvba

Nebel im August / Fog in August (Germany, Austria), €300,000
Directed by Kai Wesse
Produced by Collina Filmproduktion gmbH/StudioCanal Gmbh
Coproduced by Dor Film Produktionsgesellschaft Gmbh

Ne gledaj mi u pijat / Quit Staring at my Plate (Croatia, Denmark), €160,000
Directed by Hana Jusic
Produced by Kinorama
Coproduced by AAC Productions, Beofilm Production, Les Contes Modernes
Supported by Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC)

O gios tis Sofias / Son of Sofia (Greece, France, Bulgaria), €150,000
Directed by Elina Psykou
Produced by Giorgos Karnavas Film
Coproduced by Kinoelektron, Chouchkov Brothers

Rehepapp (Estonia, Germany, Nertherlands), €210,000
Directed by Rainer Sarnet
Produced by Homeless Bob Production
Coproduced by Weydemann Bros, PRPL B.V.

6.9 pe scara Richter / 6.9 on the Richter Scale (Romania, Bulgaria), €150,000
Directed by Nae Caranfil
Produced by Mobra Films
Coproduced by Jelfilm
Supported by Romanian Film Centre (CNC)

Smrdljiva Bajka / A Stinking Fairytale (Serbia, Bulgaria), €62,000
Directed by Miroslav Momcilovic
Produced by Brigara d.o.o.
Coproduced by Audiovideo Orpheus

Tajna o Masinovodjama / Train Drivers Secret (Serbia, Croatia), €210,000
Directed by Milos Radovic
Produced by Zillion Film Production
Coproduced by Inter Film

Tereddut / Clair-Obscur (Turkey, Germany, France), €210,000
Directed by Yesim Ustaoglu
Produced by Ustaoglu Film Production
Coproduced by Unafilm Gmbh, Slot Machine Sarl

Un petit boulot (France, Belgium), €480 000 
Directed by Pascal Chaumeil
Produced by Gaumont (Fr)
Coproduced by Scope Pictures (Be)

Vienne avant la nuit / Vienna before Nightfall (France, Germany, Austria), Documentary, €110,000
Directed by Robert Bober
Produced by Les Films du Poisson
Coproduced by Riva Filmproduktion Gmbh, KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Produktion

Walking to Paris (Netherlands, Switzerland, Romania, France), €280,000
Directed by Peter Greenaway
Produced by Cinatura
Coproduced by Cobra Film AG, Abis Studio, CDP
Supported by Romanian Film Centre (CNC)