Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes and Danish director Charlotte Sieling have both received co-production support for projects from Eurimages’ third round of funding for 2022.
Some €6.7m sum has been awarded to 24 feature projects including four documentary and three animation films.
Gomes has received €500,000 for Grand Tour, about an engaged couple travelling from Burma to China in 1918. The film is a co-production between Portugal’s Uma Pedra No Sapato, Italy’s Vivo Film, France and Germany.
Also receiving €500,000 is Titanic Ocean, the feature debut from Greek director Konstantina Kotzamani whose shorts have been screened at Cannes (Limbo, 2016), Berlin (Washingtonia, 2014) and Locarno (Yellow Fieber, 2015). Titanic Ocean is a sci-fi about a boarding school for mermaids in training. The film has previously participated in Torino FeatureLab, Venice Gap-Financing, IFFAM Project Market, and the Tokyo Gap Financing market.
Seiling, who is best known for 2021’s Margrete – Queen Of The North, received €420,000 for her upcoming project Way Home which is a Denmark-Norway-Germany co-production.
Further recipients include Emmanuel Finkiel’s Mariana’s Room which scooped up €475,000 in Eurimages funding. The French director, whose last film Memoir Of War was nominated for eight Cesars in 2017, has adapted Aaron Appelfeld’s novel set on the border of Ukraine and Poland in 1943. Mariana’s Room is produced by France’s Cinéfrance Studios and Curiosa Films with Israels’ Metro Communications and Sunshine Films, Belgium’s Tarantula and Hungary’s Proton.
Over half of the 24 projects selected were directed or co-directed by women.
At the meeting to decide the awarded projects, the creation of the New Lab Awards was also approved and will aim to celebrate established and emerging non-conventional filmmakers. The call-out will be launched in February 2023 for 2024-26.
Eurimages co-production support November 2022
All We Imagine As Light (Fr-Neth-Lux-Ind) €150,000
Dir. Payal Kapadia
Blue Banks (Rom-Fr) €300,000
Dir. Andreea Cristina Bortun
Close To The Sultan (Fr-Sp) €150,000
Dir. Javier Rebollo
Cycling With Zoli The Turk (Ser-Slovakia) €175,000
Dir. Szabolcs Tolnai
Flowers Of Ukraine (Pol-Ukr) €49,000
Dir. Adelina Borets (Ukraine)
Foreign Tongue (Fr-Ger) €149,000
Dir. Claire Burger
Grand Tour (Port-It-Fr-Ger) €500,000
Dir. Miguel Gomes
Justa (Port-Fr) €415,000
Dir. Teresa Villaverde
Living Large (Czech-Slovakia-Bel-Fr) €393,000
Dir. Kristína Dufková
Mariana’s Room (Fr-Isr-Hun-Bel) €475,000
Dir. Emmanuel Finkiel
Melting Of The Ruler (Mont-It-Ser-Cro) €170,000
Dir. Ivan Salatić
Milano (Bel-Neth) €257,000
Dir.Christina Vandekerckhove
Pure Unknown (It-Switz-Swe) €98,000
Dir. Valentina Cicogna
Rabia (Fr-Ger-Bel) €290,000
Dir. Mareike Engelhardt
Rome (Den-It-Swe) €400,000
Dir. Niclas Bendixen
The Crystal Planet (Slovakia-Czech-Cro) €149,000
Dir. Arsen Anton Ostojić
The Faun (Fr-Pol-Rom) €450,000
Dir. Augusto Zanovello
The Green Parrot (Austria-Ger) €300,000
Dir. Elsa Kremser
The Missile (Fin-Est) €360,000
Dir. Miia Tervo
The Song Of Breathing (Switz-It) €120,000
Dir. Simona Canonica (Switzerland)
They Will Be Dust (Sp-It-Switz) €300,000
Dir. Carlos Marques
Things We Said Today (Rom-Fr-Bel) €137,000
Dir. Andrei Ujica
Titanic Ocean (Greece-Fr-Rom-Ger-Sp) €500,000
Dir. Konstantina Kotzamani
Way Home (Den-Nor-Ger) €420,000
Dir. Charlotte Sieling
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