Wallimage has committed to support three fiction feature films on the occasion of its 108th session. For several years now, the fund has been a regular backer of Italian co-productions and is now pleased to be offering assistance to prestigious Roman director Matteo Garrone and his new project Io Capitano [+leggi anche:
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Support is likewise winging its way to another Italian film: La Guardia by Giulio Ricciarelli (Labyrinth of Lies [+leggi anche:
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The third feature-length movie to win support is French work Acide [+leggi anche:
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Wallimage is also throwing its weight behind three series. First and foremost, there’s Arcanes, a Belgian series co-written by Benjamin Dessy and Michèle Jacob (of short film Juillet 96), the latter also co-directing the series alongside Sarah Hirtt (Escapada [+leggi anche:
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There’s also the fourth season of the hit adaptation The Crimson Rivers, which is based upon the world of Jean-Christophe Grangé and is carried by Storia Télévision in France and by Umedia in Belgium.

Last but not least, Wallimage is throwing its weight behind two documentaries: Nanok by Xavier Ziomek and the third instalment of Robert Henno and Jean-Christophe Grignard’s Wallonie Sauvage, not to mention a VR project by the name of Jailbirds.