22/10/2019 - Upcoming films by Ruben Östlund, Julia Ducournau, Jonas Carpignano, Susanna Nicchiarelli and Anca Damian, among the selection

At its 156^th meeting held from 13 to 16 October in Strasbourg, the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund agreed to support 11 fiction films, one documentary and four animation projects for a total amount of €4,799,300.

The share of eligible projects with female directors examined at this Eurimages Board of Management meeting was 26%; 62.5% of the projects supported were directed by women; €2 819,300 was awarded to these projects, representing 58.7% of the total amount awarded.

The projects selected:

The Siren [+see also:
film review
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film profile] - Sepideh Farsi (France/Germany/Luxembourg/Belgium) (€500,000) (animation film) (read news)
Titane [+see also:
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interview: Julia Ducournau, Vincent Li…
film profile] - Julia Ducournau (France/Belgium) (€450,000)
Wolf - Nathalie Biancheri (Ireland/Poland) (€300,000)
A Chiara [+see also:
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interview: Jonas Carpignano
film profile] - Jonas Carpignano (Italy/France) (€330,000)
The Albanian Virgin [+see also:
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film profile] - Bujar Alimani (Germany/Belgium) (€290,000)
Titina [+see also:
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film profile] - Kajsa Næss (Norway/Belgium) (€460,000) (animation film)
The Island [+see also:
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film profile] - Anca Damian (Romania/France/Belgium) (€43,600)
Holy Emy [+see also:
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interview: Araceli Lemos
film profile] - Araceli Lemos (Greece/France) (€32,700)
You Will Not Have My Hate [+see also:
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interview: Kilian Riedhof
film profile] - Kilian Riedhof (Germany/France) (€380,000)
Small Body [+see also:
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interview: Laura Samani
film profile] - Laura Samani (Italy/France/Slovenia) (€340,000)
Taming the Garden [+see also:
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interview: Salomé Jashi
film profile] - Salomé Jashi (Switzerland/Germany/Georgia) (€50,000) (documentary)
Miss Marx [+see also:
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interview: Susanna Nicchiarelli
film profile] - Susanna Nicchiarelli (Italy/Belgium) (€480,000)
Gaza mon amour [+see also:
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film profile] - Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser (France/Germany/Portugal) (€230,000)
Triangle of Sadness [+see also:
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interview: Ruben Östlund
interview: Ruben Östlund
film profile] - Ruben Östlund (Sweden/Germany/France) (€470,000) (read news)
Tove [+see also:
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interview: Zaida Bergroth
film profile] - Zaida Bergroth (Finland/Sweden) (€163,000)
No Dogs or Italians Allowed [+see also:
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interview: Alain Ughetto
film profile] - Alain Ughetto (France/Belgium/Switzerland) (€280,000) (animation film)

Moreover, as part of the Distribution Support Programme (Support for “marketing and publicity costs”), Eurimages agreed to support 64 requests for payment submitted by 23 distributors, for an amount of €479,117 (read more here).

Lastly, at a meeting bursting with strategic decisions, the body decided to suspend distribution support in its current form as from the 2020 cycle and to launch an independent study on the relevance of distribution support, open to all the members of the fund, for projects already supported by Eurimages as part of the co-production support; to transform, as from January 2021, the supports for cinemas into automatic supports; to suspend, as from January 2021, support for lab projects in its current form and to launch an independent study on the relevance and modalities of support for non-conventional cinematographic projects; and to select, as from January 2020, audiovisual events (festivals, markets, etc.) in which Eurimages will grant support for the development of co-production through calls for expressions of interest.