The results of the first project evaluation session of 2022 of the Eurimages Fund have been announced. Following recommendations made by independent experts meeting online, the Executive Committee of the Fund has decided to support 23 feature films, including 7 documentaries and one animation, for a total amount of €5.516.000. Projects with female directors represented 34.4% of the eligible projects examined and of the projects supported, 52.2% are to be directed by women. These projects represent 53.3% of the total funding awarded.

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The films supported include the new work by acclaimed French filmmaker Bruno Dumont only one year after his 2021 Cannes entry France [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]), The End (Denmark/Germany/Ireland) (with €480,000) (read news); Bulgaria's Ralitza Petrova (winner of the 2016 Locarno Golden Leopard for her first film Godless [+lee también:
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Other established filmmakers that have received funding for their new projects are Slovenia's Hanna A Slak with Not a Word (Germany/Slovenia/France) (€295 000) and Afghanistan's Roya Sadat with The Forgotten History (Spain/Netherlands/France) (€400,000).

Two second fiction features have also been funded: the new films by France's Vanessa Filho, Consent [+lee también:
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The supported first fiction features are Ebba (Norway/France/Sweden) by Sweden's Johanna Pyykkö (with €300,000), End of the World (Czech Republic/Slovakia) by Czech Republic's Ivan Zachariáš (with €276,000), Excursion [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (Spain/Italy/Mexico) by Italy's Alessandro Pugno (with €283,000), Lotus (Latvia/Lithuania) by Latvia's Signe Birkova (with €100,000) and Paradise Is Burning [+lee también:
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Regarding the supported documentaries, the titles are Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (Romania/Luxembourg) by Romania's Alexandru Solomon (with €59,000), Motherland [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (Sweden/Ukraine/Norway) by Ukrainian-Belarusian duo Alexander Mihalkovich-Hanna Badziaka (with €110,000), My Land my Strength by Paulo Carneiro (Portugal/France/Uruguay) (with €49,000), Read my Breasts (Austria/Spain) by Anja Salomonowitz (with €105,000), The Mechanics of Things (France/Germany) by Alessandra Celesia (with €110,000), The Radical Self (Germany/Switzerland) by Johann Feindt (with €123,000) and Toxicily [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (France/Italy) by François-Xavier Destors (with €60,000).

The only animation film backed is Niko - Beyond the Northern Lights (Finland/Germany/Ireland/Denmark) by Jorgen Lerdam and Kari Juusonen (with €470 000).

Lastly, during this meeting, the Executive Committee of Eurimages also decided to grant the Fund’s patronage to the Documentary Association of Europe for the publication of a new financing guide for the documentary sector, which includes a co-production guide.