At its 157th meeting held from 9 to 12 December in Berlin, the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund agreed to support 15 fiction films and one documentary project for a total amount of €3,399,600. The share of eligible projects with female directors examined at this Eurimages Board of Management meeting was 14.71%; 18.75% of the projects supported were directed by women; €764 000 was awarded to these projects, representing 22.47% of the total amount awarded.

The projects selected:

Margrete - Queen of the North [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Charlotte Sieling
scheda film] - Charlotte Sieling (Denmark/Sweden/Norway/Poland) (€470,000)
The Blue Star [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Javier Macipe
scheda film] - Javier Macipe (Spain/Argentina) (€190,000)
Beautiful Minds [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Bernard Campan, Alexandre Jollien (France/Switzerland) (€380,000)
Compartment Number 6 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Juho Kuosmanen
scheda film] - Juho Kuosmanen (Finland/Estonia/Germany) (€280,000)
Matadero [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Santiago Fillol (Argentina/France/Spain) (€170,000)
Three Times Nothing [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Nadège Loiseau (France/Canada) (€226,000)
Petite Fleur [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Santiago Mitre (France/Argentina/Belgium/Spain) (€330,000)
Rosilene - Ico Costa (France/Portugal) (€100 000)
Broadway [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Christos Massalas (Greece/France/Romania) (€170,000)
Holy Spider [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Ali Abbasi
intervista: Ali Abbasi
intervista: Zar Amir Ebrahimi
scheda film] (working title: The Long Night) - Ali Abbasi (Denmark/Germany/Sweden/France) (€410,000)
To Sail Close to the Wind - Gregoris Rentis (Greece/France) (€90,000) (documentary)
Eureka [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lisandro Alonso
scheda film] - Lisandro Alonso (France/Germany/Portugal/Argentina) (€170,000)
Snow and the Bear [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Selcen Ergun
scheda film] - Selcen Ergun (Turkey/Germany) (€68,000)
The Wall [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Philippe Van Leeuw
scheda film] - Philippe Van Leeuw (Belgium/France/Denmark) (€45,600)
Great Yarmouth - Provisional Figures [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Marco Martins
scheda film] - Marco Martins (Portugal/France) (€190,000)
Labour Day [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mladen Djordjević
scheda film] - Mladen Djordjevic (Serbia/Bulgaria/Greece/Montenegro) (€110,000)

The Board of Management of the fund also agreed to support 16 requests for payment submitted by 11 distributors as part of the Distribution Support Programme (Support for “marketing and publicity costs”), as well as several promotion activities in 2020 (read more here).

Lastly, they further decided to grant Eurimages patronage to the next edition of Meeting Point - Vilnius (30 March - 1 April 2020), to suspend new grant awards for the year 2020, to launch a call for partnership proposals during 2020 which will be used to select partnerships to be implemented from 1 January 2021 and, to unanimously recommend the renewal of the mandate of Roberto Olla, Executive Director of Eurimages for a new term, starting on 1 July 2020.