Eurimages Co-Production Coin Goes to Lukas Dhont, Pietro Marcello, Brandon Cronenberg & Meryam Joobeur

You’re still in financing mode and yet got the wind in the sails. You just need a bit more coin help to complete the financing puzzle. In comes some much appreciated support. Today the Board of Management of the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund will support 49 feature film projects from the likes of established auteurs in Margarethe Von Trotta and Fernando Trueba to relatively new voices in Pietro Marcello, Lukas Dhont, Teona Strugar Mitevska and Brandon Cronenberg to filmmakers embarking on their feature debuts in Meryam Joobeur (she directed the Academy Award-nominated short Brotherhood). Pietro Marcello’s Scarlet (L’envol) would be his third fiction feature and is set to star Louis Garrel and Noémie Lvovsky. Lukas Dhont’s Close would be his sophomore film after his debut Girl broke out big in Cannes. Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool just added Alexander Skarsgard – it would follow in the footsteps of Antiviral and Possessor. Look for several of these films will see the light at major film festivals in 2022 and 2023. Here is the complete list below:

A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On – Gentian Koçi (Albania) – €110 000
(Albania, Greece)

A Happy Day – Hisham Zaman (Norway) – €320 000
(Norway, Denmark)

Anxiety – Slawomir Fabicki (Poland) – €340 000
(Poland, Switzerland, Germany)

As Bestas – Rodrigo Sorogoyen (Spain) – €450 000
(Spain, France)

Bachmann & Frisch – Margarethe Von Trotta (Germany) – €450 000
(Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Luxembourg)

Banzo – Margarida Cardoso (Portugal) – €250 000
(Portugal, France)

Black Box – Aslı Özge (Turkey) – €290 000
(Germany, Belgium)

Close – Lukas Dhont (Belgium) – €300 000
(Belgium, France, the Netherlands)

Dalva (L’amour selon Dalva) – Emmanuelle Nicot (Belgium) – €300 000
(Belgium, France)

Dandelion Nectar – Anna Kuznetsova (Russian Federation) – €110 000
(Russian Federation, Finland)

Dark Paradise – Triin Ruumet (Estonia) – €150 000
(Estonia, France)

Gondola – Veit Helmer (Germany) – €80 000
(Germany, Georgia)

Heaven (Le paradis) – Zeno Graton (Belgium) – €330 000
(Belgium, France)

Hello – Stephan Komandarev (Bulgaria) – €170 000
(Bulgaria, Germany)

Infinity Pool – Brandon Cronenberg (Canada) – €324 000
(Canada, Hungary, Croatia)

Iraq, Children of Shame (Irak, les enfants de la honte) – Pascale Bourgaux (Belgium) – €88 000
(Belgium, Switzerland) Documentary

Irena – Giedre Zickyte (Lithuania) – €112 000
(Lithuania, Estonia, Bulgaria) Documentary

May Labor Day – Pjer Žalica (Bosnia-Herzegovina) – €140 000
(Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Serbia)

Misty – Erroll Garner – Georges Gachot (Switzerland) – €140 000 Documentary
(Switzerland, Germany, France)

Motherhood – Meryam Joobeur (Tunisia, Canada) – €207 000
(France, Canada, Tunisia)

Mr. K – Tallulah H. Schwab (the Netherlands) – €295 000
(the Netherlands, Belgium, Croatia)

My Grandfather’s Demons – Nuno Beato (Portugal) – €380 000 Animation
(Portugal, Spain, France)

On the Fringe – Juan Diego Botto (Spain) – €280 000
(Spain, Belgium)

Red – Camiel Schouwenaar (the Netherlands) – €140 000
(the Netherlands, Germany)

Red Path (Les enfants rouges) – Lotfi Achour (Tunisia, France) – €180 000
(France, Belgium, Tunisia, Poland)

Richelieu – Pier-Philippe Chevigny (Canada) – €230 000
(Canada, France)

Rift in the Ice – Maja Miloš (Serbia) – €225 000
(Serbia, the Netherlands, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia)

Scarlet (L’envol) – Pietro Marcello (Italy) – €370 000
(France, Italy)

Sea Sparkle – Domien Huyghe (Belgium) – €180 000
(Belgium, the Netherlands, Croatia)

Sirin – Senad Šahmanovic (Montenegro) – €85 000
(Montenegro, Albania, Croatia)

Something You Said Last Night – Luis De Filippis (Canada) – €230 000
(Canada, Switzerland)

Strandzha – Pepa Hristova (Bulgaria) – €80 000 Documentary
(Germany, Bulgaria)

The Book of Everything – Ineke Houtman (the Netherlands) – €145 000
(The Netherlands, Latvia)

The Damned Don’t Cry (Les damnés ne pleurent pas) – Fyzal Boulifa (United Kingdom, Morocco)
(France, Belgium, Morocco) – €190 000

The Editorial Office – Roman Bondarchuk (Ukraine) – €140 000
(Ukraine, Germany)

The Happiest Man in the World – Teona Strugar Mitevska (North Macedonia) – €290 000
(North Macedonia, Belgium, Denmark, Croatia)

The Invisible Fight – Rainer Sarnet (Estonia) – €360 000
(Estonia, Greece, Latvia)

The Lost Dream Team – Jure Pavlović (Croatia) – €130 000 Documentary
(Croatia, Italy, Serbia, Slovenia)

The Man from Rome – Jaap van Heusden (the Netherlands) – €205 000
(the Netherlands, Germany)

The Man without Guilt – Ivan Gergolet (Italy) – €140 000
(Slovenia, Italy, Croatia)

The Miljacka Vampires – Pavo Marinković (Croatia) – €140 000
(Croatia, Austria)

The Thousand Faces of Goya (Le mystère Goya) – José Luis López Linares (Spain) – €110 000
(France, Spain, Portugal) Documentary

The Z Word – Anouk Whisell, Yohann-Karl Whissell, François Simard (Canada) – €225 000
(Canada, France)

They Shot the Piano Player – Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal (Spain) – €470 000 Animation
(Spain, France, the Netherlands, Portugal)

Under the Naked Sky – Lilian Sijbesma (the Netherlands) – €150 000
(the Netherlands, Belgium)

Unicorn Wars – Alberto Vázquez (Spain) – €390 000 Animation
(Spain, France)

Windless – Pavel G. Vesnakov (Bulgaria) – €90 000
(Bulgaria, Italy)

Wishbone – Penny Panagiotopoulou (Greece) – €130 000
(Greece, France, Germany)

Woman on the Roof – Anna Jadowska (Poland) – €175 000
(Poland, Sweden, France)