Some Cannes Film Festival alumni in Kira Kovalenko, Monia Chokri and Camille Vidal-Naquet have landed important coin for their upcoming feature film projects via Eurimages. This round has supported 33 co-productions, including three documentaries and four animations, for a total amount of €10.2m. Kovalenko premiered her feature debut Unclenching The Fists at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section where it won the top prize. She had been working on an English language project in ‘Holy Fools,’ but has now put her focus on Heavens Don’t Care – a France-Belgium and Armenia co-production. After significant amount of time away from feature films, Vidal-Naquet’s sophomore follow up is titled Aref. The French filmmaker gave us 2018’s Sauvage – a Critics’ Week selection. We finally have a confirmed title for French Canadian filmmaker Monia Chokri’s fourth feature film — it’s called Neither Day Nor Night and should continue in her usual blend/brand of dramedy. Simple comme Sylvain was last selected for the Un Certain Regard section. All three of these projects could be readied for Cannes 2027. Here are the projects receiving Eurimages 2026 second round funding:
A Satellite For Burulai (Switz-Ger) dirs. Antonin Lechat, Suium Sulaimanova – €109,000 (documentary)
A Song That Slays (It-Can-Switz) dir. Maureen Frances Scarpelli – €150,000
Achinos (Greece-Cro) dir. Iris Baglanea – €250,000
Ama (Lux-Japan-It-Fr) dir. Yuki Kawamura – €91,000
Aref (Fr-Cyprus-Belg) dir. Camille Vidal-Naquet – €375,000
Close To Me (Sp-Belg) dir. Isaki Lacuesta – €500,000
Culebra Cut (Fr-Panama-Belg-It) dir. Ana Elena Tejera – €260,000
Evaporated (Fr-Ger-Belg-It) dir. Koya Kamura – €390,000
Happy Days (Ukr-Sp) dir. Vladlen Odudenko – €70,000
Heavens Don’t Care (Fr-Belg-Armenia) dir. Kira Kovalenko – €400,000
International Women’s Day (Ser-Ger-Cro-Rom-Bul-Slovenia) dir. Srdjan Dragojević – €316,000
Isabelle (Fr-Bel) dir. Léa Fehner – €500,000
Karmic Knot (Latvia-Ger) dir. Signe Baumane – €350,000 (animation)
Lisa & Lilly (Swe-Est) dir. Julia Lindström – €300,000
Lorca (Sp-Bels) dir. Fernando Franco – €300,000
Magnum Opus (Rom-Pol) dir. Bogdan Mirică – €190,000
Mulatresse Solitude (Belg-Lux-Fr-Neth) dir. Baloji Tshiani – €400,000
My Fairytale Life (Den-Ger) dir. Nikolaj Arcel – €500,000
My Name Is Lily (Cyprus-Belg) dir. Yianna Americanou – €425,000
Neither Day Nor Night (Fr-Can) dir. Monia Chokri – €500,000
Night Tram (Czech-Fr-Slovakia) dir. Michaela Pavlátová – €340,000 (animation)
Patrimonial Fears And Other Illusions (Greece-Neth-Cyprus) dir. Elina Psykou – €390,000
Rivo Alto (Fr-It-Belg) dir. Clément Cogitore – €500,000
Rosa Candida (Fr-Greece-Belg) dir. Clara Lemaire Anspach – €171,000
Saajve (Swe-Nor) dir. Oskar Östergren Njajta – €176,000 (animation)
The Black Dog (Fr-Belg) dir. Nyima Cartier – €194,000
The Kingdom (Fr-Bel) dir. Samira Hmouda – €150,000 (documentary)
The Odyssey Of The Deep (Fr-Switz) dir. Jacques Lœuille – €300,000 (documentary)
The Silence Of God (Belg-Fr) dir. Stephan Streker – €150,000
The White Week (Ser-Slovenia-Cro-Mont) dir. Bojan Vuletić – €125,000
The Wolf (Fr-Lux) dirs. Benjamin Massoubre, Fursy Teyssier – €450,000 (animation)
Three Ages (Sp-It-Belg) dir. Jiajie Yu Yan – €390,000
To Live In A Shout (Sp-Greece) dir. Diana Toucedo – €500,000
