The results of the third Eurimages Project Evaluation Session of 2024 have been unveiled and among the batch of filmmakers we find the likes of Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania (Four Daughters) who firmly moved back into fiction with Tu ne feras point d’images (aka You Shall Not Make an Image). From Morocco, we find The Blue Caftan director Maryam Touzani going to Spain for Calle Malaga. Danish-Egyptian filmmaker May el-Toukhy (who gave us Queen of Hearts – it was recently adapted by Catherine Breillat for L’Été dernier) is getting ready for a project titled Woman, Unknown. Another high profile female filmmaker is More than Ever’s Emily Atef who is setting up Kenya-set AIDS drama Mercy.
Also catching our attention we find Lithuanian cinematographer Vytautas Katkus putting together his debut project in The Visitor – he was recently on Saule Bliuvaite’s Locarno-winning Toxic (read review). A cinematographer on Le ravissement and Nos cérémonies, Marine Atlan won a top prize at the Fondation Gan with ‘s La Gradiva – we’ll keep keeping close tabs on this project from France. Here are the 24 co-production projects supported during the session – we can expect the majority of these films to be ready for 2026:
9 Moons – Patricia Ortega (Venezuela) – €73 000 (Spain, Belgium)
20 Meters – Damjan Kozole (Slovenia) – €275 000 (Slovenia, Serbia)
Calle Malaga – Maryam Touzani (Spain) – €500 000 (France, Spain, Germany, Belgium)
Eurotrash – Frauke Finsterwalder (Switzerland) – €350 000 (Germany, Switzerland, Austria)
Fairyheart – Anita Doron (Canada) – €500 000 Animation (Hungary, Canada)
Fixing the War – Clare Stronge (Ireland), Vadym Ilkov (Ukraine) – €41 000 Documentary (Ireland, Ukraine)
Future Tenses – Christos Karakepelis (Greece) – €140 000 Documentary (Greece, France)
I Won’t Die for Love – Marta Matute (Spain) – €315 000 (Spain, Belgium)
Ivy – Catarina Mourão (Portugal) – €250 000 (Portugal, France)
La Gradiva – Marine Atlan (France) – €400 000 (France, Italy)
Mercy – Emily Atef (France) – €400 000 (Germany, France)
Queen of the Stone Age – David Bernet (Germany) – €80 000 Documentary (Germany, Switzerland)
Sleepless Nights – Tiago Hespanha (Portugal) – €95 000 Documentary (Portugal, France)
Strawberries – Laïla Marrakchi (France) – €375 000 (France, Spain, Morocco)
Tears of Neon – Karolina Bielawska (Poland) – €127 000 (Poland, Bulgaria)
The Crux – Ulrike Tony Vahl (Germany) – €500 000 (Germany, Poland)
The Girl – Marina Ziolkowski (France) – €400 000 (France, Belgium)
The Golden Age – Bérenger Thouin (France) – €370 000 (France, Italy)
The Last One for the Road – Francesco Sossai (Italy) – €300 000 (Italy, Germany)
The Station – Sara Ishaq (Netherlands) – €150 000 (France, Jordan, Germany, Netherlands)
The Visitor – Vytautas Katkus (Lithuania) – €210 000 (Lithuania, Norway, Sweden)
Washed and Buried – Martin Turk (Slovenia) – €150 000 (Slovenia, Italy, Croatia)
Woman, Unknown – May el-Toukhy (Denmark) – €349 000 (Denmark, Lithuania, Sweden)
You Shall Not Make an Image – Kaouther Ben Hania (France) – €430 000 (France, Germany, Tunisia, Belgium)
