You have to admire European film industry folks – they go to bat for their filmmakers. Further proof that European filmmakers do have it good, the Board of Management of the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund agreed to support 13 feature films with some Euros and among the featured projects and filmmakers we have veterans Istvan Szabo (Being Julia), Nanni Moretti (Quiet Chaos) and Bent Hamer (O’Horten) receiving some coin for their latest. Danis Tanovic, who just preemed his film Triage at TIFF will receive once again multi-territory support for Cirkus Columbia, while A Town Called Panic pair Vincent Patar & Stéphane Aubier team for another animated project. Spanish director Iciar Bollain (see pic) is prepping her film Even the Rain – a biopic on Christopher Columbus with actors Luis Tosar and Belén Rueda. Here is the full list below of films to watch out for in late 2010, 2011 and beyond.
Kai Apkabinsiu Tave – Kristijonas Vildziunas
(Lithuania, Poland)
Az Ajto – Istvan Szabo
(Hungary, Germany)
Habemus Papam – Nanni Moretti
(Italy, France)
Our Grand Despair – Seyfi Teoman
(Turkey, Germany, Netherlands)
Cirkus Columbia – Danis Tanovic
(France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, United Kingdom, Germany, Slovenia, Belgium)
Ernest et Célestine (animation film)- Vincent Patar & Stéphane Aubier, Benjamin Renner
(France, Belgium, Luxembourg)
También La Lluvia – Iciar Bollain
(Spain, France)
The Children’s Republic (feature film for children)- Flora Gomes
(Portugal, France)
Limbo – Maria Sodahl
(Norway, Denmark, Sweden)
Snowhite – Pablo Berger
(Spain, France)
Waiting for the sea – Bakhtiar Khoudoinazarov
(Germany, Russia, France, Belgium)
Hjem til jul – Bent Hamer
(Norway, Germany)
Los pasos dobles (documentary)- Isaki Lacuesta
(Spain, Switzerland)
