Fund awards a total of $8.3m to new titles from Susanne Bier, Miguel Gomes and Yorgos Lanthimos among others.

The Board of Management of the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund has agreed to support 20 projects of feature films, animations and documentaries for a total amount of $8.3m (€6.1m). The meeting ran from Oct 15-17 inVilnius.

Titles to benefit include:

KOSAC - Zvonimir Juric (Croatia)
(Croatia, Slovenia)

Another Day of Life - Raul de la Fuente (Spain), Nenow Damian (Poland)
(Poland, Spain, Belgium, Germany) Animation

As Mil e uma Noites - Miguel Gomes (Portugal)
(Portugal, France, Germany)

FRANCOØNIA, le Louvre sous l’occupation - Alexandre Sokourov (Russia)
(France, Germany, Netherlands) Documentary

The Girl King - Mika Kaurismaki (Finland)
(Germany, Canada, Finland, Sweden)

Druga strana svega - Mila Turajlic (Serbia) Documentary
(Serbia, France)

Onder het hart - Nicole Van Kilsdonk (Netherlands)
(Netherlands, Belgium)

Melody - Bernard Bellefroid (Belgium)
(Belgium, Luxembourg, France)

Le Portail - Régis Wargnier (France)
(France, Belgium)

Anime Nere - Francesco Munzi (Italy)
(Italy, France)

“Mullewapp - Eine schöne Schweinerei” - Tony Loeser (Germany), Jesper Moeller (Denmark) Animation film
(Germany, Luxembourg)

En Chance Til - Susanne Bier (Denmark)
(Denmark, Sweden)

I Istoria Tis Prasinis Grammis - Panicos Chrysanthou (Cyprus)
(Cyprus, Greece)

Miekkailija - Klaus Härö (Finland)
(Finland, Germany, Estonia)

The Here After - Magnus von Horn (Sweden)
(Poland, Sweden, France)

Nefesim Kesilene Kadar - Emine Emel Balci Tunçel (Turkey)
(Turkey, Germany)

1989 - Anders Ostergaard (Denmark) Documentary
(Denmark, Germany, Hungary)

The Lobster - Yorgos Lanthimos (Greece)
(Ireland, France, Greece, Netherlands)

Ladygrey - Alain Choquart (France)
(France, South Africa, Belgium)

Mala Z Rybarny - Jan Balej (Czech Republic)
(Czech Republic, Slovakia, France) Animation film

The Board also decided to grant approximately $185,000 (€135,800) to eight distributors for 32 films distributed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, “The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, Hungary, Poland, Serbia and Turkey.

Since it was set up in 1988, Eurimages has supported 1,542 European co-productions with a total of approximately $640m (€468m).

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