New films by Emily Atef, Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Michaël R Roskam and Tamara Kotevska are among 15 features to receive grants from Eurimages’ Film Marketing & Audience Development Support Programme.
The 15 selected films, including two documentaries and three animations, will share a total of €744,000.
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Launched last year, the programme aims to encourage the early stage use by producers of innovative marketing solutions to develop audiences for films already supported by the Fund’s Co-production Support Programme.
Emily Atef received support for her English-language debut Call Me Queen about a friendship between an Irish journalist in Kenya and a Rwandan woman during the 1990s AIDS crisis. It is produced by Germany’s Ringel Film and France’s Les Films Pelleas. Atef’s films have previously played in competition at the Berlinale and in Un Certain Regard at Cannes.
Jonas Poher Rasmussen, who won an Oscar this year for animated feature Flee, won backing for his next animation project Dansker, about a man forced to leave his native Turkey after deserting the army, but struggling to integrate in Denmark and turning to crime. Denmark’s Ja Film leads the production.
Belgian filmmaker Michaël R Roskam, whose credits include Bullhead and Racer And The Jailbird, was supported for his wartime feature Le Faux Soir. The film tells the story of the Belgian resistance secretly producing a spoof version of the country’s leading newspaper, Le Soir, which had become a propaganda tool of the occupying Nazis.
Oscar nominee Tamara Kotevska (Honeyland) also won backing for debut fiction feature Man Vs Flock. The story centres on an elderly farmer fighting for his land against a Chinese construction company, with the conflict soon extending to his own family.
The successful applications were made by the lead producers of the following co-productions:
Brace Your Heart (Swe-Den-Nor-Bul)
Dir. Amanda Kernell
Prod. Nordisk Film Production (Swe)
Call Me Queen (Ger-Fr)
Dir. Emily Atef
Prod. Ringel Film (Ger)
Dansker (Den-Neth-Lux-Swe) — animation
Dir. Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Prod. Ja Film (Den)
Each Of Us (Sp-Pol-Ger-Switz)
Dirs. Christine Andrea Werenfels Jamal Aldin, Neus Ballus, Anne Zohra Berrached, Anna Jadowska
Prod. Alhena Production (Sp)
Gabin, A Youth In The Backland (Fr-Ger-Switz) — documentary
Dir. Maxence Voiseux
Prod. Alter Ego Production (Fr)
Girl In The Clouds (Fr-Bel) — animation
Dir. Philippe Riche
Prod. Brio Films (Fr)
Good Mothers (Den-Neth-Swe)
Dir. Amalie Næsby Fick
Prod. Zentropa (Den)
Granny Lee (Can-S Afr-Ire)
Dirs. Gabe Gabriel, Ian Gabriel
Prod. Fae Pictures (Can)
La Baleine (Fr-Bel-Sp)
Dir. Sylvère Petit
Prod. Les Films d’Ici Méditérranée (Fr)
Le Faux Soir (Bel-Fr)
Dir. Michaël Roskam
Prod. Frakas Productions (Bel)
Low Expectations (Nor-Den)
Dir. Eivind Landsvik
Prod. Maipo Film (Nor)
Man vs Flock (N Mac-Gr-Ser-Cro)
Dir. Tamara Kotevska
Prod. Video Studio Petkovski (N Mac)
Sidi Kaba And The Gateway Home (Fr-Ger-Lux-Bel) — animation
Dir. Rony Hotin
Prod. Special Touch Studios (Fr)
The Excursion (Nor-Lith-Swed)
Dir. Fanny Ovesen
Prod. Maipo Film (Nor)
The Gods Must be Mistaken (Slo-Ger-It-Cro) — documentary
Dir. Jakob Krese
Prod. Potem (Slo)
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