Films by Florian Zeller, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Jasmila Žbanić and Miguel Gomes are among 33 features to share €9.7m in Eurimages’s latest round of funding.
The 33 supported co-productions include ten documentaries and five animations. Twelve of the projects are to be directed or co-directed by women, representing 29% of the total funding awarded.
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Oscar-winning French filmmaker Florian Zeller, who won best adapted screenplay for The Father in 2021, received €500,000 for Bunker, which stars Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Stephen Graham. The French-Spanish co-production revolves around an architect who accepts a morally ambiguous project – building a survivalist bunker for a tech billionaire – and his wife, who begins to question their marriage. The film is produced by Blue Morning Pictures and MOD Producciones.
Actress and filmmaker Antonia Campbell-Hughes received €300,000 for Diamond Shitter, which is set to star Raffey Cassidy, Eva Green, Ben Whishaw and Alessandro Nivola. Set against the backdrop of the affluent Geneva expat community, it’s about a young intern who steals diamonds from her host family, absorbing them into her body and unmasking the deeper truths beneath their privilege. The film is produced by Ireland’s Sleeper Films in co-production with the UK’s Smoke Puppy and Geneva-based Rita Productions.
Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Žbanić secured €500,000 for the sequel to her Academy Award-nominated Quo Vadis, Aida?. Titled Quo Vadis, Aida? – The Missing Part, it finds Aida, again played by Jasna Đuričić, on a peacetime journey to discover the fates of her husband and sons in Srebrenica, where more than 8,000 civilians – mostly Muslim men and boys – were slaughtered in the worst act of mass killing on European soil since the Second World War.
Portuguese director Miguel Gomes, whose Grand Tour played in Cannes Competition last year, also received €500,000 for his long-gestating next film Savagery. It is based on Euclides da Cunha’s Backlands, The Canudos Campaign, a non-fiction account of the war between Brazilian soldiers and a group of religious zealots in 1890s Bahia.
Other films that secured the maximum €500,000 awarded by Eurimages were Spanish director David Pérez Sañudo’s Bilbao 1983. Sañudo’s debut feature Ane won three Spanish Academy Goya Awards in 2021.
French actor and filmmaker Guillaume Gallienne also received €500,000 for animation Cyrano, based on the classic tale of Cyrano de Bergerac.
Two other French animations received the full €500,000 backing: Dog My Cats! by Academy Award-nominated Alain Gagnol (A Cat An Paris); and Fleur by Rémi Chayé, whose Calamity, A Childhood Of Martha Jane Cannary won the Cristal for best feature at Annecy in 2020.
Eurimages co-production awards:
- 100 Thousand Turkish Liras (Turk-Neth) dir. Nazlı Elif Durlu – €280,000
- Aleluia (Port-Fr-Cabo Verde) dir. José Augusto Octávio Gamboa dos Passos – €390,000
- Another Journey Without Women (Fall Of Man) (Ger-Den-Fr-Swe) dir. Illum Jacobi – €127,000
- Bilbao 1983 (Sp-Belg) dir. David Pérez Sañudo – €500,000
- Bunker (Fr-Sp) dir. Florian Zeller – €500,000
- Cyrano (Fr-Lux-It) dir. Guillaume Gallienne – €500,000 — Animation
- Democracy Work In Progress (Hun-Ger-Cz) dir. Mihály Schwechtje – €150,000
- Diamond Shitter (aka Nollaig) (Ire-Switz-UK) dir. Antonia Campbell-Hughes – €300,000
- DinoGames (Sp-Belg) dirs. Carlos Fernández, Lorena Ares – €388,000 — Animation
- Dog My Cats! (Fr-Belg-Can) dir. Alain Gagnol – €500,000 — Animation
- Fleur (Fr-Den) dir. Rémi Chayé – €500,000 — Animation
- Hautefaye (Fr-Belg) dir. Vincent Le Port – €390,000
- Home Court (Gre-Bul-Neth) dirs. Elpida Nikou, Rodrigo Hernandez – €90,000 — Documentary
- March 14th (Sp-Bel-Lith) dir. Alberto Gross Molo – €320,000
- Millie And The Secret Of The Crocodile (Swe-Den-Neth) dir. Esben Toft Jacobsen – €340,000 — Animation
- My Father The Iceman (Pol-Den) dir. Łukasz Kowalski – €150,000 — Documentary
- Orsoq – Seasons Of Solitude (Den-Fin) dir. Inuk Silis Høegh – €140,000 — Documentary
- Quo Vadis, Aida? – The Missing Part (Bos-Herz-Neth-Fr-Aut-Ger-Pol) dir. Jasmila Žbanić – €500,000
- Sanda Dia (Neth-Belg) dir. Miriam Guttmann – €130,000 — Documentary
- Savagery (Port-Fr-Bra-It) dir. Miguel Gomes – €500,000
- Silence Of The Lams (Ire-Fin) dir. Ciarán Deeney – €100,000 — Documentary
- Sound Of Silence (Fr-Gre) dir. Joyce Nashawati – €400,000
- Southwest (Ger-Fr-Aut) dir. Wolfgang Fischer – €380,000
- Tabita (Lat-Neth-Lith) dir. Juris Kursietis – €266,000
- Thank You Charlotte (Fr-Gre) dir. Berkun Oya – €400,000
- The Cherubs (Rom-Bul) dir. Daniel Sandu – €300,000
- The City That Ate Souls Away (Fr-Belg) dirs. Diane Sara Bouzgarrou, Thomas Jenkoe – €110,000 — Documentary
- The Horsemen Of The Apocalypse (Nor-Ger-Swe) dir. Lene Berg – €54,000 — Documentary
- The Outsider Within (Fr-Belg) dir. Zoé Cauwet – €150,000
- The Place Of Eternal Summer (It-Belg) dir. Maddalena Ravagli – €300,000
- The Standard Man (Swe-Pol-Den) dir. Erik Lavesson, Tomas Stark, Weronika Mliczewska – €150,000 — Documentary
- The Whale Mystery (Nor-Den-Swe) dir. Tonje Hessen Schei – €306,000 — Documentary
- Welfa(i)re (Cz-Slovakia) dir. Adéla Komrzý – €85,000 — Documentary
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