Projects from Isaki Lacuesta and Nikolaj Arcel are among the recipients of European film support body Eurimages’ latest round of funding, each receiving €500,000, the biggest award available.
Spanish two-time San Sebastian Golden Shell winner Isaki Lacuesta’s next film, Close To Me is a Spain-Belgium co-production that follows two friends growing up in the 1980s in a small Catalan town, with Global Constellation handling international sales.
Sergi López, Àlex Brendemühl and Alba Guilera are set to star.
Danish filmmaker Arcel’s My Fairytale Life is a Denmark-Germany co-production. It is a biopic of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, who will be played by Caspar Kjaer Jensen, with TrustNordisk selling.
This round has supported 33 co-productions, including three documentaries and four animations, for a total amount of €10.2m. Sixteen are to be directed or co-directed by women, which represents 48% of the total funding awarded.
Benjamin Massoubre and Fursy Teyssier’s France-Luxembourg animation thriller The Wolf, from France’s Xilam, has received €450,000. Crunchyroll has pre-brought world SVOD rights from Goodfellas.
Further projects receiving funding are Panamanian director Ana Elena Tejera’s next film Culebra Cut; Russian filmmaker Kira Kovalenko’s sophomore feature Heavens Don’t Care, following Cannes 2021 title Unclenching The Fists; and Aref, French filmmaker Camille Vidal-Naquet’s follow-up to his feature debut, Cannes 2018 selection Sauvage.
Eurimages latest funding round
A Satellite For Burulai (Switz-Ger) dirs. Antonin Lechat, Suium Sulaimanova - €109,000 (documentary)
A Song That Slays (It-Can-Switz) dir. Maureen Frances Scarpelli - €150,000
Achinos (Greece-Cro) dir. Iris Baglanea - €250,000
Ama (Lux-Japan-It-Fr) dir. Yuki Kawamura - €91,000
Aref (Fr-Cyprus-Belg) dir. Camille Vidal-Naquet - €375,000
Close To Me (Sp-Belg) dir. Isaki Lacuesta - €500,000
Culebra Cut (Fr-Panama-Belg-It) dir. Ana Elena Tejera - €260,000
Evaporated (Fr-Ger-Belg-It) dir. Koya Kamura - €390,000
Happy Days (Ukr-Sp) dir. Vladlen Odudenko - €70,000
Heavens Don’t Care (Fr-Belg-Armenia) dir. Kira Kovalenko - €400,000
International Women’s Day (Ser-Ger-Cro-Rom-Bul-Slovenia) dir. Srdjan Dragojević - €316,000
Isabelle (Fr-Bel) dir. Léa Fehner - €500,000
Karmic Knot (Latvia-Ger) dir. Signe Baumane - €350,000 (animation)
Lisa & Lilly (Swe-Est) dir. Julia Lindström - €300,000
Lorca (Sp-Bels) dir. Fernando Franco - €300,000
Magnum Opus (Rom-Pol) dir. Bogdan Mirică - €190,000
Mulatresse Solitude (Belg-Lux-Fr-Neth) dir. Baloji Tshiani - €400,000
My Fairytale Life (Den-Ger) dir. Nikolaj Arcel - €500,000
My Name Is Lily (Cyprus-Belg) dir. Yianna Americanou - €425,000
Neither Day Nor Night (Fr-Can) dir. Monia Chokri - €500,000
Night Tram (Czech-Fr-Slovakia) dir. Michaela Pavlátová - €340,000 (animation)
Patrimonial Fears And Other Illusions (Greece-Neth-Cyprus) dir. Elina Psykou - €390,000
Rivo Alto (Fr-It-Belg) dir. Clément Cogitore - €500,000
Rosa Candida (Fr-Greece-Belg) dir. Clara Lemaire Anspach - €171,000
Saajve (Swe-Nor) dir. Oskar Östergren Njajta - €176,000 (animation)
The Black Dog (Fr-Belg) dir. Nyima Cartier - €194,000
The Kingdom (Fr-Bel) dir. Samira Hmouda - €150,000 (documentary)
The Odyssey Of The Deep (Fr-Switz) dir. Jacques Lœuille - €300,000 (documentary)
The Silence Of God (Belg-Fr) dir. Stephan Streker - €150,000
The White Week (Ser-Slovenia-Cro-Mont) dir. Bojan Vuletić - €125,000
The Wolf (Fr-Lux) dirs. Benjamin Massoubre, Fursy Teyssier - €450,000 (animation)
Three Ages (Sp-It-Belg) dir. Jiajie Yu Yan - €390,000
To Live In A Shout (Sp-Greece) dir. Diana Toucedo - €500,000
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