The latest funding round from European film support body Eurimages has backed new features by Justine Triet, Mia Hansen-Love, Cristian Mungiu and Bertrand Bonello.
The titles include Fonda, scheduled to shoot this spring, which will become French filmmaker Triet’s first film since her 2023 Oscar-winning Anatomy Of A Fall.
Fonda, which receives the joint-largest award of €500,000 ($579,700), is a psychological thriller set in a seemingly idyllic ’huis clos’ (literally, an enclosed space such as a room or cell).
The cast includes Mia Goth, Allison Janney, Andrew Scott, Frank Dillane and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, for French production companies Les Films de Pierre and Les Films Pelleas, sold by mk2 Films, and financed, co-produced and released in key territories by Studiocanal.
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Hansen-Love’s If Love Should Die also receives €500,000. The Ireland-France-Spain-Poland co-production is a biopic of 18th-century English writer, philosopher, and women’s rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft.
Further Eurimages-backed projects include Tales Of The Golden Age 3 from Romanian filmmakers Mungiu and Ioana Maria Uricaru. Mungiu’s upcoming Fjord, starring Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan, is widely tipped for a Cannes slot.
Also backed by Eurimages is Bonello’s Vatican thriller Santo Subito, starring Mark Ruffalo as Joseph Murolo, a US-born priest summoned to serve as the devil’s advocate in the investigation of Pope John Paul II’s life and potential sainthood.
The Eurimages selection includes one UK filmmaker – Ben Pearce, director of Ireland-Belgium-Poland co-production A Few Miles South. Pearce previously directed a 2021 short of the same name, about two mappers trapped during a blizzard in the Golden Age of Arctic exploration in 1911.
The Eurimages fund is backing 32 feature films, including two documentaries and one animation, at a total of €9.8m ($11.4m), in what is its first project evaluation session of 2026.
Seventeen of the 32 features will be directed or co-directed by women, and they are receiving 60% of the total funding awarded.
Eurimages 2026 first funding round
A Favour (Ice-Lux-Fr-Den) dir. Grimur Hakonarson - €267,000
A Few Miles South (Ire-Bel-Pol) dir. Ben Pearce - €270,000
A Thousand Days, A Thousand Nights (Gr-Lux-Cyp) dir. Syllas Tzoumerkas - €254,000
A World Of Their Own (Sp-Bel) dir. Carmen Cordoba - €500,000
Birk (Neth-Bel-Den) dir. Jenneke Boeijink - €187,000
Blue Sweater With A Yellow Hole (Ukr-Fr-Lux-Czech) dir. Tetiana Khodakivska - €396,000
Deconstruction (Bul-It) dir. Pavel G. Vesnakov - €207,000
Fonda (Fr-Bel) dir. Justine Triet - €500,000
Happy Days (Neth-Bel-Pol) dir. Floor van der Meulen - €345,000
If Love Should Die (Ire-Fr-Sp-Pol) dir. Mia Hansen-Love - €500,000
Import (Can-Fr-Ser) dir. Paul Shkordorff - €150,000
Inbetween Worlds (Czech-Slovakia-Fr) dir. Diana Cam Van Nguyen - €290,000
Kyushu Moon (Switz-Fr) dir. Stephanie Argerich - €380,000
La Manche (Pol-Fr-Ger) dir. Damian Kocur - €300,000
Little Mary, Always A Virgin (Pol-Fr) dir. Anna Jadowska - €300,000
Lucia (Ire-Lux-Can) dir. Aisling Walsh - €400,000
Maalstroom (Neth-Bel) dir. Teddy Cherim - €230,000
Milch Cow (Cro-Slovenia-Bel) dir. Miroslav Sikavica - €150,000
Petroleo (Sp-Fr) dir. Alvaro Fernandez Pulpeiro - €240,000
Santo Subito (Fr-It-Pol) dir. Bertrand Bonello - €500,000
Silverwhite (Est-Fin-Swe-Lat) dir. Martti Helde - €250,000
Storms Named After Women (Neth-Sp) dir. Isabel Muruzabal Lamberti - €325,000
Tales Of The Golden Age 3 (Rom-Pol-Bul-Mold) dirs. Cristian Mungiu, Ioana Maria Uricaru - €450,000
The 8th Continent (Neth-Bel) dirs. Luuk Bouwman, Tomas Kaan - €150,000
The Shame Of The Borbely Family (Austria-Hun) dir. Kalman Nagy - €320,000
The Univited Guest (Ger-Lat) dir. Julia Drache
The Worker (Ger-Bel-Bul) dir. Eliza Petkova - €370,000
Uncle Egg (Nor-Ger) dir. Torfinn Iversen - €300,000
Wake (Gr-Cyp-Ser) dir. Thelyia Petraki - €180,000
Ways And Means (Switz-Fr) dirs. Malou Briand, Raphael Meyer - €300,000
Yerma (Sp-Gr) dir. Lara Izagirre - €199,000
You Crazy Thing (Fin-Swe-Den) dir. Miia Tervo - €425,000
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