EXCLUSIVE: European development programme Less Is More is undergoing structural changes to become LIM², and has selected 80 participants for its 2026 edition.
LIM² will use upgraded tools and methodology, from collaborations with European researchers at European think tank StoryTank. It has also added a separate online programme for 56 projects led by 61 writer-directors.
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LIM² has selected 19 feature filmmaker writers and directors for its main in-person programme, which consists of three one-week workshops in France between March and October.
The 2026 participants include UK-Kazakh filmmaker Zhannat Alshanova with her project A Minor Issue. Alshanova’s debut feature Becoming premiered at Locarno Film Festival before going on to Busan, Tallinn and Goteborg.
Also selected is Dutch-Belgian filmmaker Evi Cats with debut feature Where waves crash in their own time, after shorts including IDFA 2022 selection Les Murs Qui Crient.
The online programme will offer an extended demonstration of LIM²’s methods, designed to support the early stages of fiction feature film development.
“A new generation of devices will allow authors and filmmakers to immerse themselves in practices of deepening and densifying narrative proposals,” said LIM² CEO Antoine Le Bos of the practical changes to the LIM² methods. “These tools respond to fierce individualism through collaboration between sensibilities and mutual aid between peoples.”
“These 16 LIM² projects have been carefully chosen for their cinematic quality and thematic relevance,” said LIM² artistic director Massimiliano Nardulli. “They come from a wide variety of cultures and backgrounds, with film projects capable of reaching a broad audience, speaking more or less explicitly to today’s world.
Awaiting them in the coming months is a process of collective reworking, exploring the possibilities of each story, with moments of fermentation and distillation to create an even more compelling project.”
LIM² 2026 projects
Main programme
Zhannat Alshanova (UK-Kaz) - A Minor Issue
Jaanika Arum (Est) - Flourishing Desert
Julia Bunter (Switz) - Gothon
Anna Buryachkova (Ukr) - Gimme Shelter
Olga Sidorina Wilkins (Ukr) - Gimme Shelter
Evi Cats (Bel-Neth) - Where waves crash in their own time
Cody Farren (Ire) - A Threat of Rain
Rusudan Gaprindashvili (Geo-Ger) - Second Hands
Varia Garib (Austria-Uz) - Yuragim
Kirill Komar (Ger-Ukr) - Yuragim
Daria Kashcheeva (Czech) - Nameless
Kevin Koch (Ger) - Dogwhistle
Elizabete Lukso-Razinska (Lat) - Not My War
Alise Zarina (Lat) - Not My War
Aristotelis Maragkos (Greece-UK) - Pocketful of Strawberries
Carlos Martínez-Penalver (Sp) - Night Glow
Martynas Norvaisas (Lith) - The Room
Kristina Spassovska (Bul) - The Reptiles
Mohamad Yassine (Leb-Fr) – Zeinab
Online programme
Marianna Vas (Hun) - Authorities
Isabella Rinaldi (It) - B X L
Andre Vaara (Swe) - Beautiful Misfits
Alba Bresoli Aliberch (Sp) - Bodies in the Void
Veronika Bolotina (Ger) - Chicks without a nest
Alexander Abaturov (Fr) - CHILD / All we need
Pedro Lino (Por) - Curiua-Catu
Ainara Vera (Sp) - Denouement
Olga Stuga (Ukr) - Do you remember?
Daniel Guliyev (Az) - Empty Houses
Sofija Sztepanov (It-Hun-Ser) - Erzsi
Zahraa Ghandour (Iraq-Leb) - Hafla
Andra Hera (Rom) - Heart Migrations
Mara Tamkovich (Pol) - Her Son’s Mother
Juri Krutii (Est) - Hesitation Step
Lore Loyens (Bel) - Hike
Marius Pocevicius (Lith) - I’m Not Like That
Matas Vildzius (Lith) - I’m Not Like That
Nina Maria Allmoslechner (Austria) - Ida - A Visit to Iceland
Toms Harjo (Lat) - In the Truth
Gozde Kural (Tur) - In Those Darkest Nights
Romain Champalaune (Fr) - Ixquic, The Blood Woman
Nurlan Hasanli (Az) - Life is not Enough
Perceval Jeroen (Bel) - Lisa & Ismaël
Angel Radev (Bul) - Lulu
Oan Kim (Fr) - Nirvana
Renata Dzhalo (Fr-Guinea-Bissau) - Nobody to see us
Antoine Bourges (Can-Fr) - Odette C.
Kate Voet (Bel) - Olivia
Nina Kotyantz (Arm-US) - ORPHANS
Erinc Durlanik (Turkey) – Peace Apartment
Jalal Maghout (Ger-Syr) - Recordanza
Nevena Semova (Bul) - Red Line
Victoria Delcheva (Bul) - Red Line
Dina Dziraeva (Fr) - Rita’s River
Kevin Biele (Ger) - Shapeshifter
Sunniva Eir Tangvik Kveum (Nor) - Sit, Stay!
Minni Katina Mertens (Nor) - Sit, Stay!
Baris Fert (Tur) - Spider
Lara Kamhi (Tur) - Spider
Sonia Mackwani (Switz-India) - Telescope
Kerren Lumer-Klabbers (Den) - Thanks for Nothing
Mai Mcdonald (Den) - Thanks for Nothing
Darja Mikova (Czech) - The Blue Room
Emilie Thalund (Den) - The Heath
Anze Grcar (Slovenia) - The Quiet Boy
Ella Kohn (Ger) - The Rabbi, the Veteran and the Captain
Aja:l Ada:map (Switz) - The Road
Samira Damato (Neth-Ger) - The Rooster is not a rooster
Selen Orcan (Tur) - Things I Didn’t Know About Burrneshas
Anas Sareen (Fr-Switz) - THIS BLACK EARTH
Mahesh Naidu (UK-India) - This Is Not the Family I Ordered
Shaden Adela Safieddine Tazi (Mor-Leb) - Today I am 25 years old
Janet Marrett (UK) - Topsoil
Leyla Coll-O’Reilly (UK-Ire) - Tragedy
Cara Loftus (Ire) - Wait For Me
Tamara Brocic (Ser) - When the Moon Watches
Smaragda Nitsopoulou (Neth-Greece) - You will only see a flash of light
Elisa Baccolo (Switz-It) - Skin
Kirsi Marie Liimatainen (Fin) - SWEET DREAMS
Veerle De Wilde (Bel-Neth) - Day H
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