Films by Lukas Dhont, Pawel Pawlikowski, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Marie Kreutzer, Jonas Poher Rasmussen and Radu Jude are among 35 features to share €10.7m in Eurimages’s latest round of funding.
The 35 supported co-productions include five documentaries and two animations. 13 of the projects are to be directed or co-directed by women, representing 39.41% of the total funding awarded.
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Flemish director Dhont, who was Oscar nominated for his 2023 feature Close, received €500,000 for Coward. Dhont joins forces again with co-writer Angelo Tijssens for the film, for which plot details are not yet available.
The Reunion, the production company set up by Michiel and Lukas Dhont, takes the lead in the film’s production. Earlier this year, the project also received €200,000 in funding from Screen Flanders, and was one of ten projects pitched at the Marche du Film’s 2025 Investors Circle.
Austrian director Kreutzer’s Gentle Monster also received €500,000. The film follows two women who shape their lives around men whose dark sides they prefer to ignore. Alexander Glehr and Johanna Scherz produce through their Austrian company Film AG Produktions.
They have previously made titles including Kreutzer’s Corsage and The Ground Beneath My Feet. Gentle Monster won the top prize at this year’s Marche du Film’s Investors Circle.
Japan’s Hamaguchi, who won an Oscar for Drive My Car, has received €476,000 for All Of A Sudden, which stars Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto and is inspired by a collection of real-life exchanged letters published in the book You and I – The Illness Suddenly Get Worse by Makiko Miyano and Maho Isono. All Of A Sudden is produced by Paris-based Cinefrance Studios, Japan’s Office Shirous and Bitters End, Germany’s Heimatfilm and Belgium’s Tarantula.
Cinefrance International is handling world sales outside of Asia which is represented by Bitters End.
Jonas Poher Rasmussen, who won an Oscar this year for animation Flee, has received €500,000 for his next animation project Dansker, based on The Dane Trilogy (Dansker Trilogien) comic books by Halfdan Pisket. The trilogy draws on the life-experience of Pisket’s father who is forced to leave his native Turkey after deserting the army, but struggles to integrate in Denmark and turns to the criminal world. The production is led by Denmark’s Ja Film in collaboration with Submarine.
Meanwhile, Berlinale winner Radu Jude has received €300,000 for Diary Of A Chambermaid, which is produced through France’s SBS Productions in a minority co-production with Romania. The film reportedly will follow in the wake of a young Romanian woman who has travelled to France to work for a French family and who also joins an amateur theatre company who are working on an adaptation of Octave Mirbeau’s The Diary o Of A Chambermaid.
Also backed by Eurimages is Oscar- nominated Pawel Pawlikowski’s 1949/Vaterland, receiving €150,000. The next film from the director of Cold War and My Summer Of Love director, is an adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s novel The Magician, a fictionalised autobiography of German author Thomas Mann. It is being co-produced with Edward Berger, director of All Quiet On The Western Front, through his German company Nine Hours.
This latest round of funding also includes support for Let Love In byThe Eight Mountains director Felix van Groeningen, and Italian director Nanni Moretti’s latest It Will Happen Tonight.
Latest Eurimages co-production support projects
- 1949/Vaterland (Pol-Ger-Fr-It) dir. Pawel Pawlikovski - €150,000
- All of a Sudden (Fr-Jap-Ger-Bel) dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi - €476,000
- Atlas of the Universe (Rom-Bul) dir. Paul Negoescu - €131,000
- Autumn of the Patriarch (Nor-Ger-Cro) dirs. Anna Bogoliubova, Torstein Grude - €150,000 - Documentary
- Black Money for White Nights (Bul-Gre) dirs. Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov - €150,000
- Blue Baby (Fin-Lit) dir. Klaus Härö – €350,000
- Coward (Bel-Fr-Neth) dir. Lukas Dhont – €500,000
- Cowgirl (Slovakia-Cz-Hun) dir. Michal Blaško – €240,000
- Dansker (Den-Lux-Neth-Swe) dir. Jonas Poher Rasmussen – €500,000 – Animation
- Death and the Maiden (Ger-Fr-Rom-Austria) dir. Adina Pintilie – €500,000
- Diary of a Chambermaid (Fr-Rom) dir. Radu Jude – €300,000
- Dua (Swi-Fr-Kos) dir. Blerta Basholli – €300,000
- Ducks (Fr-Ger) dir. Neary Adeline Hay – €500,000
- Each of Us (Sp-Pol-Ger-Swi) dirs. Neus Ballus, Anne Zohra Berrached, Anna Jadowska, Stina Werenfels – €500,000
- Gentle Monster (Aus-Ger-Fr) dir. Marie Kreutzer – €500,000
- The Girl with the Leica (It-Ger) dir. Alina Marazzi – €500,000
- The Gods Must Be Mistaken (Ger-Slovenia-It-Cro) dir. Jakob Krese – €80,000 – Documentary
- Granny Lee (Can-S.Africa-Ire) dirs. Gabe Gabriel, Ian Gabriel – €290,000
- The Indies (Swi-Sp) dir. Pauline Julier, Nicolas Chapoulier – €280,000
- It Will Happen Tonight (It-Fr-Sp) dir. Nanni Moretti – €127,000
- Le Faux Soir (Bel-Fr) dir. Michaël Roskam – €490,000
- Let Love In (Bel-It) dir. Felix van Groeningen – €150,000
- Mary Magdalene (Fr-Bel-Lux) dir. Gessica Généus – €300,000
- Our Seeds (Tur-Ger-Gre) dir. Erhan Arık – €90,000 – Documentary
- Pipaluk (Fr-Den) dir. Thierry Machado – €500,000
- The Postman (Ger-Fr-Tur) dir. Siddiq Barmak – €72,000
- The Revolution According to Kamo (Hun-Ger-Fra-Pol) dir. Kornél Mundruczó – €500,000
- Roma Elastica (Fr-It) dir. Bertrand Mandico – €400,000
- The Rumour (Den-Swe) dir. Amalie Næsby Fick – €190,000
- The Siege of Paradise (Ire-Switz) dir. Gar O’Rourke – €110,000 – Documentary
- Species (Fr-Bel) dir. Marion Le Corroller – €352,000
- Spring Cleaning (North Mac-Gre-Slovenia-Serb) dir. Marija Apcevska – €210,000
- Summer Camp (Por-Gre) dir. Marco Martins – €260,000
- War on Women (Est-Ger) dir. Maris Salumets – €90,000 – Documentary
- Yugly (Bel-Fr) dir. Jérémie Degruson, Yanis Belaid – €500,000 – Animation
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