Results of the second Eurimages Project Evaluation Session of 2022 have just been announced. Further to recommendations made by independent experts meeting online, the Executive Committee of the Fund has decided to support 24 feature films, including 2 documentaries and 2 animations, for a total amount of €6.511.000. Project with female directors represented 41,9% of the eligible projects examined and of the projects supported, 35,4% are to be directed by women. These projects represent 34,3% of the total funding awarded.

The films supported include the new work by acclaimed directors such as Romania's Radu Jude, who has received €150,000 for Do Not Expect Too Much of the End of the World [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Radu Jude
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intervista: Alexandros Avranas
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The animation film Savages! (Switzerland/France/Belgium), the new feature by Switzerland's Claude Barras after his Oscar-nominated, multi-award-winning My Life as a Courgette [+leggi anche:
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Other established filmmakers that have received funding for their new projects are Portugal's André Gil Mata (€140,000 for the Portuguese-French co-production Under the Flame of the Lamp), Slovakia's Ivan Ostrochovský (€260,000 for the Slovakian-Czech-Hungarian co-production The Spring - read news), Slovenia's Žiga Virc (€126,000 for the Slovenian-Greek co-production Shooting Blanks [+leggi anche:
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Three second fiction features have also been funded: Animal [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Sofia Exarchou
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intervista: Jaione Camborda
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On the other hand, the supported first fiction features are Vincent Must Die [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Stéphan Castang
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Regarding the supported documentaries, the titles are A Massacre by Switzerland's Milo Rau (Germany/Switzerland/France, with €236,000) and Meril by Sweden's Victoria Verseau (Sweden/France, with €117,000).