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Filmmakers Kantemir Balagov, Cristian Mungiu (both currently in production) and Albert Serra are among the wave of filmmakers receiving significant coin via the Eurimages Project Evaluation Session of 2025. In total we find 23 feature films, including 5 documentaries and 2 animation projects. Among the almost two dozen projects we have invested interested in Gagarine tandem (read review) Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh‘s Green Eyes (which we reported on back in 2023) and Mary Rose by Irish filmmaker Colm Bairéad who broke out big with 2022’s The Quiet Girl. Here are all the selected projects:

A Detour via Diane – Ann Sirot, Raphaël Balboni (France) – €150 000

Butterfly Jam – Kantemir Balagov (Russia) – €471 000

Children of Liberty – Léahn Vivier-Chapas, Rémy Schaepman (France) – €500 000 Animation

Fjord – Cristian Mungiu (Romania) – €500 000

Folk Play – Mirjana Karanović (Serbia) – €250 000

Get Up Stand Up – Mari Sanders (Netherlands) – €390 000

Glory B – Konstantinos Antonopoulos (Greece) – €340 000

Green Eyes – Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh (France) – €390 000

Killabees – Eché Janga (Netherlands) – €350 000

Low Expectations – Eivind Landsvik...

Since the launch of its cash rebate in 2018, which covers up to 40 of qualifying expenditures along with 30 in tax relief, Greece has become one of Europe’s hottest filming destinations. But domestic production is surging as well, and the industry reached new heights in 2022, with the rebate scheme supporting 132 international and domestic projects.

Here’s a round-up of some of the top Greek feature films currently in the pipeline:

Buzzheart

Director: Dennis Iliadis

Producers: Amanda Livanou, Dennis Iliadis

The veteran director, who helmed the 2007 remake of Wes Craven’s “The Last House on the Left,” returns with a film that asks: If you had to make sure that someone could truly love without any moral limitations, how far would you go?

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My Soul Startled

Director: Syllas Tzoumerkas

Producers: Maria Drandaki, Nadia Trevisan, Julie Paratian

The acclaimed director returns with 18 interwoven love stories of gods, titans, nuns, madmen,...

€315,000 in prizes awarded at Tfl Meeting Event.

Co-production market Tfl Meeting Event has awarded prizes worth €315,000 to projects that took part in TorinoFilmLab’s annual ScriptLab and FeatureLab programmes.

30 projects were pitched over two days at the Tfl Meeting Event in Turin - 20 titles from Tfl’s nine-month scriptwriting programme ScriptLab and another 10 from its FeatureLab strand for films at a more advanced stage.

Four FeatureLab projects were selected by an international jury as winners of the Tfl Production Awards, sharing a total of €160,000: Inbar Horesh’s Birth Right, Prantik Basu’s Dengue, Konstantinos Antonopoulos’ Glory B and Sara Fgaier’s Weightless.

Germany, US, India among countries represented.

Italy’s TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) has selected 10 fiction feature film projects at an advanced development stage for its 2022 FeatureLab, which will run from June to November this year.

The projects include six debut features and four second features; there are 21 participants across the 10 creative teams, including 14 women, six men and one non-binary person. They were selected from 134 applications from 60 countries.

Scroll down for the full list of projects

Among the selection are Mexican writer-director Marta Hernaiz Pidal with Straight Ahead, On Your Right. The film centres on the meeting between a group of posh teenage...

The Berlin International Film Festival’s European Film Market (EFM) has confirmed details for how its online incarnation will work March 1-5.

As Deadline revealed, Dennis Ruh took the reins at the EFM in September 2020 and faces an unconventional first edition.

“International sales agents have filled their lineups for the start of the year and have an attractive variety of films on offer. Many films are also currently in production and ready for pre-sales. We want the digital EFM in 2021 to be an impulse for a new beginning in the international film industry,” said Ruh today. “Since the EFM is an integral part of an international convention calendar, and therefore part of an economic system that includes events such as the Marché du Film in Cannes and the American Film Market in Los Angeles, a later date is not an option.”

The Efm will condense the industry sessions from its...

Exclusive: This year’s Oxbelly Labs has set creative advisors including directors Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann), Mati Diop (Atlantics), Ulrich Köhler (In My Room) and Lulu Wang (The Farewell), as well as producer-seller Michael Weber, founder of The Match Factory.

The Lab is designer to offer promising international filmmakers the opportunity to work on their first or second feature script, as well as workshop and direct one scene from it, with guidance from industry mentors.

Led by Oxbelly’s artistic director and Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari (Attenberg), the Lab is being hosted online this year.

Returning creative advisors include Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread), Michael Almereyda (Tesla), Ritesh Batra (Photograph), Lisa Cholodenko (Olive Kitteridge), Willem Dafoe (Tommaso), Naomi Foner (Running On Empty), Nick Kroll (Big Mouth), Jeff Nichols (Loving), Olivier Père and Eva Stefani (Manuscript).

The Labs were established...

article by Talking Shorts Team

In light of the current Covid-19 situation that is unfolding across the world, the film industry has seen many events postponed and cancelled. This includes many major short film festivals, amongst them Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, the Glasgow Short Film Festival, Short Waves Festival in Poland and Canada’s Festival Regard, as well as such events as Cph:dox in Copenhagen, SXSW in Texas, Tribeca in New York and Vision du Reel in Nyon.

In response to these events a new online short film festival entitled My Darling Quarantine will begin on Monday 16th March. Hosted on the platform Talking Shorts (https://talkingshorts.com/), it will help raise money for those fighting against Covid-19 and those people and events that have been affected by the situation.

The festival was initiated by Enrico Vannucci, short film advisor for the Venice International Film Festival and...

Less Is More, the program launched by Le Group Ouest to help young helmers such as Maimouna Doucouré (“Cuties”), has unveiled the trailer of Daria Woszek’s “Marygoround” which will have its world premiere at South By Southwest.

The film, which was developed within the framework of Less Is More, revolves around Mary, a lonely grocery store worker who lives a rather dull life in a small town. On the eve of her 50th birthday, Mary’s life soon begins to take on a totally unexpected turn when she overdoses on the hormone patches prescribed by her doctor and receives the visit of a free-spirited niece. Mary’s senses and imagination suddenly come alive.

“The film is a quirky, darkly comic tale starring a stunning screen newcomer Grażyna Misiorowska, (and it tells the) story of a woman reclaiming her own body,” said South By Southwest in its presentation of “Marygoround...

Previous projects include Nathalie Biancheri’s ‘Wolf’ starring George MacKay and Lily-Rose Depp.

European training and coaching development programme Less Is More has selected 16 low-budget feature projects for its 2020 scheme, as well as 12 ‘development angels’ to join the development process.

Open to projects at script development stage from first to third-time feature filmmakers from across the globe, the scheme received 460 applications from 90 countries – a 37% increase on the previous year’s total.

See full list of projects below.

12 of this year’s projects are European productions, with one each from Tunisia, Rwanda and Mexico plus a Palestine-Denmark co-production.

Less Is More...

Turkey’s Tolga Karacelik, whose Ivy was at Sundance at Toronto last year, among those to bring new features to CineLink.

The Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 12-20) has revealed the first six projects selected for its CineLink Co-Production Market, which is set to run Aug 18-20.

The titles include Butterflies, from Turkish director Tolga Karacelik, whose psychological drama Ivy world premiered at Sundance 2015 and went on to play at Istanbul, Sydney, Karlovy Vary and Toronto among others.

Butterflies is “a black comedy about death and two brothers reuniting”, which won The Binger award at Istanbul’s Meetings on the Bridge Film Development Workshop and was selected for Sundance Lab.

Ela And Hilmi is from another Turkish director, Ziya Demirel, whose 2015 short Tuesday (Sali) was selected by Cannes for its shorts competition and secured a special mention at Sarajevo.

The Heroes Were Dancing is the next project from Serbian filmmaker Nikola Ljuca, whose mystery...