Eurimages, a cultural support fund of the Council of Europe, has selected 33 feature films to support.
Of the movies selected, 18 are to be directed or co-directed by women, receiving 56.36% of the total funding awarded.
The fund comes to €9.6 million (£7.7m), with Eurimages specifically supporting European co-productions. Since its founding in 1988, Eurimages has supported 2,409 co-productions with approximately €685m (£586m).
This year's selection includes veteran filmmakers and first time directors, as well as animated productions like Outfoxed (pictured) and documentaries. The countries co-producing range from Latvia to Ireland, Canada to Turkey, and more.
Films from veteran filmmakers selected include:
- Óliver Laxe After (Spain/France)
- Anders Thomas Jensen Back to Reality (Denmark/Sweden)
- Francesca Comencini First Comes Life, then the Movies (Italy/France).
- Rúnar Rúnarsson When the Light Breaks (Iceland/Netherlands)
- Magnus von Horn The Little Seamstress (Denmark/Poland/Sweden).
- Cherien Dabis All That's Left of You (Germany/Cyprus)
- Pelin Esmer Wait Till You Hear Mine (Turkey/Romania)
- Ivana Mladenovic Sorella di Clausura (Romania/Serbia)
- Alexis Alexiou Sea of Glass (Greece/Bulgaria/Cyprus)
- Klemen Dvornik Block 5 (Slovenia/Czech Republic/Serbia)
- Cecilia Verheyden Skiff (Belgium/Netherlands)
- Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu Transit Times (Germany/Romania)
- Ido Fluk The Girl from Köln (Germany/Poland).
Second feature films selected include:
- Ana Asensio Goat Girl (Spain/Romania)
- Maura Delpero Vermiglio, or the Mountain Bride (Italy/France/Belgium),
- Nikola Ležaić Mum (Serbia/Bulgaria/Croatia)
- Marta Bergman L'Enfant Bélier (Belgium/Canada)
- Ameer Fakher Eldin Yunan (Germany/Canada/Italy/France)
First time filmmakers granted the fund include:
- Ariane Labed Sisters (Ireland/United Kingdom/Germany/Greece)
- Tamara Kotevska Man vs Flock (North Macedonia/Serbia/Turkey/Croatia)
- Urška Djukic Little Trouble Girls (Slovenia/Italy/Croatia/France)
- Kat Steppe Mist (Belgium/Netherlands)
- Türker Süer Brothers (Germany/Turkey)
- Emilie Blichfeldt Cinderella's Stepsister (Norway/Denmark/Romania)
- Denise Fernandes Hanami (Switzerland/Portugal)
- Maria Eriksson-Hecht Kevlar Soul (Sweden/Norway/Finland)
- Vladimir Tagic Yugo Florida (Serbia/Bulgaria/Croatia/Montenegro)
- Jérémy Comte Paradise (Canada/France)
Animated films selected are:
- Edmunds Jansons Born Happy (Latvia/Poland)
- Maurice Joyce and Paul Bolger Outfoxed (Ireland/Belgium)
Documentaries include:
- Lina Vdovîi and Radu Ciorniciuc Father (Romania/Germany/Netherlands)
- Isa Willinger No Mercy - The Unsparing Gaze (Germany/Austria)
- Sun Kim and Morten Traavik North South Man Woman (Norway/Latvia)