Film Fund Luxembourg Awards €13m Funding for 29 New Film Projects

The selection committee of the Film Fund Luxembourg met for its third and last session of the year on 2-6 and 19-23 November 2020. 

Following these meetings, the selection committee has announced its approval of the following funding for 29 film projects (out of 61 submissions) in the Grand Duchy, totalling €13,174,566.

Selective financial support for projects in development (total €439,500):

Live-action feature films

- LÄIF A SEIL – allocated amount: €30,000 – writer/director: Loïc Tanson – writer: Frédéric Zeimet – production: Samsa Film
- MIR GÉINT D’WELT – allocated amount: €30,000 – writers/directors: Eric Lamhène, Rae Lyn Lee – production: Samsa Film
- AMA – allocated amount: €30,000 – writer: Yann Kerloch – director: Yuki Kawamura – production: Les Films Fauves 
- MARIANENGRABEN – allocated amount: €30,000 – writer/director: Eileen Byrne – writer: Jasmin Schreiber – production: Samsa Film
- CYCLOPES – allocated amount: €30,000 – writer/director: Sarah Hirtt – writer: Sabrina B. Karine – production: Samsa Film 

Animated feature films

- QUANTRICS – allocated amount: €30,000 – writer/director: Thierry Schiel – writer: Michel Fessler – production: Iris Productions 
- MIRABELLE – allocated amount: €30,000 – writer/director: Lena Junker – production: Doghouse Films

Live-action series

- GHOST SOCIETY – allocated amount: €30,000 – writers: Fred Castadot, Maud Carpentier, Christophe Beaujean – production: Wild Fang Films

Feature-length documentaries

- HOYNINGEN – allocated amount: €30,000 – writer/director: Christophe Alalof – production: Louvigny Media 
- LE CAS NORBERT JACQUES – allocated amount: €60,000 – writer/director: Claude Lahr – writer: Jean-Louis Schlesser – production: Iris Productions 
- GRAND-DUC HENRI – allocated amount: €19,500 – writer: Grégory Goethals – production: Louvigny Media 
- BOXING STORIES – allocated amount: €60,000 – writer/director: Alain Tshinza – production: Wady Films

Virtual Reality

- MISSING PICTURES – allocated amount: €30,000 – writer: Joseph Beauregard – director: Clément Deneux – production: Wild Fang Films

Selective financial support for projects in production (total €12,735,066):

Live-action series

- CAPITANI 2 (part 1) – allocated amount: €1,300,000 (overall project budget: €4,043,500) – crime, drama – writer/director: Christophe Wagner – writers: Thierry Faber, Eric Lamhène – production: Samsa Film (Luxembourg-Belgian co-production) – filming to commence in February 2021

Live-action feature films

- LOST TRANSPORT – allocated amount: €1,159,600 (overall project budget: €3,398,970 – 34.12% financial support) – historical drama– writer/director: Saskia Diesing – writer: Esther Gerritsen – production: Amour Fou Luxembourg (Luxembourg co-production with the Netherlands and Germany) – filming to commence in May 2021
- TOTEM – allocated amount: €1,069,110 (overall project budget: €2,588,435 – 41.30% financial support) – family – writer/director: Alexander "Sander" Burger – writer: Bastiaan Tichler – production: Tarantula Luxembourg (Luxembourg-Netherlands co-production) – filming to commence in March 2021
- THE BEANIE – allocated amount: €511,147 (overall project budget: €1,864,452 – 27.42% financial support) – adventure, family – writer: Saša Eržen – director: Slobodan Maksimović – production: Wady Films (Luxembourg-Croatia co-production) – filming to commence in January 2021
- CORSAGE – allocated amount: €1,500,000 (overall project budget: €7,312,328 – 20.51% financial support) – historical drama – writer/director: Marie Kreutzer – production: Samsa Film (Luxembourg co-production with Austria, Germany and France) – filming to commence in February 2021
- LES ROIS DU MONDE (Cineworld) – allocated amount: €200,000 (overall project budget: €1,217,179 – 16.43% financial support) – drama – writer/director: Laura Mora – writer: Maria Camila Arias – production: Iris Productions (Luxembourg co-production with Colombia and France)
- THE HERD (Cineworld) – allocated amount: €200,000 (overall project budget: €1,436,812 – 13.92% financial support) – drama, fantasy – writer/director: Milko Lazarov – writers: Ekaterina Churilova, Simeon Ventsislavov – production: Amour Fou Luxembourg (Luxembourg co-production with Bulgaria, Germany and France) – filming to commence in February 2021
- BIRTHMARK (Cineworld) – allocated amount: €200,000 (overall project budget: €868,518 – 23.03% financial support) – drama – writer/director: Aditya Vikram Sengupta – production: Les Films Fauves (Luxembourg co-production with India, Denmark and Norway) – filming to commence in February 2021
- BOUAZIZI (Cineworld) – allocated amount: €200,000 (overall project budget: €868,518 – 24.56% financial support) – drama – writer/director: Nathan Lotfy – writer: Oualid Mouaness – production: Tarantula Luxembourg (Luxembourg-French co-production)

Feature-length documentary

- I FIORI PERSI​ – allocated amount: €129,979 (overall project budget: €171,479 – 75.80% financial support) – writer/director: Fabrizio Maltese – writer: Stéphan Roelants – production: Joli Rideau Media (Luxembourg co-production) – filming to commence in January 2021

Live-action feature film with Virtual Reality

- CONAN, LA BARBARE – allocated amount: €1,150,000 (overall project budget: €2,611,704 – 44.03% financial support) – adventure, drama, fantasy, sci-fi –writer/director: Bertrand Mandico – production: Les Films Fauves  (Luxembourg-French co-production) – filming to commence in January 2021

Animated feature films

- LES CONTES DU HERISSON – allocated amount: €1,440,000 (overall project budget: €6,023,123 – 23.91% financial support) – adventure, comedy – writers/directors: Alain Gagnol, Jean-Loup Felicioli – production: Doghouse Films (Luxembourg-French co-production) – production to commence in January 2021
- ALLAH N’EST PAS OBLIGÉ – allocated amount: €1,500,000 (overall project budget: €4,698,300 – 31.93% financial support) – drama – writer/director: Zaven Najjar – writer: Karine Winczura – production: Paul Thiltges Distributions (Luxembourg co-production with France and Belgium) – production to commence in June 2021

Animated series

- LE PETIT PRINCE ET SES AMIS – allocated amount: €1,265,230 (overall project budget: €8,909,719 – 14.20% financial support) – comedy, family – writer/director: Olivier Derynck – showrunner: Simon Nicholson – production: Bidibul Productions (Luxembourg-French co-production) – production to commence in July 2021

Animated documentary series

- DRAW FOR CHANGE – allocated amount: €790,000 (overall project budget: €3,860,820 – 20.46% financial support) –writers/directors: Laura Nix, Nada Ryiad, Kim Longinotto – showrunners: Vincent Coen, Guillaume Vandenberghe – production: a_BAHN (Luxembourg co-production with Belgium, France and the Netherlands) 

Animated short film

- L’OGRE – allocated amount: €120,000 (overall project budget: €132,045 – 90.88% financial support) – drama –writer/director: Aurélien Pira – writer: Cyril Bossmann – production: Zeilt Productions – production to commence in January 2021.