The selection committee of Film Fund Luxembourg met for its fourth and final session of the year from 14 to 18 November 2022.
Following these meetings, the selection committee has announced its approval of selective financial support for seventeen film projects (out of 28 submissions), totalling €12,141,719. This includes funding for the production of the following three projects of Luxembourg directors: the series "Droneland" by Nicolas Steil (showrunner) and Christophe Wagner (co-director); the feature film "Marianengraben" by Eileen Byrne; the documentary "La fourchette à gauche" by Donato Rotunno.
Film Fund Luxembourg has decided to financially support the writing and / or development and production of a total of ten feature films, two animated feature films, two documentaries, one series and two virtual reality (VR) projects.
Selective financial support for writing and / or development
Live-action feature films
- LE BAISER – allocated amount: €30,000 – writer / director: Thierry Besseling – production: Samsa Film
- RÉSISTANCE – allocated amount: €30,000 – writer / director: Bady Minck – production: Amour Fou Luxembourg
- QUARTET – allocated amount: €30,000 – writer / director: Massoud Bakhshi – production: Amour Fou Luxembourg
Feature-length documentary
- LOST AND FOUND – allocated amount: €80,000 – writer / director: Fabrizio Maltese – production: a_Bahn
Animated feature film
- LA PART DU LION – allocated amount: €30,00 – writer / director: Carlo Vogele – writer: Isabelle Andrivet – production: Iris Productions
Selective financial support for production
TV series
- DRONELAND – allocated amount: €3,000,000 (overall project budget: €13,000,000 – 23.08% financial support) – science fiction – showrunner: Nicolas Steil – writer / director: Christophe Wagner – director: Adolfo Kolmerer – writers: Pierre Majerus, Nils Gustenhofen – production: Iris Productions (co-production with Germany and Belgium) – production to commence in May 2023
Live-action feature films
- MARIANENGRABEN – allocated amount: €1,800,000 (overall project budget: €3,100,000 – 58.06% financial support) – comedy drama –writer / director: Eileen Byrne – production: Samsa Film (co-production with Italy) – filming to commence in September 2023
- THE POST-OFFICE GIRL – allocated amount: €1,500,000 (overall project budget: €5,912,154 – 25.37% financial support) – historical drama – writer / director: Terence Davies – production: Amour Fou Luxembourg (co-production with Austria and the United Kingdom) – filming to commence in June 2023
- REFLET DANS UN DIAMANT MORT – allocated amount: €1,175,219 (overall project budget: €5,252,841 – 22.37% financial support) – action, film noir, thriller – writers / directors: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani – production: Les Films Fauves (co-production with Belgium, France and Italy) – filming to commence in April 2023
- THE WOLF, THE FOX & THE LEOPARD – allocated amount: €1,180,000 (overall project budget: €3,768,795 – 31.31% financial support) – drama – writer / director: David Verbeek – production: Deal Productions (co-production with the Netherlands and Ireland) – filming to commence in June 2023
- THE MOON IS A FATHER OF MINE (Cineworld) – allocated amount: €200,000 (overall project budget: €998,810 – 20.02% financial support) – drama – writer / director: George Ovashvili – writer: Roelof Jan Minneboo – production: Joli Rideau Media (co-production with Georgia, Czechia, Germany, Bulgaria, Turkey and the United Kingdom) – filming to commence in February 2023
- CHARLOTTE (Cineworld) – allocated amount: €200,000 (overall project budget: €823,561 – 27.68% financial support) – drama – writer / director: Leila Jackson – production: Amour Fou Luxembourg (co-production with Germany and Czechia) – filming to commence in December 2023
- GURIA (Cineworld) – allocated amount: €200,000 (overall project budget: €1,253,155 – 15.96% financial support) – comedy drama – writer / director: Levan Koguashvili – writer: Boris Frumin – production: Tarantula Luxembourg (co-production with Georgia, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Portugal and Turkey) – filming to commence in March 2023
Animated feature film
- MARCEL ET MONSIEUR PAGNOL – allocated amount: €1,500,000 (overall project budget: €16,829,425 – 8.91% financial support) – family – writer / director: Sylvain Chomet – production: Bidibul Productions (co-production with Belgium and France) – production to commence in January 2023
Feature-length documentary
- LA FOURCHETTE A GAUCHE – allocated amount: €367,000 (overall project budget: €408,600 – 89.82% financial support) – writer / director: Donato Rotunno – production: Tarantula Luxembourg (Luxembourgish production) – filming to commence in January 2023
VR projects
- OF SWEAT AND DATA – allocated amount: €590,000 (overall project budget: €2,693,086 – 21.91% financial support) – writers / directors: Maude Huysmans, Samuel Greffe, Sandra Rodriguez – writers: Laura Mannelli, Ianna Landry, Lucas Larochelle – production: a_Bahn (co-production with Canada) – production to commence in March 2023
- MAMIE LOU – allocated amount: € 229,500 (overall project budget: €601,300 – 38.17% financial support) – writer / director: Isabelle Andreani – production: Skill Lab (co-production with France) – production to commence in January 2023
The Film Fund Luxembourg selection committee meets four times a year, with the next session scheduled to take place in February 2023.
