On Monday 3 June 2024, Film Fund Luxembourg reported that its selection committee met for its second session of the year from 27 to 31 May 2024.
The selection committee analysed a total of 33 film projects, of which 25 will receive selective financial support from Film Fund Luxembourg, amounting to almost €11.9 million.
A total of nine live-action feature films, four animated feature films, four feature-length documentaries, two live-action series, one documentary series, two short live-action films, one short animated film, one virtual reality (VR) project and one transmedia project will receive financial support for writing and/or development and production.
This includes funding for the production of the following eight projects by Luxembourg directors: season five of the series Move! by Julie Schroell, Eileen Byrne and Yann Tonnar; the animated feature film Dudley and the Invasion of the Space Slugs by Bakhti Chérifa; the documentary Ora et Labora by Dzhovani Gospodinov; the documentary Le Cas Norbert Jacques by Claude Lahr; the documentary Luxembourg 1940: L'Énigme Hoiningen by Grégory Goethals; the transmedia project Radio Luxembourg by Dominique Santana; the short film I Will Be Alright! by Cyrus Neshvad; the short film The Shoe by Solveig Harper.
Selective financial support for writing and / or development:
Live-action series
Méga-Pals – allocated amount: €50,000 – writer / director: Christophe Wagner – co-writers: Justin Ambrosino and Weronika Kasrzak – production: Digital Voodooh
Plus One – allocated amount: €54,941 – writer / director: Emile V. Schlesser – co-writer: Jonas Brand – production: 35M Films
Live-action feature films
Campeona – allocated amount: €60,000 – writer / director: Lucía Valverde – production: Red Lion
Lizardqueen – allocated amount: €70,220 – writer / director: Jacques Molitor – co-writer: Tullio Forgiarini – production: Amour Fou Luxembourg
A Very Small Country – allocated amount: €60,000 – writer / director: Tracy Dawson – production: Samsa Film
Animated feature films
Barababor: Le Livre des Contes – allocated amount: €80,000 – writer / director: Laurent Witz – co-writer: Cyril Bossmann – production: Zeilt Productions
Les Trente Oiseaux – allocated amount: €30,000 – writer / director: Atiq Rahimi – co-writer: Nahal Tajadod – co-director: Caroline Piochon – production: Bidibul Productions
Selective financial support for production:
Documentary series
Move! Season 5 – allocated amount according to expenditure invested in the Luxembourg audiovisual sector: €400,000 (overall project budget: €621,160 – 64.40% financial support) – director: Heiko Lange – writers / directors: Julie Schroell and Eileen Byrne – showrunner: Yann Tonnar – co-writers: Sylvia Camarda, Laura Hartung, Janin Renner and Elif San – production: Manufactura Pictures (co-production with Germany) – filming to commence in June 2024
Live-action feature films
Jésus-Léopard – allocated amount according to expenditure invested in the Luxembourg audiovisual sector: €1,350,000 (overall project budget: €3,867,463 – 34.91% financial support) – genre: drama – writers / directors: Patrick-Mario Bernard and Pierre Trividic – production: Les Films Fauves (co-production with France and Belgium) – filming to commence in September 2024
Die Blutgräfin – allocated amount according to expenditure invested in the Luxembourg audiovisual sector: €1,500,000 (overall project budget: €7,413,354 – 20.23% financial support) – genre: adventure, comedy – writer / director: Ulrike Ottinger – production: Amour Fou Luxembourg (co-production with Austria and Germany) – filming to commence in October 2024
Arzu – allocated amount according to expenditure invested in the Luxembourg audiovisual sector: €150,000 (overall project budget: €687,346 – 21.82% financial support) – genre: drama – writers / directors: Çagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti – production: Bidibul Productions (co-production with Turkey and France)
Death Has No Master (Cinéworld) – allocated amount according to expenditure invested in the Luxembourg audiovisual sector: €200,000 (overall project budget: €798,765 – 25.04% financial support) – genre: drama, thriller – writer / director: Jorge Thielen Armand – production: Deal Productions (co-production with Venezuela and Canada) – filming to commence in September 2024
What Remains (Cinéworld) – allocated amount according to expenditure invested in the Luxembourg audiovisual sector: €200,000 (overall project budget: €1,146,000 – 17.45% financial support) – genre: drama – writer / director: Yeşim Ustaoğlu – production: Tarantula Luxembourg (co-production with Turkey, France and Bulgaria) – filming to commence in October 2024
1970 (Cinéworld) – allocated amount according to expenditure invested in the Luxembourg audiovisual sector: €200,000 (overall project budget: €1,443,265 – 13.86% financial support) – genre: drama – writer / director: Darko Lungulov – production: Samsa Film (co-production with Hungary, Serbia and Croatia) – filming to commence in September 2024
Animated feature films
Dudley and the Invasion of the Space Slugs – allocated amount according to expenditure invested in the Luxembourg audiovisual sector: €3,000,000 (overall project budget: €7,759,431 – 38.66% financial support) – genre: adventure – director: Bakhti Chérifa – writer: Graham Ralph – production: Fabrique d'images (co-production with Belgium and France) – production to commence in January 2025
Outfoxed! – allocated amount according to expenditure invested in the Luxembourg audiovisual sector: €1,500,000 (overall project budget: €8,724,804 – 17.19% financial support) – genre: adventure, comedy – writer / director: Paul Bolger – co-writer: Barry Devlin – production: Doghouse Films (co-production with Belgium and Ireland) – production to commence in February 2025
Feature-length documentaries
Ora et Labora – allocated amount according to expenditure invested in the Luxembourg audiovisual sector: €448,000 (overall project budget: €561,223 – 79.83% financial support) – writer / director: Dzhovani Gospodinov – production: Amour Fou Luxembourg (Luxembourgish production) – filming since June 2023
Le Cas Norbert Jacques – allocated amount according to expenditure invested in the Luxembourg audiovisual sector: €500,000 (overall project budget: €840,000 – 59.52% financial support) – writer / director: Claude Lahr – co-writer: Jean-Louis Schlesser – production: Iris Productions (Luxembourgish production) – filming to commence in September 2024
Luxembourg 1940: L'Énigme Hoiningen – allocated amount according to expenditure invested in the Luxembourg audiovisual sector: €300,000 (overall project budget: €431,067 – 69.59% financial support) – writer / director: Grégory Goethals – production: Louvigny Media (Luxembourgish production) – filming to commence in July 2024
Who Cares – allocated amount according to expenditure invested in the Luxembourg audiovisual sector: €200,000 (overall project budget: €943,000 – 21.21% financial support) – writer / director: Ina Ivanceanu – production: Amour Fou Luxembourg (co-production with Austria and Canada) – filming to commence in September 2024
Transmedia project
Radio Luxembourg – allocated amount according to expenditure invested in the Luxembourg audiovisual sector: €700,000 (overall project budget: €2,078,222 – 33.68% financial support) – genre: documentary, educational content – director: Dominique Santana – production: Samsa Film (co-production with Canada and Germany) – filming to commence in November 2024
VR project
Future Rites – allocated amount according to expenditure invested in the Luxembourg audiovisual sector: €450,000 (overall project budget: €1,214,898 – 37.04% financial support) – genre: documentary, educational content – writers / directors: Sandra Rodriguez and Alexander Whitley – production: a_BAHN (co-production with Canada and UK) – production to commence in February 2025
Live-action short films
I Will Be Alright – allocated amount according to expenditure invested in the Luxembourg audiovisual sector: €150,000 (overall project budget: €158,000 – 94.94% financial support) – genre: drama – writer / director: Cyrus Neshvad – co-writer: Guillaume Levil – production: Cynefilms (Luxembourgish production) – filming to commence in August 2024
The Shoe – allocated amount according to expenditure invested in the Luxembourg audiovisual sector: €120,000 (overall project budget: €126,316 – 95% financial support) – genre: fantasy – writer / director: Solveig Harper – co-writer: Joël Delsaut – production: Skill Lab (Luxembourgish production) – filming to commence in June 2024
Short animated film
Viso – allocated amount according to expenditure invested in the Luxembourg audiovisual sector: €120,000 (overall project budget: €127,156 – 94.37% financial support) – genre: drama – writer / director: Cyril Bossmann – production: Zeilt Productions (Luxembourgish production) – filming to commence in June 2024
Film Fund Luxembourg noted that its selection committee meets four times a year, with the next session scheduled to take place in July 2024.
