Film Fund Luxembourg has confirmed that its Selection Committee (of the National Fund for Supporting Audiovisual Production) met on 24-28 February 2025 for the first session of 2025.
A total of seventeen projects submitted out of 36 are to be supported for Selective Financial Aid (AFS) for writing and/or development (pre-production) and production, including six live feature films, three animated feature films, one documentary feature film, two documentary series, three short films and two XR projects.
Pre-production (Live Feature Films):
- MORTAL BEINGS, with Writer-Director: Emile V. Schlesser; Production Company: 35M Films (€68,121)
- MINIATUR WUNDERLAND, with Director: Félix Koch; Writer: Dirk Ahner; Production Company: Deal Productions (€60,000)
Pre-production (Animated feature films):
- JE NE VOULAIS PAS VOUS FAIRE PLEURER (I DIDN’T WANT TO MAKE YOU CRY), with Writers-directors: Carlo Vogele, Jiyun Jeong; Co-writer: Alain Gagnol; Production company: Doghouse Films (€60,000)
- WELCOME TO EARTH, with Writer-director: Sarah Sutter; Co-writer: Cyril Bossmann; Production company: Zeilt Productions (€75,000)
Pre-production (Documentary series):
- LOVE IN LUXEMBOURG, with Showrunner-director: Kim Schneider; Co-writers and co-directors: Mylène Carrière, Roxanne Péguet, Laurent Prim, Ken Rischard, Laura Schroeder, Pattrawan Sukmongkol, Javier Torres; Production company: Cohacy Studio (€60,000)
Pre-production (XR Project):
- SILA - ARCTIC HEROINES (SILA - HÉROÏNES ARCTIQUES), with Co-author and co-director: Laura Mannelli; Co-author: Agnès De Cayeux; Production company: Poulpe Bleu Productions (€45,000)
Production (Live feature films):
- DEAD DAD GIRL; Genre: Comedy, Drama; Director: Stephen Korytko; Author: Alexia Verbeke; Production company: Samsa Film (Luxembourg production, co-produced with Belgium); €2,326,500 out of a total budget of €2,950,250 (78.86%); Start of filming: May 2025; Logline: The title of the film is "Dead Dad Girl". Don't worry, the girl is not dead! She is alive and healthy. The father is indeed dead, but like...really dead.
- HEADLESS; Genre: Drama; Writer-director: Govinda Van Maele; Co-writers: Doruntina Basha, Paul Choquet; Production company: Les Films Fauves (Luxembourg production, co-produced with Belgium); €3,000,000 out of a total budget of €4,241,120 (70.74%); Start of filming: June 2025; Logline: Thelma (Vicky Krieps), a 40-year-old actress, returns to Luxembourg after the failure of her career in Berlin. In a local amateur theatre, she immerses herself in a role, playing an alternative version of her life. The line between representation and reality begins to blur, and a shadowy figure begins to follow her, forcing her to face reality, forcing her to confront her demons.
- 200 KOPAVOGUR; Genre: Drama; Writer-director: Grímur Hakonarson Production company: Iris Productions; Co-production between Luxembourg, Iceland, Denmark and France; €1,200,000 out of a total budget of €4,861,297 (24.68%); Start of filming: September 2025; Logline: In the 1960s, while they all live under the same roof in a small house in the suburbs of Kópavogur in Iceland, a sterile man asks his brother to have a child with his own wife.
- AFONSO’S SMILE; Genre: Drama; Writer-director: João Pedro Rodrigues; Authors: João Rui Guerra da Mata, Miguel Ángel Fajardo; Production company: Joli Rideau Media (Co-production between Luxembourg, Portugal and Italy); €977,587 out of a total budget of €2,597,500 (37.64%); Start of filming: September 2025; Logline: After spending his childhood in Macau, Afonso returns to Lisbon during the Carnation Revolution of 25 April 1974. In the midst of the country's upheavals, he goes through a troubled adolescence and experiences his own personal revolution — discovering his identity and sexuality.
Production (Animated feature film):
- DANSKER; Genre: Drama; Writer-director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen; Production company: Doghouse Films (Co-production between Luxembourg, Denmark and the Netherlands); €1,500,000 out of a total budget of €6,767,275 (22.17%); Start of production: August 2025; Logline: James has fled to Denmark. Leaving behind a dark past of trauma and violence in Turkey, he hopes to start over and build a better life for himself. However, he struggles in vain to establish a life as a "foreign worker". But unable to speak the language and lacking education, he finds himself on the outskirts of society where he is slowly drawn into a criminal world, where you are either trampled underfoot or you become the one who tramples underfoot.
Production (Feature-length documentary):
- BOXING STORIES; Writer-director: Alain Tshinza; Production company: Deal Productions (Luxembourg production); €500,000 out of an overall budget of €859,250 (58.19%); Logline: Drawing on his childhood memories and family archives, the son of a former boxer explores the links between his Congolese origins and the great history of boxing in the Grand Duchy. Like an anthropologist, he sets out to meet the new and old players in this sport who have shaken up traditional Luxembourg culture. He falls in love with a world he is rediscovering.
Production (Documentary series):
- HOUSING SERVICE (SERVICE LOGEMENT); Writer-director: Anne Schiltz; Production company: Manufactura Pictures (Luxembourg production); €124,500 out of a total budget of €153,000 (81.37%); Logline: At the heart of one of the most acute housing crises in Europe, Service Logement delves into the daily lives of employees confronted with citizens in housing difficulties. Through eight episodes of 10 to 15 minutes, the documentary web series explores the workings of a public service where social emergencies rub shoulders with administrative constraints.
Production (XR Project):
- THE GREAT ESCAPE; Genre: Comedy; Writer-director: Joren Vandenbrouck; Production company: a_BAHN (Co-production between Luxembourg and Belgium); €200,000 out of a total budget of €422,500 (47.34%); Start of filming: March 2025; Logline: Three grumpy geraniums take their destiny into their own hands and plan their escape from the windowsill on which they have spent their entire boring lives.
Production (Short films):
- WAT MER IERWEN (WHAT WE INHERIT); Genre: Documentary; Writer-director: Ken Rischard; Production company: Amour Fou Luxembourg (Luxembourg production); €120,000 out of a total budget of €126,316 (95.00%); Start of filming: May 2025; Logline: A small people defies an all-powerful occupier: the general strike of 1942 in Luxembourg united a nation in an exceptional act of resistance. What remains of it today?
- ARMS; Genre: Drama; Writer-director: Raha Razavi Ghashghai; Production company: Les Films Fauves (Luxembourg production); €120,000 out of a total budget of €126,788 (94.86%); Start of filming: April 2025; Logline: An unexpected event pushes Mana, 55, to undertake an eventful journey to her native country, where she will have to confront the traumas of her childhood and face the person she has avoided all her life.
- FLICK; Genre: Comedy, Crime; Writers-directors: Anne Klein, Maurice Sinner; Production company: Six Letters (Luxembourg production); €119,925 out of a total budget of €126,425 (94.86%); Start of filming: June 2025; mLogline: Two investigators that no one wants to work with are forced to team up to keep their jobs... their only common point: they love a good murder
