Five minority co-productions receive grant
Read the full list of selected projects below.
She Sings of Murder and Love (documentary)
Director/screenwriter: Virginia Heath
Producer: EZ Films (IE)
Co-producers: De Productie (NL), Faction North (GB-SCT)
Logline: A cinematic portrayal of a unique Irish singer-song writer, Keeley Moss. Every song Keeley performs celebrates the life of, and demands justice for, Inga Maria Hauser, a young German backpacker, sexually assaulted and murdered in Northern Ireland in 1988. As the Director ‘investigates the investigator’, a Coroner’s Inquest opens in Belfast. But will Inga finally get justice?
Granted support: € 70,000
Pretend I'm Not Here (feature film)
Director: Simon Bird
Screenwriter: Lisa Owens
Producer: Parkville Pictures (UK)
Co-producer: Lemming Film (NL)
Logline: An ordinary couple offer sanctuary to a Jewish perfume salesman during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands — but cohabiting in such close quarters with a perfect stranger doesn’t prove to be as straightforward as they’d hoped.
Granted support: € 290,000
100 Thousand Turkish Liras (feature film)
Director/screenwriter: Nazli Elif Durlu
Producer: Istos Film (TR)
Co-producers: Studio Ruba B.V. (NL), Achting Panda (DE)
Logline: Esra, a 19-year-old hotel housekeeper, finds the warmth of family she lacks, in a fraud gang and will do everything she can to keep the gang from falling apart.
Granted support: € 250,000
A Dança dos Fanchonos (animated short)
Director/screenwriter: Vier Nev
Producer: COLA animation (PT)
Co-producer: Spotted Bird B.V. (NL)
Logline: During the Portuguese dictatorship, homosexuality was a heavily punished crime, considered a disease by medicine and despised by society. Three queer people try to survive and make sense of their situation. Marta faces the legend of the lesbian ghost Henriqueta, Valentim wants to escape the country to be a dancer and Zé is the victim of the 'arrebentas'.
Granted support: € 50,000
Paradise Lost (Research & Experiment)
Director/screenwriter: Yolanda Markopoulou
Producer: Graal Films (GR)
Co-producers: Studio Biarritz B.V.(NL), Unafilm (DE)
Logline: An immersive voyage through time and space about the last minutes of a political prisoner’s life who was violently killed during “The Great Fire” in Izmir, Turkey in 1922 while his wife flees to Greece leaving everything behind.
Granted support: € 50,000
Image: She Sings of Murder and Love (photograph by Chris Hogge)
