Five minority co-productions with Dutch share receive grant

The Netherlands Film Fund has selected five international co-productions with a Dutch share for a grant. The selection consists of projects from Belgium, Norway and Spain.

Two of the five projects have been selected as a part of the joint scheme between the Netherlands Film Fund and the Flemish Audiovisual Fund. The full list of selected projects:

Minority co-productions

Slave (feature film)

Director: Stefan Faldbakken
Screenplay: Stefan Faldbakken & Matias Faldbakken
Producer: EYE EYE Pictures (NO)
Co-producers: Keplerfilm (NL), Good Fortune Films (FR), Garagefilm (SE)

Logline: Slavery is reintroduced in Sweden. We follow an ordinary Swedish middle-class family from a small town in Västra Götaland County who decide to acquire a slave.

Granted support: € 250,000

Loneliness of the Light Skin One (feature film)

Director: Baloji
Screenplay: Baloji & Thomas van Zuylen
Producer: Wrong Men (BE)
Co-producers: New Ams Film Company (NL), Srab Films (FR), Les Films Fauves (LU), Tosala Films (CD)

Logline: Billie (a mixed-race 16-year-old) is considered one of the future great South African sprinters. As the sole financial support for her family, her career is abruptly interrupted after being diagnosed with hyperandrogenism (abnormally high testosterone levels). Prohibited from racing, she undergoes hormonal treatment that profoundly disrupts her personal, family, and professional life.

Granted support: € 260,000

Men and Days (feature film)

Director/screenplay: Arnau Vilaró
Producer: Nanouk Films (ES)
Co-producer: BALDR Film (NL)

Logline: 1992. After completing a PhD in queer theory in Amsterdam, David returns to his native Barcelona, heartbroken after a failed love affair. Amid the euphoria of the Olympic Games and the shadow of the AIDS epidemic, he begins writing a diary to understand how love between men really works.

Granted support: € 200,000

A woman sits by a lake with her back to the camera, another woman faces the camera from the lake. — Loneliness of the Light Skin One

In collaboration with the Flemish Audiovisual Fund

School of Thieves (feature film)

Director/screenplay: Daniel Lambo
Producer: BulletProof Cupid (BE)
Co-producers: Eleven (NL), Kwassa Films (BE), PTD (LU)

Logline: Aalst, 1893. Pierrot (10) is unwillingly groomed for a life of thievery, but he longs to fight against child labor. At the secret Thieves’ School he discovers his talent for stealing, and with new friends he hatches daring plans. Can he use his gift not to steal for wealth, but to bring justice?

Granted support: €200,000

Between Revolutions (documentary)

Director/screenplay: Ruben Desiere
Producer: Mirage Films (BE)
Co-producers: Family Affair Films (NL), Fünferfilm (DE)

Logline: Between Revolutions follows queer activists in Berlin as they adapt The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions for the stage. Blending fiction and direct cinema, the film explores how queer identity, daily life, and utopian thinking intersect with leftist activism to inspire new forms of resistance.

Granted support: € 50,000

Header image: Between Revolutions