Four minority co-productions receive grant

The Netherlands Film Fund has selected four international co-productions with a Dutch share for a grant. The selection consists of projects from Chile, Greece and Luxembourg.

Read about the selected projects below.

The Letelier File (documentary)

Director: Rafael Valdeavellano
Sceenplay: Carola Fuentes
Producer: La Ventana Cine (CL)
Co-producer: Submarine (NL)

Logline: Against the backdrop of the Cold War, The Letelier File traces the 1976 car-bomb assassination of Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier in Washington D.C. — revealing how a dictatorship’s act of terror exposed an international network of power, solidarity, and resistance whose legacy still defines the fight for democracy today.

Granted support: € 70,000

Patrimonial Fears and Other Illusions (feature film)

Director/screenplay: Elina Psykou
Producer: Jungle Films (GR), Homemade Films (GR), StudioBauhaus (GR)
Co-producers: Studio Ruba (NL), Red Carpet (BG)

Logline: Elderly Mrs. Lily kills her husband Mr. Dinos, one-eyed Afroula slips back into her Gorilla Girl costume and reevaluates her relationship with Lakis, pregnant Helena abandons her husband Konstantinos. While David Copperfield is getting ready to make the Acropolis disappear, the three women overcome their fears and confront their dark family past, head on

Granted support: € 250,000

Three men sit at a table, one of them is reading a file. — The Letelier File

The Future is an Elder Cow (feature film)

Director/screenplay: Janis Rafa
Producer: Heretic LTD (GR)
Co-producers: BALDR Film (NL), Nafta Films (EE), Quiddity (UK)

Logline: In a small farming community where no child has been born for eight years, rumors begin to spread that women are giving birth to animals... Is this the end of the human race?

Granted support: € 340.000

The Star (animated short)

Director: Jiyun Jeong
Screenplay: Amélie Vrla
Producer: Doghouse Films (LU)
Co-producers: Submarine Animation (NL), Take Five (BE)

Logline: Josephine, aged 5, is still unaware that her little sister died in her mother's womb, six months into her pregnancy. The child doesn't understand why Angelika's behavior towards her has changed: her mother seems to run away from her. During their fractured relationship, a strange, symbolic act brings mother and daughter closer together, allowing them to mourn together under the starry sky.

Granted support: € 50,000

Header image: The Star

Four minority co-productions receive grant

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