Fund supported co-productions at Cannes 2026

The following projects have been selected:

Coward (Official Competition)

Direction: Lukas Dhont
Screenplay: Lukas Dhont & Angelo Tijssens
Dutch co-producer: Topkapi Films
Production: The Reunion (BE)
Co-production: Versus OPUS (BE), Lumen Films (FR)

Logline: 1916. Pierre, a diligent soldier, meets the flamboyant Francis in the rear-line camps during World War I. To pass the time and boost morale, Francis wants to organize a revue for the soldiers. Together, they seem to find a way to escape the cycle of violence, even if only for a brief moment.

The Station (Semaine de la Critique)

Director/script: Sara Ishaq
Dutch co-producer: Keplerfilm
Lead producer: Screen Project (JO)
Co-producers: Barentsfilm (NO), Georges Films (FR), One Two Films (DE)

Logline: In a women's petrol station in Yemen, the bond between three siblings is put to the test when war forces them to make impossible decisions.

Nostalgia for the future (Cannes Classics)

Director/screenplay: Brecht Debackere
Dutch co-producer: seriousFilm
Lead producer: Visualantics (BE)
Co-producers: Cobra Films (BE), Ghirigori (IT)

Logline: Guided by the evocative narration of Charlotte Rampling, Nostalgia for the Future is a descent into the labyrinthine world of Chris Marker, the “best-known author of unknown films” who spent a lifetime concealing himself behind a veil of pseudonyms and images of cats. Moving through a constellation of personal documents and film fragments, an archivist attempts to decode the man through the material traces he left behind. By repurposing and recontextualizing Marker’s own body of work, the film treats his images as “time machines,” transforming the archive into a living, breathing landscape. Nostalgia for the future is a challenging inquiry into memory, identity, and the shadows that our past representations cast upon the future.

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