Nine minority co-productions receive grants

Three of the selected projects receive support from the Netherlands Film Fund in collaboration with the Flanders Audiovisual Fund. Read the full list of selected international co-productions below.

Minority co-productions in collaboration with the Flanders Audiovisual Fund:

Deux Vies (feature film)

Director: Teodora Ana Mihai
Screenplay: Natali Broods & Ans Vroom
Producer: Menuetto Film (BE)
Dutch co-producer: Topkapi Films
Co-producers: Les Films du Fleuve (BE), Tarantula (LU), Pyramide Productions (FR)

Logline: A woman who loses her husband finds comfort in the arms of his brother.

Granted support: € 200,000

It’s going to be spectacular. I promise (feature film)

Director: Brecht De Groot
Screenplay: Zita Theunynck
Producer: Eyeworks Film & TV (BE)
Dutch co-producer: Phanta Film

Logline: It’s going to be spectacular. I promise. is the story of the intense, addictive, blissful, miserable, wonderful, and terrifying whirlwind that a first great love can be. That love is threatened by two major obstacles: Leonard and Anna themselves — their past, their trauma, and their mental struggles. The question is: can another person’s love heal your wounds of the past?

Granted support € 200,000

Thank You for Responding (documentary)

Director/screenplay: Pascal Poissonnier
Producer: While We’re Here (BE)
Dutch co-producer: seriousFilm

Logline: Thank You for Repsonding is a poetic, intimate and tragicomic film about the life of Bert, a homeless man with a psychiatric disorder and his yearning for recognition.

Granted support: € 50,000

Regular minority co-productions

Anatomy of a Genocide (documentary)

Director/screenplay: Torstein Grude
Producer: Jordskjelv (NO)
Dutch co-producer: 100% Docs

Logline: With unprecedented access, this observational documentary follows UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese from October 2023 to Autumn 2026. The film captures her efforts to document alleged human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, pursue accountability, and the personal toll this mission takes on her and her family.

Granted support: € 90,000

Haiti Collapse (documentary)

Director: Martin Tamm Andersen & Jeremie Dupin
Screenplay: Martin Tamm Andersen
Producer: Elk Film (DK)
Dutch co-producer: Scenery

Logline: As Haiti collapses, former police officer turned gang leader Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Chérizier wages war against the political elite, presenting himself as the people’s savior while pulling the country deeper into chaos.

Granted support: € 90,000

Maulwurf (Research & Experiment)

Director/screenplay: Albert Kuhn
Producer: 15L (ES)
Dutch co-producer: GROM Productions

Logline: A filmmaker writes to an old love about his father’s political past in 1970s Berlin. As he retraces three generations shaped by rupture, political passion and inherited imaginaries, he begins to question the images that have shaped his own way of seeing, and whether understanding them might allow him to imagine a different future.

Granted support: € 50,000

Pasteque (animated short)

Director/screenplay: Sara Szymanska
Producer: Animoon (PL)
Dutch co-producer: Valk Productions
Co-producer: Avec Ou Sans Vous (FR)

Logline: On New Year’s Eve, Zyta and Nela, 27-year-old Polish twins, head to a party at a friend's place. Nela, a successful writer, is fully integrated into the Parisian lifestyle, whereas Zyta, having just joined her sister in France, feels overwhelmed and a bit lost. When their dog Pasteque runs off, the sisters roam the city to find him, a journey that ultimately leads them to rediscover one another.

Granted support: € 50,000

The Poet’s Son (feature film)

Director/screenplay: Nicholas Graux
Producer: Tarantula (BE)
Dutch co-producer: Topkapi Films
Co-producers: Dérives (BE), Clin d’oeil films (BE), Petit à Petit Production (BE)

Logline: In a small, unnamed town in today’s Russia, 26 year old Senya struggles to keep a fragile life afloat for himself and his alcoholic father, a former poet, while living under the constant threat of being sent to war.

Granted support: € 240,000

Run, With No Tears (feature film)

Director: Nabil Ayouch
Screenplay: Maryam Touzani & Nabil Ayouch
Producer: Les Films Du Nouveau Monde (FR)
Dutch co-producer: Lemming Film
Co-producers: Sam Productions (FR), Ali ‘m Productions (MA), Velvet Films (BE), Rainy Days (SE)

Logline: Fiona and Zahra are a couple who arrive in Morocco to illegally adopt another woman's newborn child. When the biological mother changes her mind, their dream is cut short. Deciding to leave with the child, they are forced to flee across the country.

Granted support: € 195,000

Header image: Anatomy of a Genocide