Seven minority co-productions receive grant
The joint scheme of the Netherlands Film Fund and the Flemish Audiovisual Fund supports co-produced feature (animation) films and documentaries. In this round, a documentary and a feature film were selected. Besides that, five international productions will receive a grant.
Read about the selected projects below.
In collaboration with the Flemish Audiovisual Fund
Ekspertiza (documentary)
Director: Lennart Struyck
Screenplay: Lennart Struyck & Ralph Collier
Producer: Diplodokus (BE)
Co-producers: Tomtit Film B.V. (NL), Rayuela Productions (BE)
Logline: Ekspertiza reveals the hidden story behind the suppression and falsification of Russian avant-garde art. The film follows art collectors and museum directors as they battle accusations of art forgery. The film reveals the impact of politics, economics and manipulation, while questioning the value of cultural heritage.
Granted support: € 50,000
Postcard (feature film)
Director/screenplay: Anthony Nti & Chingiz Karibekov
Producer: Caviar (BE)
Co-producer: IJswater Films B.V. (NL)
Logline: After fleeing Libya, the hardened Joyce and the idealistic Raybekah arrive in Belgium, where their search for freedom and love turns into a battle against violence and exploitation; their fragile bond is tested as power, dreams, and betrayal inevitably set them against each other.
Granted support: € 200,000
Minority co-productions
The Painted Bride (feature film)
Director/screenplay: Jeremiah Zagar
Producer: Public Record (US)
Co-producers: Viking Film B.V. (NL), Present Company (US), Madants (PL)
Logline: Elisha is balding. During the day, he swims, cooks and cares for his family. At night, he obsesses over a new project dedicated to his son and dying father. When a crisis draws him back home to Baltimore, Elisha’s world begins to collapse, expand, regress and explode all around him.
Granted support: € 450,000
Savagery (feature film)
Director: Miguel Gomes
Screenplay: Telmo Churro, Maureen Fazendeiro a.o.
Producer: Uma Pedra no Sapato (PT)
Co-producers: Lemming Film B.V. (NL), Bubbles Project (BR), Matizar Filmes (BR), Shellac Sud (FR)
Logline: In Brazil’s arid Sertão of the late 19th century, the prophet-led community of Canudos resists the young republic’s army, which seeks to crush them. Underestimating both the people and the land, soldiers suffer and even adopt enemy ways. Savagery adapts Euclides da Cunha’s Os Sertões, recounting the 1897 war in Bahia.
Granted support: € 280,000
Nar Hi Nan / The Path That Walks (documentary)
Director/screenplay: Efthymia Zymvragaki
Producer: Gris Medio (ES)
Co-producers: Witfilm B.V. (NL), Sisilo (GR)
Logline: In a cooking school deep in the rugged Spanish Pyrenees, troubled young people learn to stand on their own feet and to dream again. While cooking and living together, tensions arise within and between the students, and a ritual of healing and unspoken connectedness unfolds in a place where food becomes language and silence speaks.
Granted support: € 70,000
Finding Frida (Research & Experiment)
Director: Hilde K. Kjøs
Screenplay: Cecilie Levy
Producer: RippleX Studios AS (NO)
Co-producer: Scopic B.V. (NL)
Logline: When the restless spirit of forgotten artist Frida Hansen is visited by her great-greatgrandchild, she is encouraged to relive her past and make peace with regret and doubt, revealing how loss and passion shaped her art.
Granted support: € 50,000
The Decapitation of Ousmane Sembene by the Commission for Classification of Cinematography (Research & Experiment)
Director/screenplay: Benjamin Deboosere
Producer: Hilfe (BE)
Co-producers: GROM Productions B.V. (NL), Untitled productions (BE), Twenty Nine Studio & Production (BE)
Logline: 1989, the Commission for Classification of Cinematography organizes a networking event for Ousmane Sembene's latest film Camp de Thiaroye. What starts with the best of intentions culminates in a court case of vital importance. An absurd ahistorical treatment of the censorship of a milestone in African cinema, where uncomfortable truths are confronted and heads roll.
Granted support: € 50,000
Header image: Nar Ni Han / The Path That Walks
