Seven minority co-productions receive grant
Read the full list of selected projects below.
A Good Sleep (short animation)
Director: Hana Zhang & Eugene Lee
Screenplay: Hana Zhang
Producer: Footless Studio (CN)
Co-producer: Family Affair Films (NL)
Logline: A sleepless night becomes a quiet rebellion, as the middle-age woman Lian makes a small but radical choice that transforms the emotional weight she has carried for years.
Granted support: € 50,000
My Father Who Wrote His Own Ending (Research & Experiment)
Director/screenplay: Bernardo Zanotta
Producer: Ausgang (Lockheart Films LTDA) (BR)
Co-producers: near/by film (NL), Venin Films (FR)
Logline: Brazilian novelist and playwright Julio Zanotta reconnects with his filmmaker son, urging him to direct a film about his final days. As they set the project in motion, Julio’s fictional characters start to take part in the story, blurring the lines between reality and fiction, turning a father’s farewell into an unpredictable journey.
Granted support: € 29,896
The Human Purge (Research & Experiment)
Director/screenplay: Eduardo Williams
Producer: Un Puma (AR)
Co-producers: GROM Productions (NL), Idle Eye (NL), Planta Cine (CL)
Logline: As an invisible siren spreads across cities worldwide, people drift through exhaustion and connection, while the film searches—through a haptic distance — for forms of life that might persist beyond collapse.
Granted support: € 50,000
The Way We Look At Things, Is How We Decide To Act In The World (Research & Experiment)
Director/screenplay: Julie Pfleiderer
Producer: Visualantics Productions (BE)
Co-producers: Video Power (NL), Daarna Productions (BE)
Logline: Caught between market forces and inheritance, an architect is confronted with her family's crumbling Belgian mansion. At the same time, a filmmaker invites a constellation of women into the house to reclaim the space through intuition, performance, and memory. Together they search for answers to what it means to inherit a world built by men.
Granted support: €20,000
Chess Behind Bars (documentary)
Director/screenplay: Ivo Zen
Producer: La Belle Film (CH)
Co-producers: Basalt Film (NL), Dirk Manthey Film (DE), Zone2 Pictures (FI)
Logline: Chess, the game of kings, is conquering the world’s prisons. In Chess Behind Bars, we follow incarcerated men and women who train with passion to win national and international prison championships. With every move, they try to escape the daily grind of prison life and develop strategies to confront their past and reclaim their future.
Granted support: € 70,000
Magnetized (feature film)
Director: Luis Ortega
Screenplay: Martin Caamaño & Rodolfo Palacio
Producer: El Despacho (AR)
Co-producers: Isabella Films (NL), Metanoia SAS (UY), Infinity Hill (AR), Piano (MX)
Logline: A young libertine priest and a deranged actress fall passionately in love. When she introduces him to a world of narcotics and madness and subsequently disappears, he spirals into despair committing a series of murders that leave him magnetized.
Granted support: € 250,000
To Put Out One Fire (feature film)
Director/screenplay: Jena Hasler
Producer: Langfilm (CH)
Co-producer: Family Affair Films (NL)
Logline: The recently graduated environmental engineer Anna (27) starts her first job full of idealism: she is responsible for the research and planning of young trees at the Green Department of the Municipality of Zurich. There she is confronted with the reality of pragmatic solutions and making compromises, which puts her ideals to the test.
Granted support: € 210,000
Header image: Chess Behind Bars
