Six minority co-productions with Dutch share receive grant
Six international co-productions with a Dutch share will receive a grant from the Netherlands Film Fund. The list of selected projects consists of two feature films, two documentaries and two animated shorts from Latvia, Ethopia and Greece, among others. Read the full list of projects below:
Tabita (feature film)
Director/writer: Juris Kursietis
Producer: White Picture (LV)
Co-producers: The Film Kitchen B.V. (NL), Stellar Film (EE)
Logline: Faced with obstacles to the further education of his daughter Tabita, who has Down's syndrome, Andris is forced to accept the new reality of life. Between conventional norms and unconventional solutions, Andris is faced with a difficult choice: to save his marriage or to ensure a fulfilling future for Tabita.
Granted support: € 200,000
Mehal Sefari (feature film)
Director/writer: Abraham Gezahagne
Producer: Abricom Multimedia (ET)
Co-producers: New Ams Film Company B.V. (NL), Gobez Media (CA), 2Pilots (DE), Elk Films (DK)
Logline: A politically apathetic ambulance driver collects bodies from the streets of Ethiopia’s capital during a mass killing in 1977. He is forced to choose a side when he finds the body of his own son.
Granted support: € 90,000
Home Court (documentary)
Director/writer: Elpida Nikou & Rodrigo Hernandez
Producer: Anemon Productions (GR)
Co-producer: Bind & Willink B.V. (NL)
Logline: Born in Athens to West African parents, Miriam and Gloria, the star basketball players of their league, face a hurdle in their journey to triumph: they lack legal papers in Greece. To navigate a world that challenges their right to pursue their dream, the two friends can only rely on one another.
Granted support: € 50,000
Rio Negro (documentary)
Director/writer: Anna-Sophia Richard
Producer: Intuition Club (DE)
Co-producers: Witfilm B.V. (NL), Sehstern Filmproduktion Spieß & Krausz GbR (DE), Producciones Concepción (GT), Hillton AG (CH)
Logline: Rio Negro is the poetic portrait of a Maya village in the Guatemalan Highlands, whose survivors live with the ever present legacy of the civil war. Every day, they struggle to preserve their memories, traditions, and identity, which are threatened by global economic forces and colonialism.
Granted support: € 70,000
Nomos (animated short)
Director/writer: Özge Akarsu
Producer: Animal Tank BV (BE)
Co-producers: Stichting Grom (NL), Arthouse Blockbusters (BG)
Logline: Nomos tells the stories of three women subjected to state violence, and their very different, yet similar struggles for the right to exist. They show how state power can strip a human life of rights and dignity, but also how fearless activism can resist this.
Granted support: € 50,000
Sea Change (animated short)
Director: Boris Sverlow
Writer: Marc Veerkamp & Boris Sverlow
Producer: Animal Tank BV (BE)
Co-producers: Stichting SeriousFilm (NL), Everstory (BE)
Logline: A fragile paper boat sails in the sun to a distant destination, but as soon as a dark night falls, it encounters obstacles and dangers that force it to develop courage.
Granted support: € 50,000
Header image: Tabita
