NEW!

01/07/2011 - Following changes to the Eurimages Regulations adopted by the Board of Management in June 2011, co-production projects with non-European directors will be considered eligible. This will enter into force on 1 January 2012. 

Eurimages films are strongly represented at the Césars

03/02/2012 – 18 of the nominations at the Césars revealed during the Press Conference of 27 January 2012 concern European co-productions supported by Eurimages :

L'exercice de l'Etat (FR, BE) by Pierre Schoeller is nominated in a total of 11 categories including those of Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actor (Olivier Gourmet);
La Source des Femmes (FR, IT, BE, Maroc) by Radu Mihaileanu is nominated in the following categories: Best Actress (Leïla Bekhti) and Best Costume;
Le Tableau (FR, BE) by Jean-François Laguionie is nominated in the Best Animated Film category;
Michel Petrucciani (FR, DE, IT) by Michael Radford is nominated in the Best Documentary Film category;
Le cochon de Gaza (FR, BE, DE) by Sylvain Estibal is nominated in the Best First Film category;
Le gamin au vélo (BE, FR, IT) by the Dardenne brothers and Melancholia (DK, FR, SE, DE) by Lars von Trier are nominated in the Best Foreign Film category.

La 37th Ceremony of the Césars will take place on 24 February 2012 at the Théatre du Chatelet. Website of the Académie des Arts et des Techniques du Cinéma.

Eurimages Co-production Development Award at Rotterdam's Cinemart

02/02/2012 - At the close of the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s co-production market CineMart which finished last night, the Jury decided to award the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award worth €30 000 to the project Humidity by Nikola Ljuca (Serbia), a co-production of Dart Film (Serbia) and Zischlermann Filmproduktion GbR (Germany). (read the article... )

8 Eurimages-supported films selected at the Berlinale

26/01/2012 - A total of 8 films supported by Eurimages have been selected  in the following sections of the Berlin Film Festival which will be held from 9 to 18 February 2012.

In the Official Competition:
“A Royal Affair” by Nikolaj Arcel (Denmark, Sweden, Czech Republic, Ireland, Latvia)
“L’enfant d’en haut” by Ursula Meier (Switzerland, France)
“Csak a szél (Just the Wind)” by Benedek Fliegauf (Hungary, Germany)

At the Panorama:
“Parada (The Parade)” by Srdjan Dragojevic (Serbia, "The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", Croatia, Slovenia)
“The woman who brushed off her tears” by Teona Strugar Mitevska ("The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", Belgium, Slovenia, Germany)
“Die Wand” by Julian Pölsler (Austria, Germany)
“Iron Sky” by Timo Vuorensola (Finland, Australia, Germany)

At the Forum:
“Everybody in our family” by Radu Jude (Romania, Netherlands)

Like every year, Eurimages disposes of a “corner” of the stand of the MEDIA programme at the European Film Market.

Berlinale website

Eurimages Co-production Development Award

17/01/2012 - The next Eurimages Co-production Development Award will be awarded at the close of the CineMart which will begin on 29 January 2012 in the framework of the International Film Festival of Rotterdam. This award, a cash prize of 30 000 euros, which has been created to encourage European co-production from the initial stages of a project – see press release – will be awarded by the Jury of the CineMart in the presence of the Executive Director Mr Roberto Olla.

For further information, please consult the website of the International Film Festival of Rotterdam.

Support Decisions

16/12/2011 -  At its 125th meeting held from 13 to 15 December 2011 in Paris, the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund agreed to support 18 feature films for co-production. (See the list of the supported projects on the press release)

List of co-productions supported in 2011

Eurimages mooting idea of associate membership of the likes of South Africa, Argentina

13/12/2011 - The Council of Europe’s European Cinema Support Fund Eurimages is exploring the possibility of extending membership to countries as far afield as South Africa and Argentina. (interview with the President of the Fund, Mr Jobst Plog)

5 European Film Awards for Eurimages supported films

05/12/2011 - The European Film 2011 Award went to the film Melancholia by Lars von trier (a co-production between Denmark, France, Sweden and Germany supported by Eurimages) Saturday night in Berlin, during the ceremony of the European Film Awards. This film also received the Carlo di Palma European Cinematographer Award 2011 (Manuel Alberto Claro) as well as the European Production Designer Award 2011 (Jette Lehmann). The Dardenne brothers (photo) were awarded the prize of European Screenwriter 2011 for their film Le gamin au vélo, a co-production between Belgium, France and Italy supported by Eurimages. Finally, the European Discovery Award 2011 went to the film Adem (Oxygen) by Hans Van Nuffel, a co-production between Belgium and the Netherlands also supported by the Eurimages Fund. The European Co-Production Award 2011- Prix Eurimages was awarded to Mariela Besuievsky, partner of Tornasol Films, and the producer and executive producer of more than 40 movies. (Press release)

European Film Awards website

11th Seville European Film Festival - Eurimages Prize

18/11/2011 - The Eurimages Prize (Premio Eurimages) worth 20,000 euros for the distribution of the film in Spain, was awarded to the film Shun Li and the Poet by Andrea Segre (Italy, France) during the closing ceremony of the festival which took place on Friday 11 November in the presence of the Deputy Executive Director of Eurimages, Isabel Castro.

Festival website

The award winners of the 12th edition of "Etoiles et Toiles" of European Cinema

 08/11/2011 - During the closing ceremony of the “Etoiles et Toiles” of European Cinema event which ended on 29 October 2011, the Jury comprised of 7 Permanent Representatives of the Council of Europe, chaired by Mrs Eleanor Fuller, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the Council of Europe revealed the award winners:

The special Odyssée cinema/Council of Europe prize for artistic creation was awarded to the film “This Must Be the Place” by Paolo Sorrentino, a co-production between Italy, France and Ireland;

The Odyssée cinema/Council of Europe Human Rights prize was awarded to the film “Cirkus Columbia” by Danis Tanovic, a co-production between France,  Bosnia-Herzegovina, United Kingdom, Slovenia, Germany and Belgium)

Eurimages Co-production Development Prize

06/11/2011 – The Eurimages Co-production Development Prize was awarded at the closing ceremony of the "New Cinema Network" event on 30 October 2011 to the Palestinian Director Mohanad Yaqubi for his project “Off Frame”. The Prize was awarded by the President of the Eurimages Board of Management, Mr Jobst Plog.

Moreover, the film BabyCall (NO/DE/SE) by Pal Sletaune, supported by Eurimages and selected in the official competition of the Rome Film Festival which came to an end on 4 November 2011, was awarded the Marc' Aurelio Jury Award for Best Actress - Noomi Rapace (Festival website).

Georgia joins Eurimages

27/10/2011 – The Partial Agreement of the Council of Europe Eurimages is pleased to welcome a new member state, Georgia, as of 18 October 2011.

Co-production projects involving a co-producer from Georgia can therefore be submitted to Eurimages for examination at forthcoming meetings.

As Georgia does not have access to the support mechanisms of the EU’s MEDIA Programme, distributors from Georgia can apply for support from Eurimages. Exhibitors from Georgia will also be eligible for Eurimages programmes of support for theatres (exhibition and digital equipment).

Jobst Plog re-elected as President of Eurimages

25/10/2011 – During its 124th meeting in Dublin (Ireland) on 18-20 October 2011, the Eurimages Board of Management decided to renew the mandate of its President Mr Jobst Plog for a second two-year term until 19 November 2013.

 “I would like to thank the Board of Management for its renewed support. I will now continue to work, as I already have been doing over the past two years since I took up this post, in close collaboration and in total synergy with the Board of Management and the Eurimages Secretariat.” he said.