Eurimages New Lab Awards

At the end of 2015 the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund joined forces with four European festivals to establish the "Eurimages Lab Project Award" for innovative projects exploring new forms of expression, as from 2016.

This prize, amounting to €50,000, was awarded by the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and the European Film Festival des Arcs within the framework of their “Works in Progress” events.

To be eligible, projects had to be mainly produced in a Eurimages member state, participate in one of the above events and show co-operation between at least two countries.

During its strategic meeting in October 2019, Eurimages Board of Management decided to suspend, as from January 2021, support for lab projets in its current form and to launch an independant study on the relevance and modalities of support for non-conventional cinematographic projects. Following a market consultation launched in September 2020, this study on the feasibility pertinence and design of a Lab Projects support programme for the Eurimages Fund has been entrusted to the structure Tatino Films (FR).

You can read the final report of this study which was presented to the Board of Management at its plenary meeting on 19 March 2021 in full or in summary.

On the basis of the conclusions of this report and the discussions of a Study Group, the Eurimages Board of Management adopted in December 2022 the creation of two New Eurimages Lab Awards: the Innovation Award for innovative and experimental projects in development and the Outreach Award to promote public awareness of innovative and experimental projects at the end of production or in post-production.

During its meeting on 29-30 June 2023 and following the call for proposals launched in March 2023, the Eurimages Board of Management approved the selection of two initiatives to present the New Eurimages Lab Awards, each consisting of one Innovation Award of €20,000 and one Outreach Award of €30,000 in 2024-2026, namely:

CPH:DOX (Denmark) and
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) (The Netherlands).

projects rewarded by this prize

2024 - EURIMAGES NEW LAB AWARDS

INNOVATION AWARDS

Garden Alchemy by Michelle and Uri Kranot, produced by Peter Fisher (DK) - Copenhagen
Cherub by Barbara Rupik, produced by the company Madants (PL) - Rotterdam

OUTREACH AWARDS

Timestamp by Kateryna Gornostai, produced by Olha Beskhmelnytsina and Natalia Libet (2Brave Productions / Rinkel Film & Docs, UA & NL) - Copenhagen
Duchampiana by Lilian Hess, produced by Tchikiboum (FR) in co-operation with Germany - Rotterdam

2020

Magdala de Damien Manivel (m), produit par la société Mld Films (FR) - Les Arcs
Tracking Satyrs de Maciej & Michal Madraccy (m) et Gilles Lepore (m), produit par Beata Rzeźniczek de la société Madants (PL) - Thessalonique
A Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic de Teemu Nikki (m), produit par Jani Pösö de la société It's Alive Films (FIN) - Haugesund
Atlantide de Yuri Ancarani (m), produit par Marco Alessi de la société Dugong Srl (IT) en coopération avec la France - Karlovy Vary

m : masculin ; f : féminin

2019

Figures in the Urban Landscape by Ekaterina Selenkina (f) and produced by Vladimir Nadein (RU) - Les Arcs
Mother Lode by Matteo Tortone, produced by Alexis Taillant and Nadège Labé from the company Wendigo Films (FR) in cooperation with Benjamin Poumey from C-Side Productions (CH) and Margot Mecca from Malfé Films (IT) - Thessaloniki
Him by Guro Bruusgaard (m), produced by the Norwegian company Alternativet Produksjon; A Special Mention went to Jessica by Ninja Thyberg - Haugesund
Bottled Songs written, directed and produced by Kevin B. Lee (m) and Chloé Galibert (f) respectively from Germany and France - Karlovy Vary

m: male; f: female

2018

White on White by Theo Court (m), produced by Jose Alayon from the company El Viaje Films (ES) - Les Arcs
Undergrown by Marta Ribeiro (f), produced by Joana Peralta from the company Videolotion (PT) - Thessaloniki
Burning Man by Itonje Søimer Guttormsen (f), produced by Maria Ekerhovd from the company Mer Film (NO); A special mention from the Eurimages jury went to the film Season by John Skoog, produced by Erik Hemmendorff (Plattform) - Haugesund
Normal by Adele Tulli (f), produced by Valeria Adilardi, Laura Romano and Luca Ricciardi from the company FilmAffair (IT) - Karlovy Vary

m: male; f: female

2017

Gold Is All There Is by Andrea Caccia (m), produced by Dugong Films (IT), Picofilms (FR) and Rough Cat (CH) - Les Arcs
Speak So I Can See You by Marija Stojnic (f), produced by Marija Stojnic and Milos Ivanovic from the company Bilboke (RS) - Thessaloniki
Jimmie by Jesper Ganslandt (m), produced by Jesper Kurlandsky, Hedvig Lundgren and Juan Libossart from the company Fasad (SE) ; Special Mentions went to the projects Alma by Kristín Jóhannedóttir produced by Gudrun Edda Thorhannesdottir, Anna G. Magnusdottir, Ilann Girard, Jim Stark, Lilja Ósk Snorradóttir andt Elfar Adalstei and The Second Sex by Katja Eyde Jacobsen produced by Maria Ekerhovd and Elisa Pirir – Haugesund
The Stand-In by Rä di Martino (f), produced by Dugong Srl (IT) in co-operation with France and Marocco - Karlovy Vary

m: male; f: female

2016

The Hidden City by Victor Moreno (m), produced by the companies El Viaje Films (ES) and Pomme Hurlante (FR) - Les Arcs
Thorn (GR, DK) by Gabriel Tzafka (m), produced by Panayiotis Kakavias (Kakavias Film) and Michael Bille Frandsen & Theis Nørgaard (Nitrat Film) - Thessaloniki
The Wind Blew On (IS) by Katrín Ólafsdóttir (f), produced by par Incoherence Cinema Limited - Haugesund
Perseverance (Vztrajanje) (SI, HR, IT, RS) by Miha Knific (m), produced by Siniša Juričič – Karlovy Vary

m: male; f: female