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47 member States Eurimages supports 14 European co-productions

Albania Vilnius, 02.06.2009 - At its 115th meeting, held from 30 May to 2 June 2009 in Andorra Vilnius, the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund Armenia agreed to support the co-production of 14 feature films for a total amount of Austria 4 870 000 Euros: Azerbaijan Belgium Aglaja Krisztina Deak (Hungary) Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bulgaria (Hungary, Poland, Romania) Croatia As if I'm not there - Juanita Wilson (Ireland) Cyprus (Ireland, Sweden, “The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”) Bal - Semih Kaplanoglu (Turkey) Denmark (Turkey, Germany) Estonia Brownian Movement - Nanouk Leopold (The Netherlands) Finland (The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany) Das Engelsgesicht - Oliver Hirschbiegel (Germany) Georgia (Germany, ) Germany Dem Himmel ganz nah - Titus Faschina (Germany) Documentary Greece (Germany, Romania) Hungary Entre Lobos - Gerardo Olivares () Iceland (Spain, Germany) Ireland Et si on vivait tous ensemble - Stéphane Robelin (France) Italy (France, Germany) Latvia Hexe Lilli - Die Reise nach Mandolan - Harald Sicheritz (Austria) Liechtenstein (Germany, Austria, Spain) Feature film for children Lithuania I Kara Kai I Thlipsi Tou Somatos - Andreas Pantzis (Cyprus) Luxembourg (Cyprus, Greece) Malta La solitudine dei numeri primi - Saverio Costanzo (Italy) Moldova (Italy, France) My heart of Darkness - Staffan Julen (Sweden), Marius Van Niekerk (Sweden) Montenegro (Sweden, Germany) Documentary Netherlands Robert Mitchum est mort - Olivier Babinet (France), Fred Kihn (France) Norway (France, Belgium, Poland, Norway) Poland The Last Furlong - Agnès Merlet (France) (France, Ireland) Romania Russia San Marino Support was awarded to the following distributors: < Eurimages Films: Slovenia Spain Skrapp ut/Back Soon - Solveig Anspach (Iceland) Sweden Distributed by ART SERVIS (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Switzerland “The former Yugoslav Tie tähtiin/The way to the Stars - Michael Hegner (Denmark) Animation for children Republic of Distributed by ART SERVIS (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Macedonia” Distributed byARENA FILM (“The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”) Turkey ./.. Ukraine United Kingdom

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Pandoranin Kutusu/Pandora's Box - Yesim Ustaoglu (Turkey) Distributed by EKRAN (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Distributed by MOZINET LTD (Hungary) Distributed by ARENA FILM (“The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”) Distributed by MCF MEGACOM FILM (Serbia)

Le silence de Lorna - Jean-Pierre Dardenne (Belgium) Distributed by TROPIK FILM & VIDEO (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Distributed by BALKAN FILM (“The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”)

Kader - Zeki Demirkubuz (Turkey) Distributed by SANARTFILM (Germany)

Uc Maymun/Three Monkeys - Ceylan Nuri Bilge (Turkey) Distributed by GOLEM DISTRIBUCION (Spain)

Dorothy Mills - Agnès Merlet (France) Distributed by BALKAN FILM (“The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”) Distributed by ORION INVEST FILM (Serbia)

Le héros de la famille - Thierry Klifa (France) Distributed by MANAKIFILM (“The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”)

Ljubav i drugi zlocini - Stefan Arsenijevic (Serbia) Distributed by S.V.RSA (“The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”)

Snow - Zubcevic Aida Begic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Distributed by STICHTING CINEMA DELICATESSEN (The Netherlands)

Suden Arvoitus - Raimo o Niemi (Finland) Feature film for children Distributed by ASOCIATA MOEBIUS (Romania)

Pianomania - Lilian Franck (Germany) Documentary Distributed by ASOCIATA MOEBIUS (Romania)

Mia et le Migou - Jacques-Rémy Girerd (France) Animation for children Distributed by GRAFITTI ART 2005 (Romania)

Vratne Lahve - Jan Sverak (Czech Republic) Distributed by CINEARS (Serbia)

Valley of Flowers - Pan Nalin (France) Distributed by MCF MEGACOM FILM (Serbia)

Bathory - Juraj Jakubisko (Slovak Republic) Distributed by ORION INVEST FILM (Serbia)

La véritable histoire du chat botté - Jérôme Deschamps (France) Animation for children Distributed by MIRIUS TUCK (Serbia)

“Non-Eurimages” Films:

Milos Brankovic - Nebojsa Radosavljevic (Serbia) Distributed by OSKAR FILM (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

De Ofrivilliga - Ruben Östlund (Sweden) Distributed by UG OBALA ART CENTAR (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

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Disco Ormene - Thomas Boch Nielsen (Denmark) Distributed by VIP KOMUNIKACIJE (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Nos enfants nous accuseront - Jean-Paul Jaud (France) Documentary Distributed by MARIGOLD FILMS (Bulgaria)

Nach der Musik - Igor Heitzmann (Germany) Documentary Distributed by MOZINET LTD (Hungary) Distributed by CLOROFILM ROMANIA (Romania)

Sto sa sobom preko dana - Ivona Juka (Croatia) Documentary Distributed by S.V.RSA (“The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”)

Let's make Money - Erwin Wagenhofer (Austria) Documentary Distributed by GRAFITTI ART 2005 (Romania)

Le renard et l'enfant - Luc Jaquet (France) Feature film for children Distributed by KIDS FILM FEST (Serbia)

La fille du RER - André Téchiné (France) Distributed by TUCK VISION (Serbia)

Pour elle - Fred Cavaye (France) Distributed by FILMA FILM (Turkey)

The Countess - July Delpy (France) Distributed by YENI BIR FILM (Turkey)

Nord - Rune Denstad Langlo (Norway) Distributed by YENI BIR FILM (Turkey)

EURIMAGES is a support fund for the co-production, distribution and exhibition of European cinematographic works, established by the Council of Europe in 1988 1 (E-mail: [email protected] – Web: http://www.coe.int/Eurimages).

Since its establishment in 1988, EURIMAGES has supported 1266 European co-productions for a total amount of approximately 375 million Euros.

1 Since 29 May 2007, EURIMAGES comprises 33 member States: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, “The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” and Turkey.

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