Press Release

Eurimages supports 11 European co-productions

STRASBOURG, 26.04.2002 -- At its 77th meeting held on 22-24 April 2002 in Larnaca (Cyprus), the Council of Europe Eurimages Fund Board of Management agreed to support 11 feature for a total amount of 3 746 000 Euros.

The feature films are :

Scheme 1 The Galindez Mystery - Gerardo Herrero (Spanish) (Spain, Italy, , Portugal, Cuba, United Kingdom) Or... - Alain Resnais (French) (France, Switzerland) Rosenstrasse - Margarethe von Trotta (German) (Germany, Netherlands)

Scheme 2 Böse Zellen - Barbara Albert (Austrian) (Austria, Germany, Switzerland) Çamur - Dervis Zaimagoglu (Turkish-Cypriot) (Turkey, Cyprus) Cert Vi Proc - Roman Vavra (Czech) (Czech Republic, Slovakia) En - Grede - Kjell Grede (Swedish) (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark) Honey Baby - Mika Kaurismäki (Finnish) (Germany, Latvia, Finland) Patouvane kam Yerousalem - Ivan Nichev (Bulgarian) (Bulgaria, Germany) La petite prairie aux bouleaux - Marceline Loridan-Ivens (French) (France, Germany, Poland) Zelary - Ondrej Trojan (Czech) Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia)

Support was awarded to the following distributors for the films listed hereafter NORD FILMS (Belgium) Hundhotellet - Per Ahlin (Swedish) Prop og Berta - Janis Cimmermanis & Per Fly (Danish) MARIGOLD FILMS (Bulgaria) Le peuple migrateur - Jacques Perrin, Gérard Vienne, Michel Debats (French)

RADIVISION (Bulgaria) Le placard - Francis Veber (French) VADI VAN KRIS LTD (Bulgaria) Le pacte des loups - Christophe Gans (French) CINEINVEST (Czech Republic) Les morsures de l'aube - Antoine de Caunes (French) FILM DISTRIBUTION ARTCAM (Czech Republic) Swing - Tony Gatlif (French) ANGEL DISTRIBUTION (Denmark) La gabianella e il gatto - Enzo d'Alo (Italian) AD VITAM (France) Venus Boyz - Gabriel Baur (Swiss) BOOMERANG PRODUCTION (France) Hundhotellet - Per Ahlin (Swedish) Prop og Berta - Janis Cimmermanis & Per Fly (Danish) BEST HOLLYWOOD (Hungary) Intimacy - Patrice Chéreau (French) BUDAPEST FILM (Hungary) 101 Reykjavik - Baltasar Kormakur (Icelandic) Dog Days - Ulrich Seidl (Austrian) MASKEPP FOUNDATION (Hungary) Code inconnu - (Austrian) BEST FILM (Poland) Bloody Sunday - Paul Greengrass (British) GUTEK FILM (Poland) Solas - Benito Zambrano (Spanish) SPI INTERNATIONAL POLSKA (Poland) Tosca - BenoîtJacquot (French) INDEPENDENTA FILM (Romania) Lucia y el sexo - Julio Medem (Spanish) S.C. INTERFILM ROM (Romania) Valami Amerika - Herendi Gabor (Hungarian) ASSOCIATION OF SLOVAK FILM CLUBS (Slovakia) Summer of 27 Kisses - Nana Djordjadze (Georgian) WALTER NITTNAUS - WN DANUBIUS FILM (Slovakia) Sma Ulykker (Minor mishaps) - Annette Olesen (Danish) FOLKETS BIO (Sweden) Venus Boyz - Gabriel Baur (Swiss) AGORA FILMS (Switzerland) Embrassez qui vous voudrez - Michel Blanc (French) FAMA FILM (Switzerland) Musime Si Pomahat - Jan Hrebjek (Czech) JMH DISTRIBUTIONS (Switzerland) Tosca - Benoît Jacquot (French) LOOK NOW! (Switzerland) Home sour Home - Dan Ying (Swedish) MONT-BLANC DISTRIBUTION SA (Switzerland) Tristan & Isolde - Thierry Schiel (Luxembourguish-French) XENIX FILMDISTRIBUTION (Switzerland) Hafid - Baltasar Kormakur (Icelandic) IRFAN FILM TICARET VE SANAYI LIMITED SIRKETI (Turkey) Lucia y el sexo - Julio Medem (Spanish) SPOT FILM (Turkey) Vidocq - Pitof (French) UMUT SANAT FILMCILIK SINEMACILIK (Turkey) Le barbier de Sibérie - Nikita Mikhalkov (Russian)

EURIMAGES is a support fund for co-production, distribution and the exhibition of European cinematographic works, established by the Council of Europe in 1988 1 (E-mail : [email protected] - Web : http://culture.coe.int/Eurimages). Since its establishment, EURIMAGES has supported 860 European co-productions for a total amount of 237 541 772 Euros.

1 EURIMAGES comprises 27 member States: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey