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47 member States Eurimages supports 15 European co-productions

Albania Paris, 19.03.2009 - At its 114th meeting, held from 15 to 17 March 2009 in Paris, Andorra the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund agreed to Armenia support the co-production of 15 feature films for a total amount of 4 680 000 Euros: Austria Azerbaijan The Woman who dreamt of a Man - Per Fly () Belgium (Denmark, , , ) Bosnia and Herzegovina Alois Nebel - Tomas Lunak () film Bulgaria (Czech Republic, ) Cosa voglio di più - Silvio Soldini ( - Switzerland) Cyprus (Italy, Switzerland) Czech Republic Aurora - Cristi Puiu (Romania) Denmark (Romania, , Switzerland, Germany) Snabba Cash - Daniel Espinosa (Sweden) (Sweden, Denmark) France The Last Flight of Flamingo - João Ribeiro (Portugal) Georgia (Portugal, , France, , Italy) Germany Paradies - Ulrich Seidl (Austria) (Austria, Germany, France) Vivan Las Antipodas - Viktor Kossakovsky (Russia) Documentary (Germany, The ) Ireland Satte Farben vor Schwarz - Sophie Heldmann (Switzerland) Italy (Germany, Switzerland) Thor -The Edda Chronicles Animation film Liechtenstein Gunnar Karlsson (Iceland), Toby Genkel (Germany) Lithuania (Iceland, Germany, Ireland) Luxembourg The Republic of Trees - Alicia Duffy () Malta (Ireland, France, Belgium) Moldova Ici - Angelo Cianci (France) Monaco (France, Luxembourg) Montenegro Beli Beli Svet - Oleg Novkovic (Serbia) Netherlands (Serbia, Germany, Sweden) Norway Visszateres - Judith Elek (Hungary) Poland (Hungary, Romania) Portugal Die Wand - Julian Pölsler (Austria) Romania (Austria, Germany) Russia

San Marino Support was awarded to the following distributors: Serbia

Slovakia Slovenia < Eurimages Films: Spain Sweden Les grandes personnes - Anna Novion (Sweden) Switzerland Distributed by ART ZONE (Bosnia and Herzegovina) “The former Yugoslav Distributed by BALKAN FILM (“The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”) Republic of Distributed by MCF MEGACOM FILM (Serbia) Macedonia” Turkey Love and Other Crimes - Stefan Arsenijevic (Serbia) Ukraine Distributed by TROPIK FILM & VIDEO (Bosnia and Herzegovina) United Kingdom ./...

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Snow - Zubcevic Aida Begic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Distributed by BEECK TURTLE (Belgium)

Uc Maymun/Three Monkeys - Ceylan Nuri Bilge (Turkey) Distributed by IMAGINE FILM DISTRIBUTION (Belgium) Distributed by CONTACT FILM (The Netherlands) Distributed by ORION INVEST FILM (Serbia)

La Vida Loca - Christian Poveda (France) Documentary Distributed by ANJOU-LAFAYETTE BT (Hungary)

Yumurta/Egg - Semih Kaplanoglu (Turkey) Distributed by MOZINET LTD (Hungary) Distributed by ASOCIATA MOEBIUS (Romania)

Jungledyret Hugo - Flemming Quist Møller (Denmark) Animation film for children Distributed by ARENA FILM (“The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”)

Skrapp ut/Back Soon - Solveig Anspach (Iceland) Distributed by ARENA FILM (“The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”) Distributed by ORION INVEST FILM (Serbia)

Home - Ursula Meier (Switzerland) Distributed by BALKAN FILM (“The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”)

Un secret - Claude Miller (France) Distributed by MANAKIFILM (“The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”)

Pandoranin Kutusu/Pandora's Box - Yesim Ustaoglu (Turkey) Distributed by CLOROFILM ROMANIA (Romania)

Tie tähtiin/The way to the Stars - Michael Hegner (Denmark) Animation film for children Distributed by KIDS FILM FEST (Serbia)

Le silence de Lorna - Jean-Pierre Dardenne (Belgium) Distributed by MCF MEGACOM FILM (Serbia)

“Non-Eurimages” Films:

Waltz with Bashir - Ari Folman (Poland) Animation film Distributed by ART SERVIS (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

EKV - Kao da je bilo nekad - Dusan Vesic (Serbia) Documentary Distributed by ART SERVIS (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

North Face - Philippe Stölzl (Germany) Distributed by EKRAN (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Entre les murs - Laurent Cantet (France) Distributed by F.I.S.T. (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Princ od Papira/Paper Prince - Marko Kostic (Serbia) Feature film for children Distributed by OSKAR FILM (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Delta - Komél Mundruczo (Hungary) Distributed by UG OBALA ART CENTAR (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

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Move On! Storming the Gate - Alex Jordanov (France) Documentary Distributed by MARIGOLD FILMS (Bulgaria)

Go West - Ahmet Imamovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Distributed by PRO FILMS (Bulgaria)

Nomadak TX - Raul de la Fuente (Spain) Documentary Distributed by PRO FILMS (Bulgaria)

René - Helena Trestikova (Czech Republic) Documentary Distributed by MOZINET LTD (Hungary)

Eden Log - Franck Vestiel (France) Distributed by EURO FILM DOEL (“The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”)

TBS aka/Nothing to Lose - Pieter Kuijpers (The Netherlands) Distributed by MEDIA FACTORY (“The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”)

Svetet e golyam i spasenie debne otvsyakade/The World is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner Stephan Komandarev (The Netherlands) Distributed by MEDIA FACTORY (“The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”)

Ztracena dovolena/Lost Holiday - Lucie Kralova (Czech Republic) Documentary Distributed by CHICAGO TOURS (Romania)

Chasseurs de dragons - François Hemmen (France) Animation film for children Distributed by CLOROFILM ROMANIA (Romania)

Süt/Milk - Semih Kaplanoglu (Turkey) Distributed by GRAFITTI ART 2005 (Romania)

Cesky Sen - Semih Kaplanoglu (Turkey) Documentary Distributed by ASOCIATA MOEBIUS (Romania)

Gomorra - Matteo Garrone (Italy) Distributed by CINEARS (Serbia)

Diamant 13 - Gilles Beat (France) Distributed by TUCK VISION (Serbia)

Palermo Shooting - Wim Wenders (Germany) Distributed by MARS PRODUKSIYON (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 1252 European co-productions for a total amount of approximately 370 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, , Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, “The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” and Turkey.

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