Last night, the Ukrainian project ASHES SETTLING IN LAYERS ON THE SURFACE by Zoya Laktionova won the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, a cash prize of 20,000 euros awarded as part of the industry programme of Visions du Réel in Nyon (CH). This documentary will be produced by Natalia Libet from 2Brave Productions (UA), in co-operation with Victor Ede from the French company Cinephage Productions.

The jury, composed of Tamara Tatishvili (Hubert Bals Fund, IFFR, NL), Gianluca Matarrese (Bellota Films/Stemal Entertainment, FR/IT) and Eleni Chandrinou (GR) for Eurimages has chosen to reward ‘a story which celebrates an ambitious artistic proposition emerging from a deeply personal invitation to travel into a modern industrial fairytale shaped by lived experiences, physical memories of a city that is political, intimate and imagined at the same time.’

The full list of winners of the Visions du Réel VdR-Industry industrial section can be viewed on the event website.

The next Eurimages Co-production Development Award will be presented as part of the Eastern Promises initiative of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), the next edition of which will take place on 4-12 July 2025.

6.03.2025 - The winner of the €20,000 Eurimages Co-Production Development Award at Cartoon Movie is the project ZAKO to be directed by Tigran Arakelyan and produced by OnOff Studio (Armenia), in collaboration with Sacrebleu Productions (France).  The jury made up of Mika Siltala (Cinema Mondo, Finland), Pascale Dillemann (Under the Milky Way, Spain) and Noémi Kahn for Eurimages (Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée – CNC -, France) was “glad to support a project that will allow audiences to discover a true story of an Armenian war victim and artist, bringing light to a barely known aspect of European history. This powerful and emotional journey will be enhanced by the creative use of new technologies. Beyond supporting a new talent, the prize also aims to reward the work of a production company committed to developing their animation industry." 
 

17.02.2025 - The Berlinale Co-Production Market granted the first Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of 2025 to the project IBICABA – VISIONS OF PARADISE, written and directed by Andrea Štaka and produced by Michela Pini, Olga Lamontanara and Andrea Štaka (CH). The jury, made up of producer Labina Mitevska (North Macedonia), distributor Øistein Refseth (Norway) and Eleni Chandrinou (Greece) for Eurimages, has chosen to award this 20,000 euros prize to a project by a passionate director who is bringing to light stories of underprivileged women in Switzerland in the 19th century. It is a film about colonialism, migration and women’s place in history.

As part of the Eurimages Fund's exceptional measures in support of the Ukrainian film industry, the same jury gave an Exceptional Eurimages Award for Co-Production Development of the same amount to the project THE EARTH IS FLAT - I FLEW AROUND AND SAW IT directed by Maksym Nakonechnyi and produced by Daria Zakharova (Ukraine). This is a story that explores the distance between perception and reality, a theme particularly relevant to today’s world. The director offers a fresh vision and approaches the subject in a compassionate and humorous way.