Hubert Bals Development Winter 2024: Funding News

IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund has selected twelve feature film projects in its latest funding round, with each awarded a grant of Euros10,000 under its Development Support scheme.

The fund reported a record-breaking application round in which 1,169 projects were submitted. The selected projects include genres such as neo-Western, surrealist comedy, sci-fi and a documentary hybrid, set in locations from Belarus and Kenya to Palestine.

In October, Hubert Bals Fund also awarded four projects grants of Euros60,000 each through the HBF+Europe: Post-production Support scheme. The awards, sponsored by Creative Europe MEDIA, offer support for the final stages of European co-productions with filmmakers from regions where the HBF targets its support. The four grantees are also listed below.

HUBERT BALS FUND DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT:

Colhões de Ouro, dir: Lillah Halla (Brazil, Germany)

Conversation With The Sea, dir: Muayad Alayan (Palestine)

Enkop (The Soil), dir: Angela Wanjiku Wamai (Kenya)

Exactly What It Seems, dir: Darya Zhuk (Estonia, Poland)

Falso Positivo, dir: Theo Montoya (Colombia, Romania)

Four Seasons In Java, dir: Kamila Andini (Indonesia)

Goodbye For Now, dir: Kasım Ördek (Turkey)

Le goût de la pêche, dir: Elene Mikaberidze (Georgia)

How Melissa Blew A Fuse, dir: Una Gunjak (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Croatia, Serbia)

MTV i.e. Mars To Venus, dir: Midhun Murali (India)

Notes Of A Crocodile, dir: Daphne Xu (Cambodia, China, Canada)

Piedras Gigantes, dir: Christopher Murray (Chile)

HBF+EUROPE: POST-PRODUCTION SUPPORT

Variations On A Theme, dirs: Devon Delmar, Jason Jacobs (South Africa, Netherlands)
Lead producer: KRAAL (South Africa)
Applicant producer: Interakt Productions BV (Netherlands)

My Share Of Sky (Ek Mutthi Badal), dir: Sahara Sharma (Nepal, Germany)
Lead producer: Gauthali Entertainment (Nepal)
Applicant producer: Chromosom Film GMBH (Germany)

Estados Generales, dir: Mauricio Freyre (Peru, Spain)
Lead producer: Estudio RIEN (Peru)
Applicant producer: Tasio (Spain)

Wild Dogs Don’t Bite, dir: Rati Oneli (Georgia, Luxembourg)
Lead producer: Office of Film Architecture (Georgia)
Applicant producer: Les Films Fauves (Luxembourg)