On Monday 1 December 2025, Film Fund Luxembourg reported that its Selection Committee (of the National Fund for Supporting Audiovisual Production) met on 23-29 November 2025 for the fourth and final session of the year.
According to the Film Fund, a total of thirty projects received Selective Financial Aid (AFS) for writing and/or development and for production. These include fifteen live-action feature films, four animated feature films, one feature documentary, three live-action series, one documentary series, two live-action short films, one animated short film, one short-format animated series and two XR projects.
Pre-production (Live-Action Feature Films):
- D’KOPPEL: Writer-Director: Frédéric Zeimet; Production Company: Six Letters (€60,000)
- BETWEEN THE CHAIRS, I FOUND HER: Writer-Director: Laura Schroeder; Production Company: Red Lion (€60,000)
- MA MÈRE EST UNE STAR: Writer-Director: Gabriel Pinto Monteiro; Production Company: Tarantula Luxembourg (€60,000)
- QUIETLY: Writers: Jason O’Mara, Catherine Walker; Director: Désirée Nosbusch; Production Company: Deal Productions (€60,000)
- SCEADU: Writer-Director: Christian Neuman; Production Company: Wild Fang Films (€30,000)
Pre-production (Live-Action Series):
- LES FUNAMBULES: Writer-Director: Marylène Andrin; Co-writer: Jonathan Becker; Showrunner (Technician): Pierre Majerus; Production Company: Iris Productions (€60,000)
- MÉGA-PALS: Writer-Director: Christophe Wagner; Co-writers: Kiyan Agadjani, Weronika Kasrzak; Production Company: Digital Voodooh (€36,000)
Pre-production (Animated Feature Film):
- LYRA ET ARMIN: Writer-Directors: Nicolas Blies, Stéphane Hueber-Blies; Production Company: a_Bahn (€60,000)
Pre-production (Documentary Series):
- LOVE IN LUXEMBOURG: Showrunner-Director: Kim Schneider; Co-writers and Co-directors: Mylène Carrière, Roxanne Péguet, Laurent Prim, Ken Rischard, Laura Schroeder, Pattrawan Sukmongkol, Javier Torres; Production Company: Cohacy Studio (€60,000)
Production (Live-Action Feature Films):
- HEADLESS; Genre: Drama; Writer-Director: Govinda Van Maele; Co-writers: Doruntina Basha, Paul Choquet; Production company: Les Films Fauves (Co-production between Luxembourg and Belgium); €2,500,000 out of a total budget of €3,630,236 (68.87%); Start of shooting: June 2026; Logline: Thelma, a 40-year-old actress, returns to Luxembourg after her failed career in Berlin. In a local amateur theatre, she immerses herself in a role, playing an alternative version of her life. The line between performance and reality begins to blur, and a dark figure starts to follow her, forcing her to face reality and confront her inner demons.
- MORTAL BEINGS; Genre: Comedy, Drama; Writer-Director: Emile V. Schlesser; Production company: Deal Productions / 35M Films (Co-production between Luxembourg and Belgium); €2,500,000 out of a total budget of €3,154,600 (79.25%); Start of shooting: March 2026; Logline: A collection of tragicomic stories about five people in their thirties struggling with ageing and the inevitable changes it brings to their lives.
- MULÂTRESSE SOLITUDE; Genre: Drama; Writer-Director: Baloji Tshiani; Co-writer: Thomas Van Zuylen; Production company: Les Films Fauves (Co-production between Luxembourg, Belgium, France and the Netherlands); €1,060,000 out of a total budget of €4,997,851 (21.21%); Start of shooting: April 2026; Logline: Billie, sixteen, is seen as one of South Africa’s most promising sprinters and is her family’s only source of income. When she is diagnosed with hyperandrogenism (abnormally elevated testosterone), her career is abruptly halted. Banned from competition and pressured to follow hormonal treatment, she sees her intimate, family and professional balance deeply shaken.
- LUCIA; Genre: Biopic, Drama; Writer-Director: Aisling Walsh; Co-writer: Michael Kinirons; Production company: Amour Fou Luxembourg (Co-production between Luxembourg, Ireland and Canada); €1,250,000 out of a total budget of €6,016,487 (20.78%); Start of shooting: April 2026; Logline: Paris, 1930. Lucia Joyce is a gifted dancer with a breathtaking physical language and the most important muse of her father, writer James Joyce. Caught between her own artistic ambitions and her role as paternal inspiration, her sense of identity begins to fracture.
- TONI; Genre: Drama, Romance; Writer-Director: Ulrike Grote; Production company: Tarantula Luxembourg (Co-production between Luxembourg, Germany and Switzerland); €1,207,000 out of a total budget of €3,399,715 (35.50%); Start of shooting: May 2026; Logline: After the death of his authoritarian father, Anton, a 59-year-old farmer, embarks on an inner journey to accept his true identity as a transgender woman, risking upheaval in his family and in the traditions of a conservative rural world.
- FEMMES DE MÉNAGE; Genre: Drama; Writer-Director: Ágata de Pinho; Co-writer: Kate Saragaço-Gomes; Production company: Poulpe Bleu Productions (Co-production between Luxembourg and Portugal); €1,500,000 out of a total budget of €3,260,000 (46.01%); Start of shooting: September 2026; Logline: To make ends meet, Ágata, a Portuguese filmmaker, moves to Luxembourg to work as a cleaner. There she finds a community of other migrant women fighting for fairer working conditions. Femmes de Ménage shines a light on their lived experiences and the power dynamics surrounding their essential but undervalued work, which remains vital to the functioning of society.
- GLUTE; Genre: Drama; Writer-Director: Victor Ruprich-Robert; Production company: Samsa Film (Co-production between Luxembourg and Belgium); €159,795 out of a total budget of €686,465 (23.28%); Start of shooting: April 2026; Logline: In a high-end restaurant, Clément, an anxious and paranoid waiter, steals a cook’s joke in a desperate attempt to fit into the team. The evening spirals into a nightmare as Clément goes to extreme lengths to repair his image, doing everything except serving.
- MARIE MADELEINE (Cineworld); Genre: Drama; Writer-Director: Gessica Généus; Production company: Bidibul Productions (Co-production between Luxembourg, France and Belgium); €50,000 out of a total budget of €1,334,917 (3.75%); Logline: In Jacmel, Haiti, the arrival of an evangelical church opposite a brothel triggers a series of conflicts. At the heart of this moral battle, Marie Madeleine, a sex worker, befriends the pastor’s son, who must hide his homosexuality.
- FOLK PLAY (Cineworld); Genre: Drama; Director: Mirjana Karanović; Writer: Bojan Vuletić; Production company: Samsa Film (Co-production between Luxembourg, Serbia, France, Croatia and Slovenia); €200,000 out of a total budget of €1,222,512 (16.36%); Logline: FOLK PLAY tells the story of a forbidden love awakening in a society frozen by tradition. Anka, a young woman bowed under patriarchal expectations, meets Branka, a flamboyant singer from the city. From their encounter arises a fragile yet fierce desire for freedom, ready to challenge every taboo.
- A THOUSAND DAYS, A THOUSAND NIGHTS (Cineworld); Genre: Drama, Romance; Writer-Director: Syllas Tzoumerkas; Co-writer: Vasia Attarian; Production company: Iris Productions (Co-production between Luxembourg, Greece, Italy and Cyprus); €200,000 out of a total budget of €1,499,515 (13.34%); Logline: Over an odyssey of a thousand days and a thousand nights, we discover the intertwined stories and legacies of a small island community lost in the Aegean Sea.
Production (Live-Action Series):
- LAZARUS; Genre: Comedy, Crime; Writer-Director: Max Jacoby; Co-writers: Bianca Jaeger Montobbio, Philipp von Leipzig, Elisabeth Johannesdottir, Bernard Michaux, Thierry Faber; Production company: Samsa Film (Co-production between Luxembourg and Belgium); €3,000,000 out of a total budget of €4,194,000 (71.53%); Start of shooting: March 2026; Logline: Lazarus, a six-part crime series (30 minutes per episode), follows Hana, an elusive woman with a troubled past, who is forced to reinvent herself opposite Felix, her geeky neighbour with unspoken secrets, in a Luxembourg where every encounter hides a new mystery.
Production (Animated Feature Films):
- BARABABOR: LE LIVRE DES CONTES; Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family; Writer-Director: Laurent Witz; Co-writer: Cyril Bossmann; Production company: Zeilt Productions (Co-production between Luxembourg and France); €3,000,000 (2026 budget) out of a total budget of €6,547,430 (45.82%); Start of production: September 2026; Logline: An incompetent crew of explorers, a forgotten magic book and a young adventurer full of dreams set off together on an epic journey to the end of the world in search of a treasure said to grant any wish. But the most precious wish of all may not be the one they expected.
- LE LOUP; Genre: Adventure, Drama; Writer-Directors: Benjamin Massoubre, Fursy Teyssier; Co-writer: Sabine Dabadie; Production company: Bidibul Productions (Co-production between Luxembourg and France); €1,350,000 out of a total budget of €7,451,759 (18.12%); Start of production: January 2026; Logline: In the heart of the Écrins massif, Gaspard, a hardened shepherd haunted by his son’s death, lives a solitary life with his flock. The menacing arrival of a roaming wolf shatters his fragile peace, and when the animal slaughters his sheep one night, Gaspard, consumed by rage, embarks on a suicidal vendetta that will push him to the limits of his grief and guilt.
- MELVILE; Genre: Drama; Writer-Director: Romain Renard; Co-director: Fabrice Nzinzi; Co-writers: Olivier Tollet, Anne-Laure Guégan; Production company: Fabrique d’Images (Co-production between Luxembourg, Belgium, France and Canada); €1,000,000 out of a total budget of €5,619,955 (17.79%); Start of production: January 2026; Logline: In the 1980s, as teenager Paul Rivers discovers love in the town of Melvile, he experiences a trauma he will try to turn his back on for twenty years, until the town itself forces him to return.
Production (Feature-Length Documentary):
- THE BLUE SWEATER WITH A YELLOW HOLE; Writer-Director: Tatiana Khodakivska; Production company: Doghouse Films (Co-production between Luxembourg, Ukraine, France and Czechia); €280,000 out of a total budget of €1,619,950 (17.28%); Start of production: January 2026; Logline: Tracing the contours of modern propaganda and manipulation, the film follows three Ukrainian children, Kira (ten), Taisa (fourteen) and Artem (thirteen), as they draw their memories of time spent in Russian “re-education” camps. Animated sequences immerse viewers in their shifting sense of identity.
Production (XR Projects):
- GHOST SHIP; Genre: Drama; Writer-Director: Grégory Kaufman; Co-director: Benjamin Steiger Levine; Production company: Skill Lab (Co-production between Luxembourg and Canada); €194,000 out of a total budget of €696,894 (27.84%); Start of shooting/production: April 2026; Logline: A young boy, adrift on a ghostly ocean liner, confronts his deepest fears and desires as he battles a mysterious bird trying to steal the symbol of his lost innocence.
- ARTOU (Cineworld); Genre: Drama; Writer-Director: Abderrahmane Sissako; Production company: a_BAHN (Co-production between Luxembourg and France); €50,000 out of a total budget of €774,349 (6.46%); Logline: After their father dies in Europe, three sisters and three brothers carry out his final wish: to be buried beside his own father, in eternal rest, in his native village in Mauritania.
Production (Short-Format Animated Series):
- WURST NEWS; Genre: Comedy; Writer-Director: Jacopo Armani; Co-writer: John Paul Gomez; Production company: Fireflies (Luxembourg production); €150,000 out of a total budget of €209,373 (71.64%); Start of production: March 2026; Logline: Wurst News is an animated web series that uses humour to portray modern Luxembourg, its inhabitants and its culture in the style of a TV news bulletin, with a distinctive, quirky and author-driven visual style.
Production (Live-Action Short Films):
- ON MY SIDE; Genre: Drama; Writer-Director: Rita Reis; Production company: Wild Fang Films (Luxembourg production); €120,000 out of a total budget of €126,400 (94.94%); Start of shooting: February 2026; Logline: Luxembourg in the 1990s: through a language exchange, two teenage girls share the same bedroom. They grow closer and develop an intense, all-consuming friendship, one that comes with an expiry date.
- FLAP; Genre: Drama; Writer-Director: Rari Matei; Production company: Encore Pictures (Luxembourg production); €120,000 out of a total budget of €126,720 (94.70%); Start of shooting: January 2026; Logline: A solitary lepidopterist and a transgender woman explore sexuality, shame and self-discovery over the course of a single night out in the city.
Production (Animated Short Film)
- WHO WILL SEPARATE US; Genre: Historical Drama; Writer-Director: Gil Pinheiro; Production company: Marosima Films (Luxembourg production); €150,000 out of a total budget of €158,000 (94.94%); Start of production: June 2026; Logline: In 1940s Luxembourg, two childhood friends forced to flee the Nazi occupation join the British army, where they unexpectedly encounter Crown Prince Jean, serving under a pseudonym. Together, they face a war that will decide the fate of their country and of Europe.
