FLESH OF MY FLESH receives support

In Development October 2022

Finnish Film Foundation

The Board of The Finnish Film Foundation granted production support to 12 new feature films and documentaries in October. Among them:

CHILDREN OF THE LOWEST HEAVEN by Birgitte Stærmose, producers: EAVE Head of Studies Lise Lense-Møller, EAVE graduates Mark Lwoff, Misha Jaari
ITTY BITTY PRINCESS by Lauri Maijala, producer: EAVE graduate Aleksi Bardy
ORENDA by Pirjo Honkasalo, producers: EAVE Head of Studies Lise Lense-Møller, EAVE graduates Mark Lwoff, Misha Jaari
STORMSKERRY MAJA by Tiina Lymi, producer: EAVE+ graduate Jukka Helle
THE SWEDISH TORPEDO by Frida Kempff, producer: EAVE graduate David Herdies
VARADO by Tonje Nicos Argillet and Stéphane Correa, producer: EAVE graduate Kaarle Aho

PASTORAL PATHWAYS by Ahmet Necdet Cupur, producers: EAVE graduates Enis Köstepen, Nicole Gerhards is supported by the German-Turkish co-production Development Fund.

FLESH OF MY FLESH by Matthys Boshoff, producer: EAVE graduate Khosie Dali, co-producer: EAVE graduates Khosie Dali, Reiner Selen receives support by the Netherlands Film Fund within the Minority co-production feature film and documentary support scheme. the film was also selected for support by the Durban FilmMart. The plot: After a car accident claims his little daughter’s life and renders his wife quadriplegic, Magnus, a fast-rising lawyer, brings free-spirited Annelie home from hospital. As lover becomes caretaker, grand dreams crumble into mediocrity and their son, Cornelius, rebels, will the family survive?

FOR THE VICTORY! by Valentyn Vasyanovych, producer: EAVE graduate Volodymyr Yatsenko is in development. The film tells the story of a man over 50, for whom everything is falling apart – but slowly, not all at once. He tells it from the point of view of his family having left, settling somewhere near Vienna. So he remains here alone. His father is old and has to be looked after during the war, and he has an adult son who does not want to grow up, but wants to sit and study computer games. He’s got a whole heap of problems, and at the same time, he feels this terrible helplessness. He cannot go to fight, but he wants to support his country somehow. And he talks about his friends with whom he has worked before. Vasyanovych is one of 48 Ukrainian filmmakers to have received a development grant for his project from the Ukrainian Film Academy, with support from Netflix.

Page published 28 October 2022.