In partnership with the Film Fund Luxembourg, Flanders Image, SEE NL (a collaboration between the EYE Film Institute and the Netherlands Film Fund) and Wallonie Bruxelles Images, Nebulae — the Doclisboa Industry Space — welcomes the Benelux countries: Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The Festival presents a program of co-production meetings, networking activities and a project presentation session featuring works in development and works-in-progress aimed at invited professionals. This year, eleven films are participating, selected by the Festival team through an open call.
Additionally, Benelux producers will take part in Jumpgate — a Nebulae program that brings together around twenty European producers to share experiences and reflect on working practices, fostering collaboration. The group will also include producers from France and Portugal.
The collaboration with the Benelux countries also includes two roundtables: “Reframing: Preservation and Experimentation with Archival Footage”, which aims to reflect on cinematic archives as a space for creation and reinterpretation, connecting the practices of preservation institutions and artists, and exploring ways to critically reinsert archival images into contemporary contexts; and “Challenges of Film Co-production: Asymmetries Between Countries”, which presents co-production case studies between Portugal and Benelux countries, as well as other experiences involving disparate contexts, discussing funding models, economic imbalances and opportunities for collaboration.
