What helped them get there

Grand Prix, Cannes 2024. Mostly European public funding.

1. FundSundance Institute Documentary Fund · for A Night of Knowing Nothing · 2021 source
2. FundHubert Bals Fund (IFFR) source
3. FundEurimages source
4. FundFondation Gan pour le Cinéma source
5. FundVisions Sud Est source
6. FundFilm Fund Luxembourg (co-production) source
7. FundIDFA Bertha Fund · for A Night of Knowing Nothing source
8. FundCNC (France) · for A Night of Knowing Nothing source
9. FundCiclic Centre-Val de Loire · for A Night of Knowing Nothing source
10. LabNouvelle-Aquitaine Film Workout · for A Night of Knowing Nothing source

Two awards at Sundance 2024.

1. MarketNFDC Film Bazaar Co-production Market · 2018 source
2. LabBerlinale Talents Script Station · 2021 source
3. MarketBerlinale Co-Production Market · 2022 source
4. GrantBerlinale Talents Footprints grant · 2023 source
5. FundCNC Aide aux cinémas du monde source
6. FundSørfond source
7. LabJerusalem Sam Spiegel Lab source

Golden Leopard, Locarno 2018: the first for Singapore.

1. LabAutumn Meeting (Vietnam) · 2016 · Grand Prix source
2. LabAsia Pacific Screen Lab · 2017 source
3. FundHubert Bals Fund (IFFR) source
4. FundCNC Aide aux cinémas du monde source
5. FundNetherlands Film Fund source
6. LabTorino Film Lab · Audience Design Award source
7. FundSingapore IMDA New Talent Feature Grant source

White Sun premiered in Venice Orizzonti 2016.

1. FundDoha Film Institute (Fall Grant 2014) · 2014 source
2. FundHubert Bals Fund (IFFR) source
3. MarketCannes Cinéfondation L'Atelier source
4. LabIFFR Boost! source
5. FundNetherlands Film Fund source
6. FundTribeca Film Institute, Jerome Foundation and Bertha Foundation source

Critics' Week Grand Prize, Cannes 2023. An eight-country co-production with 21 soft-money sources.

1. MarketBIFAN NAFF It Project · 2019 · Sitges Pitchbox Award source
2. FundWorld Cinema Fund (next film) · 2026 source
3. FundSingapore IMDA Southeast Asia Co-Production Grant source
4. FundMalaysia's Creative Industry Recovery Grant (Penjana) source
5. FundCNC, Hubert Bals Fund and Doha Film Institute source

Two Sundance awards in 2021; Oscar-nominated.

1. FundFondation AlterCiné · 2015 source
2. FundIDFA Bertha Fund · 2017 source
3. LabChicken & Egg Pictures (Egg)celerator Lab · 2018 source
4. FellowshipSundance Institute and Bertha Foundation Fellowship · 2018 source
5. FundSFFILM Documentary Film Fund · 2020 source

Generation 14plus Grand Prix, Berlinale 2019. Took almost four years to finance.

1. FundKorean Film Council (KOFIC) source
2. FundSeoul Film Commission source
3. FundSundance Institute (partial grant) source
4. PrizeSeoul International Women's Film Festival pitch prize source
5. FundBusan Asian Cinema Fund, Post-Production Fund (in kind) source

Directors' Fortnight, Cannes 2017.

1. MarketBusan Asian Project Market · for Marlina · 2015 source
2. MarketCannes Cinéfondation L'Atelier · for Marlina · 2016 source
3. FundCNC Aide aux cinémas du monde · for Marlina · 2016 source
4. FundPurin Pictures (its first supported film) · for Marlina source
5. LabTalents Tokyo (alumna) source

The Lunchbox premiered in Critics' Week, Cannes 2013.

1. LabSundance Screenwriters and Directors Labs · for The Story of Ram (earlier project) · 2009 source
2. LabNFDC Film Bazaar Screenwriters' Lab (with Binger Filmlab) · 2011 source
3. MarketIFFR CineMart · 2012 · Special jury mention source
4. LabTorino Film Lab source
5. MarketBerlinale Talents Project Market source

Mundane History won the Tiger Award at IFFR 2010.

1. PrizePrince Claus Fund Film Grant at IFFR CineMart · for By the Time It Gets Dark · 2010 · €15,000 source
2. FundDoha Film Institute (Fall Grant 2013) · for By the Time It Gets Dark · 2013 source
3. FundHubert Bals Fund (IFFR) source
4. FundHubert Bals Fund, script and project development · for By the Time It Gets Dark source
5. FundThailand's Ministry of Culture · for By the Time It Gets Dark source

Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2024; UK's Oscar entry.

1. LabSundance Screenwriters and Directors Labs · 2016 source
2. FundBFI Filmmaking Fund source
3. FundCNC (France) source
4. BroadcasterBBC Film and ZDF/ARTE source

Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Cannes L'Œil d'or 2022; Oscar-nominated.

1. FundSundance Documentary Fund · 2019 source
2. FundIDFA Bertha Fund · 2019 source
3. FundCatapult Film Fund · 2020 source
4. FundGucci Tribeca Documentary Fund · 2020 source

Generation Kplus Grand Prix, Berlinale 2018. Yuni won TIFF's Platform Prize in 2021.

1. FundHubert Bals Fund (IFFR) source
2. FundAPSA Children's Film Fund source
3. FundDoha Film Institute source
4. ResidencyCannes Cinéfondation Résidence source

Court won Venice's Lion of the Future; The Disciple competed at Venice 2020.

1. MentorshipRolex Mentor and Protégé (with Alfonso Cuarón) · for The Disciple · 2016 source
2. MarketNFDC Film Bazaar Co-production Market source
3. FundHubert Bals Fund (IFFR) · €10,000 source
4. LabBerlinale Talents source

Palme d'Or, Cannes 2010.

1. FundHubert Bals Fund (IFFR) · for Uncle Boonmee · 2008 source
2. FundWorld Cinema Fund (Berlinale) · for Uncle Boonmee source
3. FundFonds Sud Cinéma (CNC and French Ministry of Foreign Affairs) · for Uncle Boonmee source
4. BroadcasterZDF/Arte · for Uncle Boonmee source

Directors' Fortnight, Cannes 2024. A debut two decades in the making.

1. FundBFI (National Lottery) source
2. BroadcasterFilm4 source
3. FundFilm i Väst (co-producer) source

Kalo Pothi won at Venice Critics' Week 2015; Shambhala was Nepal's first Berlinale competition film.

1. FundWorld Cinema Fund (Berlinale) · for Kalo Pothi (The Black Hen) · 2014 · €30,000 source
2. FundBusan Asian Cinema Fund, Script Development · for Shambhala (then A Year of Cold) · 2017 · up to US$10,000 source
3. FundDoha Film Institute source

Garo-language feature from Meghalaya; Locarno's Cineasti del Presente 2023.

1. FundVisions Sud Est · for Rapture · 2019 source
2. FundHubert Bals Fund (IFFR) · for Rapture source
3. FundDoha Film Institute · for Rapture source

Premiered at TIFF 2019; a Bangladesh, France, Denmark and Portugal co-production.

1. MarketHong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) · 2017 source
2. LabTorino Film Lab source
3. Co-productionEuropean co-producers (France, Denmark, Portugal) source

Golden Bear 2011 and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Made without Iranian state funding.

1. FundAPSA Academy Film Fund (Motion Picture Association and Asia Pacific Screen Academy) · US$25,000 source
2. TrainingIranian Young Cinema Society (early short films) source
3. SalesMemento Films International (sales) source

Debut feature; Proxima competition at Karlovy Vary 2024.

1. LabBerlinale Talents · 2025 source
2. LabFestival des 3 Continents industry programme source

Jury Prize and Queer Palm in Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2022. Took almost seven years to finance.

1. Private moneyPrivate US investors (no public fund) source
2. PrizeBaumi Script Award · for Little Men (next film) source

A first feature that won the Tiger Award at IFFR 2021 and was India's Oscar entry.

1. PrizeIFFR Tiger Award · for Pebbles · 2021 · €40,000 source
2. ProducerRowdy Pictures (producers came on board after the cut) · for Pebbles source

First Bangladeshi film in Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2021.

1. FundDoha Film Institute, post-production grant · 2020 source
2. Private moneyPrivate equity in Bangladesh, after public bids failed source

Won the Golden Gateway at MAMI 2019; Berlinale Panorama 2020.

1. LabNFDC Film Bazaar Work-in-Progress Lab · 2018 · Facebook Award source
2. LabBerlinale Talents source

Best Film in Venice Orizzonti 2018, a first for Thailand.

1. FundBusan Asian Cinema Fund, Script Development · for Manta Ray (then Departure Day) · 2010 source
2. FundPurin Pictures source

Masaan won two prizes in Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2015. Homebound followed in 2025.

1. PrizeSundance Institute Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award · for Masaan (then titled Fly Away Solo) · 2014 source
2. LabSundance Screenwriters Lab · 2014 source

Kaili Blues was made for about 1 million yuan, financed largely by a university teacher. It won at Locarno and Nantes.

1. FundDoha Film Institute, post-production grant · for Long Day's Journey Into Night · 2018 source
2. Private moneyA private backer (a university teacher) source

Caméra d'Or, Cannes 2013: the first Singaporean film awarded at Cannes.

1. FundSingapore Film Commission New Feature Film Fund source
2. SchoolNgee Ann Polytechnic source

A documentary-rooted filmmaker backed by the Hubert Bals Fund three times.

1. FundNetherlands Film Fund + Hubert Bals Fund co-production scheme · 2025 · €75,000 source

Caméra d'Or, Cannes 2023.

1. FundSingapore IMDA Southeast Asia Co-Production Grant source

Diamond Island won at Cannes Critics' Week 2016; Return to Seoul was in Un Certain Regard 2022.

1. FundDoha Film Institute source

Venice Orizzonti 2018, made as a 100% Indian production.

1. LabNFDC Film Bazaar Work-in-Progress Lab · 2017 · Facebook Award and Prasad DI Award source

Venice Orizzonti 2011, produced by NFDC with Mani Kaul as creative producer.

1. FundNFDC (producer) · for Anhey Ghorey Da Daan source

Caramel premiered in Directors' Fortnight 2007; Capernaum won the Cannes Jury Prize in 2018.

1. ResidencyCannes Cinéfondation Résidence · 2004 source

Platform competed at Venice 2000; Still Life won the Golden Lion in 2006.

1. MarketPusan Promotion Plan (Busan) and Hubert Bals Fund award · 1998 source