What helped them get there

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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