Luxembourg

Despite being a landlocked country, for several years now, Luxembourg has been prolific as a co-producer with partners from all over the world.

It may not have an incentive or rebate system but Film Fund Luxembourg, which offers selective support, has backed international drama and animation. Recent projects include films from Radu Jude, Margarethe von Trotta and Wang Bing. The fund also invested a reported $3.2m (€3m) in Caroline Origer’s family animation Tally Ho! (aka Spiked!), about an orphan hedgehog who becomes sidekick to a rabbit with memory loss.

Drama series Drone­land shot in the Hague, Luxembourg and Germany with Luxembourg outfit Iris Productions as lead producer and the Netherlands’ Topkapi, Poland’s Enter Film and Iris’s German offshoot as co-producers.

Filmland Kehlen in the west of the country offers 4,000 square metres of studio space as well as construction workshop facilities, offices and technical resources. The hub is home to half-a-dozen production companies, as well as post specialists and service firms.

Luxembourg is a landlocked country of less than 2,590 square kilometres — making it one of Europe’s smallest sovereign states. Around four million people used the country’s Lux Airport in 2018 and the site hosts 15 airlines with about 80 direct international flight destinations.

First person to contact

Guy Daleiden, managing director, Film Fund Luxembourg guy.daleiden@filmfund.etat.lu