Film Fund director Guy Daleiden and fund selection committee president Jean-Louis Scheffen explained that of that number, 32 projects received a grant for writing and/or development (€1.3m) and 30 projects (including one virtual reality) received production grants (€34.7m).

Promotional grants distributed totalled €152,361, while subsidies amounted to €133,224.

Elsewhere, the pair announced that in the coming months video on demand platform vod.lu plans to roll out a subscription system, similar to that offered by Netflix.  

They added that five films were in the process of being shot and no fewer than 15 films are in post-production in Luxembourg.

Among the Luxembourg co-productions viewers can watch this year are Andy Bausch’s documentary, “Sixty8”, documentary web series “Fashion Geek”, dark comedy “Toy Gun” and animation “Drôle de petites bêtes”.