LIM | Less is More 2024

For writers & directors
LIM2024 Call for Projects is now closed
Next call: September 2024

LIM | Less is More, the European training programme for first to third feature development, powered by Creative Europe — MEDIA and the alliance of ten European countries, launched its 2024 Call for Projects in September 2023.

In 2023, LIM | Less is More has been opening new doors. Few weeks after celebrating the Grand Prize in Cannes Critics’ Week (Tiger Stripes by Amanda Nell Eu developed in LIM), both Screen Ireland and the Region of Hamburg (MOIN) have joined the pan-European adventure, raising the number of European countries & regions powered by LIM. (1)

Year after year, LIM has generated a space of inner exploration for each filmmaker/screenwriter, “a room for play” allowing to find in each idea the perspective that makes the film a needed shout. In the way it combines high level craft in script development and research in human and cognitive sciences, LIM is clearly unique in Europe.

These past years with the contribution of Tony Grisoni (screenwriter of Terry Guilliam, Michael Witterbottom), Vinca Wiedemann (story supervisor of Lars von Trier, Thomas Winterberg) and Lucile Hadzihalilovic (Innocence, Évolution, and closest collaborator of Gaspard Noé) among others, the methodological approach of LIM has grown consistently, feeding itself from the applied research terrain generated by LIM’s StoryTANK (www.storytank.eu) and by the accumulated experiences in all partner countries around the Boosting ideas workshops.

At LIM’s core there’s the idea that filmmakers in independent cinema can gain strength and reinforce their ability to create meaning, when nourished and stimulated by very thorough collaborative processes.

The core of LIM goes through the implementation of a consistent international network of filmmakers, screenwriters, producers and film professionals of the new generations, around the need to make films that matter, films that tell stories we need in order to face and understand what this world is becoming, films that are deeply carried by our shouts and dreams, beyond the mere need for entertainment, in times of serious confusion.

At the core of LIM as well, in a time of ecological trouble, the need to use limitations as a now central tool for a creative effort to go to the essence of each film’s strength, with the obvious for LIM: we always work in places immersed in nature, close to the breathing of the ocean, in villages where human interactions have enough room to regain consistence and meaning. (2)

(1) LIM Partner countries/regions: Romania, Krakow region, Flanders, Norway, Brittany, Scotland, Switzerland, Hamburg region and Ireland.
(2) LIM is open to first to third feature film projects from (and/or living in) the European Union, Eurimages Countries and non-EU countries participating in the Creative Europe Programme, as well as the United Kingdom.

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