National fund Belgium, Brussels

Aide au développement et aide à la production, longs métrages et courts métrages (development and production aid)

Run by Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

The producer stages of the Walloon-Brussels film commission: development money of EUR 15,000 to EUR 60,000, then production grants that reach half a million euros for a feature from the French-speaking community, with a separate line for shorts. First and second features are read apart from established directors.

Grant, €15,000 to €500,000Open to writers in BelgiumA production company

Next dates not yet published

The money

Amount
€15,000 to €500,000Feature development EUR 15,000 to EUR 45,000 (EUR 60,000 for animation); feature production up to EUR 500,000 for a Belgian French-speaking initiative, less for minority or foreign projects; short film production up to EUR 50,000 (EUR 60,000 animation).
What it is
Grant
To apply
Free

Who can apply

Applicant
A production company
Where you write
In Belgium
Rules
A producer set up as a company with its registered office in the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles. Development is split into a college for a director's first or second feature and one for later films. Production applicants must have gone through development aid first when they held an artistic development aid; shorts need rights contracts in place and graduation films are excluded.
Stages
Development and production
Formats
Feature, Short, Animation
Language of the application
French

When to apply

The fund works in fixed rounds. The next dates are not yet published; we add them when they are. Several sessions a year; the 2026 calendar is a PDF on the Centre's site and 2027 is not yet published.

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