L’Atelier has been created in 2005 to stimulate creative filmmaking and encourage the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers. So far, out of 231 projects accompanied until 2019, 182 are completed and 19 are currently in pre-production. In 2020, despite the sanitary crisis, the shooting of three projects was possible and twelve projects are currently in preproduction. For L’Atelier’s 18th edition, 15 projects from 15 countries have been selected, from the new director to the well-known filmmaker.
| Anna Ist | Rosanne Pel | The Netherlands |
| Chimbo cheBere (The Hyenas Song) (ex Akashinga) | Naishe Nyamubaya | Zimbabwe |
| Cotton Queen | Suzannah Mirghani | Sudan |
| Guria | Levan Koguashvili | Georgia |
| Hamlet from the Slums | Ahmed Fawzi Saleh | Egypt |
| Made In EU | Stephan Komandarev | Bulgaria |
| Philax | Rûken Tekeş | Turkey |
| Sam | E del Mundo | Philippines |
| The Beer Girl In Yangon | Sein Lyan Tun | Myanmar |
| The Blind Ferryman | Ali Al-Fatlawi | Iraq/Switzerland |
| The Doubt | Ihab Jadallah | Palestine/Israel |
| The Forest | Tomas Weinreb & Petr Kazda | Czech republic |
| The Last Tears Of The Deceased | Beza Hailu Lemma | Ethiopia |
| Where The River Begins | Juan Andres Arango | Colombia |
| You Are My Everything | Michal Vinik | Israel |