I wrote this to another forum but copy/pasta it in case it's of any interest to you:

From this page in French, I'm noting these amounts of money in the production. Not going to pay the cinefinances site to check the info (720 € is standard subscription for a year or 1,800 € for premium, no thanks I'm poor and have stopped watching TV and going to the cinema since pizzagate happened)

https://siritz.com/cinescoop/la-remuneration-de-maimouna-doucoure/

The movie "Cuties" has a budget of 3,4 millions € (seems average amount, in the low budget movies). The production company says it's their first feature film, they were specialized in short videos before that.

Dates are bonkers, they say the movie received in 2017 the Sundance award. Had to check with the Sundance site, they list it as year 2019, Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic. When was that co-founder of Sundance arrested already? (rhetoric question)

https://www.sundance.org/projects/cuties

The director Doucouré was paid 93,000 € (advance of 50,000 € and salary of 43,000 €), add 25,000 € for the script. They point it's above the median remuneration (copyrights+salary) of French directors that is about 80,000 €.

I wonder why for a first feature film, from a production company barely known to the public, they would pay above average amounts, even if they've received tons of awards in the past for their short films. I also noted the movie was pre-purchased by Canal + (I stopped watching Canal + long before pizzagate, consider them the ultra-liberal Harvey Weinstein not yet arrested from France), Multithématique (dunno) and France 3 (puking worthy, that's a public channel that's considered more local news and societal issues oriented, I believe it's the second public TV channel in importance).

Also in France, the median income for the standard worker is barely 25,000-30,000 €. I'm amazed how much an rather unknown director (except for the industry pros and niche viewers) is making for her first feature film on an obviously not-mainstream topic.