Feature Films Database
Southern Mediterranean films database
Directors
Scriptwriters
Producers
European Film Schools
Production Companies
Distributors
International Sales
Funding Bodies
Submit a Film
Industry Events
Industry Reports
Country Focus
Co-Production Podcast
Industry Panels
Film Reviews
Series Reviews
Online Screenwriting Training Course
Guided Course for Feature Film Writing
Script Analysis
Analysis of the potential of your series
Cineuropa's Training Catalogue
Film Festival Photographs
Newsletter
Cineuropa Award
Advanced Search
Videos
Photogalleries
EUFCN Location Award
Euro Film Fest
27 Times Cinema
GoCritic!
Advertise on Cineuropa
Logos and Banners
Links
The five nominees have been announced during a press conference at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, kicking off the rating period
07/10 | LUX Audience Award 2026
3 November is the deadline for applications for the initiative, which is also introducing a new training course for script consultants
07/10 | CEE Animation 2026
Valladolid once again becomes a hub for international shoots, in the presence of filming-location and ancillary services professionals hailing from 24 countries
07/10 | Shooting Locations Marketplace 2025
Eva Libertad's Deaf, Georgi M Unkovski's DJ Ahmet and Ameer Fakher Eldin's Yunan vie for the award given out by a jury of 100 film critics from 16 Arabic-speaking countries
07/10 | Festivals | Awards | Europe
Subscribe to our newsletter to receive the most important daily or weekly news on European cinema
Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming – 02/10/2025The sales agent and distributors of Flow disclose strategies for marketing European arthouse cinemaCharades and the French, Italian and German distributors of the acclaimed Latvian animated film by Gints Zilbalodis explained how they achieved commercial success with it
Market TrendsFOCUSA busy summer festival season awaits the European film industry. Cineuropa will continue to keep its readers up to date with the latest news and market insights, covering the buzziest events, including Locarno, Venice, Sarajevo, Haugesund, Toronto, San Sebastián, Zurich and many others
Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming – 02/10/2025Filmfest Hamburg eyes “A New Path for European Film Distribution in the Post-social-media Era”The opening panel of EWIP/IFDS delved into the challenges posed by declining reach, rising advertising costs and the dominance of a select few global platforms
Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming – 02/10/2025Poland’s Velvet Spoon shares tactics for creative marketing and distribution of elevated genre cinemaMarcin Adamczak and Adrianna Woroch detailed some of their unconventional, risk-taking strategies that yield success in a changing national landscape
New Media – 02/10/2025Unifrance promotes European film to gamers and internet users via MyMetaStoriesBacked by Creative Europe, the 3rd edition of the festival unspooling online and via Minecraft will run between 10 October and 2 November, with 18 films jostling on the agenda
Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming – 30/09/2025Case studies from Oneplay and ZDFneo spotlight bold strategies in rebranding and social-media distributionThe two talks, which were hosted by the Serial Killer festival, painted a picture of an industry increasingly defined by constant reinvention and adaptability
Produce – Co-Produce... – 30/09/2025The Montenegro Film Rendezvous places the national film industry front and centreAt the second annual event, audiences gained a glimpse of a rising sector, with showcases of projects by Ivan Salatić, Nikola Vukčević, Maja Todorović and more
Produce – Co-Produce... – 29/09/2025Vilnius launches Lithuania’s first city film fundThe fund, which aims to boost international co-productions, has been allocated an initial budget of €100,000, with individual projects eligible to receive up to €30,000
Belgian actress Bérangère McNeese presents her first feature film about a young woman who takes flight on the wings of sisterhood
07/10 | Namur 2025
Paco Plaza and Pablo Guerrero travel across Spain with a playful, ovation-worthy bromance about a matador and his entourage, a tale that explores the possibility of rapprochement between opposites
07/10 | Series | Reviews | Spain
The 33rd edition of the German festival has presented the Douglas Sirk Award, its honorary prize instigated in 1995, to Belgium’s Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
07/10 | Hamburg 2025 | Awards
30/08/2025Episode 79: Living Large (Czech Republic/Slovakia/France)The producers of the film by Kristina Dufková are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support
12/08/2025Episode 78: Ghost Trail (France/Germany/Belgium)The producers of the film by Jonathan Millet are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support
22/07/2025Episode 77: The Flats (France/Ireland/UK/Belgium)The producers of the film by Alessandra Celesia are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support
08/05/2025Episode 76: The Girl with the Needle (Denmark/Poland/Sweden)The producers of the film by Magnus von Horn are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support
25/03/2025Episode 75: Vermiglio (Italy/France/Belgium)The producers of the film by Maura Delpero are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support
20/03/2025Episode 74: Crossing (Sweden/ Denmark/France/Turkey/Georgia)The producers of the film by Levan Akin are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support
10/12/2024Episode 73: Flow (Latvia/France/Belgium)The producers of the film by Gints Zilbalodis are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support
28/11/2024Episode 72: Wishing on a Star (Italy/Slovakia/Czech Republic/Austria/Croatia)The producers of the film by Peter Kerekes are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their film, which has received Eurimages support
The new chapter in the saga moves to post-war Birmingham, where a new generation of Shelbys takes control amid the city’s massive reconstruction, with Cillian Murphy on board as ex producer
07/10 | Production | Funding | United Kingdom
Ione Hernández’s fiction feature debut addresses sexual assault within the family, and is being produced by Solita Films, Elastica, Gariza Films and ISB Films
07/10 | Production | Funding | Spain
Attila Vidnyánszky Jr. leads the cast of the Hungarian director’s feature film debut, which is a Hitchcockian thriller produced by TulipánTündér
07/10 | Production | Funding | Hungary
The 30th Paris German Film Festival will unspool between 8 and 12 October, with professionals expected to attend the French-German Film Meetings on 8 and 9 October
06/10 | Festivals | Awards | France/Germany
27/08/2025Venice 2025 – PhotogalleriesThe global film community is back on the Lido for the 82nd Venice Film Festival, unspooling from 27 August-6 September. Discover the festival highlights and the international stars walking the red carpet in our exclusive photo galleries
13/05/2025Cannes 2025 – PhotogalleriesThe international film industry is gathering again on the Croisette for a packed edition of the Cannes Film Festival and its Marché du Film, unspooling from 13-24 May. Discover the festival highlights in our exclusive photo galleries
13/02/2025Berlinale 2025 – PhotogalleriesThe Berlin International Film Festival returns for its 75th edition, the first under the direction of Tricia Tuttle, from 13-23 February. Check out the festival highlights in our exclusive photogalleries
23/09/2024San Sebastian 2024 – PhotogalleriesThe San Sebastián International Film Festival cements its position on the global festival circuit with its 72st edition, which is unspooling from 20-28 September. Check out our exclusive photo galleries
27/08/2024Venice 2024 – PhotogalleriesAfter the media storm triggered by last year's SAG-AFTRA strike, the global film community is back on the Lido for the 81st Venice Film Festival, unspooling from 28 August-7 September. Discover the festival highlights and the international stars walking the red carpet in our exclusive photo galleries
14/05/2024Cannes 2024 – PhotogalleriesThe international film industry is gathering again on the Croisette for a packed edition of the Cannes Film Festival and its Marché du Film, unspooling from 14-25 May. Discover the festival highlights in our exclusive photo galleries
15/02/2024Berlinale 2024 – PhotogalleriesThe Berlin International Film Festival returns for its 74th edition, the last under the direction of Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek, from 15-25 February. Check out the festival highlights in our exclusive photogalleries
25/09/2023San Sebastián 2023 – PhotogalleriesThe San Sebastián International Film Festival cements its position on the global festival circuit with its 71st edition, which is unspooling from 22-30 September. Check out our exclusive photo galleries
Among this year’s novelties are the expansion of the programme to seven days and Krzysztof Zanussi as guest of honour
07/10 | Festivals | Awards | Italy
Led by Priit Võigemast and Tinatin Dalakishvili, the film is an adaptation of Vahur Afanasjev’s novel Serafima and Bogda and “a sweeping story of power, love, and betrayal”
07/10 | Production | Funding | Estonia/Latvia/Poland
Thirteen debut films from across the globe will be competing at this year’s festival, bringing bold, unsettling and deeply human stories to the fore
07/10 | Black Nights 2025 | First Feature Competition
New Waveby Richard LinklaterCANNES 2025: Richard Linklater takes us behind the scenes of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, casually capturing a cinematic revolution in progress
Meteorsby Hubert CharuelCANNES 2025: In a touching tale of friendship carried by Idir Azougli and Paul Kircher, Hubert Charuel takes the temperature of our times through youngsters without a future far from the big cities
Reedlandby Sven BresserCANNES 2025: Sven Bresser makes a haunting and disturbing film about an old reed cutter obsessed with solving a murder mystery
Three Goodbyesby Isabel CoixetIsabel Coixet adapts Michela Murgia’s bestselling novel Tre Ciotole into a contemplative, if uneven, drama about love and loss
Little Trouble Girlsby Urška DjukićBERLINALE 2025: Debuting director Urška Djukić offers up a fresh and beguiling take on the female coming-of-age story
Justaby Teresa VillaverdeThe new film by Teresa Villaverde is a poignant exploration of grief, and a meditation on the relationship between humans and nature
The Last Vikingby Anders Thomas JensenVENICE 2025: Anders Thomas Jensen signs a grand piece of darkly bizarre, jovially humanistic Danish auteur cinema
Amrumby Fatih AkinCANNES 2025: Fatih Akin’s latest is an endearing coming-of-age tale interwoven with the death throes of the Nazi regime, filtered through the eyes of a child on the cusp of adolescence
Marc Evans’ engaging drama shows how a Welsh miner’s son named Richie Jenkins became the great thespian Richard Burton, with the help of his closeted schoolmaster
07/10 | Dinard 2025
The rare Romanian children’s film stars Matei Donciu, an 11-year-old boy found after an extensive search in schools by casting director Florentina Bratfanof
07/10 | Production | Funding | Romania/Bulgaria
Natalie Halla’s documentary paints a multifaceted portrait of Manizha Bakhtari, Afghanistan’s ambassador to Austria when the Taliban seized power in 2021
07/10 | Reykjavik 2025
Emilie Thalund • Director of WeightlessThe Danish filmmaker chatted to us about her first feature film, a coming-of-age story about a girl who spends her first summer away from home at a health summer camp
José Luis Guerín • Director of Good Valley StoriesThe filmmaker returns to the festival where he previously triumphed and talks about young directors, the human diversity that populates his new film and how much he hates drones
Alauda Ruiz de Azúa • Director of SundaysThe Basque director discusses her new film, a long-cherished project that explores adolescence, respect, family conflicts and crises of faith
Claire Denis • Director of The FenceThe French director discusses the origins of her new film and the most significant topics she’s covered during her considerable career
Arnaud Desplechin • Director of Two PianosThe French director offers up his thoughts on his new movie - which is full of music, suspense and melodrama – as well as on film more generally and current events
Mario Bova • Director, Euro Balkan Film FestivalThe festival director discusses how cinema can help heal the wounds of memory, and his goal of building bridges between the Balkans and Western Europe
Harris Dickinson • Director of UrchinThe rising star, both in front of and behind the camera, talks us through his hard-hitting directorial debut, about a young rough sleeper in the midst of a downward spiral
Stephan De Potter, Marc Smit • Distributors, CinéartWe head to the Netherlands and Belgium to speak to the pair of distributors about the particulars of working across the Benelux region
Miha Hočevar’s feature is an enjoyable and thoroughly contemporary comedy of the defeated, with an unusual Slovenian and Icelandic flavour to it
The Belgian filmmaker reunites with Charlotte Vandermeersch and Luca Marinelli for an intimate new drama exploring love, honesty and emotional renewal
07/10 | Production | Funding | Belgium/Italy
Paul Andrew Williams’ unsettling drama has won the festival's main Golden Hitchcock Award, with Mr. Burton and The Damned also among the victors
07/10 | Dinard 2025 | Awards
Reedlandby Sven BresserCannes 2025 - Critics’ WeekDutch release October 8
Meteorsby Hubert CharuelCannes 2025 - Un Certain RegardFrench release October 8 dall'8 ottobre
New Waveby Richard LinklaterCannes 2025 - CompetitionFrench release October 8
Three Goodbyesby Isabel CoixetToronto 2025 - Special PresentationsItalian release October 9
The Great Ambitionby Andrea SegreFrench and Belgian releases October 8
The Last Vikingby Anders Thomas JensenVenice 2025 - Out of CompetitionDanish release October 9
Reflection in a Dead Diamondby Hélène Cattet, Bruno ForzaniBerlinale 2025 - CompetitionTribeca 2025 - International Narrative CompetitionGerman release October 9
Urchinby Harris DickinsonCannes 2025 - Un Certain Regard Best Actor AwardHungarian release October 9
The Lucerne-born director returns with a drama film bristling with guilt and redemption, set in both the world of high-end neurosurgery and the vast solitude of the Swiss Alps
07/10 | Production | Funding | Switzerland/Germany
Alica Bednáriková, Maksym Nakonechnyi, Federico Luis, Laís Santos Araújo, Baran Sarmad and Dian Weys are hard at work on their upcoming projects in Paris
06/10 | Cannes 2026
Fifteen years on from Les Barons, Nabil Ben Yadir returns with a film co-directed by his mother, Mokhtaria Badaoui, which thrusts heroines usually absent from movie theatres into the limelight
06/10 | Namur 2025
Impostors and Poniesby Timo JacobsTimo Jacobs' social satire-road movie blend uncovers the superficialities of the film business with an additional layer of social commentary about the moralisation of eating convictions
Urchinby Harris DickinsonCANNES 2025: Harris Dickinson debuts as a director with this striking depiction of addiction that blends light comedy and emotional depth
The Great Ambitionby Andrea SegreAndrea Segre’s movie about the historic national secretary of Italy's Communist Party Enrico Berlinguer mixes political engagement and nostalgia for lost ideologies
Reflection in a Dead Diamondby Hélène Cattet, Bruno ForzaniBERLINALE 2025: Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani present a baroque spy film with some crazy twists and turns, which is both fun and exhausting
Smalltown Girlby Hille NordenHille Norden’s drama film delves deep into the emotional inner life of a young woman who tries to repress the memories of her past through a life of excess
Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming – 02/10/2025
The opening panel of EWIP/IFDS delved into the challenges posed by declining reach, rising advertising costs and the dominance of a select few global platforms
Charades and the French, Italian and German distributors of the acclaimed Latvian animated film by Gints Zilbalodis explained how they achieved commercial success with it
Marcin Adamczak and Adrianna Woroch detailed some of their unconventional, risk-taking strategies that yield success in a changing national landscape
New Media – 02/10/2025
Backed by Creative Europe, the 3rd edition of the festival unspooling online and via Minecraft will run between 10 October and 2 November, with 18 films jostling on the agenda
Namur 2025 - 07/10/2025
Dinard 2025 - 07/10/2025
Privacy Policy