Launched 11 years ago by European Film Promotion (EFP) and the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), the Future Frames programme continues to serve as a steadfast springboard for emerging European directing talent.

The 2025 edition of EFP Future Frames – Generation NEXT of European Cinema is supported by Creative Europe – the MEDIA programme of the European Union and held in cooperation with the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and its partner Allwyn, the leading multi-national lottery-led entertainment company. All partners present a remarkable new line-up of recent European film-school graduates whose films will be screening at this year’s edition of the festival. Nominated by their respective national film promotion institutes, EFP’s member organisations, and carefully selected by KVIFF’s artistic director, Karel Och, and his team, the chosen filmmakers will take part in a curated programme of promotion and industry networking activities before and during the festival. Once again, the festival’s partner Allwyn offers a month-long scholarship in Los Angeles for one of the directors of this year’s selection, underlining the company’s ongoing commitment to nurturing creative talent through the power of film.

The selected filmmakers are:

Ruairi Bradley (IADT | Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Ireland)
We Beg To Differ

Terézia Halamová (FAMU Prague, Czech Republic)
Dog and Wolf

Jan Krevatin (Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb, Slovenia)
Greek Apricots

Veera Lamminpää (ELO Film School Finland / Aalto University – School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Finland)
Fish River Anthology

Jetske Lieber (Netherlands Film Academy, NFA, The Netherlands)
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Dominik Mirecki (Warsaw Film School, Poland)
Son of Happiness

Mila Ryngaert (IAD - Institut des Arts de Diffusion, Belgium)
Karaokiss

Simon Schneckenburger (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
Skin on Skin

Nausica Serra (ESCAC, Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya, Spain)
Dissection of an Incoherence in Crisis

Sinan Taner (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, ZHdK, Switzerland)
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