The screen.brussels regional fund has reported a highly positive outcome for 2025, confirming its strategic role in boosting the audiovisual sector in Brussels and extending its reach beyond Belgium’s borders.

In 2025, screen.brussels invested nearly €3 million in 26 audiovisual projects, generating an estimated €27.3 million in expenditure within the local audiovisual ecosystem. This momentum is part of a long-term trend: between 2016 and 2025, every euro invested by the regional fund generated an average return of €9.75, highlighting the effectiveness of this public support.

According to Rudi Vervoort, Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region, this strategy represents a tangible lever for employment and for contracts awarded to Brussels-based companies, helping to strengthen a sector that is essential to the region’s cultural and economic identity. Since 2016, it has supported the creation or relocation of more than 300 audiovisual companies in Brussels. “40% of the projects supported in 2025 involve at least one Brussels-based director, and 85% involve Brussels-based producers,” he added.

2025 also illustrates the fund’s commitment to supporting a wide diversity of formats: eight fiction features, four documentaries, seven animated projects and seven series received funding. This distribution reflects a clear intention to accompany a broad range of creative works – from documentary to fiction and animation – in response to the evolving needs of the industry.

It is also worth highlighting that Brussels, as the European capital, is actively strengthening its role in international co-productions. In 2025, screen.brussels launched two major initiatives to support this ambition: on the one hand, the “European Stories” Cineuro FilmLab, a development programme aimed at feature films and series inspired by Brussels’ political and cultural milieu, developed in partnership with European territories such as the Grand Est region in France and Luxembourg; and on the other hand, the “United for European Cinema” promotional campaign, a communication toolkit designed to underline the strategic importance of investment in European cinema and to encourage a shared vision for the sector.

Beyond economic considerations, the projects supported in 2025 also demonstrate a strong social dimension. Across both documentary and fiction, several works tackle major societal themes such as identity, integration, diversity, memory and radicalisation. These include Le faux soir (see the news), Mag ik ik zijn, Ne jamais gaspiller une bonne crise, Mektoub thérapie and Si tu penses bien.