Jonas Ulrich • Director of Wolves

Interview: Jonas Ulrich • Director of Wolves

“I always dreamed of a film taking place in this world, which would also take this world seriously”

The Zurich-based director shares the story behind his creative deep dive into the fascinating subculture of black metal, including building a real band from scratch  

09/10 | Zurich 2025

The Lab of Cultural, Creative and Festival Journalism opens call for applications

The Lab of Cultural, Creative and Festival Journalism opens call for applications

The programme is looking for 12 young Europeans eager to learn journalistic techniques focused on the cultural sector and to participate in the Les Arcs and Trieste festivals  

08/10 | Les Arcs 2025/Trieste 2026

REPORT: Next Step II 2025 @ Cannes Critics’ Week

REPORT: Next Step II 2025 @ Cannes Critics’ Week

The line-up includes sophomore-feature projects by Cristèle Alves Meira, Michael Borodin, Graham Foy, Felipe Gálvez and Mikko Myllylahti  

08/10 | France

Andrea Segre • Director of The Great Ambition

Interview: Andrea Segre • Director of The Great Ambition

"We wanted to make a film with Enrico Berlinguer, not about Enrico Berlinguer"

The director talks about his film, charting the innovative project led by Italian politician Enrico Berlinguer, a little-known name from the world of deeply democratic communism  

08/10 | /Italy/Belgium/Bulgaria

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Industry Reports

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming - Filmfest Hamburg eyes “A New Path for European Film Distribution in the Post-social-media Era” - 02/10/2025

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming – 02/10/2025
Filmfest 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

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A 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 - The sales agent and distributors of Flow disclose strategies for marketing European arthouse cinema - 02/10/2025

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming – 02/10/2025
The sales agent and distributors of Flow disclose strategies for marketing European arthouse cinema
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

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming - Poland’s Velvet Spoon shares tactics for creative marketing and distribution of elevated genre cinema - 02/10/2025

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming – 02/10/2025
Poland’s Velvet Spoon shares tactics for creative marketing and distribution of elevated genre cinema
Marcin Adamczak and Adrianna Woroch detailed some of their unconventional, risk-taking strategies that yield success in a changing national landscape

New Media - Unifrance promotes European film to gamers and internet users via MyMetaStories - 02/10/2025

New Media – 02/10/2025
Unifrance promotes European film to gamers and internet users via MyMetaStories
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

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming - Case studies from Oneplay and ZDFneo spotlight bold strategies in rebranding and social-media distribution - 30/09/2025

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming – 30/09/2025
Case studies from Oneplay and ZDFneo spotlight bold strategies in rebranding and social-media distribution
The 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... - The Montenegro Film Rendezvous places the national film industry front and centre - 30/09/2025

Produce – Co-Produce... – 30/09/2025
The Montenegro Film Rendezvous places the national film industry front and centre
At 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... - Vilnius launches Lithuania’s first city film fund - 29/09/2025

Produce – Co-Produce... – 29/09/2025
Vilnius launches Lithuania’s first city film fund
The 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

Film London’s Production Finance Market to embrace a wider range of creatives and early-stage IP

Film London’s Production Finance Market to embrace a wider range of creatives and early-stage IP

The effort will make the event the first to combine film projects and IP under one roof  

08/10 | Industry | Market | UK

Pascal Schuh’s psychological thriller Interior ready to start its festival run

Pascal Schuh’s psychological thriller Interior ready to start its festival run

The German director has finished his first feature-length film, which was inspired by a true-crime case from 1973 about burglars hiding in sofas  

08/10 | Production | Funding | Germany

Isabelle Fauvel • Head, Silence&Conversation

Interview: Isabelle Fauvel • Head, Silence&Conversation

“The sensory dimension naturally led us to discuss images, sound and directing – the great forgotten element in today’s development conversations”

The film professional explains more about the Cook Your Project programme, an innovative scheme that blends cooking and film writing  

08/10 | /France

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Co-Production Podcast

Episode 79: Living Large (Czech Republic/Slovakia/France) - 30/08/2025

30/08/2025
Episode 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

Episode 78: Ghost Trail (France/Germany/Belgium) - 12/08/2025

12/08/2025
Episode 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

Episode 77: The Flats (France/Ireland/UK/Belgium) - 22/07/2025

22/07/2025
Episode 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

Episode 76: The Girl with the Needle (Denmark/Poland/Sweden) - 08/05/2025

08/05/2025
Episode 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

Episode 75: Vermiglio (Italy/France/Belgium) - 25/03/2025

25/03/2025
Episode 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

Episode 74: Crossing (Sweden/ Denmark/France/Turkey/Georgia) - 20/03/2025

20/03/2025
Episode 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

Episode 73: Flow (Latvia/France/Belgium) - 10/12/2024

10/12/2024
Episode 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

Episode 72: Wishing on a Star (Italy/Slovakia/Czech Republic/Austria/Croatia) - 28/11/2024

28/11/2024
Episode 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

Enrico Saller and Marina Hoeft’s In the Sign of the Dragon in the final stages of post-production

Enrico Saller and Marina Hoeft’s In the Sign of the Dragon in the final stages of post-production

The German directorial duo are planning an early 2026 release for this crime story, which attempts to convey the message that anything is possible if you really try  

08/10 | Production | Funding | Germany

Josef Brandl’s Superbuhei enters post-production

Josef Brandl’s Superbuhei enters post-production

For his first feature, a drama-comedy set in a supermarket, the German director was able to bank on Oliver Korittke and Silke Bodenbender in the main roles  

08/10 | Production | Funding | Germany

REPORT: Work in Progress @ Reykjavík International Film Festival 2025

REPORT: Work in Progress @ Reykjavík International Film Festival 2025

Cineuropa takes a closer look at five promising Northern European projects unveiled during this year’s Icelandic gathering  

08/10 | Reykjavik 2025

Milan Skrobanek • Director of The Unspoken Language

Interview: Milan Skrobanek • Director of The Unspoken Language

“I wanted to show how two people who cannot easily communicate with each other can still fall in love”

The German director discusses what inspired him to tell a story about the relationship between a deaf woman and a visually impaired man  

08/10 | Hamburg 2025

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Photogalleries

Venice 2025 – Photogalleries - 27/08/2025

27/08/2025
Venice 2025 – Photogalleries
The 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

Cannes 2025 – Photogalleries - 13/05/2025

13/05/2025
Cannes 2025 – Photogalleries
The 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

Berlinale 2025 – Photogalleries - 13/02/2025

13/02/2025
Berlinale 2025 – Photogalleries
The 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

San Sebastian 2024 – Photogalleries - 23/09/2024

23/09/2024
San Sebastian 2024 – Photogalleries
The 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

Venice 2024 – Photogalleries - 27/08/2024

27/08/2024
Venice 2024 – Photogalleries
After 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

Cannes 2024 – Photogalleries - 14/05/2024

14/05/2024
Cannes 2024 – Photogalleries
The 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

Berlinale 2024 – Photogalleries - 15/02/2024

15/02/2024
Berlinale 2024 – Photogalleries
The 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

San Sebastián 2023 – Photogalleries - 25/09/2023

25/09/2023
San Sebastián 2023 – Photogalleries
The 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

The shoot for Mano Khalil’s Momente gets under way in Bern

The shoot for Mano Khalil’s Momente gets under way in Bern

The Swiss-Kurdish director’s latest drama film, inspired by real events, explores the challenges and hopes of people whose lives intersect in unexpected ways  

08/10 | Production | Funding | Switzerland

Christy, Deaf, It Was Just an Accident, Love Me Tender and Sentimental Value to vie for the 2026 LUX Audience Award

Christy, Deaf, It Was Just an Accident, Love Me Tender and Sentimental Value to vie for the 2026 LUX Audience Award

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

CEE Animation Workshop 2026 opens call for entries

CEE Animation Workshop 2026 opens call for entries

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

Reviews

The Girls from Above - by Bérangère McNeese

The Girls from Above
by Bérangère McNeese
Belgian actress Bérangère McNeese presents her first feature film about a young woman who takes flight on the wings of sisterhood

Justa - by Teresa Villaverde

Justa
by Teresa Villaverde
The new film by Teresa Villaverde is a poignant exploration of grief, and a meditation on the relationship between humans and nature

The Last Viking - by Anders Thomas Jensen

The Last Viking
by Anders Thomas Jensen
VENICE 2025: Anders Thomas Jensen signs a grand piece of darkly bizarre, jovially humanistic Danish auteur cinema

New Wave - by Richard Linklater

New Wave
by Richard Linklater
CANNES 2025: Richard Linklater takes us behind the scenes of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, casually capturing a cinematic revolution in progress

Meteors - by Hubert Charuel

Meteors
by Hubert Charuel
CANNES 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

Reedland - by Sven Bresser

Reedland
by Sven Bresser
CANNES 2025: Sven Bresser makes a haunting and disturbing film about an old reed cutter obsessed with solving a murder mystery

Three Goodbyes - by Isabel Coixet

Three Goodbyes
by Isabel Coixet
Isabel Coixet adapts Michela Murgia’s bestselling novel Tre Ciotole into a contemplative, if uneven, drama about love and loss

Little Trouble Girls - by Urška Djukić

Little Trouble Girls
by Urška Djukić
BERLINALE 2025: Debuting director Urška Djukić offers up a fresh and beguiling take on the female coming-of-age story

Shooting Locations Marketplace turns five

Shooting Locations Marketplace turns five

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

Three films shortlisted for the Arab Critics' Awards for European Films

Three films shortlisted for the Arab Critics' Awards for European Films

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

Review: The Girls From Above

Review: The Girls From Above

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

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Interviews

György Pálfi • Director of Hen

György Pálfi • Director of Hen
The Hungarian director tells us about the risky venture of making a highly creative film where the main protagonist is a hen roaming the world of humans

Emilie Thalund • Director of Weightless

Emilie Thalund • Director of Weightless
The 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 Stories

José Luis Guerín • Director of Good Valley Stories
The 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 Sundays

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa • Director of Sundays
The 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 Fence

Claire Denis • Director of The Fence
The 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 Pianos

Arnaud Desplechin • Director of Two Pianos
The 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

Jonas Ulrich • Director of Wolves

Jonas Ulrich • Director of Wolves
The Zurich-based director shares the story behind his creative deep dive into the fascinating subculture of black metal, including building a real band from scratch

Andrea Segre • Director of The Great Ambition

Andrea Segre • Director of The Great Ambition
The director talks about his film, charting the innovative project led by Italian politician Enrico Berlinguer, a little-known name from the world of deeply democratic communism

Series review: Fate

Series review: Fate

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

Do You Love Me, The Secret Agent and Love Letters among the winners at Filmfest Hamburg

Do You Love Me, The Secret Agent and Love Letters among the winners at Filmfest Hamburg

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

Steven Knight launches Peaky Blinders sequel series for Netflix and the BBC

Steven Knight launches Peaky Blinders sequel series for Netflix and the BBC

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

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Trailers/Teasers/Clips

The Last Viking - by Anders Thomas Jensen

The Last Viking
by Anders Thomas Jensen
Venice 2025 - Out of Competition
Danish release October 9

Three Goodbyes - by Isabel Coixet

Three Goodbyes
by Isabel Coixet
Toronto 2025 - Special Presentations
Italian release October 9

Deaf - by Eva Libertad

Deaf
by Eva Libertad
Berlinale 2025 - Panorama Audience Award and CICAE Art Cinema Award
Czech release October 9

Reedland - by Sven Bresser

Reedland
by Sven Bresser
Cannes 2025 - Critics’ Week
Dutch release October 8

Meteors - by Hubert Charuel

Meteors
by Hubert Charuel
Cannes 2025 - Un Certain Regard
French release October 8 dall'8 ottobre

New Wave - by Richard Linklater

New Wave
by Richard Linklater
Cannes 2025 - Competition
French release October 8

Reflection in a Dead Diamond - by Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani

Reflection in a Dead Diamond
by Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani
Berlinale 2025 - Competition
Tribeca 2025 - International Narrative Competition
German release October 9

Urchin - by Harris Dickinson

Urchin
by Harris Dickinson
Cannes 2025 - Un Certain Regard Best Actor Award
Hungarian release October 9

Emma Suárez and Elena Anaya topline Sisters

Emma Suárez and Elena Anaya topline Sisters

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

Balint Szentgyorgyi shooting Egyke

Balint Szentgyorgyi shooting Egyke

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

German film set to be celebrated in Paris

German film set to be celebrated in Paris

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

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Reviews

Amrum - by Fatih Akin

Amrum
by Fatih Akin
CANNES 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

Les Baronnes - by Nabil Ben Yadir, Mokhtaria Badaoui

Les Baronnes
by Nabil Ben Yadir, Mokhtaria Badaoui
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

Hidden People - by Miha Hočevar

Hidden People
by Miha Hočevar
Miha Hočevar’s feature is an enjoyable and thoroughly contemporary comedy of the defeated, with an unusual Slovenian and Icelandic flavour to it

Urchin - by Harris Dickinson

Urchin
by Harris Dickinson
CANNES 2025: Harris Dickinson debuts as a director with this striking depiction of addiction that blends light comedy and emotional depth

Impostors and Ponies - by Timo Jacobs

Impostors and Ponies
by Timo Jacobs
Timo 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

Industry Reports

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming – 02/10/2025

Filmfest 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 – 02/10/2025

The sales agent and distributors of Flow disclose strategies for marketing European arthouse cinema

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

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming – 02/10/2025

Poland’s Velvet Spoon shares tactics for creative marketing and distribution of elevated genre cinema

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

Unifrance promotes European film to gamers and internet users via MyMetaStories

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

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