29/04/2025 - 20 selected European producers are participating in the promotion and networking platform before and during the Cannes Film Festival

In collaboration with its member organisations, European Film Promotion (EFP) has once more selected 20 promising European producers for its 26th edition of Producers on the Move during the Cannes Film Festival (13-24 May).

The producers will participate in tailor-made sessions to foster international co-productions, intensify the exchange of experiences and help create new professional networks. Pre-festival kick-off online gatherings, which already started yesterday and are going to run until the 30th, offer one-to-one speed meetings, round-tables and pitching sessions. All participants will then meet in person during the festival in Cannes from 16-20 May and take part in a five-day, on-site programme, incorporating case studies, social events and an extensive promotional campaign. With their respective companies, the 20 producers are putting forward a wide range of narrative forms and genres, from drama and comedy to documentaries, series and animated films, from horror, fantasy and action to science fiction, coming-of-age and thrillers.

The 2025 Producers on the Move are:

Blerina Hankollari (Albania)
Production company: Artalb Film Production

Andi G Hess (Austria)
Production company: Schubert Film

Géraldine Sprimont (Belgium)
Production company: Need Productions

Magdelena Ilieva (Bulgaria)
Production company: Little Wing Productions

Tamara Babun Zovko (Croatia)
Production company: Wolfgang&Dolly

Daniel Mühlendorph (Denmark)
Production company: Hyæne Film

Lionel Massol (France)
Production company: Films Grand Huit

Fred Burle (Germany)
Production company: One Two Films

Claudia Sümeghy (Hungary)
Production company: JUNO11

Deirdre Levins (Ireland)
Production company: Fantastic Films

Francesca Andreoli (Italy)
Production company: Cinedora

Kristele Pudane (Latvia)
Production company: Sunday Rebel Films

Klementina Remeikaitė (Lithuania)
Production company: Afterschool

Vincent Quénault (Luxembourg)
Production company: Red Lion

Bojana Radulović (Montenegro)
Production company: Code Blue Production

Janne Hjeltnes (Norway)
Production company: Empathitude Pictures

Agnieszka Wasiak (Poland)
Production company: Lava Films

Carla Fotea (Romania)
Production company: microFILM

Eliza Jones (Sweden)
Production company: Grand Slam Film

Thomas Reichlin (Switzerland)
Production company: Alva Film

Three of the selected producers will be presenting their films which have been selected for this year's Cannes Film Festival: Germany's Fred Burle is the co-producer of Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent (selected in competition), Belgium's Géraldine Sprimont is involved in Déni Oumar Pitsaev’s documentary Imago (selected in competition at the Critics’ Week) and France's Lionel Massol is the associate producer of Dorian Jesper's short film Loynes (selected in the Directors' Fortnight).

Six of this year's group of producers were involved in the production of their countries' International Feature Film Oscar entries. Latvia's Kristele Pudane produced Dace Pūce's The Pit [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile], Albania's Blerina Hankollari produced Gentian Koçi’s A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On [+see also:
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interview: Gentian Koçi
film profile], Italy's Francesca Andreoli produced Maura Delpero's Vermiglio [+see also:
film review
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interview: Maura Delpero
film profile], Lithuania's Klementina Remeikaitė produced Laurynas Bareiša's Drowning Dry [+see also:
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interview: Laurynas Bareiša
film profile] (as well as his previous Pilgrims [+see also:
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interview: Laurynas Bareisa
film profile]), Switzerland's Thomas Reichlin produced Klaudia Reynicke's Reinas [+see also:
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interview: Klaudia Reynicke
film profile] (after having been shortlisted with Kosovo's Hive [+see also:
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interview: Blerta Basholli
interview: Yllka Gashi
film profile] as the co-producer in 2022) and Poland's Agnieszka Wasiak co-produced Magnus von Horn's The Girl with the Needle [+see also:
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interview: Besir Zeciri
interview: Directors Talks @ European …
interview: Magnus von Horn
film profile].

Further producers have attracted attention with award-winning films, such as Sweden's Eliza Jones with Ninja Thyberg's Pleasure [+see also:
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interview: Ninja Thyberg
film profile] as well as Croatia's Tamara Babun Zovko with Mila Turajlić's IDFA winner The Other Side of Everything [+see also:
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interview: Mila Turajlić
film profile] and Luxembourg's Vincent Quénault with Berlinale competitors Black Tea [+see also:
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film profile] by Abderrahmane Sissako and The Safe House [+see also:
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interview: Lionel Baier
film profile] by Lionel Baier. Hungary's Claudia Sümeghy and Romania's Carla Fotea are also putting their focus on the production of films for younger audiences; with the former producing Nóra Lakos’ I Accidentally Wrote a Book and the latter, Ana-Maria Comănescu’s debut feature film, Horia [+see also:
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interview: Ana-Maria Comănescu
film profile]. Concentrating on debuts, Denmark's Daniel Mühlendorph takes credit for Lisa Jespersen’s Persona Non Grata [+see also:
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interview: Lisa Jespersen
film profile], while other producers follow their trusted talent such as Austria's Andi G Hess who worked on Sandra Wollner’s The Impossible Picture [+see also:
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film profile] and The Trouble With Being Born [+see also:
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interview: Sandra Wollner
film profile]. Likewise, Norway's Janne Hjeltnes continues working with director Halkawt Mustafa (Hiding Saddam Hussein [+see also:
film review
film profile]). With Eternity Package, Bulgaria's Magdelena Ilieva also produces her own films as a director, while other female producers are focusing on stories told from a female perspective and realised by female or LGBTQ+ filmmakers: for example, Ireland's Deirdre Levins was involved in Kate Dolan's You Are Not My Mother, and Montenegro's Bojana Radulović will produce Eleonora Veninova's next project, Fires.

Cineuropa will be publishing interviews with all of the participants in the following days. For more information on every producer, click here.