🆕 #Cannes announces the short films duking it out for the Palme d’Or and those in the Cinef selection. Ten works will be taking part in the short-film competition unspooling on the Croisette in May, while 19 titles feature in the Cinef selection.
Find the lists here: cineuropa.org/490592
The Las Palmas de Gran Canaria #FilmFestival celebrates its 25th anniversary. 🎂 At the new edition, which runs from 23 April to 2 May, audiences will be able to see around 100 films, from classics such as Faust by FW Murnau to newer #Europeanfilms such as La carn by Joan Porcel.
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🚨 More than 17 European audiovisual associations have sent a joint letter to the European institutions, raising concerns about #AgoraEU. While the funding scope is wider than in Creative Media, the signataries warn that the objectives are diluted in the new programme.
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🔎 "What ultimately transpires from the film is a lifeforce which moves us to our core, the family’s need to assert their presence in the midst of all this chaos..." - Read the review of Saudades eternas, the Visions du Réel entry by French-Swiss director Emma Boccanfuso: cineuropa.org/490582
The Berlin-based Doxumentale has announced the full programme for its upcoming edition, which unspools from 27 May to 7 June. This years line-up includes 12 short films & 46 international doc features, such as Miss Jobson by Amanda Sans Pantling & Trade Secret by Abraham Joffe.
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Cannes Film Festival revealed the poster of the 79th Cannes Film Festival, which will be running from 12 to 23 May.
The poster features a still from Ridley Scott's 1991 film Thelma & Louise - a reminder of the timeless struggles for the freedom. 👁️ #Cannes2026
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✍️ The European Writers Desk, a platform where writers can connect, share questions, and support each other, proves to be more than just a network. It has started cooperating with different markets focused on series, such as Seriencamp in Cologne. #screenwriting
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✨🏆 Hlynur Pálmason's The Love That Remains wins the Latin American Critics' Award for #EuropeanFilms. The award presented by European Film Promotion in cooperation with Guadalajara International Film Festival spotlights European cinema's relevance in Latin America.
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"Yes, we're considering expanding the Camp. The Triveneto region is an area that's naturally open to cross-border exchanges, you only need to look at our relationships with Slovenia, Croatia, Austria & Bavaria." 💬 Sergio Fant, the Coordinator, of Bolzano's Nord/Est/Doc/Camp
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Decorado by Alberto Vázquez scoops Best Feature at the 9th Quirino Awards for Ibero-American Animation. It follows Arnold, a mouse in midlife crisis, who believes that he is living in a fake reality. 🐭🌎 The prize for Best Short Film went to Dog Alone by Marta Reis Andrade.
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The Norwegian Film Institute awards production support worth €4.1 million to four new feature projects. Among them: Hvis ingen går i fella 2, the sequel to A Mouse Hunt for Christmas & Pepperkakebyen, an animated feature set in a world where gingerbread cookies come to life.
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📽️👩🔬 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) will host the World Congress of Science & Factual Producers (WCSFP) from 9-12 November. Organised as part of the festival's 30th anniversary, the initiative positions PÖFF as key meeting point for the international factual community.
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Spain's Óscar Pedraza has wrapped shooting the two features based on the Enfrentados saga, Drawn Together and Drawn Apart, in New York and Madrid. Both films are toplined by Ester Expósito and Hugo Diego García, and will be aired in more than 240 countries via Prime Video. 🎬
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"The film also shines a light on the impact of land dispossession brought about by colonisation, and the relative nature of the notion of 'the common good'." ▶️ Read the review of Jérôme le Maire's new documentary The Price of the Sun, which screened at Visions du Réel: cineuropa.org/490532
French actress Leïla Bekhti will chair the Cannes' Un Certain Regard jury. The announcement comes after Park Chan-wook was confirmed as jury president for the Official Competition. Leïla Bekhti will be flanked by Laura Samani, Thomas Cailley, Angèle Diabang & Khaled Mouzanar. 👁️
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💐 Marwa Zein's feature Lily's Mecca & Al-Madeeneh 2008 by Yousef Assabahi win development grants at the Malmö Arab Film Festival. The Malmö Industry Days, the MAFF's industry branch, has awarded grants to a range of projects with a Swedish co-producer already on board. #cinema
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🌟 European productions remain central to the 25th #Tribeca Festival. The US festival's anniversary edition showcases a wide-ranging slate of European co-productions across its sections, with particularly strong representation from the UK, France and the Nordics.
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"The film benefits from the palpable enjoyment of the team behind the camera, which is evident in each of Pinocchio's murders, executed with an almost artistic flair..." 🎥🤥 - Read Katrin Büchler's #review of Pinocchio: Unstrung, which received a Special Mention at #BIFFF2026
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🆕 Europa Distribution presented three case studies at CPH:DOX in March. The network analysed the releases of Riefenstahl, Gaucho Gaucho and Whispers in the Woods in various markets.
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💭 "A festival's job is to take people into unchartered territory. So I'm always looking to defy expectations. But we also have to face up to the reality on the ground. Which films are the best? [...]" - Julien Rejl, Artistic director, Directors' Fortnight @quinzaine.bsky.social
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"Cinema must not remain confined within rigid frameworks. [...] We include contemporary artists, animation, imagery from video games, and even works that utilise artificial intelligence." 🖼️🔨 Emilie Bujès, Artistic Director of Visions du Réel
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💬 "Looking at the world through the eyes of adolescents who are working out who they are, or children whose illusions are shattered due to a dysfunctional family or a war, makes us question our own adult way..." - Ava Cahen, Artistic Director of @semainecannes.bsky.social
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‼️ #EXCLUSIVE French international sales agent Reel Suspects is heading to Cannes Film Market with Zoe Berriatúa's film Buffet libre. The third feature by the Spanish director revolves around an Asian couple running an all-you-can-eat buffet on the brink of bankruptcy. More: cineuropa.org/490539
🆕 Andrey Zvyagintsev returns to #Cannes with Minotaur. Blending elements of crime thriller & tragedy, the film follows a successful Russian businessman on the brink of laying off his employees, whose life begins to unravel when he discovers that his wife is having an affair.
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Cyprus Film Days, the island's leading international #filmfestival, returns for its 24th edition, unspooling from 17 to 25 April. 🏝️🎬 The Cypriot Films Competition Section features four works, including Myrsini Aristidou's Hold Onto Me & Minos Papas' Motherwitch.
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📣 The 2026 LUX Audience Award goes to Deaf by Spanish filmmaker Eva Libertad. Read our full article here: cineuropa.org/490494
💜 Bonus video: After the award ceremony, we also had the chance to talk to MEP Nela Riehl (Greens/EFA) about the benefits of investing in European cinema:
🆕🤩 The Cannes Directors' Fortnight unveils a batch of stunners: The selection, dominated by Kantemir Balagov, Radu Jude, Lisandro Alonso, Clio Barnard and Quentin Dupieux, includes 19 features, three of which are animations and a further three documentaries
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✨ ACID has unveiled the programme it will be offering at #Cannes2026: The Association for the Circulation of Independent Film will host nine world premieres at the Croisette, including Rewind Barcelona by France's Paul Nouhet & Promised Spaces by Serbia's Ivan Marković.
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Cineuropa's Davide Abbatescianni attended the 4th edition of Nord/Est/Doc/Camp, a mentoring workshop for medium- to feature-length documentaries from Northeastern Italy. 🔎 In this article, he shines a light on the four doc projects pitched during the event's latest session: cineuropa.org/490491
"The film delivers its message of tolerance - one that seeks to help overcome life's small trials & bring together people of all backgrounds in France in a spirit of shared goodwill." - Cineuropa's Fabien Lemercier about Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano's comedy Just An Illusion
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