20 Years of Film Sales Support
As we near the end of 2024 we want to celebrate a massive milestone: it's been 20 years since EFP started its #FilmSalesSupport (FSS) programme for European world sales companies. FSS currently offers grants up to €5,000 or €5,500 (including the Inclusion Top Up Grant) for international promotion campaigns. 🥳🎉
#europeanfilm #europeanfilmpromotion Creative Europe Nordisk Film & TV Fond German Films Cine ICAA MEDIA Suisse SWISS FILMS
#FutureFrames
If I Float by Bogdan Alecsandru | Romania
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
"The self-contained world of the swimming pool forms the stage for a conflict between Vio and her classmates, with whom she does not get along. The worst is Sara, a master of subtle innuendo, which each time becomes more personal and thus more painful. The entire situation leads to an inevitable clash that might just bring catharsis and change the two girls’ relationship forever. The pastel-hued setting of the swimming pool contrasts sharply with the darkly sad world of adolescent girls searching for their place in the classroom and in life." – #kviff
Creative Europe #Allwyn Variety Cineuropa FRED.fm T-Port Online Film Market UNATC I. L. Caragiale Asociatia de Dezvoltare a Filmului Romanesc
#futureframes2024 #kviff58 #kviff2024 #europeanfilm #europeanfilmpromotion #shortfilm #trailer #ififloat #bogdanalecsandru
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Baldilocks by Marthe Peters | Belgium
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
"A look back into the past, at scenes from the history of a family marked by the serious illness of a child. In footage from dad’s video camera, hospital visits become a game, practice for actual medical procedures. A child’s-eye view of an illness whose path to a cure is filled with much pain and suffering, Baldilocks is director Martha Peters’s self-portrait of her own childhood spent battling cancer. The disease itself may have disappeared, but the memory of it has not. Fragments from the family archive produce a diverse collage of emotions, ranging from sadness, pain, and compassion to humor, courage, and – most importantly – hope." – #kviff
Creative Europe #Allwyn Variety Cineuropa FRED.fm T-Port Online Film Market Flanders Image
#futureframes2024 #kviff58 #kviff2024 #europeanfilm #europeanfilmpromotion #shortfilm #trailer #baldilocks #marthepeters
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Cura Sana by Lucía G. Romero | Spain
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
"Violence begets violence, and 14-year-old Jessica knows it. She lives with a father who is quick to anger, especially if there isn’t enough food in the house – and Jessica, her younger sister, and her mother all have the mental and physical scars to match. She would like to live as carefree a life as her friends, but fitting in is hard. All of the family’s problems come to a head one afternoon when Jessica is supposed to pick up the shopping but would also like to go to a party. A film about the power of sibling love, about minor misfortunes with disproportionately negative consequences, and the yearning to break free from the vicious cycle of a dysfunctional family." – #kviff
Creative Europe #Allwyn Variety Cineuropa FRED.fm T-Port Online Film Market Cine ICAA ESCAC Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya
#futureframes2024 #kviff58 #kviff2024 #europeanfilm #europeanfilmpromotion #shortfilm #trailer #curasana #luciagromero
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3 MWh by Marie-Magdalena Kochová | Czech Republic
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
"A 16mm film strip damaged by the electrical discharges from the protagonist’s voice recording tells the story of a nuclear power plant worker who focuses his obsession with counting on one single goal: to calculate the maximum limit of his energy consumption. A poetic film in both style and content, 3 MWh is a meditation on man’s relationship with nature, a reflection on what might happen if we retreated into the background and submitted to the natural cycle of life. What might things be like if we were to disconnect from technology and just be?" – #kviff
Creative Europe #Allwyn Variety Cineuropa FRED.fm T-Port Online Film Market Czech Film Center 3 MWh FAMU International Prague
#futureframes2024 #kviff58 #kviff2024 #europeanfilm #europeanfilmpromotion #shortfilm #trailer #3mwh #mariemagdalenakochová
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Strangers in the Night by Matthias Krepp | Austria
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
"t’s New Year’s Eve 2019, and not everyone feels like celebrating. Lola and Paul are two lost souls wandering the city. They banter and argue, trying to decide whether they still want to be together. The elderly teacher Karin befriends her student Fuad, a Syrian refugee. Simon and Marie find themselves having dinner with Simon’s former professor, whom they don’t really know. A mosaic of intertwining stories about personal transformation and the search for new beginnings, about three couples and six different destinies." – #kviff
Creative Europe #Allwyn Variety Cineuropa FRED.fm T-Port Online Film Market AUSTRIAN FILMS
#futureframes2024 #kviff58 #kviff2024 #europeanfilm #europeanfilmpromotion #shortfilm #trailer #strangersinthenight #matthiaskrepp
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Who Stands Up for Alvar by Anna Maria Joakimsdottir-Hutri | Iceland
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
"Minna is a home care nurse. With undying kindness and optimism, she visits all her clients, providing them with mental and physical comfort. She has a fifteen-year-old daughter, but she is aware that she is unable to give her the time she deserves. And then there is Alvar, a sick man who desperately needs care and support – things his illness prevents him from asking for. Who Stands Up For Alvar is a critique of an overburdened welfare system that drains caregivers of valuable energy they could be devoting to their clients, as well as a poignant look at the need for “ordinary” human kindness." – #kviff
Creative Europe #Allwyn Variety Cineuropa FRED.fm T-Port Online Film Market Icelandic Film Centre - Kvikmyndamiðstöð Íslands
#futureframes2024 #kviff58 #kviff2024 #europeanfilm #europeanfilmpromotion #shortfilm #trailer #whostandsupforalvar #annamariajoakimsdottirhutri
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A Study of Empathy by Hilke Rönnfeldt | Germany
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
"Penelope is working on an art project about empathy, and Dana is one of her subjects. But the meeting between the two women does not turn out as Dana had hoped. The initially harmless experiment forces the young woman to question her own emotions and thus herself. It isn’t until the opening of Penelope’s exhibition that we see the many different forms empathy can take. Named Best International Short Film at the 2023 Locarno International Film Festival, A Study of Empathy explores the limits of emotional vulnerability and the nature of emotion itself. A meditation on how much our perception of ourselves is dependent on our surroundings, the film naturally approaches its subject with both empathy and a subtle sense of humor." #kviff
Creative Europe #Allwyn Variety Cineuropa FRED.fm T-Port Online Film Market German Films Super16 Frau film
#futureframes2024 #kviff58 #kviff2024 #europeanfilm #europeanfilmpromotion #shortfilm #trailer #astudyofempathy #hilkerönnfeldt
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The Complaint by William Sehested Høeg | Denmark
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
"Mona and her colleagues attend a teambuilding event aimed at improving cooperation
within the team. But the course of the workshop is far from easy. Mona is unable to
maintain her leadership position on the team, her colleagues are confused, and their
instructor is almost unbearably optimistic and constructive. To make matters worse,
Mona learns that she has been the subject of an anonymous complaint for inappropriate
workplace behavior... A tragicomedy from the corporate world, where interpersonal ties
and friendship compete with ambition, where being promoted is the greatest goal of
human existence." – #kviff
Creative Europe #Allwyn Variety Cineuropa FRED.fm T-Port Online Film Market Det Danske Filminstitut Den Danske Filmskole
#futureframes2024 #kviff58 #kviff2024 #europeanfilm #europeanfilmpromotion #shortfilm #trailer #thecomplaint #williamsehestedhøeg
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A Good Mind Grows in Thorny Places by Katarína Gramátová | Slovakia
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
"Twelve-year-old Adam from the Slovak village of Utekáč can do any job you ask of him. He is strong, brave, and very active. He earns his own money, his life is completely in his own hands, and his friends admire him for it. That is all Adam says about himself, but the truth is perhaps a little different. Set to a folk rhythm, Slovak director Katarína Gramátová’s hybrid documentary brilliantly uses the tools of cinema, a sense of subtle humor, and provocative irony to tell the story of one Romani boy and one remote village where life is far from easy." - #kviff
Creative Europe #Allwyn Variety Cineuropa FRED.fm T-Port Online Film Market Slovenský filmový ústav / Slovak Film Institute
#futureframes2024 #kviff58 #kviff2024 #europeanfilm #europeanfilmpromotion #shortfilm #trailer #agoodmindgrowsfromthornyplaces #katarínagramátová
Je’vida
by Katja Gauriloff
(Finland 2023)
“The first film shot entirely in the Skolt Sámi language, award-winning director Katja Gauriloff's Je'vida tells the story of a Sámi woman in Finland facing the past she struggled to hide.“ - #sydfilmfest
… is part of #EuropeVoicesofWomeninFilm at Sydney Film Festival 2024
Creative Europe European Women's Audiovisual Network - EWA Cineuropa Suomen elokuvasäätiö - Finnish Film Foundation The Yellow Affair
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#EFPstrongtogether
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#creativeeuropemedia
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Introducing: #FutureFrames 2024 – 10 emerging young european film makers and their films to keep an eye on! they will be headed to Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for a dedicated promotion and networking programme! 🥳
https://www.efp-online.com/news/emerging-filmmakers-to-keep-an-eye-on
Matthias Krepp | Austria (Filmakademie Wien)
Marthe Peters | Belgium (School of Art Gent)
Marie-Magdalena Kochová | Czech Republic (FAMU International Prague)
William Sehested Høeg | Denmark (Den Danske Filmskole)
Hilke Rönnfeldt | Germany (Super16)
Anna Maria Joakimsdottir-Hutri | Iceland (University of Gothenburg)
Emanuela Muzzupappa | Italy (CSCscuolanazionaledicinema)
Bogdan Alecsandru | Romania (UNATC I. L. Caragiale)
Katarína Gramátová | Slovakia (Filmová a televízna fakulta VŠMU)
Lucia G. Romero | Spain (ESCAC Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya)
huge thanks to Creative Europe #allwyn
Variety Cineuropa FRED.fm T-Port Online Film Market
nominated by:
AUSTRIAN FILMS
Flanders Image
Czech Film Center
Det Danske Filminstitut
German Films
Icelandic Film Centre - Kvikmyndamiðstöð Íslands
Cinecittà
Asociatia de Dezvoltare a Filmului Romanesc
Slovenský filmový ústav / Slovak Film Institute
Cine ICAA
#kviff #kviff2024 #kviff58 #efp #europeanfilm #europeanfilmpromotion #shortfilm #shortfilms #futureframes2024
