EFP European Film Promotion and its member organisations are delighted to announce that 57 alumni and current participants of the talent programmes PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE, EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS and FUTURE FRAMES are involved in 38 films selected for this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Ukrainian producer Oleksandra Kostina will join this year’s PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE programme in Cannes as a guest producer.
This year’s Italian Producer on the Move, Stefano Centini, produced Death Has No Master by Jorge Thielen Armand, which screens in Directors’ Fortnight, while Sandra Wollner’s Everytime, produced by fellow Producer on the Move Lixi Frank, has been selected for Un Certain Regard. The Austrian producer is also part of the producing team behind Valeska Grisebach’s Competition title The Dreamed Adventure, alongside former Producers on the Move from Bulgaria (Mila Voinikova, 2017), Germany (Janine Jackowski, 2009) and France (Jean-Christophe Reymond, 2021).
These creative connections extend to Marie Kreutzer’s Competition entry Gentle Monster, which once again brings together Janine Jackowski and Jean-Christophe Reymond as part of the producing team, this time alongside former Producers on the Move and Janine’s classmate Alexander Glehr (Austria, 2009) and Marie Kjellson (Sweden, 2020). The film also stars former German European Shooting Star Jella Haase.
Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord offers another striking example of the network’s reach across European co-production. The Competition title brings together Norwegian Producers on the Move Dyveke Bjørkly Graver (2019) and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar (2022) with Finnish Producer on the Move Jussi Rantamäki (2013).
Actors from the EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS programme are also highly visible across this year’s Cannes line-up. Latvia’s Shooting Star 2025, Karlis Arnolds Avots, appears in this year’s Un Certain Regard selection at Cannes with Ulya, a project he originated, co-wrote and stars in. French alumna Hafsia Herzi (2009) appears in two titles: Léa Mysius’ The Birthday Party (Competition) and Rudi Rosenberg’s Words of Love (Directors' Fortnight). Other European Shooting Stars represented in the programme include Anamaria Vartolomei (France, 2022) and Kacey Mottet Klein (Switzerland, 2016) in Antonin Baudry’s De Gaulle: Tilting Iron (Out of Competition), Alicia Vikander (Sweden, 2011) in Na Hong-jin’s Hope (Competition) and Anaïs Demoustier (France, 2010) in the Opening Film The Electric Kiss by Pierre Salvadori (Out of Competition).
The debut film Titanic Ocean by FUTURE FRAMES participant Konstantina Kotzamani (Greece, 2015) is screening in the Un Certain Regard section.
EFP will welcome Ukrainian producer Oleksandra Kostina, co-owner of Kyiv-based Bosonfilm, as this year’s guest producer at PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE in Cannes. Her international co-production Pamfir (2022) by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk premiered at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, screened at more than 60 festivals and was sold to over 20 territories. Kostina is a recipient of the Academy Gold Fellowship for Women Award by AMPAS, a member of Film Independent and the European Film Academy, and a representative of Ukraine in EURIMAGES. Her recent project 30 Days of Summer was developed at La Résidence of the Festival de Cannes and received the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award as well as the Gen Z Audience Award in Berlin.
Click HERE for the full list of films with participation of EFP’s EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS, PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE and FUTURE FRAMES alumni
The three talent programmes are made possible thanks to the support of the Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union and the participating national film institutes, EFP's member organisations.
