The European Shooting Stars of 2025 were welcomed on the Berlinale Palast stage by French actress Ludivine Sagnier.
The Awards Ceremony, hosted by CUPRA, is the festive highlight and closing event of an intensive 4-day Shooting Star programme where the talented young actresses and actors meet international casting directors and are presented to the international press. German actress Thelma Buabeng will take the Berlinale Palast audience through the awards.
EFP (European Film Promotion) and its partners are delighted to host the EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS programme at the 28th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival. Tonight's ceremony was held in the presence of Festival Director Tricia Tuttle as well as Claudia Roth, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
The ten selected European Shooting Stars for 2025 are: Marina Makris (Cyprus), Besir Zeciri (Denmark), Maarja Johanna Mägi (Estonia), Devrim Lingnau (Germany), Elín Hall (Iceland), Kārlis Arnolds Avots (Latvia), Šarūnas Zenkevičius (Lithuania), Lidija Kordić (Montenegro), Vicente Wallenstein (Portugal) and Frida Gustavsson (Sweden).
EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS is made possible thanks to the support of Creative Europe – the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, the German Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media, the Berlin International Film Festival, CUPRA, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Hessen Film & Medien, Spotlight/Filmmakers, Armani beauty, International Casting Directors Association and Casting Society, as well as the participating national film promotion institutes and film centres from the Shooting Stars’ countries (EFP’s member organisations): With special thanks to German Films, Danish Film Institute, Deputy Ministry of Culture (Cyprus), Estonian Film Institute, Film Centre of Montenegro, Icelandic Film Centre, Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual I.P. / ICA (Portugal), Lithuanian Film Centre, National Film Centre of Latvia and Swedish Film Institute. EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS’ main media partner is Variety, with additional media partners: Screen International, Cineuropa, Blickpunkt:Film, HeyUGuys and Festival Scope.
