A record-breaking number of 59 brand-new European completed and unfinished titles from across Europe are receiving Film Sales Support (FSS) from EFP (European Film Promotion) at the upcoming European Film Market, taking place 13 – 19 February 2025.
The established financial incentive, totaling 66,800 EUR is being used by 30 EFP-affiliated world sales companies to bolster digital marketing campaigns, specifically for sales to countries outside of Europe.
FSS is providing the sales agents with an extra leverage for the promotion of altogether 47 fiction films, six documentaries and six animation films to overseas buyers at this year’s EFM, one of the most important international film markets for the industry.
The overall reserved award for the beneficiary sales companies, incorporates special FSS Top-Up Grants in the value of an extra €500 per application in order to boost strategies portraying DEI themes and topics. Amongst the 13 films profiting from the additional top-ups amounting to more than 6,000 EUR are the Berlinale Competition entries, Dreams (Sex Love) by Dag Johan Haugerud (Norway / M-appeal ) and The Ice Tower by Lucille Hadzihalilovic (France, Germany / Goodfellas) as well Little Trouble Girls by Urška Djukic (Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Serbia / Heretic) screening in Perspectives and the documentary, Marching In The Dark by Kinshuk Surjan (Belgium, the Netherlands, India / Lightdox).
Further FSS supports embrace Panorama title Hysteria by Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay (Germany / Pluto Film), starring this year’s German Shooting Star, Devrim Lingnau, Berlinale opening film, The Light by Tom Tykwer (Germany / Beta Cinema), animation film Maya Give Me A Title by Michel Gondry (France / Indie Sales), showing in Berlinale Generation, U Are The Universe (Ukraine, Belgium / True Colours) and Six Days in Spring by Joachim Lafosse (Belgium, France / Les Films du Losange).
All of the 59 films which stand for Europe’s richness and diversity are up for worldwide sales at the EFM. To help with an early career, timely promotion that creates awareness is tantamount. Films in production or post-production which are at the receiving end of FSS include Franz by Agnieszka Holland (Poland, Germany / Films Boutique), Home by Marijana Jankovic (Denmark / TrustNordisk), Breaking Walls by Borja Cobeaga (Spain, Belgium / Film Factory), Idyllic by Aaron Rookus (Denmark / LevelK), The Badgers by Paul Magnus Lundø (Norway / Picture Tree International) and The Better Me by Nicolas Charlet & Bruno Lavaine / WT Films).
FSS for Swiss Films
Thanks to the support of SWISS FILMS, Competition title, The Safe House by Lionel Baier (Switzerland, Luxembourg, France / MK2), Hanami by Denise Fernandes (Switzerland, Portugal, Cape Verde / MoreThan Films) and the documentary, Valentina and the MUOSters by Francesca Scalisi (Switzerland, Italy / Lightdox) will also receive FSS.
See record of all supported films HERE
FSS for the respective films was underwritten by Cinecittà, the Danish Film Institute, Flanders Image, German Films, the Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Center – Creative Greece, ICAA (Spain), the Norwegian Film Institute, the Polish Film Institute, SEE NL, the Slovenian Film Centre, Unifrance and Wallonie Bruxelles Images.
Film Sales Support (FSS) is backed by Creative Europe MEDIA since 2004. The scheme supports mainly digital promotion campaigns of European world sales companies to enhance the export of European films to countries outside of Europe.
