Film Sales Support (FSS), totaling more than €43,000 has been granted by EFP (European Film Promotion), to 21 new films from across Europe for the promotion and sales to countries outside of Europe at this year’s American Film Market (11-16 November) and for one film at the Fantastic Fest (18-25 September 2025) in the value of €4,400.
10 European world sales companies, provided with FSS to bolster promotion campaigns, most of them for packages of European films, are heading back to LA to market and sell unfinished and finished works to the US, Latin America and Asia.
As usual, the majority of the supported films promoted at the AFM are still either in production or post-production following the nature of this North American market. With FSS, they are being equipped for a good head start, such as the kid’s animations, Monster Mia by Verena Fels (Austria, Germany, Spain / Sola Media), which is based on the successful book series Monstrous Maud, and Arnie & Barney by Sean Heuston (Germany, Spain / Studio 100 Films), the family drama, Unraveled by Pernille Fisher (Denmark / TrustNordisk), cult novel suspense thriller, Tied Up by Ángel del la Cruz (Spain / Film Factory), sinister drama Bloody Tennis by Nikias Chryssos (Germany / The Playmaker Munich), the sharp and witty murder mystery comedy, Murder In The Building by Rémi Bezançon (France / SND) and the apprehensive story of three childhood friends told in The Night Bus by Morade Aïssaoui (France / WT Films), to name only a few.
Minerva Pictures is benefiting from FSS for a slew of completed Italian films, amongst them The Poet and The Spy by Arnaldo Catinaro, a historic tale around Italy’s struggle between revolution and a looming dictatorship, the genre movie, Blooming Death by Luca Fabiani and Greek movie, Patty Is Such a Girly Name by Giorgos Georgopoulos.
Thanks to Swiss Films, the promotion campaign for the children’s film Barry & Me by Markus Walter (Switzerland, Germany / The Playmaker Munich), is also benefitting from the support at the AFM.
The French-Portuguese modern fairy tale, The Tree Of Knowledge by Eugène Green, represented by young Spanish world sales company MoreThan Films screened in the Official Selection of the Fantastic Fest in Austin in early autumn was likewise awarded an FSS grant for promotion activities and sales to buyers outside of Europe.
The FSS awards were confirmed by Austrian Films, Cinecittà, Danish Film Institute, German Films, Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Center - Creative Greece , ICAA (Spain), ICA (Portugal), Norwegian Film Institute, Unifrance and Swiss Films.
See comprehensive list of supported films here
FSS, a long-standing and well-established financial support mechanism for European world sales companies which augments individual promotion and sales campaigns in order to advance the export of European cinema beyond Europe is backed by the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of the European Union since 2004.
