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European Film Distribution
Creative Europe · CREA-MEDIA-2027-FILMDIST
Support for European cinema distributors, based on their market performance, to reinvest in recent non-national European films.
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Worum geht es in dieser Ausschreibung?
The call gives European cinema distributors a fund based on their 2026 admissions for non-national European films. The fund must be reinvested in co-producing, acquiring and promoting further non-national European films in cinemas and online.
Was fördert diese Ausschreibung?
Scope
The call, under the MEDIA strand of the Creative Europe Programme, supports the wider transnational distribution of recent European films. European distributors receive funds based on their performance on the market, which they must reinvest in the acquisition, promotion and distribution, including online, of recent non-national European films.
How the support works
- Phase 1, generation of a potential fund: each distributor generates a fund based on eligible paying admissions achieved in 2026 by non-national European films it distributed, multiplied by a coefficient that depends on the country of distribution and the nationality of the film. Admissions per film are capped by country, films with fewer than 200 admissions in a country are not counted, and minimum fund thresholds per applicant apply (from €4,500 to €27,000 depending on the country). The fund may not exceed €1,000,000 per applicant.
- Phase 2, reinvestment: the fund must be reinvested in up to 12 eligible non-national films through co-production, acquisition of theatrical and/or online distribution rights (for example minimum guarantees), and promotion, marketing and advertising for theatrical and online releases.
Eligible activities and costs
- Co-production and acquisition of rights together may account for at most 70% of the total direct reinvestment budget.
- Promotion may include promotional materials, advertising (including digital), social media and influencer content, PR, prints, subtitling and dubbing, and for online releases platform coordination, performance tracking, aggregator costs and virtual launch events.
- Personnel work and travel cannot be covered, and promotional material developed with Eurimages marketing support is excluded.
Eligible films
Fiction (including animation) or documentary works of at least 60 minutes, first copyright in 2023 or later, majority produced by producers from MEDIA countries with more than 50% of financing from those countries, and with significant participation of professionals from MEDIA countries.
Expected outcomes
- Better transnational distribution of recent non-national European films.
- More investment in the production, acquisition, promotion and distribution of these films.
- Stronger links between the production and distribution sectors.
Was sind die Eckdaten?
- Budget des Themas
- 38.000.000 €
- Höchstbetrag pro Projekt
- 1.000.000 €
- Ausschreibungscode
- CREA-MEDIA-2027-FILMDIST
- Programm
- Creative Europe
- Funder
- European Union, Creative Europe Programme (MEDIA strand), managed by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA)
- Eligible applicants
- European cinema and theatrical distribution companies
- Funding rate
- 70%
- Duration
- normally 12 to 18 months
Wer kann sich auf diese Ausschreibung bewerben?
- Applicants must be legal entities (public or private bodies) established in a Creative Europe participating country: EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories) or listed EEA countries and countries associated to the programme.
- Applicants must be established in a country participating fully in the MEDIA strand and be owned, directly or indirectly, wholly or by majority, by nationals of such countries.
- Applicants must be European companies whose principal activity is cinema or theatrical distribution, holding the theatrical rights, carrying out and paying for the distribution, and operating in the country concerned.
- Only single applicants may apply; each applicant may submit only one proposal.
- Admissions must be achieved between 1 January 2026 and 31 December 2026, be paid at a normal ticket price, and be certified by the designated national authority by the submission date.
- Films with distribution rights for Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and/or Ukraine licensed to distributors or buyers established in Russia are excluded under the conditions set out for each phase.
- Natural persons cannot apply, except self-employed sole traders. EU bodies other than the Joint Research Centre cannot take part, and entities subject to EU restrictive or conditionality measures are excluded.
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Wann endet die Einreichungsfrist?
8. April 2027 (153 Tage)
8 April 2027, 17:00 CET (Brussels time)
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