CREATIVE EUROPE – European Film Distribution -2025

Objective

To encourage and support the wider transnational distribution of recent European films by providing funds to European distributors, based upon their performance on the market, for further reinvestment in the acquisition, promotion and distribution (including online) of recent non-national European films.

Among financed actions

• The generation of a potential fund which will be attributed according to the performance of the company on the European market
• The co-production of eligible non-national European films
• The acquisition of distribution rights, for example by means of minimum guarantees, of eligible non-national European films
• Promotion, marketing and advertising on the market of eligible non-national European films both for theatrical and online releases

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a public or private entity
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
  • Non-EU states: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Creative Europe Programme (Click here)
• Be established in one of the countries participating in the MEDIA strand of the Creative Europe Programme and be owned directly or indirectly, wholly or by majority participation, by nationals from such countries
• Be European companies active in the audiovisual sector as cinema / theatrical distributor involved in commercial activity designed to bring to the attention of a wide audience a film for the purpose of exploitation in cinema theatres
• A consortium composed of only one applicant must be constituted

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: between 12 and 24 months
• Contact: EACEA-FILM-DISTRIBUTION@ec.europa.eu

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• Executive Agency website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 32 million euro
• Amount of the grant: up to 1 million euro
• Funding rate: up to 70% of the total eligible costs