CREATIVE EUROPE – European Film Distribution – 2026

Objectives

• To enhance the circulation, promotion, online and theatrical distribution of European audiovisual works, within the Union and internationally in the new digital environment

Priorities

• Priority 1: support to international sales and circulation of non-national European works on all platforms
• Priority 2: encourage and support the wider transnational distribution of recent European films by providing funds

Among financed actions

• The co-production of eligible non-national European films
• The acquisition of distribution rights
• The promotion, marketing and advertising on the market of eligible non-national European films

Eligibility

• Be legal entities (public or private bodies)
• Be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
  • Creative Europe Participating Countries:
    • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
    • non-EU countries:
      • listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Creative Europe Programme (list of participating countries)
• Be established in one of the countries participating fully in the MEDIA strand
• Be European companies active in the audiovisual sector as cinema / theatrical distributor
• Only applications by single applicants are allowed.

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: between 12 and 24 months

Extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment.

• 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: 34 million euros
• Amount of the grant: up to 1 million euros
• The grant will be a budget-based (actual costs, with unit cost and flat-rate elements).
• Funding rate: up to 70% of the total eligible costs