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CREATIVE EUROPE – European Film Distribution – 2026

CREA - Creative Europe aims at preserving, developing, and promoting European cultural and linguistic diversity and heritage and to increase the competitiveness and economic potential of the cultural and creative sectors, in particular the audiovisual sector.

2026-04-23
34 million euros
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Call synthesis

Call reference CREA-MEDIA-2026-FILMDIST
Programme CREATIVE EUROPE
Institution European Commission
Sectors Culture, Media & Communication
Beneficiaries Large company (> 250 employees) Media & cultural organisation Smes & Start-Ups (< 249 Employees)

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Call reference

CREA-MEDIA-2026-FILMDIST



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Priorities and funded actions

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:
  • 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

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Financement
  • 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