European film promotions have selected 20 rising European producers for the 26th edition of the Move Networking Program, which runs during the Cannes Film Festival. type is the main media partner of the program.
Géraldine Sprinte (Belgium), Lionel Massol (France), Fred Burle. Levins (Ireland), Cristel Pudane (Lithuania), Poland), Eliza Jones and Thomas Reichlin.
They will participate in conferences designed to facilitate international joint production, enhance exchanges of experiences and help create new professional networks. The online gathering before the preliminaries has begun, which has begun yesterday and will begin until April 30, offering one-to-one speed meetings, round tables and sales conferences. All participants will then meet in person during the festival held at the Cannes Film Festival from May 16 to 20 and participate in live programs, combining case studies, social events and promotions.
With their respective companies, the 20 producers are proposing a wide variety of narrative forms and genres, from drama and comedy to documentaries, series and animated films, from horror, fantasy and action to science fiction, adulthood and excitement.
Three of the selected producers will be presenting their films that have been selected for this year's Cannes festival: Fred Burle of One Two Films is the German co-producer of Kléber Mendonça Filho's “The Secret Agent,” which runs in competition (as an entry from Brazil), Géraldine Sprimont of Need Productions from Belgium is involved in Déni Oumar Pitsaev's documentary “Imago,” part of The Competitive Section of the Critics Week and French producer Lionel Massol is the associate producer of Grand Huits, a short film Loynes by Dorian Jesper, who was elected as director for two weeks.
This year’s six groups of producers have participated in the respective Academy Awards in the International Feature Film category. Kristele Pudane from Latvia's Sunday Rebel movie took part in the Academy Awards' The Pit in 2022, created by Dace Pūce. Blerina Hankollari from Albania produces Gentian Koçi's "A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes" (2023) and Cinderora's Francesca Andreoli, Italian entries "Vermiligo" by Maura Delpero (2025). Agnieszka Wasiak of Lava Movie is the Oscar for the Polish co-producer Denmark this year, the Denmark "Girl with Big Heads" shortlisted, and Klementina Remeikaitė from Lithuania after post-school period, is the producer of LITHUANIAN ENTRIES, the producer of Lithuanian entries, and the producer of Lithuanian entries, and is the Lithuanian entries of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of erties of er Bareiša. Thomas Reichlin of Switzerland from Alva Movies is one of the producers of Klaudia Reynicke's 2024 Swiss Oscar entry "Reinas" and was shortlisted for the Swiss co-producer of the 2022 Kosovo entry by "Hive".
Further producers attracted critically acclaimed and award-winning films such as Eliza Jones from Sweden (Grand Slam movie), Ninja Thyberg and Tamara Babun thyberg from Croatia (Wolfgang & Dolly) with his two consecutive co-produced works by Quénault from Luxembourg, Abderrahmane Sissako (2024) and Lionel Baier (2025) competed in the Berlin competition twice in a row.
Claudia Sümeghy (microfilm) from Hungary (Juno11) and Carla Fotea from Romania (microfilm) also focused on filmmaking for young audiences: Sümeghy produced Nóra Lakos' "I accidentally wrote a book", while Fotea was involved in Ana-Maria Commaria commonnescu's film Horia, "
Concentrating on debts, Daniel Mühlendorph from Denmark (Hyæne Film) takes credit for the production of Lisa Jespersen's comedy-drama “Persona Non Grata” (2021) while other producers of the group follow their trusted talent such as Andi G. Hess from Austria (Schubert) who worked on Sandra Wollner's documentary “The Impossible Picture” (2016) as well as on her fiction film “The Trouble With Being was born” (2021). Similarly, Norwegian Janne Hjeltnes (Empathy Pictures) continues to work with director Halkawt Mustafa (Hene Films) (2023).
With “Eternity Package” (2024) Magdelena Ilieva from Bulgaria (Little Wing Productions) also produces her own films as a director, while other female producers with their respective companies and films are focusing on stories told from a female perspective and realized by female or LGBTQ+ filmmakers: Irish Deirdre Levins (Fantastic Films) for example, was involved in the film You Are Not My Mother, and Bojanaradulović (Code Blue Production) will produce Eleonora Veninova's next project "Firees".