The 76th Venice Film Festival starts today featuring 12 films supported by the MEDIA programme – the EU’s programme for supporting the European film and audiovisual industries. Four of the MEDIA-supported films have additionally been shortlisted to compete for the Golden Lion: ‘The Truth’ by Hirokazu Kore-eda (France, Japan), ‘About Endlessness’ by Roy Andersson (Sweden, Germany, Norway), ‘Martin Eden’ by […]
Films put the Western Balkans on the big screen
The Western Balkans’ film scene has been thriving in recent years, reaching audiences across the world and winning awards at major festivals. The EU supports the film industry and film events in the region, and this week sees the opening of one of these; the 25th edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival. Founded during the […]
Protecting endangered languages, key to save millennia-old cultures
This year’s International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, celebrated the past 9th of August, was dedicated to Indigenous Peoples’ Languages. Around 5,000 of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world are indigenous, and one of them dies every two weeks. The EU invests €500 million every year on education programmes to revitalize these ancient […]
Youth Essay Competition 2019
European Commission Directorate General for Single Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, has launched a youth essay contest aimed at young people between 18 and 25 year old from European Member States and COSME partners countries. The competition is divided into two rounds: Round 1: open call to submit a speech. Round 2: selected participants have […]
Africa-Europe cookbook: the ultimate diplomatic tool to bring two continents to the table
The Delegation of the European Union to the African Union launches a book with 70 recipes from African and European countries, cooked up by AU and EU Commissioners and EU Member State Ambassadors What do Hungarian goulash, Spanish gazpacho and Congolese Saka Saka have in common? As typical recipes from their countries, they are unique […]
Travel Film Scholarship (Malaysia)
World Nomads is inviting aspiring travel filmmakers, from any nationality, to a 10-day filmmaking trip to Malaysia, under the mentorship of professional documentary filmmaker Jenny Nichols. How to apply Entrants will have to make a 3-minute documentary film interview, in English or with English subtitles, about a an adventurer or inspiring traveller. The video should be uploaded on […]
LUX Prize: discover the finalists competing for Parliament’s film award
“The Realm”, by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, competes for the Parliament’s award with “Cold Case Hammarskjöld- and -God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya-. This year’s shortlist for the LUX Film Prize was unveiled at a press conference in Rome on 23 July. The three finalists for the Parliament’s annual film award are: Cold Case Hammarskjöld by Mads […]
Pilot project: EAC/S09/2019: Makers’ Mobility
This call (EAC/S09/2019:), whose objective is to define and test policies and actions that support mobility and exchange of experiences between cultural and creative industries, belongs to the Pilot Project. Creativity has had a crucial impact on today’s inter-connected world. Co-creation and open sources have transformed contemporary innovation and production processes. The maker movement, creative […]
Call for proposals EAC/S19/2019: Monitoring and coaching, through sports, of youngsters at risk of radicalization
This call for proposals is aimed at implementing the 2019 annual work program in accordance with Commission Decision C (2019) 1819 of March 12, 2019. Reference EAC/S19/2019 Background Sport can play a role in dealing with the challenge of making people better integrated in society and may therefore contribute to enhance values such as tolerance, […]