European Film Distribution
Creative Europe · Grant topic
Summary
In our view, a Polish company will not get R&D or investment funding here.
Supports film distribution companies investing in coproduction, distribution rights and promotion of non-national European films.
- Who can apply
- A company can lead the project. Applicants: SMEs, large companies.
- Amount
- €38MCall budget
- Deadline
- 8 Apr 2027in 164 days
- Status
- Forthcomingopens 3 Dec 2026
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source.
Description
Objective:
Expected results:
- Improvement in the trans-national distribution of recent non-national European films.
- Increase in the investment in the production, acquisition, promotion, theatrical and online distribution of non-national European films.
- Develop links between the production and distribution sector thus improving the competitive position of non-national European films.
There are two phases for the funded activities:
1. The generation of a potential fund which will be attributed according to the performance of the company on the European market.
2. The implementation of the action - the potential fund thus generated by each company must be reinvested in:
- 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.
Who can apply, in detail
- Applicant types
- SME, large company
- Purpose
- Culture and media
- R&D relevance
- 0 of 3
- Poland eligible
- Yes
- Country limit
- —
- Region
- Any
- Consortium
- Unclear
- Readiness level (TRL)
- —
- Topics
- European film distribution
- Film coproduction
- Distribution rights
- Film promotion
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 23 Oct 2026
Amounts and costs
- Call budget
- €38,000,000
Indicative topic budget as stated in the portal's budget table. Lump-sum and per-project limits are in the call conditions.
Call facts
- Opens
- 3 Dec 2026
- Deadline model
- Single-stage
- Programme
- Creative Europe · 2021–2027
- Call
- CREA-MEDIA-2027-FILMDIST · European Film Distribution
- Types of action
- CREA Project Grants
- Keywords
- Distribution
- Distribution Automatic support
- European Films
- Film Distribution
- Theatrical admissions
- Source
- ec.europa.eu
- Checked
- 25 Oct 2026
- Portal updated
- 6 Oct 2026
This is a summary of the source page, not the official text. Eligibility, conditions and the submission system are at the source.