Tuesday 4 > Wednesday 5 February 2025
09:00 – 19:00
Reserved for accredited professionals
Oceania Hotel
82 boulevard François-Mitterrand
63000 Clermont-Ferrand
Contact
04 73 14 73 22
Euro Connection is the main platform for the coproduction of short films
Euro Connection is the co-production event for short films. The aim of these meetings is to stimulate partnerships between European and international production companies, financiers and broadcasters around short film projects. The next edition will take place on Tuesday February 4 and Wednesday February 5, 2025, and will feature project pitch sessions, informal exchanges between producers and participants, and personalized appointments…
The call for projects for our 2025 edition is now open for pitch sessions on Tuesday 4 February 2025 from 09:30 to 13:00 at Oceania Hotel, for producers, distributors and TV buyers or platforms.
NEW: XR makes its debut at Euro Connection
A series of XR projects will be presented as part of Euro Connection. Producers wishing to respond to this call are invited to apply via the dedicated form.
AR/VR/XR projects are eligible:
- with a maximum running time of 45 minutes;
- presented by a production company based in the European Union;
- with initial/partial* financing;
- not due to go into production before June 2025.
The selection committee appointed by the organizers will select up to 4 XR projects.
If you would like to meet the project leaders or focus producers at the one-on-one meetings on Wednesday, February 5 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., you can book an appointment by contacting Laurent Crouzeix.
The 12 projects selected to be pitched at Euro Connection 2024 are :
- Air Horse One, Lasse Linder – Irland
- Holy Sunday, Gorana Jovanović – Croatia
- Last Day of the Universe, Alexandros Papathanasopoulos – Grece
- I Don’t Kiss, Alina Panasenko – Ukraine
- Normal, Vero Basku & Eva Moreno – Spain
- Bras Cassé, Thomas Baudre – France
- Period Drama, Michaela Mihalyi – Czech Republic
- Our Father, Marin Cumatrenco – Moldavia
- Out, Kristijonas Dirsė – Lithuania
- (Un)becoming, Ivana Vogrinc Vidali – Slovenia
- Marci Is Doing Fine, Bálint Dezső – Hungary
- Mercy, Hedda Mjøen – Norway
Euro Connection focuses on the following areas:
- Scenario consultation (online, mid-December 2024)
- Pitch training workshop (Monday, February 3, 2025)
- Pitch sessions (Tuesday, February 4, 2025)
- Informal discussions between producers and participants
- Personalized one-to-one meetings (Wednesday, February 5, 2025)
150 professionals take part in Euro Connection every year.
In the first 15 editions, 110 films were completed, including 61 international co-productions.
Euro Connection is organized by Sauve Qui Peut le Court Métrage, as part of the Marché du Film Court, in association with the Bureau Europe Créative MEDIA France and the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, and with the support of the MEDIA program and PROCIREP.
Consult the Guide des structures d’aide à la production de courts métrages en Europe published by the Europe Créative MEDIA France office.
