What audience development strategies are film festivals devising to build communities that extend beyond the time and place of the festival event?

Network of Creative Europe Culture Desks, which includes CED Slovenia, invites you to an online event to learn about and connect with European libraries.

Contribution by Tanja Hladnik.

Along the path from first idea to audience, many film stories are carried by the support of Creative Europe – MEDIA.

Gibellina, Italian Capital of Contemporary Art 2026, and Selinunte will host the second meeting of the Mediterranean Creative Europe Desks from 22 to 24 June 2026.

WHEN: September 30–October 1, 2026 WHERE: Babelsberg, Potsdam, Germany PRIJAVE: is mandatory – by June 30, 2026 (as “challenger”) / by July 29, 2026 at 10:00 (as “co-creator”) The MediaTech SPRINT is a one-day innovation workshop enabling 4 companies from the European audio-visual industry to develop solutions for one of their specific business challenges in […]

Roundtable discussion with European festival networks at the Kino Otok – Isola Cinema festival.

The Creative Europe MEDIA Desks from Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Malta, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia, in cooperation with the Film Center of Montenegro, Arts Council Malta and the Organisation for European Programmes and Cultural Relations in Cyprus, are organising a workshop called “Let’s pitch some shorts!”, which will culminate in the Pitching Forum.

On Tuesday, April 21, 2026, the European Commission and Europa Nostra, the pan-European federation for cultural heritage, announced the winners of the 2026 European Heritage Awards/Europa Nostra Awards, which are co-funded by the EU’s Creative Europe program.

We highlight successful initiatives supported by Creative Europe that Slovenian cultural organisation have developed together with their European partners. We invite you to take a look!