European Film Challenge 2022/2025

European Film Challenge (EFC) is an Audience development tool for European film promotion among millennial European cinema-lovers and seriephiles. EFC started as a contest and now gathers a broad spectrum of activities and editorial formats around an engaged and young (≤35 years) community of 55k followers, 91K users on the website, 3276 unique films, and 8K average players by edition.

Today EFC has an Audience-centered DNA with the ultimate goal of growing a Pan-European community of GenZ and Millenial movie&series-lovers where the audience owns the space to enjoy, discover, recommend and share their love for European productions.

As an innovative project, EFC continuously seeks new ways to engage with the audience by using the latest digital tools to interact further, develop new features to tweak the content, enrich the fan experience through editorial standards, and embrace new waves of consumption trends.

EFC stands up for the diversity of voices, cultural plurality, heritage, new trends, and authentic identity that European content represents. EFC promotes culture by including the young Audiences in the creation of their cinema-lovers’ community, where participants have a leading role in recommending and sharing audience-taste of movies.

Innovato Institute

(Partner) Ljubljana

All projects of Slovenian producer

Foreign producers in the supported project

The Film Agency (leader)

Spain (EU)
BLINK (partner)

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Udruzenje filmskih radnika u federaciji Bosne i Hercegovine (partner)

Bosnia and Herzegovina
DISTINGUO (partner)

France (EU)
Megunarodni festival dokumentarnog filma BELDOCS (partner)

Republic of Serbia
Rushlake MEDIA Gmbh (partner)

Germany (EU)
Kinoteatris Bize (partner)

Latvia (EU)
Cinefil co Kulturalis Kereskedelmies Szolgaltato KFT (partner)

Hungary (EU)

Funded projects

CAFÈ: Redefining Historic Cafés as European Cultural Heritage

ArtElevate – Fostering inclusive cultural expression in Europe

CARE – Culture for Mental Health

Glassmaking Between Tradition and Innovation

WONDERCUT – Collaboratively Exploring the Public Value of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Next Level Cultural Experiences

Heroes Unleashed: Implementing a Sensory Reading Program in European Public Libraries

DATAS – The Data and the Sovereign

TALKING HEADS – Conversation with the art of the past

Libraries of Emotions for Good

GreenHeritage – Nurturing a sustainable future in the gardens of time

G-BOOK 3

PAGE: a Project for Advancing coGnitivE accessibility in publishing

DIGITAL on STAGE – Unleashing the Performing Arts Experience through Digital Innovation

OASis – Open Art Spaces in Synergy

Transport: Sustainable puppet co-creations for European young audiences

Danube Dance Alliance for Development of Contemporary Dance Scene in the Danube Region

Mind the GAP

Beletrina Digital

WOMEN interACT - participatory theatre against the double exclusion of women

TECH(ing) TALES WITH A TWIST for the children of the present

DoSEL – Drama of Smaller European Languages

MUSICVILLE – Green European Opera

Operation Nova

Kino x Games

FASIH - Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage

Cultural BEES

Is this us?

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Moving Balkans

Youth Art for the Earth (YAFE)

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

December: Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts (ReCITYing)

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Book (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studi Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building (LAP CB)

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22 (TFMini22)

Vertigo Slate 2022: Chestnuts, Memory of Autumn Mists, OHO, Splashing around

Staragara slate 22

Our Little Library: Literary exchanges (OLL LE)

Testing Ground (TestG)

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)