European Network of Film Discourse

The European Network for Film Discourse (END) is a multi-faceted network dedicated to qualitative engagement with European filmmaking. It aims to promote a critical film discourse by and for a younger generation, to introduce new audiences to a flourishing European film landscape, and to build communities through a variety of activities.

The network, initiated by FILMFEST DRESDEN (DE) and VIENNA SHORTS (AT) in 2017 and finally fleshed out and expanded in 2019, consists of an active core and is related to a larger circle of film festivals. What they all have in common is their genuine interest in having “their” films written and talked about, and the talents behind them made visible.

To provide a good platform for this, the network has launched its own online magazine: “Talking Shorts” started in February 2020 as the network’s joint outlet to review films, showcase talent, highlight developments, and accompany all of this with an active social media strategy that is always shared by the member festivals. In the first year alone, the site reached more than 120,000 visitors, published 32 reviews and 16 podcast episodes, featured15 young writers, and, despite the pandemic, hosted two workshops and the multi-week project My Darling Quarantine (with 66 programmers and dozens of filmmakers), which was covered by 160 media outlets in 23 countries.

The active core of the END that takes care of the magazine and the activities around it includes the Kortfilmfestival Leuven (BE), Vilnius ISFF (LT), FeKK in Ljubljana (SI), and Lago Film Fest (IT). In addition, more than 20 festivals (IDFA, DokuFest, among others) are involved with Talking Shorts as supporting members. Together, the network organises workshops and mentoring programmes for young critics and curators (including a newly developed young critics award) and strives for quality, a fair work environment, sustainable training and innovative community-building to reach new audiences and a new appeal for European films.

Društvo za uveljavljanje kratkega filma Kraken

(Partner) Ljubljana

All projects of Slovenian producer

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

Foreign producers in the supported project

Filmfest Dresden (leader)

Germany (EU)
Vienna Shorts (partner)

Austria (EU)
Lago Film Fest (partner)

Italy (EU)
Kortfilmfestival Leuven (partner)

Belgium (EU)
Vilnius International Short Film Festival (partner)

Lithuania (EU)

Funded projects

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)

Operation Nova

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)

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo (FF)

Spring Cleaning

Animation Festival Network

CulturalDeTour - Sustainable Cultural Tourism by Design Driven Innovation

Building the future of democracy through art, science and technology (EUDigitalDeal)

The Museum of the Commons. Towards a Healthier Arts Ecosystem (MoC)

ACT: Art, Climate, Transition

Baths, gothic churches and miners’ houses

Fake Lies

THE FILM CORNER RELOADED - A CULTURAL APPROACH

CINEMINI EUROPE

FC Freedom

Body

Movies in Motion

Voix de la Poesie Europeenne

Trust me, I'm an artist

The Faces Behind the Nose - Promoting Hospital Clowning as a Recognized Genre of Performing Arts

SYMBOLS - Culture of Death& Cultural Life: New audiences and creations around European Cemeteries!

SWICH - Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage

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