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NEWS

🎬 The call for films 2027 is officially open!

March 23 to April 06, 2027 – Paris
🎉 The adventure continues!

We are delighted to announce the opening of the call for films for the 22ᵉ edition of the Europe by Europe Festival, to be held in Paris from March 23 to April 06, 2027.

🎥 European Auteur Cinema: Over to You

As every year, the festival showcases unique, committed, and daring auteur works – fiction, documentaries, short films, experimental or animated – from all over Greater Europe (member countries of the Council of Europe).

We are looking for free and plural perspectives, capable of crossing aesthetic, geographical, and narrative boundaries.

Call for films 2026

👉 Submission deadline: January 07, 2027
You can now submit your films via our partner platforms:
👉 FilmFreeway

📅 Selection Process
Submitted films will be reviewed by a selection committee composed of European film professionals. We pride ourselves on providing a platform where originality, artistic commitment, and diversity of voices will be particularly valued.

🏆 Festival prizes
Your film can compete in one of the following selections:
🐺 Prix SAUVAGE (feature-length fiction)
🎞️ Prix PRESENT (documentaries)
🎬 Prix SAUVAGE CORTO (shorts)
🌙 Prix LUNA (fiction – youth jury)
🐾 Prix LUPETO (shorts – student jury)

🌍 A festival in motion
The Europe by Europe Festival, founded by Irena Bilic, welcomes filmmakers from across the continent to Paris every year for two weeks of screenings! It also features meetings, conferences, special events, and convivial evenings where filmmakers and audiences can exchange ideas, share experiences, and celebrate the art of European cinema together.

📣 Join this adventure
We look forward to discovering your films and sharing this great celebration of European cinema in Paris with you. Please share this call with your fellow filmmakers, producers, and friends to further enrich this wonderful program.

Please share this call widely to help us promote independent creations across Europe!

To your films, and see you soon in Paris!

🎥 Irena Bilic and the Festival team
https://www.evropafilmakt.com