EFP Future Frames – Generation Next of European Cinema, a program for young European filmmaking talent, will return to the Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival next month.
Organized by European Film Promotion in cooperation with the festival, and with the support of Creative Europe – the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, this year’s edition welcomes Allwyn as its new main partner.
The lineup brings together 10 recent European film school graduates whose short films will screen during the festival. Nominated by their respective national film promotion institutes, EFP’s member organizations, and selected by KVIFF artistic director Karel Och and his programming team, the filmmakers will take part in a curated program of promotion, industry meetings and networking activities before and during the festival.
The filmmakers reflect the “creative diversity shaping the future of European cinema,” EFP said.
Several of the selected directors are already making an impact on the international festival circuit. Finnish filmmaker Helmi Donner presents “The Lightning Rod,” which was selected for La Cinef, the official Cannes Film Festival section for short films made in film schools. The poetic horror drama follows a young mother fleeing a toxic relationship and reconnecting with her grandmother, who carries wounds of her own. The film is Donner’s MA graduation work from ELO Film School Finland at Aalto University.
