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🎬✨ Congratulations to the awarded films and filmmakers of the FilmEU Film Festival, which has just concluded its 2nd edition in Brussels with an awards ceremony!

🏆 Audience Award
Glitter Kiss — dir. Augustė Gerikaitė, Lietuvos muzikos ir teatro akademija

🥉 Third Prize
How to Listen to Fountains — dir. Eva Sajanová, Film & Television Faculty VŠMU

🥈 Second Prize
Prayer — dir. Sofia Geweiler, Universidade Lusófona - Centro Universitário Lisboa, Kino Eyes

🥇 First Prize
Hot Flush — dir. Hana Hančinová, Film & Television Faculty VŠMU

A huge thank you to our six-member international jury for their dedication, thoughtful discussions, and focused work throughout three inspiring (and very hot!) festival days.

Special thanks to LUCA School of Arts - LUCA School Of Arts - for hosting this year’s festival and helping make it such a memorable celebration of young European cinema. ✨

Day 1️⃣ of the 2026 FilmEU Summit was a blast!

💥 Packed full of keynote addresses, workshops, meet-and-greets, presentations, and more, the summit kicked off with a bang!

As the week rolls on, stay tuned for more content from Brussels.

Photo credit: Vera Alcobia and Gertrud Ehrlich

Greetings from Brussels! 👋

🇧🇪 The 2026 FilmEU Summit has kicked off here in the Belgian capital!

The week is well underway, with four days of collaborative meetings, discussions, and exciting activities bringing the FilmEU community together.

Under the theme, 'Enact Change – Weaving the A(rts) into STEM', this year's summit is exploring how the arts can enrich STEM education by bringing creativity, critical thinking, storytelling, and imagination into dialogue with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

🎵 Stay tuned for more content from the 2026 FilmEU Summit!

Photo credit: Vera Alcobia (.a)

🗣️ We are proud to announce that a new season of the FilmEU Podcast is now live!

🇺🇦 This special edition series has been created in collaboration with Sumy State University (Сумський державний університет) in Sumy, Ukraine.

Located only 30km form the north-eastern border with Russia, the Sumy campus is at constant threat of shelling and is bombed on an almost daily basis.

Through a collection of conversations between students, educators, and researchers across the FilmEU Alliance, this series offers a powerful insight into life, learning, and resilience in a region living under the constant reality of war.

🎙️ Four episodes of the series are currently available now on Spotify!

🔗 Visit the link in our bio to listen.

🎞️ As we wrap up the 2025/26 academic year here in Dublin, Sofia, Lisbon, and Brussels, we’d like to say a huge thank you to all students who participated in the inaugural year of Pathfinder, the first ever Joint International BA in Film!

The momentous level of work required to develop, organise and run such a landmark programme would have been fruitless without the enthusiasm and engagement of the first cohort of students.

🏫 We now look forward to welcoming a new intake of Pathfinders as well as our second-year class to campuses all over Europe in September!

☀️ In the meantime, we hope you have a happy and safe summer.

👋 See you soon!

🏆 Filmmaker and lecturer Margarida Cardoso () went home with several awards from the 15th annual Portuguese Film Academy Sophia Awards () earlier this month.

Taking place at the Belem Cultural Centre under the theme ‘Designing the present, imagining the future’, the awards honoured the work of several Lusofona University staff members.

🎞️ Cardoso’s film, ‘Banzo’, which she wrote and directed, received several awards including Best Film, Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress, Best Special Effects, Best Sound, and Best Editing.

🎥 The Best Cinematography award was also won by Lusofona cinema alumnus, Leandro Ferrão () for his work on the film.

Gonçalo Galvão Teles, film lecturer and director of the Kino Eyes Erasmus Mundus Master’s in Film (), was also honoured with the Best Series award for his production ‘Fado Filmes’.

🔹 FilmEU Changemaker – Pitching for Change 🔹

Have a story to tell? Want to make an impact?

FilmEU invites BA, MA and PhD students from our eight member institutions to pitch their ideas for the screen in this year’s Changemaker programme.

Theme: Exploring the Natural Worlds

Target audience: 15–25 year olds
across Europe

Formats: fiction, documentary, animation or innovative short-form/social media content (max 6 minutes)

✅ If selected, you will:

• Join online pitch training

• Travel to Dublin for in-person training

• Pitch live on stage at the FilmEU Industry Summit this October

🗓️ Apply by Friday, May 29

🔗 More information can be found on our website and the application form is available at the link in our bio.