European Movie Promotion and its member organizations have revealed the 20 up-and-coming producers chosen for the twenty seventh version of its networking program Producers on the Transfer, happening in the course of the Cannes Movie Pageant. The credit of the chosen individuals embrace “Sirât,” “September 5,” “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood” and “DJ Ahmet,” and Cannes 2026 competitors title “The Dreamed Journey.”
The producers are Lixi Frank (Austria), Roxanne Sarkozi (Belgium), Constantinos Nikiforou (Cyprus), Dagmar Sedláčková (Czech Republic), Maria Møller Kjeldgaard (Denmark), Marianne Ostrat (Estonia), Daniel Kuitunen (Finland), Julie Billy (France), Philipp Trauer (Germany), Danae Spathara (Greece), Sunna Guðnadóttir (Iceland), Julianne Forde (Eire), Stefano Centini (Italy), Marion Guth (Luxembourg), Olivia Sophie van Leeuwen (The Netherlands), Ivana Shekutkoska (North Macedonia), Agata Novinski (Slovak Republic), Xavi Font (Spain), Linda Mutawi (Sweden) and Michela Pini (Switzerland).
Two of the producers are hooked up to titles within the Cannes official choice: Lixi Frank of Panama Movie from Austria is producer of Sandra Wollner’s “Everytime,” screening in Un Sure Regard, and co-producer of Valeska Grisebach’s competitors entry “The Dreamed Journey.” Italy’s Stefano Centini of Volos Movies is aboard Jorge Thielen Armand’s “Demise Has No Grasp,” which has been chosen for Administrators’ Fortnight.
A number of individuals are linked to internationally acknowledged productions, together with current submissions to the Academy Awards’ Worldwide Function Movie class: Marianne Ostrat of Alexandra Movie from Estonia was behind “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood” (2023), which gained the Directing Award on the World Cinema Documentary Competitors at Sundance. Icelandic producer Sunna Guðnadóttir of Bjartsýn Movies is related to “Stunning Beings” (2022), Iceland’s Oscar submission.
The group additionally consists of Xavi Font of ZuZú Cinema, Spanish producer of Cannes jury prize winner “Sirât” (2025), which was nominated twice for the Academy Awards in addition to Swedish producer Linda Mutawi of Fikra, whose credit comprise Sweden’s Oscar entry “Eagles of the Republic” (2025), which premiered final 12 months within the Cannes Movie Pageant competitors.
Additional names on this 12 months’s lineup are Julie Billy from France of June Movies, whose movie “The Little Sister” (2025) by Hafsia Herzi earned Nadia Melliti the most effective actress award at Cannes, Philipp Trauer from Germany of BerghausWöbke Filmproduktion, related to “September 5” (2025), which was nominated for each an Oscar and a Golden Globe, in addition to Finnish producer Daniel Kuitunen of Komeetta and his movie “Nightborn” (2026), which premiered on this 12 months’s Berlinale Competitors, starring former Taking pictures Star Seidi Haarla.
Ivana Shekutkoska of Minimal Collective from North Macedonia is without doubt one of the two producers of “DJ Ahmet” (2025), produced by Cinema Futura, which obtained the particular jury award for Inventive Imaginative and prescient and the viewers award on the Sundance Movie Pageant 2025, whereas Julianne Forde of Tailor-made Movies from Eire produced “The Apprentice,” which obtained nominations on the Oscars, BAFTAs and Golden Globes.
Danish producer Maria Møller Kjeldgaard of Manna Movie was behind Isabella Eklöf’s “Kalak” (2023), which gained the particular jury prize on the San Sebastián Movie Pageant in 2023.
