News & Projects All PROJECT NEWS + “Militantropos” premiere at the 78th Cannes film festival THE ESFUF-SUPPORTED FILM WAS SELECTED IN THE 2025 DIRECTOR'S FORTNIGHT ESFUF opens 2025 call for production support and welcomes a new contributor THE 2025 PRODUCTION SUPPORT CALL WAS ANNOUNCED AT THE 78TH CANNES FILM FESTIVAL ESFUF production support – FAQ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FUND'S PRODUCTION SUPPORT SCHEME Göteborg Film Festival announces a new residency for Ukrainian filmmakers CALL NOW OPEN FOR DIRECTORS AND SCREENWRITERS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE RESIDENCY “Blue sweater with a yellow hole” wins the Sunny Side of the Doc prize at East Doc platform 2025 THE ANIMATED DOCUMENTARY BY TETIANA KHODAKIVSKA WAS AWARDED WITH THE SPECIAL PRIZE PALINGENESION By Alina Gorlova, Yelizaveta Smith, Maksym Nakonechnyi, Simon Mozgovyi. (Ukraine / France / Austria) ESFUF at the 75th Berlinale THE PRODUCTION SUPPORT RESULTS AND THE RENEWAL OF THE FUND WERE ANNOUNCED AT THE ESFUF EVENT ON FEBRUARY 15TH THE ELF’S ARK By Polina Kelm (Ukraine / Croatia / Slovenia) BLUE SWEATER WITH A YELLOW HOLE By Tetiana Khodakivska (Ukraine / France) HARDSUB By Novruz Hikmet (Ukraine / Germany) KAI By Oleh Sentsov (Ukraine / Germany / Poland) RED ZONE By Iryna Tsilyk (Ukraine / Luxembourg / France) SCREAMING GIRL By Antonio Lukich (Ukraine / Ireland) UNHOLY POWER By Roman Liubyi (Ukraine / Germany / France) Ukraine joins the MEDIA strand of the Creative europe program NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR UKRAINIAN FILM PROFESSIONALS OPEN UP ESFUF evolves towards production support A YEAR AND A HALF AFTER ITS LAUNCH, THE EUROPEAN SOLIDARITY FUND FOR UKRAINIAN FILMS IS EVOLVING EURODOC 2025: the call for projects is now open CALL NOW OPEN TO PARTICIPATE IN EURODOC'S INTERNATIONAL TRAINING FOR CREATIVE DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION IN 2025 “La Fabrique Cinéma” call for projects is now open CALL NOW OPEN TO PARTICIPATE IN LA FABRIQUE 2025 AT THE 78TH CANNES FILM FESTIVAL “Songs of slow burning earth” at the 81st Venice Film Festival OLHA ZHURBA'S DOCUMENTARY PREMIERED IN THE OFFICIAL SELECTION (OUT OF COMPETITION) “U are the universe” at the 49th Toronto International Film Festival PAVLO OSTRIKOV'S SCIENCE-FICTION FEATURE PREMIERED AT TIFF 2024 “La Palisiada” chosen to represent Ukraine at the Oscars PHILIP SOTNYCHENKO'S FILM WAS SELECTED BY THE UKRAINIAN OSCAR COMMITTEE UKRAINIAN SCARY FAIRY TALE By Anatoliy Lavrenishyn, Anna Dudko, Olha Havrilova, Stanislav Santimov & Maria Yanko (Ukraine / France) UKRAINE IS NOT SO FAR AWAY By Darya Averchenko & Roman Bondarchuk (Ukraine / Lithuania) TIMES NEW ROMAN By Philip Sotnychenko (Ukraine / Lithuania) PETROL STATION By Yuliia Hontaruk (Ukraine / France) NOAH By Marysia Nikitiuk (Ukraine / Croatia) ORTALAN By Nariman Aliev (Ukraine / France) THE FERRYMAN By Pavlo Dorohoi (Ukraine / Norway) THE SCHOOLMATES By Denys Vorontsov (Ukraine / France) FAMILY SQUAD By Kostiantyn Fedorov (Ukraine / Germany) I SEE NO DEATH By Yevhen Titarenko (Ukraine / Latvia) MADAGASCARPLAN By Ivan Orlenko (Ukraine / Germany) Results of the 2024 call for ESFUF development support 12 PROJECTS CO-PRODUCED BETWEEN UKRAINE AND CONTRIBUTING COUNTRIES RECEIVED DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT “Glyadyelov” at the 15th Odesa International Film Festival THE DOCUMENTARY BY KSENIA KRAVTSOVA WAS PART OF THE NATIONAL COMPETITION PROGRAM “Fragments of Ice” wins four awards at Docudays UA MARIA STOIANOVA'S DOCUMENTARY WAS SUPPORTED BY ESFUF IN DECEMBER 2023 Oleh Sentsov’s latest film “REAL” premiered at 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival THE FILM WAS PART OF THE SPECIAL SCREENINGS PROGRAM Roman Liubyi’s “Iron Butterflies” screening in Paris "IRON BUTTERFLIES" IS TO BE SCREENED IN PARIS FOR THE FIRST TIME ON JUNE 8TH 77th Cannes Film Festival SELECTION RESULTS FOR FINALISATION SUPPORT AND PITCHING SESSION LISTENING TO THE WORLD By Yelizaveta Smith (Ukraine / Germany) TIME MACHINE. MAIDAN By Volodymyr Tykhyy, Roman Liubyi (Ukraine / Germany) THE DAUGHTER By Egor Olesov (Ukraine / United Kingdom) SILENT FLOOD By Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk (Ukraine / Germany) THE SOLDIER’S JOURNEY By Helena Maksyom (Ukraine / The Netherlands) TIMESTAMP By Kateryna Gornostai (Ukraine / The Netherlands / Luxembourg / France) ANIMALS IN WAR By Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi, Yuliia Shashkova, Oleksii Mamedov, Maksym Tuzov, Andrii Lidahovskyi, Sviatoslav Kostiuk (Ukraine / Germany) 2024 Jury ESFUF IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE ITS NEW JURY FOR 2024 74th Berlinale ESFUF CONTRIBUTORS ARE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE RENEWAL OF THE FUND IN 2024 Results of the second call for projects 18 PROJECTS SUPPORTED IN DECEMBER 2023 THE DAYS I WOULD LIKE TO FORGET By Alina Gorlova, Yelizaveta Smith, Maksym Nakonechnyi, Simon Mozgovyi. (Ukraine / France) THE BLINDSIGHT By Ruslan Batytskyi (Ukraine / Germany) UNDER THE YELLOW SKY By Marina Nazarenko (Ukraine / Estonia) GROUND ZERO By Zhanna Ozirna (Ukraine / France) ANTONIVKA By Kateryna Gornostai (Ukraine / Lithuania) RETENTION By Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk (Ukraine / France) VONA : INSIDE ECOCIDE By Daria Onyshchenko (Ukraine / Germany / Estonia) SPECIAL OPERATION By Oleksiy Radynski (Ukraine / Lithuania) CHRYSANTHEMUM DAY By Simon Mozghovyi (Ukraine / Netherlands) CLOUDS MOVE WITH GREAT SPEED By Roman Ostrovskyi (Ukraine) DAD’S LULLABY By Lesia Diak (Ukraine / Croatia) SONGS OF SLOW BURNING EARTH By Olha Zhurba (Ukraine / Denmark) FRAGMENTS OF ICE By Maria Stoianova (Ukraine / Norway) REAL By Oleh Sentsov (Ukraine / Croatia) U ARE THE UNIVERSE By Pavlo Ostrikov (Ukraine / Belgium) UP IN THE AIR By Oksana Syhareva (Ukraine / Lithuania) ESFUF second call is now open SUBMIT YOUR PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT OR FINALISATION UNTIL SEPTEMBER 1ST 76th Cannes Film Festival SELECTION RESULTS OF THE FIRST CALL AND NEW CONTRIBUTORS THE SHADOWS By Polina Kelm (Ukraine / Lithuania) ITS NOT A FULL PICTURE By Maryna Stepanska (Ukraine / Portugal / United Kingdom) ASHES SETTLING IN LAYERS ON THE SURFACE By Zoya Laktionova (Ukraine / France / Slovenia) TO THE VICTORY ! By Valentyn Vasyanovich (Ukraine / Lithuania) A PICTURE TO REMEMBER By Olga Chernykh (Ukraine / France / Germany) A POEM FOR LITTLE PEOPLE By Ivan Sautkin (Ukraine / Lithuania) GLYADYELOV By Oksana Kravtsova (Ukraine / Lithuania) NICE LADIES By Mariia Ponomarova (Ukraine / Netherlands) THE EDITORIAL OFFICE By Roman Bondarchuk (Ukraine / Germany / Czech Republic / Slovakia) 73rd Berlinale A NEW EUROPEAN INITIATIVE TO SUPPORT UKRAINIAN CINEMA IS LAUNCHED DURING THE 73rd BERLINALE
