EUROPE! VOICES OF WOMEN+ IN FILM is EFP’s label and programme to give a voice to gender imbalance in the international film industry through promotion and networking. In partnership with major international film festivals, EFP travels the label outside of Europe and initiates online and on-site activities to foster a supportive community among European women or genderqueer filmmakers while furthering their careers through knowledge exchange and tailor-made contacts with key international film industry players. Any European film by a woman or genderqueer director selected by the participating festivals is eligible to be featured and supported under EUROPE! Voices of Women+ in Film.
EUROPE! Voices of Women+ in Film is a collaboration with Sydney Film Festival in Australia, the Busan International Film Festival in South-Korea and Festival do Rio in Brazil. This initiative goes back to the previous programme launched by EFP and Sydney Film Festival in 2016 to tackle gender inequality in film by connecting movies with worldwide audiences and new markets.
Any European film directed by a woman or genderqueer director, and selected by the participating festivals, is eligible to be featured with a visibility campaign under EUROPE! Voices of Women+ in Film with the support of the respective EFP members.
With quiet precision, Roller observes a generation struggling to take risks, embrace spontaneity and connect - with themselves as much as with one another.
Allegro Pastell
by Anna Roller
Germany (2026)
A gripping and timely portrait of thirteen-year-old Dua navigating adolescence in Prishtina in the late 1990s, as war looms, ethnic tensions escalate, and exile becomes a looming threat.
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Dua
by Blerta Basholli
Switzerland, Kosovo, France (2026)
A mysterious woman living in the forest sets a field of sunflowers on fire, claiming that children are in danger and must be protected. Somehow her case becomes linked to a series of unexplained disappearances.
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Eva
by Emanuela Rossi
Italy (2025)
Elsa returns to Costa Rica after years in Europe to find her younger sister increasingly withdrawn, while their mother becomes absorbed in republishing her own erotic poetry.
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Forever Your Maternal Animal
by Valentina Maurel
Belgium, France, Mexico (2026)
Concert pianist Lucy’s family life is shattered when her husband is arrested, forcing her to confront the possibility that he may have committed an unimaginable crime.
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Gentle Monster
by Marie Kreutzer
Austria, Germany, France (2026)
In Naples and Pompeii, a group of French high-school students encounters the traces of an ancient catastrophe, as desire, anger, memories of the past and uncertainty begin to surface.
La Gradiva
by Marine Atlan
France, Italy (2026)
A family holiday takes a dramatic turn, testing their compassion and humanitarian beliefs. A tense exploration of the gap between professed values and the risks we are willing to take for others.
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The Last Resort
by Maria Sødahl
Denmark, Norway (2026)
Leila, who has spent years caring for an elderly French aristocrat, shares an unspoken bond with gardener Yusef. When her sister brings news of the son she was forced to give up as a teenager, Leila’s carefully ordered world begins to unravel.
The Roses of Marrakesh
by Ginevra Elkann
Italy (2026)
Alec, a quiet teenager raised inside his father’s small-scale pornography business, meets Nina after moving to a seaside town, prompting questions around the mechanics of filmed sexuality, vulnerability and the desire for authentic connection.
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Truly Naked
by Muriel d’Ansembourg
The Netherlands, Belgium, France (2026)
A family struggles with grief and guilt after the sudden death of teenage Jessie, as everyday realism gradually gives way to a hallucinatory world where memory, time and fantasy merge, and loss refuses to disappear.
Everytime
by Sandra Wollner
Austria, Germany (2026)
Set during the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, an unexpected encounter draws a heavily pregnant young woman into a political moment that would leave its mark on a generation.
FÖA - Once Upon a Future
by Margherita Ferrari
Italy (2026)
Concert pianist Lucy’s family life is shattered when her husband is arrested, forcing her to confront the possibility that he may have committed an unimaginable crime.
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Gentle Monster
by Marie Kreutzer
Austria, Germany, France (2026)
A young queer Ukrainian couple’s love and sense of identity are put to the test as one partner undergoes a gender transition amid Russia’s full-scale invasion.
I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming
by Isabelle Stever
Germany, Ukraine (2026)
In Naples and Pompeii, a group of French high-school students encounters the traces of an ancient catastrophe, as desire, anger, memories of the past and uncertainty begin to surface.
La Gradiva
by Marine Atlan
France, Italy (2026)
Set in Kabul shortly before the Taliban’s return to power in 2021, a television camerawoman fighting to retain custody of her son sees her perceptions of men transformed by her growing connection with journalist Qodrat.
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No Good Men
by Shahrbanoo Sadat
Germany, Norway, France, Denmark, Afghanistan (2026)
Through five portraits of relatives and mentors, family archives, home movies and protest footage, Iranian actor, activist and filmmaker Pegah Ahangarani traces four decades of Iranian history.
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Rehearsals for a Revolution
by Pegah Ahangarani
Czech Republic, Spain (2026)
A bitter conflict between farmers and hunters in the French countryside becomes a darkly comic detective story when an investigation into a disappearance exposes a web of tangled local interests.
Too Many Beasts
by Sarah Arnold
France (2026)
In the aftermath of Denmark’s liberation in 1945, a young housemaid prepares to marry her wealthy employer while hiding her past relationship with a German soldier during the occupation.
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Woman Unknown
by May el-Toukhy
Denmark, Sweden, Latvia (2026)
