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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS / HAMBURG SEPT.2026

🎬 Get ready!

This coming September, Futura Cinema is organizing a special event in Hamburg in collaboration with FILMFEST HAMBURG, CICAE - Arthouse Cinema, and the Grand Est Region.

Six innovative projects from the current cohort will be presented through real-world experiments and pitch sessions before a jury of industry professionals.

Do you represent a movie theater, a cultural venue, or an organization dedicated to bringing cultural works to audiences? Are you available on September 29 and 30, 2026? Come discover, test, and evaluate innovative projects for film exhibition and audience development!

We would be delighted to have you on our jury.

📅 Apply by July 10 via our call for applications.

✨ Up to 15 selected participants will receive partial coverage of their expenses (travel or lodging; see the call for applications for details and eligibility requirements).

✨Up to 5 CICAE members and 5 cinemas from the Grand Est region will receive full coverage (transportation and lodging).

BUILDING INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TOGETHER

Futura Cinema is a European programme dedicated to innovation in the film industry.

We support project developers and cultural venues in imagining, testing and deploying new technological, cultural, social and sustainable solutions.

Our vision is to cross-fertilise practices and ideas between the cinema and other sectors!

Our partners & supporters

Every year, Futura Cinema works with a wide range of partners, festivals, public institutions, film, tech and digital organisations and structures.

Here are our first partners for this 4th edition, who will soon be joined by others!

Contact our team and let's talk about your projects!

Find out more about the partners of previous editions and our ecosystem on the dedicated page.