Call for entries: IBF Europe – Minority Co-Production

Through this call, the Fund seeks to encourage European producers to participate as minority co-producers in feature-length creative documentary projects by filmmakers from, living and working in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Oceania.  

Supporting projects at different stages of production, IBF Europe – Minority Co-Production offers contributions of up to €40,000 per project. For the upcoming selection round, projects must be in post-production, from the editing stage through to rough cut. This requirement is due to funding restrictions concerning confirmed financing and final delivery by December 2027. 

Recent films supported through this scheme include Do You Love Me (dir. Lana Daher), No Other Land (dir. Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, & Rachel Szor), Songs of Slow Burning Earth (dir. Olha Zhurba), The Brink of Dreams (dir. Nada Riyadh & Ayman El Amir) and Farming the Revolution (dir. Nishtha Jain).  

In line with the Fund’s commitment to strengthening independent documentary filmmaking and local production ecosystems, the selection committee will pay particular attention to projects involving producers from countries with limited national co-production funding schemes, or where producers have fewer opportunities to participate in international co-productions. Check the IBF Europe list of eligible countries to see if your project is eligible.

The deadline to enter a project for the upcoming selection round is January 15, 2027. For the regulations, entry form, and FAQs, please visit the IBF Europe page.

You can enter your documentary project to the IBF Europe grant program through your MyIDFA account.  For more information, check out our frequently asked questions or contact us at idfaberthafund@idfa.nl

IBF Europe is supported by the Creative Europe – MEDIA programme of the European Union. 

[Image: You Don't Die Two Times by Ager Oueslati]