
In collaboration with the Sundance Film Festival and with the support of Creative Europe MEDIA of the European Union, EFP provides a meeting space for the European film industry at the DoubleTree Hotel, The Yarrow, to promote and celebrate the diversity of European cinema.
EFP features European films and the European industry at the festival. All Europeans (filmmakers, producers, sales companies, institutions and press) are warmly welcome to come by and use the HUB as a meeting point. The EUROPE Hub is located in the DoubleTree Hilton Hotel (The Yarrow), 1800 Park Avenue, Park City, and is open from Thursday to Monday, 18-22 January, daily from 9 am to 6 pm.
Films from Norway, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium and Austria are running in the different sections of the festival and will be highlighted at the HUB:
A New Kind of Wilderness
Silje Evensmo Jacobsens
Norway
A portrait of the Payne family who live isolated in a forest in Norway and try to be wild and free. A tragic fate changes everything, and the family is forced to adapt to modern society.
(World Cinema Documentary Competition, Norwegian Film Institute)
àma Gloria
Marie Amachoukeli
France
Six year old Cléo loves her nanny Gloria more than anything. When Gloria must suddenly return to Cape Verde to care for her own children, Cléo makes her promise that they will see each other very soon. Gloria invites Cléo to her island and the two must make the most of their last summer together. Powerful through the impressive performance of Louise Mauroy-Panzani as Cléo. (Spotlight, North American Premiere, Unifrance)
Eternal You
Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck
Germany, USA
The film explores whether AI-created digital avatars enable mourners to communicate with their deceased loved ones and what happens when the dream of immortality is turned into a product. (World Cinema Documentary Competition, German Films)
Krazy House
Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil
The Netherlands
In the 1990s, house builder Bernie and his family suddenly discover that the workmen in his house are Russian criminals who want to tear the house apart in search of loot.
(Midnight, World Premiere, SEE NL/The Netherlands)
Reinas
Klaudia Reynicke
Switzerland, Peru, Spain
Set against the backdrop of social and political chaos in Lima in the summer of 1992, the film follows Lucia, Aurora and their mother Elena as they plan to leave the city and find a new home in the United States. Their farewell involves reconnecting with their estranged father, adding turbulence to the regrets, hopes, and fears of their emotional departure.
(World Cinema Dramatic Competition, Swiss Films)
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Johan Grimonprez
Belgium, France, The Netherlands
In a mix of African-American jazz music, griot lyrics, eyewitness accounts, official government transcripts and testimonies from CIA operatives, this film sheds light on one of the most insidious political intrigues of the 20th century: how the Belgian monarchy, the United States government and multinational corporations collaborated to use art institutions and legendary jazz musicians as a cover for covert operations to assassinate the Congo’s first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba.
(World Cinema Documentary Competition, Flanders Image/Belgium)
Veni Vidi Vici
Daniel Hoesl and Julia Niemann
Austria
As in their film Davos (2020) the directors once again deal with the power of money in their latest film. hey tell the story of the billionaire Manyards family, whose wealth allows them to lead a life free of consequences – even when the head of the family, a passionate hunter, doesn’t shoot any animals.
(World Cinema Dramatic Competition, Austrian Films)
To round off its promotion activities for European cinema at Sundance, EFP is awarding Film Sales Support (FSS) to three European world sales companies, giving their films a good promotional head-start at the festival for sales to countries outside of Europe.
FSS is backing the marketing campaigns of autlook filmsales, representing the documentary Ibelin by Benjamin Ree (Norway), Mediawan promoting Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat by Johan Grimonprez (Belgium) and The Yellow Affair for Klaudia Reynicke’s film Reinas. Support for Reinas is covered by SWISS FILMS.
The complete list of European Films at Sundance by country:
Austria
World Premiere
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Veni Vidi Vici
by Daniel Hoesl, Julia Niemann
Austria
world Sales: Magnify
Short
Bye Bye, Bowser
by Jasmin Baumgartner
Austria
Belgium
World Premiere
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Soundtrack to a Coup d‘Etat
by Johan Grimonprez
Belgium, France, The Netherlands
World Sales: Mediawan Rights
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Sebastian
by Mikko Mäkelä
UK, Finland, Belgium world sales
World Sales: LevelK
Short, Documentary
Object 817
by Olga Lucovnicova
Estonia
World Premiere
Short
Miisufy
by Liisi Grünberg
Estonia
contact: AAAcreative.ee
Finland
World Premiere
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Sebastian
by Mikko Mäkelä
UK, Finland, Belgium
world sales: LevelK
France
World Premieres
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Brief History of a Family
by Jianjie Lin
China, France, Denmark, Qatar
world sales: Films Boutique
Girls Will Be Girls
by Shuchi Talati
India, France, Norway
world sales: Luxbox
In the Land of Brothers
by Raha Amirfazli, Alireza Ghasemi
Iran, France, The Netherlands
world sales: Alpha Violet
Sujo
by Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez
Mexico, USA, France
world sales: Alpha Violet
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Soundtrack to a Coup d‘Etat
by Johan Grimonprez
Belgium, France, The Netherlands
world sales: Mediawan Rights
Midnight
Kidnapping
by Bruno Mourral
Haiti, France, Canada
contact: Muska Films
North American Premiere
Spotlight
àma Gloria
by Marie Amachoukeli
France
world sales: Pyramide International
Short
Voice Ever
by Céline Perreard, Pauline Archange France
contact: Grec
Short, Animation
27
by Flóra Anna Buda
France, Hungary
world sales: Miyo Distribution
Germany
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Eternal You
by Moritz Riesewieck, Hans Block
Germany, USA
world sales: Dogwoof
Premiere
The Outrun
by Nora Fingscheidt
UK, Germany
world sales: Protagonist Features
Short, Animation
Baigal Nuur – Lake Baikal
by Alisi Telengut
Germany, Canada
contact: Concordia.ca
Greece
Short
Phoebe
by Vaggelio Soumeli
Greece, Cyprus
AMP Filmworks
Hungary
World Premiere
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Agent of Happiness
by Arun Bhattarai, Dorotta Zurbó
Bhutan, Hungary
contact: Match Frame Productions
Short, Animation
27
by Flóra Anna Buda
France, Hungary
world sales: Miyo Distribution
Ireland
World Premiere
NEXT
Kneecap
by Rich Peppiatt
Ireland, UK
world sales: Charades
The Netherlands
World Premieres
Midnight
Krazy House
by Flip van der Kuil, Steffen Haars
The Netherlands
world sales: XYZ Film
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
In the Land of Brothers
by Raha Amirfazli, Alireza Ghasemi
Iran, France, The Netherlands
world sales: Alpha Violet
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Soundtrack to a Coup d‘Etat
by Johan Grimonprez
Belgium, France, The Netherlands
world sales: Mediawan Rights
Norway
World Premieres
World Cinema Documentary Competition
A New Kind of Wilderness
by Silje Evensmo Jacobsen
Norway
world sales: DR Sales
Ibelin
by Benjamin Ree Norway
world sales: Autlook Filmsales
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Handling the Undead
by Thea Hvistendahl
Norway
world sales: TrustNordisk
Girls Will Be Girls
by Shuchi Talati
India, France, Norway
world sales: Luxbox
Poland
World Premiere
US Dramatic Competitin
A Real Pain
by Jesse Eisenberg
USA, Poland
contact: Topic Studios
Short, Animation
Martyr‘s Guidebook
by Maks Rzontkowski Poland
contact: robocik2.com
Spain
World Premiere
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Reinas
by Klaudia Reynicke
Switzerland, Peru, Spain
world sales: The Yellow Affair
Episodic
La Mesías
by Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi
Spain
contact: Movistar Plus+
Short
The Masterpiece
by Alex Lora Cercos Spain
Switzerland
World Premiere
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Reinas
by Klaudia Reynicke
Switzerland, Peru, Spain
contact: The Yellow Affair
Short, Animation
Matta and Matto
by Bianca Caderas, Kerstin Zemp
Switzerland
world sales: Sudu Connexion, Ouat Media
Short
Terra Mater
by Kantarama Gahigiri
Switzerland, Rwanda
world sales: Sudu Connexion, Ouat Medi
EFP (European Film Promotion) is the international network of the national film promotion agencies from 37 countries throughout Europe, representing their national films and talent abroad, in particular outside of Europe.
The EUROPE! HUB at Sundance 2024 is made possible thanks to the support from the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of the European Union and the participating national film promotion agencies: Austrian Films, Flanders Image/Belgium, German Films, Norwegian Film Institute, SEE NL/The Netherlands, Swiss Films, Unifrance