MIDPOINT Institute

🔈Open Call for MIDPOINT Shorts is now open!

Do you have a short film idea? MIDPOINT Shorts supports script and project development for short films in Europe and helps emerging filmmakers connect with the industry. ✨

What will you gain?
✺ Develop your script and project through two workshops and online consultations
✺ Showcase your project at WEMW in Trieste

Guided by our amazing tutors:
✺ Pavel Marek & Gabriele Brunnenmeyer — Group Leaders & Script Consultants
✺ Dora Nedeczky — Producer Tutor

Dates & venues:
✺ Online Feedback Session | July 29-31, 2026
✺ Workshop 1 | October 12–18, 2026 (5 working days) | Brno, Czech Republic
in collaboration with ISFF BRNO16
✺ Online Consultations | December 2026
✺ Workshop 2 | January 2027 (6 working days, exact dates TBC) | Trieste, Italy
in collaboration with When East Meets West & Trieste Film Festival

Application deadline: 15 June, 2026

For more details and to apply, visit our website.

Huge thanks to our funders Creative Europe MEDIA, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, and the Czech Audiovisual Fund, and to our partners When East Meets West, Trieste Film Festival, International Short Film Festival BRNO16, and collaborators SFC | Rendez-vous Industry, In the Paláce ISFF and ERIAC European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture for making another year of the programme possible.

✨Huge congratulations to our MIDPOINT Shorts alumni – directors: Wannes Vanspauwen and Pol De Plecker, and producer Jules Mathôt – on the selection of their short film Pithead for the Directors’ Fortnight at the Festival de Cannes 2026.

We are incredibly proud and wish them great success in Cannes!🎬

✨We’re thrilled to announce the four projects selected for the first edition of the MIDPOINT Climate Transformative Narrative Workshop 2026! 🌿

A three-day creative lab within MIDPOINT HOMECOMING, designed for creators exploring how environmental, climate-related, and socially impactful themes can be integrated into compelling stories — for both series and feature projects.🎬

A huge thank you to our program funders: , European Climate Foundation, the Czech Audiovisual Fund, and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.

🔗 More information about the program and selected projects: https://www.midpoint-institute.eu/en/detail/midpoint-climate-transformative-narrative-workshop-7gu5nY