All projects will be presented exclusively to EWIP guests and the international jury in 15-minute pitchings. Furthermore there will be direct meetings between film makers and producers, distributors, world sales and other supporters organized by EWIP. EWIP guarantees a innovative and successful connections between important colleagues of the international film industry. The
opportunity to invest and license film projects this early provides a unique time advantage to EWIP participants.
Many former EWIP participants have premiered at Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Sundance, San Sebastián, Rotterdam, Toronto and other highly renowned international film festivals, where they
were able to secure important deals with world sales and distributors. Among them are A USEFUL GHOST by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke and SLEEPLESS CITY by Guillermo Galoe, which were part of last year’s EWIP and both just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival Critic’s Week, where A USEFUL GHOST has been awarded with the Grand Prize. The feature film WHAT MARIELLE KNOWS by Frédéric Hambalek had its premiere in competition of this year’s Berlinale and the documentary film I WANT IT ALL by Luzia Schmid celebrated its premiere in Berlinale’s Panorama Section. Both were selected for EWIP in 2024.
EWIP will again shine a light on African cinema as it has done in 2024 with projects hailing from Nigeria, Cameroon and Kenya. This year two African co-Productions will be featured at EWIP:
AVENIR (Burkina Faso) and GUARDIAN OF THE ISLAND (Ethiopia).
EWIP will give out awards this year totaling a prize sum of 140.000 Euro. That translates to an increase of 75.000 Euro compared to last year. The award ceremony will take place on Tuesday,
30th of September 2025 at 7:00 pm.
For the first time EWIP will be held in Hamburg as part of the FILMFEST HAMBURG INDUSTRY DAYS in cooperation with FILMFEST HAMBURG and MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg
Schleswig-Holstein. Thanks to this new partnership EWIP continues to grow and further expands its standing as a trailblazing event. Lately the sales company OneGate Media has become a
strong partner of EWIP. Furthermore the company alliance “Northern Stars – Hamburg Film Partners“, consisting of Loft Tonstudios, CineGate, Zeigermann_Audio, Optical Arts and
Zeitkostüm GmbH will be first time EWIP-sponsors. Other new sponsors include post production specialists The Post Republic and VFX experts D-Facto Motion. EWIP will also be supported by longstanding partners K13 Studios, Gruvi, WayFilm and mm filmpresse.
