How will it be working five years from now? How do we fund arthouse storytelling when all the windows are changing? Answers in our informative and passionate sessions on July 7 and July 9!

Nostradamus Report 2021: Transforming Storytelling Together
10:00 Palais Stage (Palais -1) and online, July 7

In an engaging talk, industry analyst Johanna Koljonen updates the eighth annual Nostradamus report specifically for Cannes. She discusses changing structures, global trends, new production technology, and audience behaviours, describing both what outcomes are known, and where our choices in the next few years will shape the industry for decades.

Speaker: Johanna Koljonen, Screen industry analyst, Participation Design Agency
Moderator: Wendy Mitchell

Film’s Financial Ecosystem in an Uncertain Future
10:45 Palais Stage (Palais -1) and online, July 7

How do we fund arthouse storytelling when all the windows are changing, the actual value of any individual property or right is almost impossible to ascertain, and costs of production are both rising and falling at the same time? Experts with perspectives on public funding, sales, distribution and exhibition discuss the current funding ecosystem as well as the five-year view.

Speakers: Roberto Olla, Executive Director, Eurimages, Helene Aurø, Sales & Marketing Director, REinvent Studios, Jakob Abrahamsson, President & CEO, Non Stop Entertainment, Johanna Koljonen, Screen industry analyst, Participation Design Agency
Moderator: Wendy Mitchell

The Nostradamus report is commissioned by the Göteborg Film Festival; the project’s main partner is Film i Väst.

Democratic perspectives on global film funding
10:00 Marina stage and online, July 9

Göteborg Film Fund 2021 is a recently launched initiative from Göteborg Film Festival, supported by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as a part of the government’s special ”drive for” democracy. During 2021 the fund will target four regions with different challenges and preconditions: Brazil, Sudan, Ukraine and Kurdish filmmakers in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria.

Meet Hajooj Kuka, filmmaker from Sudan, Camilla Larsson, Fund Manager, Göteborg Film Festival and Isabel Arrate Fernandez, Managing Director, IDFA Bertha Fund, in a discussion on film funding challenges, how foreign funding affects local industry, and the role of moving images in a democratic society.
Moderator: Jonas Holmberg, Artistic director, Göteborg Film Festival

An accreditation to Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes is required to access all seminars.