The 11th annual Screen Talent Europe Pitching Forum will take place on Thursday, June 11th, at the Norwegian Short Film Festival in Grimstad. Emerging filmmakers from across Europe will present their projects. The winner will receive a €4,000 production grant!
During the forum, participants will also take part in training sessions and networking opportunities as part of the festival program.
Here are the selected filmmakers for 2026. Read more about the participants and their projects below.
Lilli Pink is a filmmaker and a DJ based in Hamburg and Berlin. Her work has been recognized at numerous festivals. She has been selected for the 2026 Talent Program of the MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein. Lilli is drawn to character-driven storytelling that explores the human experience in all its contradictions. Her films linger with their characters, observing their inner life through an expressionistic approach.
After the death of her brother, Alice seeks answers and connection at an underground techno festival. When she gets the chance to perform with their shared music, she is forced to confront her guilt and grief.
Sebastian Vetter studied acting on a tiny island in Northern Germany. After four years, he moved to Hamburg to found the production company „rumor» for NGO media and theatre trailers. His 18 min short „NAJA!“ (2026) marked the shift towards fiction film. «22 Knots» (WT) is his second professional short.
In a community dominated by superficial coolness and subtle rivalry, two kitesurfers develop a friendship defying conventional categories.
Debora is an award-winning writer and director working between fiction and documentary. She is drawn to character-driven storytelling that explores performance as a survival strategy within systems that shape, mediate and commodify inner life. Her short film You Land, commissioned by the British Film Institute and Screen Scotland, received a BAFTA Scotland nomination in 2024. She is currently developing her first feature-length project.
On her first day presenting a live shopping channel, a single mother must perform composure while a childcare emergency threatens to unravel her life offscreen.
Rory Asquith is a filmmaker originally from Australia, now living in Gothenburg, Sweden. His work often interrogates the self and the complexities of human behaviour through a film language that is provocative, raw, and laced with humour. He explores themes of identity, prejudice, power, and accountability, pushing audiences to confront uncomfortable truths that may also reside within themselves.
Anastasia, a depressed, privileged teenager crosses to the poorer side of Gothenburg to buy weed, using her estranged friend’s harsher reality as a playground.
Julia Ammouri explores personal and collective experiences, political and societal structures through intimate, character-driven stories. Her short film My Damn Assignment (2025) premiered at Göteborg Film Festival and screened at festivals across Sweden. She graduated in 2025 with a Bachelor’s degree in directing from Stockholm University of the Arts, where she directed her thesis film Sing My Song (2026), which has been selected for festivals including Malmö Arab Film Festival. She is currently developing several short and long-form projects, including her upcoming short fiction The Youth Shelter 1982, selected for the BUFF Pitch in March 2026.
1982. In a youth shelter, a long-awaited letter from home brings devastating news, forcing 17-year-old Jawad to navigate a grief he does not yet know how to express—testing his place in the community and the bond he shares with his roommate Eddie.
Joaquim Berglund is a Malmö- and Copenhagen-based director and screenwriter. He graduated from the fiction direction program at The National Filmschool of Denmark (2021-2025) with his thesis film Remains. His films are sensory experiences that depict different types of borderlands: between fiction and documentary, between the inner and the outer, between life and death.
When Oskar (13) accidentally sees his parents’ sex-tape on the family-camera during a camping trip, the facade which the adults have constructed around him crumbles and shines a light on what really happens behind closed doors.
Director and co-producer Karel Konings was born in Belgian Limburg and earned his Master’s degree in Engineering at KU Leuven. As he did not feel fully fulfilled by that career path, he decided to study at the Amsterdam University of the Arts. During his studies, he discovered his passion for storytelling and filmmaking. His most recent short film, Vogelkooi (Birdcage), won the BeTV Award at BIFFF 2024 and was screened at genre festivals such as Fantasia and Imagine. Later that year, he worked as production coordinator on IJswater Films’ documentary Blue Notes & Higher Grounds. His latest short film, How to Use the Ghost of a Dead Tour Guide to Launch an Energy Drink, is currently in distribution.
A young climate activist wants to protect the forest of her childhood from the expansion of a local factory, but everything becomes more complicated when she discovers that her father is taking part in its destruction.
Ivo is a documentary filmmaker who creates intimate, human-centered stories grounded in personal and local realities. With an observational style focused on trust and emotional closeness, he explores broader social themes through small, authentic moments.
Inside a Dutch prison, an inmate is matched with a dog that is hard to handle. What begins as a task of discipline becomes an intimate confrontation, as the animal’s boundaries guide the inmate toward reflection and the possibility of change.
Lewis Doherty is queer Irish producer/director whose socially driven practice explores queerness, conflict, faith and class through ethnographic and archival documentary. With a career spanning film, TV, and documentary with credits on major unscripted productions such as Britain’s Got Talent, The Voice and more they now work as a Development Researcher at the BAFTA Award Winning Nine Lives Media.
After 8 years trapped on the waiting list for gender-affirming care, a charity worker and activist’s fight to end the Northern Irish trans healthcare crisis is revitalised by the discovery of a lost trans ancestor.
Marius is a trained screenwriter and works as a freelancer in the film and TV industry in Norway. In recent years, he has worked as a line producer, production manager, and producer on a range of small and large projects. Mariustakes great pleasure in facilitating the process of bringing both his own and others’ projects to life.
Marius project:
A young woman has mastered the skill of making other men feel seen, through fleeting encounters. But the more she fulfills others, the emptier herself becomes.
Liv Ingrid is an emerging filmmaker interested in stories about identity, relationships, and emotional complexity. She is naturally lively and expressive, and love connecting with people. At the same time she’s drawn to what people don’t always show. Through her work, explore that contrast by creating character-driven stories that balance darker themes with humor and honesty.
When Mie and Romeo fall into an intimate romance, Mie is torn between holding onto love and revealing the truth she fears could shatter it: her identity as a trans woman.
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The Pitching Forum is organized by Mediefabrikken, the Screen Talent Europe partners, and the Norwegian Short Film Festival.
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