Submissions for the MIA 2026 Film Co-Production Market are now closed.
For the next edition of MIA, the Film Co-Production Market will select up to 25 titles in development – including both animation and live-action projects – coming from all around the world: the selected projects will be presented in a dedicated pitching session and will be supported by the MIA|Film team in planning their one-on one, tailor-made agenda of business meetings.
The call for applications has closed on July 10th, 2026 at 5pm CEST.
Established as a benchmark for the European and International players, over the past editions the Film Co-Production Market has successfully led more than 50% of the selected films to their completion. Among them, to quote only a few, more recent titles:
NOMAD SHADOW by Eimi Imanishi (Toronto 2025), FORASTERA by Lucia Alenar Iglesias (Toronto 2025), IT’S A SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD by Cyril Aris (Venice Film Festival 2025, Giornate degli Autori), MY UNCLE JENS by Brwa Vahabpour (SXSW 2025), ALL SHALL BE WELL by Ray Yeung (Berlin Film Festival, Panorama section, 2024), ANIMAL by Sofia Exarchou (Locarno Film Festival and Sarajevo Film Festival, 2023), THE BEAUTIFUL SUMMER by Laura Luchetti (Locarno Film Festival 2023), MAMACRUZ by Patricia Ortega (Sundance Film Festival 2023), BRUJERÍA by Christopher Murray (Göteborg and Sundance Film Festivals 2023), PLUS QUE JAMAIS by Emily Atef (Cannes 2022, Un certain regard), DALVA by Emmanuelle Nicot (Cannes 2022, Semaine de la critique), AURORA’S SUNRISE by Inna Sahakyan (Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Goteborg Film Festival, Tallinn Film Festival, 2022), BROADWAY by Christos Massalas (IFFR Rotterdam 2022), THE NIGHTSIREN by Tereza Nvotová (Locarno 2022, Cineasti del Presente competition), CRYPTOZOO by Dash Shaw (NEXT Innovator Award at Sundance Film Festival 2021), LIBERTAD by Clara Roquet (Cannes 2021, Semaine de la critique), ASSANDIRA by Salvatore Mereu (Out of Competition, Venice 77, 2020), YALDA, A NIGHT FOR FORGIVENESS by Massoud Bakhshi (World Cinema Dramatic Award at Sundance 2020), THE ROADS NOT TAKEN by Sally Potter (Berlinale 2020), DIGGER by Georgis Grigorakis (Berlinale 2020), THE PENULTIMATE by Jonas Kærup Hjort (Tallinn 2020), EDEN by Agnes Kocscis (Rotterdam Film Festival 2020).
Alumni of Rome’s co-pro market also include: Agnieszka Holland, Joe Dante, Paddy Considine, Ritesh Batra, Jia Zhang-ke, Sheng Zhimin, Diego Lerman, Kadri Kousaar, Stephen Burke, Katarzyna Roslaniec, Alvaro Brechner, and of course some of the most interesting Italian names (Marco Bellocchio, Matteo Botrugno and Daniele Coluccini, Alessio Cremonini, Duccio Chiarini, Edoardo De Angelis, Laura Luchetti, Franco Maresco, Manetti Bros, Valerio Mieli, Salvatore Mereu among others).
If you have doubts, questions, or if you need further information, please get in contact with us writing to filmcopro@miamarket.it.
