Schedule 2025

European Work in Progress x International Film Distribution Summit 30 Sep. & 1 Oct. 2025

11:15 – 12:00 pm / Tuesday 30 September 2025	WARM-UP PANELS – Case Study I
	Case Study I: Best Practices – International Distribution & Marketing Strategies for European Arthouse Cinema illustrated via Creative Europe MEDIA funded films: OSLO STORIES Guests: Maren Kroymann (m-appel, World sales) Anne-Cécile Rolland (Pyramide Films, France) Jelena Schryro & Julia Langhof (Alamode Film, Germany) Anastasia Plazzotta, (Wanted, Italy) In collaboration with Creative Europe Desks Germany and International Film Distribution Summit
11:00 – 11:45 am / Wednesday 1 October 2025	WARM-UP PANELS – Case Study II
	Case Study II: Best Practices – International Distribution & Marketing Strategies for European Arthouse Cinema illustrated via Creative Europe MEDIA funded films: FLOW Guests: Joseph Péry (Charades, World sales) Gog Hakheyan (UFO Distribution, France) Emily Meinke (MFA Film, Germany) Beatrice Gulino (Teodora Film, Italy) Karolina Sienkiewicz (So FILMS, Poland) In collaboration with Creative Europe Desks Germany and International Film Distribution Summit

International Film Distribution Summit / Day 1 / 1 Oct. 2025

09:00 am	MOINmosa  Industry reception hosted by Filmfest Hamburg Industry Days By invitation Location: Mozartsäle
from 10:30 am	Accredition IFDS
11:00 – 11:45 am	Case Study II: Best Practices – International Distribution & Marketing Strategies for European Arthouse Cinema illustrated via Creative Europe MEDIA funded films: FLOW Guests: Joseph Péry (Charades, World sales) Gog Hakheyan (UFO Distribution, France) Emily Meinke (MFA Film, Germany) Beatrice Gulino (Teodora Film, Italy) Karolina Sienkiewicz (So FILMS, Poland) In collaboration with Creative Europe Desks Germany and International Film Distribution Summit
12:00 – 12:15 pm	IFDS Official Opening
12:15 – 1:00 pm	KEYNOTE #1  Marcin Adamczak, CEO & Adrianna Woroch, Marketing Specialist  VELVET SPOON, Poland Marketing Strategies Outside the Box
1:00 – 1:45 pm	KEYNOTE #2  Linda Fiolka, Head of Marketing & Eric Lehmann, Head of Digital Marketing CONSTANTIN FILM VERLEIH, Germany Spotlight to Box Office: Turning Attention into Ticket Sales
1:45 – 2:30 pm	Lunch Break / Snacks
2:30 – 3:15 pm	KEYNOTE #3  Florent Lamy, CEO ELEV8ON, France Casting for European vs. US Films – Strategic Approaches for Production and Distribution In collaboration with Explorer Konferenz
3:15 – 4:00 pm	KEYNOTE #4 Geminiano Pineda, CEO CINE CANÍBAL, Mexico The power of auteur cinema at the Latin American box office
3:45 – 4:15 pm	Coffee break
4:15 – 5:00 pm	KEYNOTE #5 Bernd Zickert, General Manager, Germany, Austria, Netherlands & Turkey & Nathalie Kaiser, Manager Statistics and Research COMSCORE, Germany From intuition to precision: Own your audience, a data-driven approach Focusing on survey results for SOUND OF FALLING audiences
5:00 – 5:45 pm	KEYNOTE #6  Juan Pablo Oviedo, Founder THE CONNECTOR, Spain Scrolling the Red Carpet: Reinventing Film PR in the Social Age
5:45 – 6:00 pm	Short Coffee Break
6:00 – 7:00 pm	MASTERCLASS by IFDS Award Winner

7:15 pm

IFDS Dinner

9:00 pm

Award Ceremony Best International Innovation Distribution Award In collaboration with Hamburg Filmfest Industry Days  The Hamburg Producers Awards and the Arthouse Cinema Award from the International Association of Art Cinemas (CICAE) will be presented during the evening.

International Film Distribution Summit / Day 2 / 2 Oct. 2025

9:30 – 10:15 am	KEYNOTE #7  Hoàng Đình Vũ, Head of Digital BHD, Vietnam How to buzz your Film Marketing with Social Media – a story from Vietnam
10:15 – 10:45 am	KEYNOTE #8 Rémi Tereszkiewicz, CEO Data & Media BetaSeries SAS, France The Stats: Tracking Trends, Meaning & Marketing In collaboration with Explorer Konferenz
10:45 am	Coffee Break
11:00 am	Official Ending of IFDS The programme will be continued as Explorer Konferenz in CinemaxX Dammtor. Your IFDS accreditation gives you access to the programme. Please find further information on the Explorer Konferenz detailed agenda here: www.explorer-konferenz.de