NPM one-to-one 2026
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Filmmakers with a film in NPM Online, Closed Market Screening or attending the festival with an accreditation can request 15-minute meetings with the international market professionals and Nordic film institute representatives below. The list will be updated continuously. Availability is only for stakeholders attending the on site festival.
To request a meeting, send an email to Giulia Bracchi as soon as possible. Deadline is 2 Sept and on a first come, first served basis.
Please specify your arrival/departure and the order of wishes, if there is more than one Market Professional you’d like to book a meeting with. In order to match you accordingly, make sure to include details on the project/topic you’d like to have a meeting about. If the available time for a Stakeholder is not suitable, let us know and we will try to accommodate you if possible.
Market Professionals 2026
Dimitra Kouzi
Audience Strategist
Time Available upon request
Dimitra Kouzi is a filmmaker, producer, writer, and audience strategist drawn to cross-cultural stories that explore identity and belonging.
Sari Volanen
Buyer
Time available:
Saturday 19 Sept, 16.00-17.00
YLE
Yleisradio Oy, abbreviated as Yle is Finland’s national public broadcasting company. They have a strand for national and international short films.
Oskar Forstén
Film Commissioner
Time available:
Sunday 20 Sept, 11.00 – 12.00
(subject to change)
AVEK Audiovisual Centre
AVEK promotes cinema, video and television culture. The main emphasis of AVEK’s support is on creative documentaries, short fiction, animated films and media-art based productions.
Bernd Seidl
Commissioning Editor
Time available:
Sunday 20 Sept, 11.00 – 12.00
(subject to change)
ARD / SWR Südwestrundfunk
It is the second-largest broadcasting organization in Germany and the second-largest member within the ARD consortium.
Ben Thompson
VP, Shorts Programming
Time available:
Saturday 19 Sept, 15.45-17.00
Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Festival is an annual film festival organized by Tribeca Enterprises. It takes place each spring in New York City, showcasing a diverse selection of film, episodic, talks, music, games, art, and immersive programming.
Barbara Orlicz-Szczypula
Festival Director
Time Available upon request
Krakow Film Festival
Krakow Film Festival presents documentary, short fiction and animated films from all around the world. It is one of the Oscar and EFA qualifying festivals in the short and feature-length documentary categories.
Eroll Bilibani
Head of DokuLab
Time Available upon request
Dokufest
DokuFest, International Documentary and Short Film Festival, is the largest film festival in Kosovo. Each year the festival fills the cinemas and improvised screening venues around historic center of Prizren with a selection of more than 200 hand-picked films from around the world. Founded in 2002. DokuFest grew and expanded into the most important documentary and short film festival in Southeast Europe and from 2019 is a BAFTA qualifying festival for short films.
Aleksandra Derewienko
Head of Sales
Time available:
Saturday 19 Sept, 16.30-18.00
CAT&Docs
One of the leading sales agents for feature documentaries from all over the world. Looking for original documentaries, investigative documentaries, always associated with a high standard of content and form.
Lisa Nyed
Head of Documentary and International Relations
Time available:
Saturday 19 Sept, upon request
Film i Skåne
The regional resource and production center for film in Skåne, Sweden. Our mission is to promote film activities in Skåne and to increase growth in Skåne through film production.
Anna Leimbrinck
World Sales
Time available:
Saturday 19 Sept, 16.00-18.00
Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg e.V.
Since the middle of the nineties, we have been licensing usage rights of short films from our catalogue, which currently consists of circa 200 international films of all genres and subject matters. We add about 15 top quality current short films every year.
Anne Gaschütz
Festival Director at Filmfest Dresden / Short Film Programmer at Locarno Film Festival
Time available:
Saturday 19 Sept, 16.00-17.30
Sunday 20 Sept, 16.00-17.30
Filmfest Dresden
Dresden festival presents the best short films from around the world and attracts more than 20,000 visitors, including around 500 accredited guests. Since 1989, our festival has understood itself as a forum for political discourse and intercultural exchange.
Locarno Film Festival
Locarno Film Festival was born in the aftermath of the Second World War. It offered a stage for revival, freedom of art and expression for talents from all over the world eager to tell stories in new, different ways. Since its inception, Locarno has been home to the most daring, avant-garde, irreverent and innovative forms of films – screened in their uncut, uncensored versions.
Radka Weiserová
Festival Manager and Programmer
Time available:
Saturday 19 Sept, 16.00-17.30
Sunday 20 Sept, 16.00-17.30
Pragueshorts Film Festival
The Pragueshorts Film Festival is a competitive festival of short films. Its aim is to contribute to the development and promotion of artistic short films and their production.
Cord Dueppe
Acquisition Manager and Programmer
Time available:
Sunday, 20 Sept 16:00-17:30
Interfilm Berlin Short Film Distribution & Sales
Interfilm’s internationally operating short film sales and distribution agency has been established in 1999, offering an ever-expanding catalogue of internationally successful and outstanding short films to cinemas, TV, internet, educational, closed-circuit and other media worldwide. interfilm Berlin also hosts the Academy Award© qualifying interfilm Berlin International Short Film Festival, one of the biggest festivals for short film, operating since 1982.
Line Klungseth Johansen
Festival Programmer
Time available:
Sunday, 20 Sept 16:00-17:30
Minimalen Short Film Festival
Minimalen is an annual, independent film event, covering new productions from Norway, Scandinavia and the rest of the world. Over six days of January, Minimalen screens approx. 250 shorts, roughly divided in two sections: New Norwegian, Nordic and International shorts in seven competitions, and retrospectives and focus programmes.
Hanna Sohlberg
co-production executive Feature Film and TV-Drama
Time available: 20 – 21 Sept, upon request
Film i Skåne
The regional resource and production center for film in Skåne, Sweden. Our mission is to promote film activities in Skåne and to increase growth in Skåne through film production.
Emilia Mazik
Head of Industry
Time available:
Sunday, 20 Sept 16:00-17:30
Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen
Go Short is the platform for short film in the Netherlands – where talent, innovation and stories come together. With festivals, workshops and events connecting filmmakers, audiences and the industry.
Emīls Alps
Festival Producer
Time available:
Saturday 19 Sept, 16.00 – 17.00
2ANNAS International Short Film festival
Riga International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS is the oldest and one of the most important short film festivals in the Baltic States.
Jenny Luukkonen
Co-production Executive – Talent & Documentary
Time available: Upon request
Film i Väst
Film i Väst is Scandinavia’s leading co-producer of Swedish and international feature films, drama series, documentaries and shorts, with over 1,600 co-productions since its inception in 1992.
Klara Nilsson Grunning
Film Consultant – Documentary, fiction, games
Time available:
Saturday 19 Sept, 15.30-17.00
Vestnorsk Filmsenter
VNFS is a publically funded regional Norwegian film fund script, development, production and co-production of fiction, documentary, series and games.
Wiebke Johanna Jung
Head of International Competition
Time available:
Saturday 19 Sept, 16.00-17.30
Sunday: 20 Sept, 16.00 – 17.00
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen is a German film festival for short films held in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia. Founded in 1954 it is one of the oldest short film festivals in the world and one of the major international platforms for the short form.
Nordic Film Institute Representatives
Mira Bach Hansen
Festival Manager, Documentary films
Danish Film Institute
Elisabeth Aalmo
Advisor, Documentary films
Norwegian Film Institute
Arna Marie Bersaas
Senior Advisor, Short Films
Norwegian Film Institute
Sara Rüster
Festival Advisor, Documentary films
The Swedish Film Institute
Otto Suuronen
Advisor / International Promotion and Cultural Export of Short Films
Finnish Film Foundation
Suvi Railo
Advisor / International Promotion and Cultural Export of Documentary Films
Finnish Film Foundation
