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A look back at m:brane 2025

We want to take the chance to say a BIG thank you to everyone who took part in the 19th m:brane forum — Pitch Teams, Decision Makers, Experts, Our Youth Experts, Speakers, Moderators, and all professionals who came to Malmö to be inspired and, hopefully met someone they might end up collaborating with in the future. Sometimes it’s those sudden and unexpected meetings that spark the best ideas and of course the structured One-to-One meetings between Decision Makers and producers.

m:brane is all about the personal meetings and strengthening, renewing or establishing: Business for Art’s Sake.

We all seemed to be thrilled about our new venue: Studio Meeting Point – and yes, it’s already booked for the 20th m:brane – The Anniversary – in 2026.

The Management of m:brane also wants to say a huge thank you to our brilliant team as well as to our tech team LIVE LIGHT keeping us calm, year after year.

Don’t miss our short mood film from the forum – see for yourself below!

So it’s time to say: We cannot wait to see you all next year March 9th-12th 2026.

Reflections from m:brane 2025

A big THANK YOU to videographer and youth expert Jonna Kainulainen for creating the m:brane 2025 films and capturing the forum through her lens.

Jonna Kainulainen

Jonna Kainulainen

Videographer and Youth Expert

Some Fantastic Numbers

192 delegates from 22 countries:
Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Finland, The Netherlands, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia,Armenia, Poland, Germany, France, UK, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Switzerland, Italy, Nepal, Canada and the Czech Republic.
34 projects in development for young audiences were pitched or otherwise presented at the forum.
302 One-to-One meetings between Decision Makers/ Experts and producers with upcoming projects.
Projects with a total sum of 46,7 Million Euro
Four concluded immersive projects were presented during the panel ” Diving into the unknown and unseen: Science for the Senses”.
The 11th documentary workshop REALYOUNG©
10 Youth Experts
New venue – Altitude Studio Meetingpoint.

Congratulations to the winners

Best Pitch Award 2025 - JORDAN - Newsletter # 64

Best Pitch Award (€2,500): Atchy Konesh (Norway) for Jordan

Jury: Tone Mygind Rostbøll, Head of programme Buster Filmfestival (DK), Håkan Bjerking, Producer Screenwriter (SE) and Flippa Krisby, Youth Expert (SE).

Motivation: Atchy Konesh gave an outstanding pitch of Jordan starting with a black screen and just dialogue, pulled us in and and left us longing for more. With absolute confidence he presented a story that was both personal and political without lecturing us. Atchy personifies participation instead of just representation. A worthy winner of the m:brane pitch prize 2025.

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New Images XR Market Paris Exchange Award:

Automat, Production company Filmgarnitur, Germany

YOUNG HORIZONS EXCHANGE AWARD 2025 - STEEL HEARTS'

Young Horizons Exchange Award:

Steel Hearts, producer Linni Rita Gad

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6th Forum of Documentary Film for Young Audiences, Warsaw Exchange Award:

Automat, Production company Filmgarnitur, Germany

From Vision to World Premiere

The documentary The Mountain Won’t Move, directed by Petra Seliškar (Slovenia) just recently had its World Premiere at Vision du Réel in France.

The project was a part of 2019 Realyoung^©.

Its always a thrill to follow a project from start to finish! Congratulations from all of us at m:brane!

Welcome back March 9th – 12th 2026!