May 8, 2026 3:46am PT

Pawel Pawlikowski, Lukas Dhont, Rodrigo Sorogoyen Among 4,700 Signatories of Open Letter Sounding Alarm Ahead of Cannes Over Planned EU Film Funding Overhaul

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Cannes-bound directors Pawel Pawlikowski (“Fatherland”), Lukas Dhont (“Coward”) and Rodrigo Sorogoyen (“The Beloved”) are among the more than 4,700 film personalities who have signed an open letter calling for the European Union to backpedal on its plans to make major changes to its Creative Europe funding program by combining its culture and media strands under the so-called AgoraEU initiative.

What they claim is at stake is the future of Creative Europe’s MEDIA Program that has been a crucial EU film and TV industry driver for the past 35 years, having backed recent Oscar winners such as “Sentimental Value,” “Mr Nobody against Putin,” “Flow,” “Anatomy of a Fall” and “The Favourite.”