Network meeting in Cannes: MOIN Benelux!

23.05.2019 | Co-production breakfast

Around 150 national and international Executive Producers met last Sunday for Focus Germany's traditional co-production breakfast. This time, the focus was on the Benelux countries.

Executive Producers from Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg met German producers in the German Pavilion at the Croisette. The morning breakfast was organised by the new Nordlichter and FFHSH CEOHelge Albers who brought the Hamburg weather with him to France. On behalf of the heads of the eight largest German film funding organisations, he welcomed the guests in attendance, including Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel.

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