Minority co-production support is opened in two categories

• Fiction and documentary film
• Animated film and series

 

Minority co-production – Fiction and documentary film

• Annual budget: EUR 2,0 million (CZK 50 million)
• Type of support: Selective scheme
• Two application deadlines per year (next calls announced in December 2025 & July 2026)
• Applications evaluated and selected by a separate Film Council

What we support

• Theatrical fiction films and documentary films (features & shorts *)
• Films at least partially produced in the Czech Republic using Czech goods and services
• Films produced using Czech goods and services, regardless of where they are produced

​Aspects considered by the fund´s Film Council in evaluating the projects:

• Overall artistic quality and innovativeness
• Czech artistic and technical contribution
• Audience appeal, distribution, and marketing strategy
• Creative team
• Production strategy, financial viability, and sustainability
• Cinema distribution in the Czech Republic

Conditions of support

• 50% of the grant must be spent on Czech services, cast, and crew
• The Czech share must amount to at least 10% of production costs, including a possible Czech share from Eurimages, or 5% when based on the Council of Europe Convention on Cinematographic Co-Production
• The total amount of public funding for the entire project should not exceed 60% of the total budget for European co-productions, or 50% in other cases
• All funding is nonrecoupable
• Payment in two instalments: 60% after a substantial portion of the financing is secured, 40% after completion of filming

How to apply

• Calls announced in December 2025 and July 2026
• Application deadline 30 days after call announcement
• Funding results three months after application deadline

* A short film is defined as a film whose running time of 60 minutes or less.

 

Minority co-production – Animated film and series

• Annual budget: EUR 400 000 (CZK 10 million)
• Type of support: Selective scheme
• One application deadline per year (last call announced in October 2025)
• Applications evaluated and selected by a separate Animation & Video Games Council

What we support

• Animated films (features & shorts *) and series **
• Fully animated works, i.e., with no live-action footage ***
• Works produced using Czech goods and services, regardless of where they are produced

Aspects considered by the fund´s Animation & Video Games Council in evaluating the projects:

• Overall artistic quality and innovativeness
• Czech artistic and technical participation
• Audience appeal, distribution, and marketing strategy
• Creative team
• Production strategy, financial viability, and sustainability
• Cinema distribution or broadcasting in the Czech Republic

Conditions of support

• 50% of the grant must be spent on Czech services, cast and crew
• The Czech share must amount to at least 10% of production costs, including a possible Czech share from Eurimages, or 5% when based on the Council of Europe Convention on Cinematographic Co-Production
• The total amount of public funding for the entire project should not exceed 60% of the total budget for European co-productions, or 50% in other cases
• All funding is nonrecoupable
• Payment in two instalments: 60% after a substantial portion of the financing is secured, 40% after completion of filming

How to apply

• Call announced in October 2025
• Application deadline 30 days after call announcement
• Funding results three months after application deadline

* A short film is defined as a film whose running time of 60 minutes or less.
** An animated series is defined as 3 to 52 episodes.
*** Works that include live-action footage, even in part, fall under the Fiction and documentary film category.

List of supported projects 2014-2024 (as of September, 2024)

Contacts

Markéta Šantrochová
Head of Czech Film Center
marketa@filmcenter.cz
 

Kateřina Košická
Head of Film funding department
katerina.kosicka@fondkinematografie.cz
www.fondkinematografie.cz