Where in the world can you get film money?

How to read this — and what it does not tell you

Every row was checked against the funder's own website, not a blog or an aggregator. Where a figure was not published on the official page, the field says "not published" rather than an estimate. Where the funder's page appeared stale — a 2021 deadline still sitting on a live guidelines page, for example — the row says so.

"Can I apply from abroad?" is the filter most people actually need:

• Yes — genuinely open to applicants outside the country, though some restrict to a named list of eligible nations.
• Via co-production — you need a local co-producer. This is the normal route into most European national funds and is far more accessible than it looks.
• Partially — open in principle, but with a residency, tax-ID, fiscal-sponsor or language condition attached.
• No — nationality or residency is a hard gate.

Tax incentives are not grants. Rows tagged Tax incentive are rebates or credits earned against qualifying local spend, usually paid after the fact. They change your financing plan in a completely different way from a development grant, so they are tagged separately rather than mixed in.

Confidence reflects how much the official page actually stated. high means figures, deadline and eligibility were all confirmed on the source. medium means the scheme was confirmed but some fields were absent or inferred. low means the page was unreadable, gated, or the scheme's current status is unclear — verify before relying on it.