Cover and Table of Contents of the special issue of the International Journal of Film and Media Arts (IJFMA), aligned with the CresCine project (Horizon Europe), dedicated to the film industries of small and peripheral European countries. The question that titles this special issue of the International Journal of Film and Media Arts - What future for the cinema of small European countries? - emerges from a moment of profound transformation across the global film and audiovisual landscape, in which long-standing industrial, cultural, and theoretical frameworks are being reconfigured. In this context, the cinema of small European countries offers not a marginal case, but a critical vantage point from which to rethink the present and future of film and media. Indeed, this focus on smallness and the potential that it can encapsulate, was the guiding principle of the CresCine project (Horizon Europe, 2023-2026), which overarchingly frames this special issue.

Table of Contents

EDITORIAL

WHAT FUTURE FOR THE CINEMA OF SMALL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES?

André Rui Graça, Manuel José Damásio

CINEMA AS A REFLECTION OF CULTURAL IDENTITY: PORTUGAL AND SLOVENIA AS SMALL EUROPEAN FILM INDUSTRIES

Tommy K. Kiilu

PERFORMING TRAUMA AND MEMORY IN CONTEMPORARY UKRAINIAN CINEMA: MULTIMODAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE GUIDE

Tetiana Krysanova

ACCESS OVER ATTENTION: HOW SMALLER EUROPEAN CINEMAS NAVIGATE STREAMING PLATFORMS

Gaman Palem, Abhilash B.S

DUAL CULTURAL RESONANCE AS A PROMOTION DRIVER FOR FILMS COMING FROM SMALL MARKETS

Tatiana Chervyakova, Manuel José Damásio

BEYOND BOX OFFICE: RELATIONAL KPIS AND MARKET ORIENTATIONS IN SMALL EUROPEAN FILM DISTRIBUTION

Małgorzata Kotlińska, Marta Materska-Samek