Annually commissioned by the Göteborg Film Festival since 2013, the Nostradamus Report analyses and forecasts the near future of the faster-than-ever evolving audiovisual industries through research, and interviews with industry experts.

The 2025 report reflects an industry shifting from resisting reality towards building resilient resistance, calling for a renewed commitment to the audience and a principled defence of creative freedom at the core of its message. It discusses increasing opportunities for non-US content in the commercial mainstream and suggests new ways of thinking about both development processes and how films and TV series are communicated to their audiences.

"The report presents practical strategies for how to move forward as a sector and how to prepare within our organisations for changes and possible threats. It also celebrates this artistic moment, when wonderful work is flourishing both in cinemas and on living room screens. At the heart of it all is the question of how we continue to tell stories that matter and who we are telling them for", says Johanna Koljonen.

The Nostradamus Project, founded and run by the Göteborg Film Festival, is dedicated to monitoring, predicting, and analyzing the future of the screen industries. This initiative is made possible with project partners BoostHBG, German Films, Kulturakademin and Lindholmen Science Park, alongside support from Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Creative Europe MEDIA and the Region Västra Götaland.

The full report is available here.