Jessica Hausner's Lourdes and Sherry Horman's Desert Flower were the largest groupings formed by distributors in the latest published results of the MEDIA Selective Scheme (1 December 2009 deadline). Both titles had groupings of 17 countries and received over €400,000 each. Two further French titles received large awards: François Ozon's Le Refuge received €315,000 and Baby(ies), directed by Thomas Balmes, received €261,300. The largest award was for the release of The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, the third instalment of the Swedish Millennium trilogy, which received €548,000 for releases in 10 European territories with Bim Distribuzione in Italy and NFP Neue Film Produktion in Germany both receiving the maximum MEDIA award of €150,000. In total, €3.4 million was allocated to fund nearly 200 theatrical releases of over 20 titles around Europe.

Distributors in the UK received €126,000 in total and are releasing eight titles with MEDIA support. These include Lourdes (already released in March) and Le Refuge scheduled for a mid-August release by Artificial Eye. Two of the films are documentaries: Baby(ies), which will be distributed by Optimum Releasing, and a critique of Silvio Berlusconi's media empire, Videocracy, directed by Erik Gandini, released in June by Dogwoof.