Cosmopolitan crimes

German crime films usually only find wide international circulation when they deal with either the two World Wars or country’s unique position during Cold War. Victoria (Sebastian Schipper, 2015) is an exception. The film, shot in one continuous take, tells story of a young woman from Madrid who meets four local Berliners outside nightclub middle night and ends up robbing private bank them. Without established auteur any sizeable star power attached to it, film managed travel widely within Europe, made possible by Creative Europe’s funding schemes for distribution. first section article examines struggles cross borders, despite abundant national production films, television series, literature. second focuses on importance distribution scheme that helped explores how policies MEDIA programme have shaped European cinema landscape. In third section, paper evokes images discourses society such as disenfranchisement, solidarity, precarity set cosmopolitan Berlin. By analysing promotional texts, this final Victoria’s ideal combination genre, auteurial ambitions “added value” granted access support mechanisms which are out reach film.