Film Europe: European Cinema between Imagination and Reality aims to establish an international and interdisciplinary research network to study the history of European cinema during the Fascist era, focusing specifically on the International Film Chamber (Internationale Filmkammer, IFK). The IFK was founded in 1935 as a consultative body for European film industries seeking to forge a continental film bloc that could combat the dominance of the American market. In 1941, the IFK was relaunched under the control of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy as a tool of these regimes to gain cultural hegemony in Europe. While research on the history of the IFK exists, much work remains to be done to understand its role in the broader history of film cooperation in Europe and the very idea of a „European“ cinema. Our transnational approach toward the IFK integrates research on many of Europe’s national film industries. Because the IFK intervened in the production, distribution and exhibition of films, our efforts to understand its legacy are interdisciplinary in nature, combining Film Studies with theories and methods drawn from Media Studies, Cultural Sociology and Politics and Economics.