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After 11 days of cinema, the eighth Riga International Film Festival draws to a close and announces its winners
The Riga International Film Festival (RIGA IFF) took place this year from 14 to 24 October, initially in person in Riga, Valmiera and Madona, and simultaneously online throughout Latvia. The festival now closes out its eighth edition by announcing this year’s winners! The winning films were selected from a broad…
Ji.hlava IDFF - Opening film on Belarus, masterclasses by O. Stone and V. Mansky, festival juries
The jubilee 25th Ji.hlava IDFF kicks off tomorrow and we are sharing with you the latest news about the festival’s opening film, awards, juries as wells as the film sections, which have not yet been introduced – Czech Joy and Constellations.
Independent, fearless, indomitable: the heroines of the 31st FFC
In its 31st edition, the FilmFestival Cottbus will present a total of 61 films from 33 (co-)production countries by and about women. The films bear witness to a world in which women can make equally sensitive films about men as men can make subtle films about women.
Latvian film “Troubled Minds” will have World premiere at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival’s First Feature Competition
A dramedy “Troubled Minds” (dir. Raitis Abele and Lauris Abele) will have its World premiere at the Tallinn Black Nights Film festival, the First Feature Competition on the 20th of November. The film is selected together with other 20 debuts from the whole world.
The winner of the 47th IFF EKOFILM is the Polish film The Whale from Lorino
Slovak film The Golden Land wins the Festival President's Award
Transilvania IFF: Submissions now open for the 21st edition!
NEW: the documentaries section becomes competitive
JI.HLAVA NEW VISIONS FORUM 2021 EUROPEAN PROJECTS IN PRODUCTION AND POST-PRODUCTION
Dear friends, The Ji.hlava New Visions Forum, a new financing, co-production and networking event, will present 37 carefully selected new European and U.S. documentary projects. The presentations will take place on Thursday, October 28 at 15.00–19.00 (projects in development) and on Friday, October 29 at 15.00–19.00 (projects in production and…
Submissions now open for the 21st edition of TIFF! NEW: the documentaries section becomes competitive
Submissions for the 21st edition of Transilvania International Film Festival are now open! Mark your calendar and save the dates: June 17 - 26, 2022, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The next edition brings an important change in our regulations: the What's Up, Doc? section becomes competitive! It is now open to international…
Eastern Europe between Teachers' Lounge, Murman Railway and Brighton Beach - The competitions of the 31st FilmFestival Cottbus at a glance
The 31st FilmFestival Cottbus returns to the Cottbus’ cinemas from 2nd to 7th of November and presents 32 films from 26 (co-)production countries in its three competitions feature film, short film and youth film. One of the films will celebrate its world premiere in Cottbus and 26 films their German…
Flowers Are Not Silent about contemporary Belarus to open the 25th Ji.hlava Oliver Stone, Vitaly Mansky and Flatform will have masterclasses
The 25th annual Ji.hlava IDFF is only five days away! The festival will open with When Flowers Are Not Silent by Belarusian director Andrei Kutsila that captured the brutal suppression of demonstrations against last year’s rigged presidential election in Belarus. This year’s Contribution to World Cinema Award will be presented…
See European projects in development selected for the Ji.hlava New Visions Forum 2021
Dear friends, We are happy to share with you 11 new European documentary projects in development, which will be presented at the Ji.hlava New Visions Forum on October 28–29. The Forum will feature projects that include diverse genres and audiovisual formats – such as fiction films with documentary aspects, hybrid…
EKOFILM, a festival of environmental documentaries, starts tomorrow on 20 October 2021
BRNO/CZ – Starting tomorrow, Brno will become the epicentre of environmental documentaries for four days. A delegation of filmmakers will be present at the screening of ten competing films at the 47th EKOFILM International Film Festival with an environmental theme. Filip Remunda, Joep van Dijk from the Netherlands and Jakub…
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) announces its full 2021 Official Selection lineup
The festival’s main competition programme adds one new world premiere, ten international premieres and three European premieres to the six world premieres previously announced. Nineteen films will be screened in competition, with three films out of competition. It’s a packed lineup featuring a couple of legends, a raft of returning…
FUTURE FILMS FESTIVAL - brand new and unique international film festival born in Serbia
We are happy to announce the FUTURE FILMS FESTIVAL - a festival of video presentations of films and series in development. The first edition is on December 15th 2021. on site in Belgrade, Serbia and online on www.futurefilmsfestival.com
POFF Shorts reveals competition titles for 2021
Award winners and popular festival titles sit alongside new discoveries for audiences to see during Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in November.
EKOFILM, a festival of environmental documentaries, starts tomorrow on 20 October 2021
BRNO/CZ – Starting tomorrow, Brno will become the epicentre of environmental documentaries for four days. A delegation of filmmakers will be present at the screening of ten competing films at the 47th EKOFILM International Film Festival with an environmental theme. Filip Remunda, Joep van Dijk from the Netherlands and Jakub…
SIX DAYS, THREE HUNDRED FILMS, BACK IN CINEMAS! JI.HLAVA CELEBRATES 25TH ANNIVERSARY
The 25th Ji.hlava IDFF, a key European documentary film festival, kicks-off in two weeks! Festival visitors can look forward to three hundred films including the latest Czech and international documentary cinema, a unique retrospective of Romanian experimental film, and a section dedicated to the American thinker and essayist Susan Sontag.…
The Krakow festival is waiting for the best films from around the world.
Every year, at the beginning of October, films from all over the world compete for a prestigious place on the program of the Krakow Film Festival. From 29 May to 5 June and online from 3 to 12 June, the audience at next year’s Krakow Film Festival will get to…
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) announces its 2021 First Features competition lineup
The selection includes ten world premieres, nine international premieres and one European premiere, among the slate of 20 debuts. It’s a diverse, global programme of real contrasts and extremes, including everything from musicals to animation, thrillers and dark comedies, as well as a good dose of surrealism and surprisingly many…
Retrospective sections at the 25th Ji.hlava
REVELATORY RETROSPECTIVE OF THE ROMANIAN EXPERIMENTAL SCENE After many months of preparations and curatorial visits to Romanian archives and galleries we are coming up with this year’s unique retrospective of 24 experimental films created in underground conditions in Romania during the period 1968–1989. The Conference Fascinations: Romania retrospective at this…
