Our workshop for talented documentary film producers knows its first participants. Please meet the first six up-and-coming European talents. Ana Alexieva from Bulgaria holds an M.A. in Media and Gender Studies and works for the AGITPROP production company and for the Balkan Documentary Centre. AGITPROP takes part in a diverse range of international co-productions – encompassing topics from violin-making to socialist architecture – but also contributing to the development of innovative TV formats. More…
The Inspiration Forum deadline has been extended!
Creative ideas don’t come from nowhere. A four-day meeting of ten selected directors from across the globe and notable figures from outside the film world provides a unique platform which fosters inspiration and collaborative exchange of ideas. The Inspiration Forum is still open for registration! The registration deadline is September 30, 2014.
Register for Festival Identity!
A key part of the Industry Programme is the Festival Identity platform, offering a structured programme focusing on a diverse range of issues encountered by festival directors and programmers. Share your experience regarding the financing or programming concept at various types of film festivals and draw inspiration from others. Join in to shape the face of the film festival community! The registration deadline is September 30, 2014.
You can still submit your posters to our competition!
Aside from discussions and presentations, Festival Identity also organises the Best Festival Poster Competition, which has so far registered participants from over 50 film festivals from across three different continents. In the past, the award went e.g. to DOK Leipzig, Canadian Hot Docs or Lithuanian Kino pavaris. Don’t hesitate and register your festival posters! The registration deadline is September 30, 2014.
Film Correspondence: Between Barcelona and Jihlava
Art has no limits. And not merely in geographical terms – as also illustrated by our Complete Letters exhibition. This project organised with the support of the Contemporary Culture Centre in Barcelona does not only bring together filmmakers from various corners of the world, it also hovers on the borderline between literature and visual arts. Five audio-visual correspondence series that took place, in each case, between one Spanish and one foreign filmmaker, interconnecting artists of international reputation who have garnered awards from the most prestigious film festivals, including those in Cannes or Venice, on a very intimate level. Blurring the line between diary, documentary and narration or experiment, the individual letters may also serve as a ticket into the world of ideas and artistic concepts of the directors, many of whom make both documentary and fiction films, although there is often no need to distinguish between the two genres. More...
Alain Resnais: Unknown Early Works
“Cinematography is always documentary, in one way or another,” said the recently deceased classic of the French new wave, Alain Resnais, a great figure of world cinematography, whose films, Night and Fog or Hiroshima Mon Amour, form the cornerstones of modern cinematography. In cooperation with David Čeněk, Jihlava’s section Tribute, intends to go back to the very sources of the work of this author, renowned not only for his experimental films and probes into the depths of human memory, such as Last Year at Marienbad, but also for his genre-bending experiments. For that matter, Resnais himself called his film Je t‘aime, je t‘aime a “mix of Chekhov and science fiction”. More...
Jihlava’s Prominent Guests: Želimir Žilnik, Peter Tscherkassky, Albert Serra
Like in previous years, the jury of the international documentary competition, Opus Bonum, has only one member. Jihlava IDFF not only prefers the opinion of one prominent figure to making compromises, it also sees this strategy as an act of trust. This year’s uncompromising juror will be the initiator of the currently very popular genre of docudrama, the Serbian filmmaker and pedagogue, Želimir Žilnik. Aside from his short films, this successor to the tradition of cinema verité and New York avant-garde, and socially engaged filmmaker following in the line of specific Serbian humour, will also present his Master Class. More...
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