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Call for submissions: New Horizons International Competition 2019
The 19th edition of the New Horizons International Film Festival will take place in Wrocław, from 25th July to 4th August 2019. The New Horizons International Competition — a platform where artistic cinema that extend the boundaries set by conventional filmmakers is presented — remains the core element of the…
Cinema of Small Nations Competition Valletta Film Festival 2019
Rules and Regulations for Film Submissions Valletta Film Festival is an annual event held in June at the capital city of Valletta on the Mediterranean Island of Malta. Over 40 feature films and twenty four short films are screened annually at various indoor and outdoor venues around the city. The…
Valletta Film Festival’s Competition to Focus on Cinema of Small Nations
Pjazza Teatru Rjal to showcase high-quality productions including festival winners, cult pictures and restored films. Films originating from thirty-four small nations in Europe, Middle East and North Africa will be the only productions eligible to participate in the competitive strand of Valletta Film Festival. The first edition of this competition…
Documentary Workshop 2019 Guidelines
The first documentary workshop organised by Valletta Film Lab will happen between Monday 18 and Saturday 23 March 2019. Directors/writers residing in Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, Georgia, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Moldova, Norway, Northern Ireland, San…
Film Grain Foundation Launches Valletta Film Lab
Film Grain Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of VALLETTA FILM LAB, a training and development platform open to filmmakers from Malta and other European small nation states. The platform, the first of its kind in Malta, is being set up with the financial support of Arts Council Malta…
20 Years of Discovering New Talent
The 20th edition of the Bratislava International Film Festival will open its doors in less than one month. The days between 29 November and 2 December 2018 will offer a generous selection of quality titles made by the best of young contemporary cinema. The Bratislava city cinemas Lumière and Mladosť…
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces the second Lifetime Achievement Award laureate: Ivars Seleckis
Tallinn Black Nights awards the Latvian documentary film maker and founder of the legendary Riga School of Poetic Documentary Cinema Ivars Seleckis with the second Lifetime Achievement Award of the festival.
20th Bratislava IFF Pays Tribute to Women and Robert Redford
Between 29 November and 2 December 2018, the Bratislava cinemas Lumière and Mladosť will brim with extraordinary films from all around the globe. The Bratislava International Film Festival is here with its attractive programme sections designated to showcase the finest of world cinema. A special status was given to the…
BLACK NIGHTS HAS OFFICIALLY KICKED OFF
It’s that time of the year again, the nights are long and dark. And, that can only means one thing, it’s time to head to the cinema because Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has started. It’s an internationally known rule: when the Black Nights Film Festival kicks off, Industry@Tallinn will…
EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2018 WINNERS!
MAIN COMPETITION Golden Frog: The Fortress cin. Ji Yong Kim dir. Dong-Hyuk Hwang Silver Frog: Cold War cin. Łukasz Żal dir. Paweł Pawlikowski Bronze Frog: Roma cin. Alfonso Cuarón dir. Alfonso Cuarón *** *** *** FIPRESCI AWARD The International Critics Prize to the director of the best film in the…
New Audiovisual Programme Kicks Off at Black Nights Film Festival
Narva Creative Incubator OBJEKT introduces this year at Black Nights Film Festival and Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event a new audiovisual media development programme, TV Beats, with the aim to grow the TV production ecosystem in the Baltic region. TV Beats continues to develop a program dedicated to TV series, which…
The Bulgarian feature film "IRINA" by Nadejda Koseva won top awards in Minsk, Tirana and Cottbus
“IRINA” triumphed on the stage of three important international film festivals last week.
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces the juries for all competition programmes
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces the lineups of seven juries that will be evaluating the films screening in the five competition programmes of the festival. The awards will be announced at the festival’s Award Ceremony, which takes place on the 1st of December.
Endless Tail at 15th Festival of European Film in Seville
The feature docufiction film by Željka Suková is competing at the Festival of European Film being held from November 9th to 17th in Seville. Along with Endless Tail, the minority Croatian co-production Chris the Swiss by Anja Kofmel will also be screening at the festival in Spain.
Music Meets Film Announces 2018 Mentors and Programme
For the seventh time, Music Meets Film returns alongside Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event at Tallinn Black Night Film Festival. A programme of talks, masterclasses, tours and screenings dedicated to film scoring will run from November 23–25.
26th EDITION OF EnergaCAMERIMAGE OFFICIALLY OPENED!
Today, the 26th edition of the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography EnergaCAMERIMAGE was officially opened in the Opera Nova Congress Centre in Bydgoszcz. During the Opening Gala Witold Sobociński received Camerimage Lifetime Achievement Award, Jean-Marie Dreujou and Jean-Jacques Annaud accepted the Cinematographer - Director Duo Award, and…
JULIEN TEMPLE WITH OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS IN MUSIC VIDEOS AWARD
The camera hangs in the air in the middle of a sleepy American neighbourhood. We can see buildings, ropes with fresh laundry and some guy stretching indolently on the hood of a nearby Cadillac. A few seconds later, there is the first hint of movement: a dog passes by down…
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival unveils full lineup
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival unveils the full lineup of its 22nd edition, adding four previously unannounced world premieres as well as well-known festival favourites and award season buzz titles to the selection.
connecting cottbus: AWARD WINNERS 2018
Awards of the East-West co-production market connecting cottbus go to OCTOBER from Romania, 9TH STEP from Lithuania, MEN OF DEEDS from Romania in the cocoPITCH section and GERANIUM from Turkey in cocoWIP.
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces the first Lifetime Achievement Award and an Ingmar Bergman mini-focus
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival awards Norwegian actress and director Liv Ullmann with the festival’s first Lifetime Achievement Award. Director Ingmar Bergman, an affiliate of the actress, will have a mini-focus programme.
