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Award-winning films, classics and special screenings at the Festival on Wheels

30th November–6th December Ankara, 7th–10th December Sinop Organized by the Ankara Cinema Association with the support of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the 18th Festival on Wheels is preparing to hook up with film audiences between 30th November and 10th December. The show will, as always, get on…
19-11-2012

Award-winning films, classics and special screenings at the Festival on Wheels

30th November–6th December Ankara, 7th–10th December Sinop Organized by the Ankara Cinema Association with the support of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the 18th Festival on Wheels is preparing to hook up with film audiences between 30th November and 10th December. The show will, as always, get on…
19-11-2012

American Film Festival, Wrocław: The Perfect Closing Film

Argo is the hugely entertaining third film by actor-director Ben Affleck. it is that rarest of things: a mainstream thriller that is as intelligent as it is entertaining. As such, it is the perfect end to five days of American films.
18-11-2012

American Film Festival, Wrocław: Now, Forager

"If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools." Katherine Mansfield
15-11-2012

16th Black Nights Film Festival takes off with Holy Motors

The Countdown is on for the 16th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and the largest film event in Northern Europe is to open with Leos Carax’s Holy Motors. The two week film festival will be topped by an Asian filmmakers’ tour de force at the Industry Days.
14-11-2012

IDF continues with documentary film support

Institute of Documentary Film has been supporting documentary film in Czech and European context for twelve years. This rates the organization among the oldest and most stable ones in the region.Filmmakers, producers, distribution, festivals and especially the films themselves are offered a variety of year-round activities that aim primary at…
14-11-2012

New Czech documentaries

The Czech Film Center and the Institute of Documentary Film are preparing their annual presentation of Czech documentary production for the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (October 23-28), the biggest documentary event of the year. The presentation, which has taken place regularly since 2005, aims to highlight the successes of…
14-11-2012

American Film Festival, Wrocław: America Calling!

Considering the coverage it receives globally, it might seem odd that there should still be a festival that focuses solely on films from the US. And yet, a cursory glance over the programme for the third edition of the American Film Festival shows just how limited in scope the majority…
13-11-2012

American Film Festival, Wrocław: Wes Anderson: An American Stylist

Wes Anderson, whose Moonrise Kingdom opens the third edition of the American Film Festival, is one of a group of directors who emerged in the late 1990s. Like his peers, Paul Thomas Anderson, David O. Russell, Sofia Coppola, Alexander Payne and Darren Aronofsky, Anderson looks back to the golden age…
13-11-2012

MEDIAWAVE International Film and Music Festival : Call for Entries

Dear Friends, MEDIAWAVE International Film and Music Festival is excited to announce the call for entries for next year's film festival, which takes place between 30 April - 4 May, 2013 in Fort Monostor - Komárom, Hungary.
12-11-2012

22nd FilmFestival Cottbus: prizes

Wettbewerb Spielfilm | Feature Film CompetitionHauptpreis für den besten Film | Main Prize for Best Film (zu gleichen Teilen an den Regisseur und den Produzenten) | (ex aequo to the director and to the producer) 20.000 EUR gestiftet von der Gesellschaft zur Wahrnehmung von Film- und Fernsehrechten (GWFF) | 20.000…
11-11-2012

The LUBINAs have been awarded and Polish cinema has triumphed - Winners of the 22nd FilmFestival Cottbus

Polish cinema has triumphed at the 22nd FilmFestival Cottbus. Three of the most important prizes - the Main Prize for the Best Film, the Special Prize for Best Director and the Main Prize in the Short Feature Competition, go to Poland: impressive confirmation of the resurgent cinematography of our eastern…
10-11-2012

22nd FilmFestival Cottbus: FEATURE FILM COMPETITION

A MONTH IN THAILAND | EIN MONAT IN THAILAND | O LUNA IN THAILANDAPaul Negoescu | Romania 2012 | 80 minGerman PremiereIt’s December 31 in Bukarest. Adina and Radu, a young couple in their thirties, are rambling through the city. When the argument starts Radu decides to finish the relationship…
10-11-2012

Award-winning films, classics and special screenings at the Festival on Wheels

30th November–6th December Ankara, 7th–10th December Sinop Organized by the Ankara Cinema Association with the support of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the 18th Festival on Wheels is preparing to hook up with film audiences between 30th November and 10th December.
10-11-2012

Black Nights Film Festival unveils EurAsia competition line-up

Black Nights Film Festival unveils EurAsia competition line-up spanning countries from India to Norway and South Korea to Spain The festival 16th edition’s titles include films from Michael Winterbottom, Margarethe von Trotta, Ulrich Seidl but also more exotic filmmakers for Northern European viewers.
07-11-2012

Locarno 2013 - George Cukor Retrospective and new selection committee

The Retrospective for the 66th edition of the Festival del film Locarno will be dedicated to the Hollywood director George Cukor. The new selection committee to work with the Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian on the programme for 2013 has also been finalised.
07-11-2012

Berlinale World Cinema Fund: Latest Funding Decisions and Success in 2012

At the 17th jury session of the World Cinema Fund (WCF), four new film projects were selected for production funding. Since its establishment in October 2004, the WCF has granted production or distribution backing to a total of 106 projects, selected from 1,879 submissions from Africa, Latin America, the Middle…
07-11-2012

6th edition of Off Plus Camera International Festival of Independent Cinema will take place April 12th-21th 2013.

You’re more than welcome to submit your film to Main Dramatic Competition „Making Way” with the Krakow Film Award and to Polish Feature Film Competition with the Polish Film Noble Award.
05-11-2012

EFA nominees brighten the Black Nights in Tallinn

EFA announced the nominations for the 25th European Film Awards. The awards will be presented on Dec 1st in Malta, but you can watch many of the nominees at Tallinn Black Nights real soon!
05-11-2012

22nd FilmFestival Cottbus: See the bigger picture - German-Polish Youth Film Competition

For the third year >U-18 German-Polish Youth Film Competition
03-11-2012