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SERGEI LOZNITSA. THE DRAGON OF DRAGONS 2018
Krakow, 31st January 2018 - This year, the Krakow Film Foundation Programme Council decided to honour the eminent director of documentary films, Sergei Loznitsa, with the Dragon of Dragon award in recognition of his exceptional contribution to the development of the international cinema. The 21st laureate of this prestigious award…
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The term “fake news” was named as the famous Collins Dictionary’s official Word of the Year. Disinformation and media manipulation are amongst the greatest problems faced by the current world. Living in the information age places great demands on every individual: to differentiate between what is true and what it…
NexT IFF 2018 is waiting for your film!
Send your short to NexT International Film Festival. We are getting ready for our 12th edition and we're looking out for creative and innovative short films. Our call is open for narrative films (animations included) not longer than 60 minutes, completed after January 2017. The submitted films will be taken…
goEast 2018: Gearing up for Round Eighteen
Portrait of Boris Khlebnikov // Symposium: Hybrid Identities – Baltic Cinema // Prague 1968 // Virtual Reality goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film (taking place from 18 to 24 April 2018 in Wiesbaden, Germany) will set out in its 18th edition on a search for cinematic identity…
TWO KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI SCRIPTEAST AWARD WINNERS IN OFFICIAL SELECTION AT BERLINALE 2018
When the Trees Fall is Ukrainian filmmaker Marysya Nikitiuk‘s debut feature. The script was developed at the 10th edition of ScripTeast with support from her Creative Advisors: Mark Peploe and Martin Stellman, and Christian Routh as Head of Studies.
Last Call for Entries! TIFF 2018
First films for the 17th edition of the Transilvania IFF were announced. The list includes Venice Silver Lion winner, Foxtrot by Samuel Maoz, Audience award winner in Venice, Savi Gabizon’s black comedy Longing and Candelaria from director Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza. From San Sebastian comes Life and Nothing More, winner of…
First Movies Confirmed for TIFF 2018
First films for the 17th edition of the Transilvania IFF were announced. The list includes Venice Silver Lion winner, Foxtrot by Samuel Maoz, Audience award winner in Venice, Savi Gabizon’s black comedy Longing and Candelaria from director Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza. From San Sebastian comes Life and Nothing More, winner of…
Trieste Film Festival: the programme is online
The programme of the 29th Trieste Film Festival is online on website www.triestefilmfestival.it. Born on the eve of the fall of the Berlin Wall (the “0” edition is dated back to 1987), the Trieste Film Festival – now directed by Fabio Grosoli and Nicoletta Romeo – is the first and…
Call for submissions: New Horizons International Competition — part of the New Horizons International Film Festival
The 18th edition of the New Horizons International Film Festival will take place in Wrocław, from 26th July to 5th August 2018. 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…
Submissions Are Open for Meeting Point – Vilnius Industry Screenings
Attracting more than 200 film professionals, the industry conference Meeting Point – Vilnius is a part of Vilnius International Film Festival Kino Pavasaris. Submissions for debuting filmmakers as well as established directors are open until February 1st. This year in its 23rd edition, Kino Pavasaris has become a vital destination…
’68 is the 1st Protagonist of the 29th Trieste Film Festival. Rebels 68. East ‘n’ West Revolution
Being the first film festival of the year has its advantages: for example being the first able to celebrate an anniversary as important as the 50th of 1968. At the 29thTrieste Film Festival, from the 19th until the 28th of January, the homage begins with the poster, which reinvents a…
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival achieves 1 billion in online media reach for the first time
The 21st edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (aka PÖFF) saw the festival’s global online media reach cross the one billion mark, more than doubling last year’s result. The festival had media coverage in 70 different countries. Black Nights also set a new attendance record of 80 289…
TIFF winners
Today, at the Cinema Amirani the closing ceremony of the 18th Tbilisi International Film Festival was held. British director and producer Uberto Pasolini was the head of the International Jury, while other jury members were Film Critic and a program coordinator at Seattle International Film Festival Maryna Ajaja (USA), Director…
History Film Festival - Call for Submissions
We are proud to inform you that the submissions for the second edition of History Film Festival have just started. History Film Festival is a unique international festival of historical documentary films which will take place in Rijeka (Croatia, Europe) from September 5 to 9, 2018. History Film Festival aims…
Fest Anča 2018: Call for Entries
Fest Anča International Animation Festival has launched a call for entries for its 2018 edition. Animated short films, student films, music videos and films for children are among the competition categories. Fest Anča will take place in Žilina, Slovakia between June 28 and July 1, 2018. Only digital copies submitted…
Awards of the 21st Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
The awards of the 21st Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival are presented at the Award Ceremony of the festival held in the Russian Theatre in the evening of the 2nd of December. OFFICIAL SELECTION Jury members: Dennis Davidson, Zeynep Atakan, Graziano Diana, Ivo Felt, Zygmunt Krauze, Naoko Ogigami, Laila Pakalnina…
Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event 2017 awards announced
At at ceremony in Tallinn tonight the 2017 awards of Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event were presented.
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival launches new initiative to boost creative industries
This year sees the launch of Creative Gate - a platform designed to increase the visibility of the Estonian creative sector and help it explore new opportunities for growth and export. A number of Estonian organisations in the field of film, culture, fashion, art and education have joined to create…
Developments of the film and audiovisual field discussed at the visionary conference in Tallinn
On 27 and 28 November, representatives of film and audiovisual field, experts, policymakers and visionaries will gather in Tallinn for the international visionary conference to discuss topical issues of the European media and film industry. The conference is organised within the framework of the Estonian Presidency of the EU Council,…
