Winners of the 17th T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival were announced and presented with prizes during the ceremonial gala at New Horizons Cinema. Of the 12 films in the New Horizons International Competition, a jury consisting of Gaston Solnicki, Hadas Ben Aroya, Gustavo Beck and Agnieszka Podsiadlik by unanimous decision awarded the Grand Prix and attendant euro 20 000 prize to the film Western (Germany, Bulgaria, Austria 2017) directed by Valeska Grisebach. "We find it tender, strong and very elegant. It has many layers and it deals with History in a cinematic way which allows it to reach into a very special spectrum of relationships like few other films do" - stated the Jury.

The International Co-Production Forum Regiofund will be held in Katowice from October 4th through 7th, culminating in a pitching session. Call for Projects was extended until August 22nd!

The Forum’s main event is a pitching session for European film projects, as well as one-to-one meetings with industry professionals. The organizers await ambitious projects at advanced development stage (with script already available), and with an international co-production potential. The best pitch will be awarded 6,000 PLN (approx. 1,400 EUR). 

The submission deadline is August 22nd. To submit a project you have to fill in the form which you can find at www.forumregiofund.pl/en. Registration is free of charge.

Many internationally acclaimed projects were developed during the previous editions of the event, among them Loving Vincent, Wooma, and Kajtek Czarodziej. The event was also attended by a few dozen representatives of European regional funds, including most of Polish ones, as well as members of national film institutions from Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and other countries, television broadcasters (TVN, HBO, YLE), and a number of sales agents, distributors and producers.

This year’s Regiofund Forum will be held in Katowice from October 4th through 7th. Its organizer, Silesia Film, is a cultural institution of the Silesian voivodeship which has been also successfully running Silesia Film Commission and Silesian Film Fund for the last couple of years.

The International Co-Production Forum Regiofund will be held in Katowice from October 4th through 7th. The event draws from the experiences and established practices of Regiofun Festival, but at the same time assumes more industry-driven formula. You can submit your film only until August 14th.

The third and final workshop of this year's MIDPOINT TV Launch is just around the corner. On August 12 – 16, the seven TV drama projects will meet again at the third residential workshop which takes place in collaboration with CineLink Industry Days during Sarajevo Film Festival.