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THE DRAGON OF DRAGONS, MARCEL ŁOZIŃSKI
Krakow, 3rd February 2016 - Marcel Łoziński, one of the most renowned Polish filmmakers, frequently awarded at international festivals, winner of countless film festivals and many prestigious awards, will be honoured by Krakow Film Festival with the title "Dragon of Dragons" for lifetime achievement. "Programme Council decided to award this…
12th ZagrebDox Programme Presented!
More than 160 films in 17 categories ▪ Winner at Sundance, The Russian Woodpecker, a film about the Chernobyl disaster, among 24 international competition entries ▪ 27 films in regional competition, including 12 Croatian entries ▪ Bolshoi Babylon, a film about the dark side to ballet, in Musical Globe ▪…
“Kentannos” wins the sixth edition of When East Meets West
Kentannos, an Argentinian Italian co-production by Motoneta Cine, 16M.Films and Kino Produzioni, is the winner of the sixth edition of When East Meets West. The project is a delicate and charming portrait of people from very distant regions of the world who have reached or are on the verge of…
Vilnius Film Festival launches new programme of hybrid films
Blurring the line between documentary and fiction, hybrid films assume a unique cinematic form with compelling creative decisions. The programme I AM A HYBRID, a new addition to this year’s Vilnius Film Festival Kino Pavasaris, will show these distinctive films that cannot be confined to one genre, aiming to reflect…
WEMW kicks off and reveals LST and FCL selected projects
37 different countries, 150 international decision makers and more than 300 registered participants: these are the figures of the sixth edition of When East Meets West, the Trieste based co-production forum starting on Sunday 24th of January with a special focus on Spain, Portugal and Latin America. After revealing all…
Three Czech films at Berlinale
Three Czech films in this year’s official Berlinale programme Prague, 14 January 2016 – Three Czech films were selected for the official programme of the International Film Festival Berlinale (11 – 21 February 2016) and Czech project will be presented at the Berlinale Co-Production market. The Czech Film Center is…
WEMW kicks off and reveals LAST STOP TRIESTE and FIRST CUT LAB selected projects
Trieste, January 18th, 2016 – 37 different countries, 150 international decision makers and more than 300 registered participants: these are the figures of the sixth edition of When East Meets West, the Trieste based co-production forum starting on Sunday 24th of January with a special focus on Spain, Portugal and…
12th ZagrebDox Introduces Warm-Up
A new warm-up ZagrebDox programme, Fall in Love with Documentaries, takes place 12-14 February at Cineplexx Kaptol Centre. It features three films in three days and ends up on Valentine’s Day with the screening of spectacular portrait of humanity, film Human. Zagreb, 12 January 2016 – The 12th edition of…
Cyprus Film Days Open Call
The Cyprus Film Days Festival 2016 currently has an open call for submissions for the international competition section entitled Glocal Images which will feature fiction feature films from Cyrus and abroad.
CALL FOR ENTRIES CYPRUS FILM DAYS 2016 14th International Festival 15/4/2016 - 24/4/2016
Call for entries for the International Competition Section «Glocal Images» Submission of films The Ministry of Education and Culture and Rialto Theatre announce that the Call for Entries for the 14th Cyprus Film Days International Festival 2016, is now open. The Festival, now in its 14th edition, will host for…
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival breaks attendance record, sparks sales deals
The 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (BNFF) broke last year’s attendance record of 77,500 with a total of 80,066 admissions. Audience enthusiasm has also prompted three deals on Tridens First Features Competition title Loev, directed by Sudhanshu Saria, to be signed less than 10 days after the festival. Filmmaker…
ISTANBUL FILM FESTIVAL WILL CELEBRATE ITS 35TH ANNIVERSARY IN 2016
A NEW COMPETITION IN FESTIVAL: NATIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION Launched as a film week 35 years ago by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), Istanbul Film Festival, being not only the longest-running film festival in Istanbul but also the largest-scale film event in Turkey, will celebrate its 35th…
Tallinn Black Nights awards winners
The 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival is announcing the following winners at its black carpet Awards Ceremony tonight at Nordea Concert Hall. The fest will run for two more days of screenings.
Tbilisi International Film Festival press release
On 30th of November at 19:30 in cinema “Amirani” the 16th Tbilisi International Film Festival will be opened with a premier of the film by Levan Tutberidze - “Moira”. The film tells us the story of a family living in a seaside city. After Mamuka is released from prison, he…
Opening Session of “Directors Looking Forward“ Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
The opening session of new FERA strand Directors Looking Forward held at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival heard about the importance of directors taking greater responsibility for the fate of their films in the new, emerging distribution landscape.
"THE DYBBUK" AT IDFA 2015
"The Dybbuk. A Tale of Wandering Souls", feature length documentary by Krzysztof Kopczyński is a 2015 Polish-Swedish-Ukrainian co-production about a conflict between orthodox Jews and Ukrainian nationalists in a city of Uman, Ukraine. The film has already been screened and awarded at 9 festivals around the world. Now “The Dybbuk”…
European Film Forum Tallinn wraps
At the 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, the European Film Forum Tallinn wrapped its two-day conference last night (19 November) marking the first European Film Forum on the Digital Single Market (DSM) initiative where not only filmmakers, sales agents and policymakers came together, but also tech industry professionals and…
Baltic Event’s first Eurimages award goes to Lithuania
The Baltic Event award ceremony was this year held in Tallinn Teachers’ House in the historic Town Hall Square. Industry@Tallinn, the label under which Baltic Event collaborates with Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Industry Office, brought over 370 film industry professionals to Tallinn on November 16-19. Over five categories, 57…
European Film Forum kicks off digital debate in Tallinn tomorrow
The debate on the future of Europe’s film and content industries will kick off tomorrow in Tallinn at the historic Theatre NO99 with the year’s last yet largest edition of the European Film Forum conferences. Titled #Digital Future of Film? the two-day conference programmed by the Black Nights Industry Office…
