Award winners and popular festival titles sit alongside new discoveries for audiences to see during Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in November.
TALLINN: On the Water by Peeter Simm has been selected as Estonia’s candidate for the 94th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award in the Best International Feature Film category.
TRIESTE: Applications are now open for the first edition of Slate Market, as well as for Last Stop Trieste, This is IT, First Cut Lab Trieste and First Cut+ within When East Meets West 2022.
Czech Minority Coproduction The Crossing Wins Eurimages Audentia Award for Best Director
Region 19-10-2021STRASBOURG: The animated film The Crossing by Florence Miailhe has received the Audentia Award for Best Director 2021 from the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund at Montreal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinéma.
Strasbourg, 18.10.2021 – The Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund and Montreal’s Festival du nouveau cinéma are pleased to reveal the name of the winner of the sixth edition of the prestigious Audentia Award for Best Female Director: Florence Miailhe for her first feature-length animation The Crossing. The film about two children on the move, supported by Eurimages, previously received the Prize for the Best Screenplay at the Angers European First Film Festival in 2010 and Jury Distinction at the Annecy Festival in 2021.
ZAGREB: Applications for the 7th edition of the co-development funding of coproduction projects from RE-ACT (Regional Audiovisual Cooperation and Training) can be sent till 15 November 2021.
FESTIVALS: European Film Forum Scanorama 2021 Announces New Baltic Cinema Lineup
Lithuania 19-10-2021VILNIUS: Nineteen films from nine countries will compete in the 12th edition of the international short film programme New Baltic Cinema from 12 to 14 November 2021 during the European Film Forum Scanorama, which will be held in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipeda and Šiauliai 4 – 14 November 2021.
Oscars: On the Water - The Estonian Entry for The Best International Feature Film at the 2022 Academy Awards
Press releases 18-10-2021A select committee headed by Estonian Film Institute (EFI) decided by a narrow edge to represent Estonia in the race for Best International Feature Film (also known as Best Foreign Language Film) Oscars in 2022 a drama feature On the Water, directed by Peeter Simm and adapted for screen from his best-selling novel by Olavi Ruitlane.
WEMW launches the brand-new Slate Market and opens call for all works-in-progress sections!
WARSAW: Romanian/Czech/Latvian Miracle / Miracol by Bogdan George Apetri has received the Grand Prix in the International Competition of the 37th Warsaw Film Festival, 8-17 October 2021. The award for best film in the 1-2 Competition went to Hive / Zgjoi by Blerta Basholli, a coproduction between Kosovo, Switzerland, North Macedonia and Albania.
