THESSALONIKI: The 22nd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival gave its Golden Alexander award and a cash prize of 15,000 EUR to Welcome to Chechnya by David France (USA). The festival, which concludes on 28 May 2020, distributed 72,000 free tickets and sold out 113 documentaries in eight days.
BUCHAREST: The Romanian Film Centre (CNC) has distributed almost 3.9 m EUR / 18,832,000 RON as production grants for feature films, debut features, documentaries, animated films, short fiction films and thematic films. The grants announced on 26 May 2020 are the results of the second batch of the 2019 grants, launched at the end of last year.
The grants announced by the Romanian Film Centre on 26 May 2020 are in fact the second batch of the 2019 grants, launched at the end of 2019.
dok.incubator has announced the final selection of talented filmmakers whose projects will be supported in 2020. The list includes two documentaries from Eastern Europe.
PRAGUE: A Polish and a Balkan documentary are among the eight international projects that will participate in dok.incubator, which will have its next residential session 24 – 29 August in Slovakia.
SOFIA: The 17th Sofia Meetings’ Works in Progress will be held online 27 – 31 May 2020.
The 17th Edition of Sofia Meetings Works in Progress will be held from 27th till 31st May on Festival Scope.
Anthropocene - the human epoch
How does human presence on Earth jeopardize the future of our planet? In the context of the 22nd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, the participants of the online open discussion, which took place on Sunday, May 24, on the Festival’s YouTube channel, had a discourse on the Anthropocene Age and its geological, environmental, social, philosophical, political and cultural implications. The discussion was attended by Yiannis Boutaris, president and founder of Arcturos, Kostas Stasinopoulos, curator and art historian of Serpentine Galleries and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), Konstantinos Voudouris, Professor of Geology at AUTh, Vanessa Archontidou, alpinist and Chrysostomos Stamoulis, Professor of Theology at AUTh.
The latest shorts in the popular animated series Shammies will premiere at RIGA IFF
Festivals 26-05-2020
How Shammies Told Time
We are pleased to announce that three short films from the animated series Shammies will premiere in the children’s film programme KIDS WEEKEND at the Riga International Film Festival. The films, made by animation studio Atom Art and directed by Edmunds Jansons, will screen on Saturday and Sunday, 17 and 18 October. 10-ticket packages to RIGA IFF are currently available.
Open discussion with the renowned correspondent Robert Fisk and the director Yung Chang
Festivals 26-05-2020
This is not a Movie
The first live discussion of the online 22nd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, in which the renowned British war correspondent Robert Fisk and Yung Chang, the director of the documentary This Is Not A Movie, participated in, was held with great success on the night of Thursday 21 May, on the Festival’s YouTube channel
