For the thirteenth time Jihlava IDFF brings to Vysočina region the most important points of the present and the past of documentary cinema. The festival competitions embody the decissive part of the Festival. Czech joy offers a journey through the Czech documentary landscape. Opus Bonum presents the most interesting documentaries from all over the world.

The Ro-IFF (September 26 to October 4, 2009) presents a special Focus program for acclaimed Serbian director Emir Kusturica. Kusturica and his Non Smoking Orchestra will also open the festival with a concert on Saturday, September 26.

European Film Academy to meet with organisers of 2010 European film gala in Tallinn

On July 24 the submissions for the first edition of the Internet documentary festival DOCBOAT/WARSAW NONFICTION E-FEST were closed. The festival starts in September (www.iplex.pl). We received a lot of movies from around the world. They are very enjoyable to watch, but we must also prepare ourselves for the difficult decisions in order to select sixteen finalists who will compete in the contest for the best feature documentary (over 60 minutes long), for the GRAND PRIX VISTULA RIVER prize of € 5000.

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On July 24 the submissions for the first edition of the Internet documentary festival DOCBOAT/WARSAW NONFICTION E-FEST were closed. The festival starts in September (www.iplex.pl). We received a lot of movies from around the world. They are very enjoyable to watch, but we must also prepare ourselves for the difficult decisions in order to select sixteen finalists who will compete in the contest for the best feature documentary (over 60 minutes long), for the GRAND PRIX VISTULA RIVER prize of € 5000.

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The 56th Annual Cable Congress will take place in Brussels, Belgium from 3-5 March 2010. The theme of Cable Congress 2010 is ‘Beyond Speed'.

In the run-up of an official German-Russian Cinema Agreement, on Wednesday (July 29th, 2009) night the sponsorship association "Friends of the German-Russian Film Academy" was founded in Berlin. Peter Dinges, head of board of the Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) called this funding a historical act, underlining that the long preparations for German-Russian cinema relations had finally resulted in concrete activities.

In the future, the FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema, will cooperate with the Film Festival Wroclaw, specifically in the mutual presentation of festival films.

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east european forum

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application deadline: September 11 2008


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Zero Film Festival - Focusing on a niche in the independent film community which has been under appreciated and ignored, Zero Film Festival is dedicated to screening self financed films from filmmakers all over the world.