NICOSIA: The 16th edition of the Cyprus International Film Festival (CYIFF) opens 11 November 2021 in Nicosia before moving on to Lanarca and closing on 17 November.
LJUBLJANA: Darko Sinko's debut film Inventory / Inventura screens in the competition of the 32nd Ljubljana IFF, taking place 10 – 21 November 2021.
PRAGUE: CEE Animation Forum is accepting applications for its 2022 Workshop through 15 November 2021. The programme is now open to professionals from all EU member states.
BERLIN: Quo Vadis, Aida? by Bosnian director Jasmila Žbanić has been nominated for four 2021 European Film Academy Awards, including European film and European director. Compartment No. 6, a Finnish/Russian/Estonian/German coproduction, received three nominations. The film most recently won the Audience Award at the 2021 FilmFestival Cottbus.
VILNIUS: Gentle Warriors directed by Marija Stonyte screens in the New in Lithuanian Film programme at the 2021 edition of Scanorama, which runs 4 – 14 November 2021. The film was produced by Moonmakers’s Giedre Zickyte, a past participant of the Emerging Producers programme at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival.
Romanian Film Centre Makes Union Cinema Available for Domestic Short Films Premieres
Romania 10-11-2021BUCHAREST: The Romanian Film Centre (CNC) has announced that it will make available one of the two cinemas of the Romanian Film Archive in Bucharest, the Union Cinema, for the premiere and theatrical screenings of domestic short films.
Deadline: November 15th, 2021
Projects for co-production market and Works in Progress revealed // Time to get your accreditation
Festivals 08-11-20215 NOVEMBER 2021 // NEWSLETTER
What's cooking?
- Works in Progress titles revealed
- Baltic Event Co-Production Market 2021 presents projects from award-winning filmmakers and established producers
- TV Beats Forum presents new drama series projects from the Nordics, Central and Eastern Europe
- Check out the preliminary programme!
- The 10th edition of Music Meets Film focuses on musical perspective of meaning and symbolism
- European Genre Forum presents 7 new voices from fantasy and horror genres
The 31st FilmFestival is coming to an end and celebrated the grand cinema finale of Eastern European cinema in Cottbus with the award ceremony. After a year's physical break, a high-quality programme consisting of 170 films was shown in seven venues and on ten screens, traditionally, in the first week of November. The main prize for the best film went to 107 MOTHERS by Peter Kerekes. Jan P. Matuszyński's meticulous political analysis LEAVE NO TRACES wins the special prize for best director. Levan Tediashvilis' authentic portrayal of a sacrificing father in BRIGHTON 4th by Levan Koguashvili wins the prize for Outstanding Individual Performance and thus closes the Feature Film Competition. TECHNO, MAMA by Saulius Baradinskas is a tour-de-force of visual energy and wins the main prize in the Short Film Competition. The social critique COMRADE POLICEMAN by Assel Aushakimova shows the limits and consequences of press freedom and system pandering and wins the Special Prize among the short films. The coming-of-age story YOUTH TOPIA by Dennis Stormer and Marisa Meier won the U18 Youth Film Competition. The opening film and winner of the "From Cottbus to Cinema" award, ABTEIL Nr. 6, by Juho Kuosmanen, also cleaned up among cinema enthusiasts and won the audience award.
VILNIUS: Lithuanian director Andrius Blaževičius’s second feature film Runner, a Lithuanian/Czech coproduction, which was previously titled Paralysis, screens in Scanorama’s New in Lithuanian Film section at the festival which runs 4 – 14 November 2021.
