PAPHOS: The 4th edition of the Animattikon International Animation Festival in Paphos will take place 6-12 September 2021 both in person and online, but most of the physical activities will be held outdoors.
We are thrilled to announce that Slovak film 107 Mothers will world premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival (1 – 11 September 2021). The Peter Kerekes' fiction debut produced by well established production company Punkchart films will compete with 18 titles in the Orizzonti section, dedicated to films that represent the lastest aesthetic and expressive trends in the international cinema.
VALLETTA: Ridley Scott’s Napoleon biopic entitled Kitbag and starring Joaquin Phoenix is expected to be shot in Malta in early 2022, local media reports. It will be lensed by Polish DoP Dariusz Adam Wolski.
KARLOVY VARY: This year for the seventh time FNE teamed up with KVIFF and critics attending the festival to rate the films in the Crystal Globe Competition and the East of the West competition of the official Karlovy Vary International Film Festival programme by international critics attending the Festival.
WARSAW: CEE writers can apply to the 16th edition of ScripTeast with a feature film script already completed or nearing completion until 3 September 2021.
The world premiere of the Slovenian minority co-production Small Body at the Cannes Critics’ Week
Press releases 08-06-2021Today, Cannes unveiled the Critics’ Week programme, which includes the Slovenian minority co-production Small Body, the debut feature of the Italian director Laura Samani that has qualified for the competition programme of seven selected films. On this occasion, the director stated the following: “If things do not have a name, they do not exist. Agata defies the established order of her time. She is a heroine who challenges the laws of society in the name of an unwritten law that is far more mysterious and unfathomable: absolute love. Her immense desire is to give her daughter a name so that she can let go of her once they become two separate beings. Agata’s journey to the shrine is a gradual descent into the underworld, a path that leads her to the surprising discovery that there is a thin, unfathomable line between life and death, between reality and magic.”
The debut feature film Morena by the Croatian director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović, co-produced by SPOK Films and Staragara from Slovenia, Antitalent from Croatia, and RT Features from Brazil, will have its world premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight (Quinzaine des réalisateurs) programme of the Cannes Film Festival, taking place from 7 to 17 July.
In addition to the director, the script was co-written by Frank Graziano; the Slovenian co-producers are Jožko Rutar (SPOK Films) and Miha Černec (Staragara); the producers are Danijel Pek (Antitalent) and Rodrigo Teixeira (RT Features); while Zdenka Gold (Spiritus movens) is the co-producer.
35 projects – 25 projects in In Development, Work in Progress and Market Presentation, as well as, 10 projects developed within the Kids Kino Lab – script development workshop to be presented at the upcoming Kids Kino Industry, the pitching and co-production forum for feature films and series (live-action, animation and documentaries) for young audiences.
The event will be held in Warsaw, Poland and online from 28 September to 1 October 2021. The four-day programme of Kids Kino Industry includes masterclasses, workshops, consultants’ tables, panels and many more to be announced at the beginning of September. The accreditation will be on sale from next week.
The list of the selected projects can be found at the end of this news.
Zlín – On Sunday, May 30, the ECFA awards for the best European children's films were announced in Zlín as part of the online part of the Zlín Film Festival. The awarded films were the Lithuanian short film Matilda and the Spare Head, the French documentary Foward, and the feature film Marona´s Fantastic Tale, which was created in French-Romanian-Belgian co-production. The Zlín Film Festival is a long-term member of the ECFA organization and since 2012 it has also regularly hosted a jury of ECFA members.
The 61st Zlín Film Festival has announced it visual style and planned form for this year. Its theme will be literature in fil
Festivals 18-03-2021Zlín – Today at the Film Studios in Zlín, the organizers of the Zlín Film Festival unveiled the new project logo, the visual style of this year's festival and the planned form of its 61st year. Following the main theme of "Literature in Film", the central motif of the visual is again a digi icon, this time connecting "Mr. Camera" and "Mrs. Book", whose joining gives rise to a new film. The festival is planned to take place in parts – in the spring from May 28 to June 1 and in the autumn from September 9 to 15, 2021.
