Nearly 40 Hungarian artists, graphic designers, illustrators, animation directors displayed how they perceive the freelancing lifestyle in an online exhibition entitled “Like fish in the sea”. The event was organized by Balka and was presented at Design Week Budapest. The title of the project derives from a Hungarian proverb which roughly translates to “sound as a roach” meaning someone feels alright and lives a carefree life. 

The six-day online workshop of the MIDPOINT Shorts program starts on Sunday, October 18 and runs through the week till Friday, October 23.

The intensive work of 8 selected filmmakers with script consultant Pavel Marek and producer tutor Marija Razgute will be enriched by the presence of guest tutors. 

Participants will start their pitching training with Gabriele Brunnenmeyer, who will also give her lecture How To Pitch Your Film: 6 Questions for the Pitch. 

Head of When East Meets West Co-production Forum Alessandro Gropplero will join the workshop with his lecture A Short Journey Through Co-production Markets.

36th Warsaw Film Festival awards announcement was made on Saturday afternoon, October 17th, 2020, at Multikino Złote Tarasy in Warsaw.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION Jury:
Liana Ruokyte-Jonsson, Lithuania
Robert Gliński, Poland
Visar Morina, Kosovo / Germany

gave the following awards:

Warsaw Grand Prix: 18 Kilohertz by Farkhat Sharipov, Kazachstan

Best Director Award: Martin Šulík for The Man with Hare Ears / Muž se zaječíma ušima, Czechia / Slovakia

Special Jury Award went to the actors Bogdan Farkas & Dragos Dumitru in the film Unidentified / Neidentificat by Bogan George Apetri, Romania

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18 Kilohertz

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COMPETITION 1-2 Jury:
Małgorzata Imielska, Poland
Dan Chişu, Romania
Tymur Yashchenko, Ukraine / Poland

gave the following awards:

Competition 1-2 Winner: Blindfold / З зав'язаними очима by Taras Dron, Ukraina

and two Special Mentions to:

Spiral by Cecilia Felméri, Hungary / Romania

Mia Misses Her Revenge by Bogdan Theodor Olteanu, Romania

FREE SPIRIT COMPETITION Jury:
Eliska Fuchsova Kaplicky, Czech Republic
Vlada Senkova, Belarus
Maria Blicharska, Poland/France

gave the following awards:

Free Spirit Award: Tragic Jungle / Selva Trágica by Yulene Olaizola, Mexico/France/Colombia

Free Spirit Special Mention: True North by Eiji Han Shimizu, Japan/Indonesia

DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION Jury:
Jan Kidawa-Błoński, Poland
Martichka Bozhilova, Bulgaria
Masha Kondakova, Ukraine / France

gave the following awards:

Best Documentary Feature Award: The Jump / Lēciens by Giedrė Žickytė, Lithuania / Latvia / France / USA

Documentary Special Mention: On The Record by Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering, USA

SHORT FILMS COMPETITION Jury:
Alexei Medvedev, Russia
Ygor Gama, Brazil - Germany
James Scott, Canada

gave the following awards: 

Short Grand Prix: Ligie / Ligeja by Aline Magrez, Belgium

Best Live Action Short: Into The Night / Chodźmy w noc by Kamila Tarabura, Poland

Best Animated Short: The White Whale / Nahang-e Sefid by Amirhossein (Amir) Mehran, Iran

Best Documentary Short: What if nothing? / A co jeśli nic? by Monika Krupa, Poland

Special Mention: Sulphur / Сера by Lana Vlady, Russia

FIPRESCI Jury:
Evrim Kaya, Turkey
Andrzej Fogler, Poland
Catalin Olaru, Romania

gave the award for best debut from Eastern Europe.

FIPRESCI Award: PREPARATIONS TO BE TOGETHER FOR AN UNKNOWN PERIOD OF TIME / FELKÉSZÜLÉS MEGHATÁROZATLAN IDEIG TARTÓ EGYÜTTLÉTRE by Lili Horvát, Hungary

Young FIPRESCI Jury, who were also participants of the FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project:
Elena Diana Smeu, Romania
Georgiana Musat, Romania
Maria Dybcio, Poland
Mateusz Tarwacki, Poland
Mladen Plechevski, Bulgaria

gave the award for best debut from Eastern Europe.

Young FIPRESCI Jury Award: GHOSTS / HAYALETLER by Azra Deniz Okyay, Turkey / France / Qatar

Ecumenical Jury:
Jes Nysten, Denmark
Joanna Kazimiera Wawrzynów, Poland

gave ECUMENICAL Jury Award: The Man with Hare Ears / Muž se zaječíma ušima by Martin Šulík, Czechia / Slovakia

NETPAC Jury:
Nada Azhari Gilloan, Syria / France
Edvinas Puksta, Lithuania
Janusz Wróblewski, Poland

gave the awards for the best Asian/Pacific films.

NETPAC Award: The Asadas / Asada-ke! by Ryota Nakano, Japan

NETPAC Special Mention: Asia by Ruthy Pribar, Israel

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The Man with Hare Ears

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This year’s edition of FilmFestival Cottbus will feature four Croatian films in different sections of the programme. In addition, the Connecting Cottbus co-production market will include presentations of debut feature film Honey Bunny, directed and written by Igor Jelinović, and Closed to the Public by director and writer Vanja Juranić. FilmFestival Cottbus, dedicated to Eastern European cinema, is held 3rd – 8th Nov, at cinemas and online, while the Connecting Cottbus market is held online only, 4th – 6th Nov.

After announcing the call for its upcoming 11th Hybrid Co-Production Forum, taking place both in Trieste and online between 24-28 January 2021, WEMW now opens the calls for all its side events. 

The full programme of this special 2021 edition includes a great mix of initiatives targeting projects in different phases of production as well as different formats: from the Work-in-Progress for feature fiction films to the Fine-Cut-Session for creative documentaries and from a lab for films in editing phase to a programme for producers aspiring to shift to TV series content. 

Have a look at our events and find the one that suits you best!

Record number of Estonian entries received in first year PÖFF Shorts becomes an Academy Award qualifier 

24 fiction, animation and documentary shorts from Estonia over four programmes will make up the 2020 PÖFF Shorts National Competition. The four programmes mark the largest number of Estonian shorts ever screened in competition at PÖFF Shorts as well as, with 79 entries, the largest amount of short films ever submitted to the sub-festival of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. PÖFF Shorts will take place between 17th and 25th November 2020.

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) adds 17 films to the previously announced eight, with five of the new films having their world premieres in the Official Selection – Competition of the 24th edition of the festival.

Adding five world, eleven international and two European premieres to the selection, the programming team of Black Nights are very happy to announce it’s biggest and, in terms of premieres, the freshest lineup of this particular programme in its history. 

The five films that will be having their world premiere at the festival are Armugan by Spanish director Jo Sol, Gracious Night by Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki, Thread of Return by Colombian Swiss Erwin Goggel, The Road to Eden by Kyrgyz directors Bakyt Mukul and Dastan Zhapar Uulu, and On the Water by Estonian director Peeter Simm. This marks the first time since 2017 that an Estonian majority production screens in this competition.

Festival director Tiina Lokk commented: “It is a miraculous feeling to announce such a large, and geographically, stylistically, and culturally diverse programme. We are truly living in strange times as the situation in the industry has been constantly changing, putting extra stress on everyone working in this business. Our hearts go out to everyone who was not able to hold their festivals this year. We hope that by screening a bigger selection than usual, we will at least provide the filmmakers with a platform to exhibit their work. And what marvellous, artistically pleasing and culturally diverse work it is!”

A new media art installation by ShortsUP

Bucharest, Romania, October 22, 2020 - Curated by Alexandra Safriuc from ShortsUP Association and film historian Gabriela Filippi, “A Brief History of Romanian shorts (1890 – 2000)” is a new media art installation which kicked off as a need to identify the particularities of Romanian short film history. The installation, a cross between film archive research work and new media technology, is a first step in a larger attempt to recover and research Romania’s neglected short film history, stored for decades at the National Romanian Film Archive, and make it available to the contemporary public. 

The first step of the project was researching the audio-visual heritage found in the National Film Archives and selecting short films that are relevant and speak to a broader contemporary public. 

The selection of 15 short films, made between 1890 -2000, includes one of Romania’s first home movies filmed during World War I, one of the world’s first scientific documentaries filmed in a hospital in Bucharest and rare animations done by famous artist Geta Brătescu, all in a time period spanning from 1890 to 2020.  

Co-financed by the Romania’s National Cultural Fund Administration, the project also contributed to digitally restoring the national archive by restoring three films - În familia Ressel / The Ressel Family (1916), Orașul nu doarme niciodată / The City Never Sleeps (1949) and La Mere / Apples (1953). 

În familia Ressel / The Ressel Family

Orașul nu doarme niciodată / The City Never Sleeps

La Mere / Apples

Besides the research component, the project aimed to experiment with a new way of showcasing short films and interacting with the general public. In partnership with Augmented Space Agency, ShortsUP created an augmented reality installation that featured the 15 short films that could be accessed through a dedicated mobile app. The art installation was well received in the beginning of October at the National Museum of Recent Art in Bucharest (MaRe), Romania. The installation, a cross between film archive research work and new media technology, is a first step in a larger attempt to recover and research Romania’s neglected short film history stored for decades at the National Romanian Film Archive. 

Almost the entire selection of short films can also be streamed for free on www.shortsup.ro until the end of October 2020, offering the public the rare opportunity to access films from the national archive. The team also developed a catalogue with background information on the history of short film in Romania.

Team:

Project Manager: Sabina Baciu
Research coordinator: Alexandra Safriuc
Curators: Alexandra Safriuc, Gabriela Filippi
Editorial team: Gabriela Filippi, Flavia Dima

Augmented Reality installation team: Augmented Space Agency – Ciprian Făcăeru, Sabin Șerban, Dan Făcăeru și Florin Dumitru

Partners: AFCN – Administrația Fondului Cultural Național, CNC – Centrul Național al Cinematografiei, ANF – Arhiva Națională de Film, FAV – Fundația Arte Vizuale

For more details please read the official press release and browse through the photo gallery here.

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