Running from 6 to 11 October 2020 in Ljubljana, the 23rd Festival of Slovenian Film (FSF) will open on Tuesday, 6 October, with the screenings of the feature documentary Antigone – How Dare We! and the short film Inseparable. The context of this year’s edition and its new features in terms of both programme and organisation, were presented at the press conference before kick-off by the Director of the Slovenian Film Centre, Nataša Bučar, the Director of the 23rd FSF, Jelka Stergel, and the 23rd FSF Project Manager, Tjaša Smrekar.
Press accreditation to the 24th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event is now open
Festivals 05-10-2020
The media accreditation to the 24th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival aka PÖFF and the audiovisual industry platform Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event is now open! The physical festival takes place from the 13th to the 29th of November in Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia, while the industry events will happen only online this year.
The accredited foreign press will be granted access to the festival’s programme and industry programme digitally via the Shift72 platform, no matter their geographic location, during the festival time.
On Friday evening at the Kids Kino Industry the awards were presented to the best projects selected to be pitched at the forum. The winners has been announced during online Closing Ceremony.
Kids Kino Industry awards:
- Audiovisual Technology Center (Ceta) – Post Production Award worth PLN 60.000
- Pop Up Film Residency – 3-weeks residency in Bratislava
- M:brane – invitation to pitch at M:brane forum
- EAVE – free participation in Marketing Workshop
- Kids Kino.Lab – free participation in the next edition of the Kids Kino.Lab, script development programme
The EKOFILM festival is postponing its screenings in compliance with the new measures, but fans will be able to see part of the program online
Festivals 12-10-2020BRNO/the CR – In response to the newly announced measures against the spread of Covid, the organisers of the 46th year of the EKOFILM international film festival are postponing the film screenings at cinemas to a later date which has yet to be determined. However, part of the promised accompanying program will be available to fans online. The opening debate will still be held and streamed to participants on the internet, including the option of asking questions. The festival opening by Captain Demo will also be prepared, as will the official awards ceremony for this year’s winners.
The projects from all participating countries shared the awards on Friday evening.
The eighth edition of the Baltic Pitching Forum (BPF), which took place between 8th and 10th October, came to an end this weekend with successes for projects from all the participating countries. After 12 projects – from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland – were pitched to an online audience from across Europe, the Baltic Pitching Forum panel of industry experts and the Baltic Producers’ Jury gave out three main awards.
The 23rd Festival of Slovenian Film closed last night with the awards ceremony to celebrate the highest creative achievements in Slovenian cinema. Directed by Matej Filipčič and hosted by Jure Longyka, the event took place in the Grand Hall of the Hotel Union and started with an address by the Director of the 23rd FSF, Jelka Stergel. The ceremony also saw the presentation of the Metod Badjura Award for lifetime achievement in cinema to the 2020 laureate, animation filmmaker Koni Steinbacher, and a screening of his latest work, The Legend of the Happy Hill.
The final deadline to submit an application for the Kids Kino.Lab, script development programme for film projects and TV series for young audiences, is approaching. We wait for the applications until October 23rd.
Who are the workshops for?
We are looking for teams: producer + scriptwriter who would like to develop their projects (full-length film or TV series in all the categories: animations/ documentaries/ live-actions).
Kids Kino.Lab is open to the projects from all the European countries.
The main festival award went to Ilya Povolotskiy in international competition and Radu Ciorniciuc in regional competition, and in the same category a special mention went to the Croatian director Đuro Gavran and his film 'One of Us'.
On Saturday, 10 October at 8pm, an online award ceremony ended this year’s special edition of the International Documentary Film Festival ZagrebDox. During the seven festival days the audience at the SC Cinema and &TD Theatre of the Student Centre in Zagreb had a chance to see around fifty documentaries and meet the filmmakers, at a safe distance and adhering as much as possible to the epidemiological guidelines. In a special live show hosted on the R+ platform by Robert Zuber, the festival award winners were announced.
The 24th Ji.hlava IDFF kicks-off in two weeks! Despite the recent forced shift of the event to digital space, the full-fledged festival programme with over 59 world and 26 international premieres remains. What can the viewers look forward to?
The programme features over 220 films: from the latest of Czech and international documentary crop, South Korean film retrospective, comprehensive showcase of Afro-American docs as well as new documentaries focusing on topics that are more than relevant these days: coronavirus pandemic, China and Hong Kong, climate change, and films asking the fundamental question – where is our home? The 24th Ji.hlava IDFF will take place between October 27 and November 8, 2020.
Black Nights Film Festival announces first 8 films * Accreditations are open * The Estonia-Uganda connection * Screen's Stars of Tomorrow 2020
Festivals 14-10-2020FIRST 8
We've announced the first 8 films of the Official Selection
Six of the announced films are world premieres, as Black Nights welcomes the return of Latvian auteur Laila Pakalnina with In the Mirror; the celebrated Kazakhstan director Adilkhan Yerzhanov with Ulbolsyn; the multiple-award-winning Croatian director Dalibor Matanić with The Dawn; veteran Russian scriptwriter and director Aleksandr Mindadze with Parquet; the up and coming Turkish director Nisan Dağ presenting her second feature When I’m Done Dying and the Portuguese film and TV director Leonardo António with Submission.
Academy-Award-winning Hungarian veteran István Szabó's new film Final Report will have its international premiere at Black Nights.
The first batch is rounded off by The Three by the Sundance Best-Director-award-winning Russian director Anna Melikyan.
ACCREDITATIONS OPEN
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival is moving on with preparations of a hybrid event, holding physical screenings, while the accredited foreign press and industry delegates access to the festival’s programme digitally via the Shift72 and Elisa Stage platforms, no matter their geographic location. The industry strand, Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event has moved fully online this year, using the Elisa Stage platform.
Travel of foreign filmmakers and the press will be decided upon according to the situation in early November. The festival has teamed up with medical companies SYNLAB and Medicum for building safety protocols for testing kits and masks.
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