Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival aka PÖFF and its sub-festivals announce dates for its 23rd edition.The main festival and the youth and children’s strand Just Film will run from the 15th of November until the 1st of December and the international short film and animation festival PÖFF Shorts will take place from the 19th until the 27th of November.

All three festivals are now open for film submissions, accepting them via the platform filmfreeway.com. PÖFF Shorts also accepts films at shortfilmdepot.com.

Black Nights had over 2400 feature-length film submissions in 2018, while over 4000 shorts and animations were submitted to PÖFF Shorts.

The programme of Black Nights will consist of three international competition programmes – Official Selection, First Feature Competition and Baltic Film Competition - and various non-competitive sections for festival circuit highlights, a retrospective focus programme of Arabian cinema, experimental films, documentaries, genre cinema, sports films and much more. The sub-festivals similarly boast a rich palette of different sections, including international competition programmes.

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival is the only FIAPF-accredited competitive non-specialised film festival in Northern Europe. It has become a regional gateway for international cinema and film projects, bringing author cinema to local film fans and helping films start/continue their festival run and find distribution. Each year the festival is visited by a growing number of journalists, festival representatives, producers, distributors, sales agents and filmmakers – together nearly 1200 accredited guests - and covered by the world’s leading film and trade magazines such as Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Screen International and Cineuropa.


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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival aka PÖFF and its sub-festivals announce dates for its 23rd edition.The main festival and the youth and children’s strand Just Film will run from the 15th of November until the 1st of December and the international short film and animation festival PÖFF Shorts will take place from the 19th until the 27th of November.

PRAGUE: Nine films will vie in the New Europe Competition of the 26th Prague International Film Festival – Febiofest, set to take place from 21 to 29 March 2019.

Greta Stocklassa is currently making Kiruna 2.0, a film about the relocation of a Swedish mining town. Being half-Swedish, Stocklassa is opening another opportunity for Czech documentary film to get closer to Europe, something more and more often attempted by young Czech filmmakers.

Beldocs Industry 2019 is funded by European Union, through Creative Europe MEDIA, Access to Market call. Last 10 days to apply different section of Beldocs Industry, deadline is 10th of March. Projects in development, work in progress, rough cut from Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine, are eligible to apply. Projects should be either main production or co-production of countries listed above.

Here are the open calls for project in development workshops and presentation of projects in production, of the Beldocs Industry 2019 which will be held in Belgrade 9-13 May.

Beldocs in Progress http://beldocs.rs/en/beldocs-in-progress-international-call-for-applications/

Beldocs in Progress (BIP) International – a platform to present international documentary projects from Western Balkans and Post-Soviet Media countries to international industry.

Beldocs Academy http://beldocs.rs/en/beldocs-academy-programme/

Beldocs announce open call for the authors and/or producers of feature documentary films in early stage of production to submit their projects for 3 full day course with international tutors.

Documentaries for Kids & Youth Development Workshop http://beldocs.rs/en/beldocs-documentaries-for-kids-youth-development-workshop/

Beldocs and EDN are looking for fresh, innovative and edgy projects in development with intentions about telling real life stories to younger target audience.

Also, interesting discussions on hot topics, lecturers, One on One meetings with international film professionals will be organized as a part of Beldocs Market, which is going to be held in the same time.

Beldocs Industry 2019 will be held in the scope of Beldocs International Documentary Film Festival in Belgrade.

As you know the MEDIA programme actively supports the training of professionals from new member countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Portugal, Romania, Republic of Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tunisia & Ukraine).

To this end, CARTOON encourages applications for scholarships to its CARTOON MASTERS. The next Cartoon Business will be held in Tampere (Finland) from 23rd to 25th April 2019.
CARTOON will cover hotel (3 nights from 23rd to 26th April) and meals, and refund up to a maximum of 200 EUR for transportation expenses.

Cartoon Business is a top-level seminar focusing on the new generation models of financing and revenues brought about by the changes in the production and distribution markets. See the programme here and consult the list of international speakers.

For further information on scholarship, please consult this page
In order to apply for a scholarship, please return us by 15th March 2019 this form together with a motivation letter and a CV.
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