PULA: A Brief Excursion, directed by Igor Bezinović, was awarded best film in the main competition programme of the 64th Pula Film Festival, while Sieranevada, directed by Cristi Puiu, received the Golden Arena for best Croatian minority coproduction. The festival took place from 15 to 22 July 2017.
ANTALYA: European producer Mike Downey and Mirsad Purivatra, the director of the Sarajevo Film Festival, were appointed artistic director and strategic consultant respectively at the International Antalya Film Festival.
BRUSSELS: The European Film Agency Directors EFAD's issued a report with 10 solutions to support better promotion of European films and increase exports outside of Europe.
When the War Comes / Až přijde válka, directed by Jan Gebert, follows a young member of militia Slovak Recruits/ Slovenskí branci, one of the largest paramilitary organizations in Eastern Europe. This Czech / Croatian coproduction is currently in production.
Today, the Baltic Focus events dedicated to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are launching within the programme of the industry days of the International Odessa Film Festival.
During the discussion “Opportunities of cooperation with Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia” representatives of the national film agencies from all three countries will present the film funding mechanisms put in place in their countries, share good practice. With the cultural ties between Lithuania and Ukraine strengthening during the past several years, film industries of both countries are seeking and finding partners for joint projects, and a number of co-productions have been launched.
During a special session „Baltic „Works in progress“ projects“ filmmakers will present seven Baltic films currently in production looking for partners and additional funding opportunities. Lithuania will be represented by the filmmaker Marija Stonytė with her documentary Gentle Warriors (prod. „Moonmakers“) and the producer Stasys Baltakis with the feature film Isaac (dir. Jurgis Matulevičius, prod. „Film Jam“). The filmmakers hope that their projects will appeal to distributors, festival programmers and sales agents. Both films are expected to be finished in 2018–2019.
Gentle warriors follows a journey of five girls who chose voluntary military service. They live and train in an isolated military facility among 600 men for nine months. Isaac is a story about a Lithuanian activist who killed a Jew Isaac in Lietukis garage in Kaunas in 1941. After many years, the guilty of murder is to chase his grandson.
The Lithuanian-Ukrainian-French co-production Stasis (dir. Mantas Kvedaravičius), currently in post-production stage, will be presented in the main industry competition programme “Works in progress”, which consists of 11 leading Ukrainian and international feature film projects. Stasis is a psychological drama sweeping in three cities – Athens, Istanbul and Odessa, and weaving the threads of heroes life: Garip killed Ibrahim, Ibrahim and Sofia, who were madly in love once.
The films in post-production stage will be presented to important Ukrainian and international distributors, sales agents, festival representatives and industry professionals to provide wide film dissemination in local and foreign markets as well as to compete for a monetary prize.
There are more Lithuanian accents in various festival film programs. Frost by Lithuanian director Šarūnas Bartas (coproduction of Lithuania, Ukraine, France, Poland), Pretenders directed Vallo Toomla (coproduction of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) and A Gentle Creature by Sergei Loznitsa (coproduction of France, Germany, Dutch, Ukrainia and Lithuania) will be screen.
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Bartosz Nowacki's film On the Road at the L.A. Shorts International Film Festival in Los Angeles.
Festivals 20-07-2017Bartosz Nowacki's film On the Road is qualified for the 21st edition of L.A. SHORTS in Los Angeles.
LA Shorts International Film Festival ranks among the most prestigious and largest international short film festivals in the world. The festival is accredited by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television (ACCT) presenters of the Canadian Screen Awards.
In past years, a total of 50 LA Shorts filmmakers have earned Academy Award nominations, with 15 taking home the Oscar.
On the Road cast: Magdalena Boczarska, Szymon Bobrowski, Adam Bobik, Przemysław Bluszcz and Jakub Papuga.
Film was written and directed by: Bartosz Nowacki.
Director of photography: MichałSterzyński.
Production Company (Poland): ALISTAN
Co-producers (Poland): STERN PICTURES and POZNAN FILM COMMISSION regional film fund.
Those who have been honored at the festival include directors, Jon Favreau, Paul Haggis, Bryan Singer, Jan de Bont, Shane Black, and actors Gary Oldman, James Woods, Martin Landau and Richard Dreyfuss. Many recognized actors and directors have screened films and attended the festival such as Scarlett Johansson, Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Courteney Cox, Tim Burton, Jason Reitman, Terry Gilliam, Spike Jonze, Eva Mendes, Jessica Biel, Rachel Weisz, Hilary Swank, Josh Brolin, Kirsten Dunst, Rita Wilson, Ralph Macchio, Ricky Gervais, Vin Diesel and many more.
The 21st annual LA Shorts International Film Festival will be held at L.A. LIVE Regal Cinemas and the Laemmle NoHo 7 Theatres.
Official website of the film: http://nadrodzefilm.pl
Official festival website: http://lashortsfest.com/content.asp?PageID=2
A collaboration of Wrocław's T-Mobile New Horizons IFF and the European Film Academy (EFA), the 6th edition of 'A Sunday in the Country' gathers a dozen of young film journalists from Europe for a retretat/workshop in the first weekend of the festival. The participants gather for 3 days in a remote country house near Wrocław (Zagórze Śląskie on Bystrzyckie Lake) where they get to know each other, watch films and discuss them, meet special guests (filmmakers brought by the New Horizons) and talk about issues such as: What’s the responsibility, if there is one, of a critic towards (national) film productions? And towards the reader? What is the reality for film critics in different countries? They exchange their professional experiences and build international relations.
In 2017 A Sunday in the Country in Wrocław will take place during the 17th T-Mobile New Horizons IFF from August 5th till 8th.
For the 6th edition of the exceptional retreat-get-together 11 participants have been selected from 9 different countries: Austria (Franziska Bechtold), Denmark (Samina Jakobsen), the Netherlands (Hugo Emmerzael), Israel (Shani Kiniso), Germany (Karl-Leontin Beger), Portugal (Tiago Silva), Romania (Andra Petrescu) and Italy (Edoardo Becattini) and including 3 Poles: Piotr Czerkawski, Sebastian Smoliński and Patrycja Mucha.
They participants will work and network under the guidance of the established critic from the Austrian Celluloid Magdalena Miedl as well as co-ordinators of the New Horizons Association and EFA. They will meet established filmmakers-guests of the New Horizons FF, jury members Hadas Ben Aroya and Gaston Solnicki as well as the director of The Ornithologist Joao Pedro Rodrigues and author of78/52 documentary, Alexandre O. Philippe.
The event is supported by the Polish Film Institute, Austrian Cultural Forum, Camoes Institute, Danish Cultural Center, the Embassy of the Netherlands, Italian Cultural Institute, Romanian Institute of Culture, Polish Cultural Institutes in Berlin and Tel Aviv,blog.filmpolska.de, Kulturbrauerei e.V. and organized in collaboration with Krzysztof Mętrak Award for young critics.
BUCHAREST: Film and music piracy has seen a major reduction in Romania over the past five years due to the availability of cheaper legal audiovisual products and affordable applications.
GALAȚI: The first 12 D cinema in Romania opened in the Museum of National Science in Galați on 19 July 2017.
For the second year, New Nordic Films in Haugesund is proud to select a recipient of the Eurimages Lab Project Award. The award of 50 000 EUR is intended for the most promising cutting-edge feature film project (mainly fiction or hybrid) made outside traditional rules of film making, both in terms of form/narrative and production.
True to the Eurimages profile, the films must be an international collaboration in some way. A jury will select the recipient of the award among the presentations in our Work in Progress programme.
See http://newnordicfilms.no/ for more information, or contact programme coordinator Aleksander Huser at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
The call for eligible projects will close shortly.
