TALLINN: The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, running 13 – 29 November 2020, will introduce the DDA Spotlight Award, honouring diversity and inclusion in film.
WARSAW: The 6th edition of Poland’s CANAL+ SERIES LAB is accepting applications for its international programme through 10 November 2020.
WARSAW: FNE is tracking the Oscar candidates as they are announced across the region.
TRIESTE: When East Meets West has opened the call for its coproduction forum and all side events, set to take place 24 – 28 January 2021, with a 30 November 2020 deadline for applications.
STRASBOURG: Slovakia, Croatia, and Poland each received multiple Eurimages grants in the October 2020 round of funding. The grants ranged in size from 43,700 EUR to 370,000 EUR.
BRNO: The Russian film Sockeye Salmon. Red Fish by Vladislav Grishin and Dmitriy Shpilenok was the winner of the 46th EKOFILM International Film Festival, which concluded its first part on 17 October 2020. The Festival President’s Award went to the film Unrestrained Virgin Forest by Zdeněk Zvonek. Two more days of cinema screening of all 25 films will take place 27 and 28 November.
TBILISI: The inaugural Annecy-Tbilisi animation film pitching workshop handed out awards to two projects: Zako by Susana Khachatryan and The Living Book by Mindia Arabuli.
BUDAPEST: The third edition of the Hungarian children’s film festival Cinemira is set to unspool on 24 and 25 October 2020, after postponing its original April dates due to the COVID-19 crisis.
The Animation Film Pitching Workshop Annecy-Tbilisi names the Winning Projects
Press releases 18-10-2020The Georgian National Film Center, Institut Français de Géorgie, Georgian Animators Association”Saqanima”, Filmcenter “Georgian Film-Abkhazeti”, „ReAnimania“ International Animation Film and Comics Art Festival of Yerevan, Festival International du film d’animation d’Annecy MIFA and film studio Kvali XXI organised, from 28 September 2020 to 2 October, for the VI time, the animation film project pitching workshop Annecy-Tbilisi.
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) announces the First Feature Competition lineup for 2020
Festivals 15-10-2020The festival has selected 18 films in competition and three out of competition, coming from many corners of the globe to be screened at the hybrid edition of the 24th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
Featuring ten world premieres, seven international and one European, the programme embodies the festival’s mission to discover emerging creative voices from all over the world, offering them an initial launchpad and catapulting them toward international recognition. Three first features will also screen out of competition: one Austrian, one British and one Spanish/Italian co-production. One film, Why Not You will be screened as a shared premiere with the Zürich International Film Festival, while another, Should the Wind Drop, bears the Cannes Official Selection 2020 label.
