The calling card of the Warsaw Film Festival will present seven World Premieres, seven International Premieres and one European Premiere to the local audience gathered in Warsaw, as well as the international jury.
18 Kilohertz / 18 kiloherców / 18 Kilohertz, dir. Farkhat Sharipov, Kazakhstan 2020, 82 min.
The realities of teenage life in Kazakhstan in the 1990s, during the heroin boom in Almaty. *18 kHz is a sound frequency that adults can’t hear.
The Asadas / Rodzina Asada /浅田家 , dir. Ryota Nakano, Japan 2020, 127 min.
Based on true events, this is a story about a photographer who believed in the power of the photo.
Big Boys Don`t Cry / Duże chłopaki nie płaczą, dir. Steve Crowhurst, UK 2020, 90 min.
A man cannot shake off his traumatic past in a children’s home. A shocking film based on true events, it is the British documentary filmmaker’s feature debut.
By Your Side / Do szaleństwa / À La Folie, dir. Audrey Estrougo, France 2020, 82 min.
Manu returns to her childhood home for her mother's birthday. A psychological drama about a family torn apart by schizophrenia.
Droneman / Modelář, dir. Petr Zelenka, Czechia 2020, 105 min.
A political thriller. Two friends run a prosperous drone rental company. One of them is obsessed with justice and seeks it at all costs, even outside the boundaries of the law. A drone becomes his weapon and a tool of revenge.
The Man with Hare Ears
Fox in a Hole / Lis w norze / Fuchs im Bau, dir. Arman T. Riahi, Austria 2020, 100 min.
A touching story about a prison school for minors, told from the point of view of the newly arrived teacher who is well outside his comfort zone.
Hot Soup / Gorące źródła / Re Tang, dir. Ming Zhang, China 2020, 102 min.
Contemporary Shanghai. The stories of four women in pursuit of happiness.
Magnezja / Magnesium, dir. Maciej Bochniak, Poland 2020, 120 min.
A gangster tragicomedy, an auteur version of the “Eastern”, in which a patch of land cut off from the rest of the country is ruled by women and the main currency is a revolver bullet. A film with a choice cast.
The Man with Hare Ears / Człowiek z zajęczymi uszami / Muž se zaječíma ušima, dir. Martin Šulík, Czechia, Slovakia 2020, 104 min.
The latest comedy from master filmmaker Šulík, in which an evening phone call triggers a series of events that turn the protagonist’s world upside down.
My Blood & Bones in a flowing Galaxy / Moja krew i kości w płynącej galaktyce / 砕け散るところを見せてあげる, dir. Sabu, Japan 2020, 127 min.
Kiyozumi Hamada is a third-form secondary school student. He possesses a strong sense of justice. One day, he sees first-former Hari Kuramoto being bullied… An adaptation of Yuyuko Takemiya’s bestselling novel. A story about unlikely love that brings hope.
Magnesium
Post Mortem, dir. Péter Bergendy, Hungary 2020, 116 min.
It’s the freezing winter of 1918. The country has been ravaged by World War I and the Spanish flu. Many are dead, and countless spirits have become stranded in our world. A post-mortem photographer and a little girl confront ghosts in a haunted village.
Tsoi / Coj / Цой, dir. Alexei Uchitel, Russia, Latvia 2020, 91 min.
Viktor Tsoi, the Soviet Union’s most famous rock star, leader of the band Kino, a symbol of freedom and change, dies in an accident on a Latvian highway.
Unidentified / Niezidentyfikowany / Neidentificat, dir. Bogdan George Apetri, Romania 2020, 123 min.
A film combining and subverting several successful popular cinema archetypes: the police or detective movie, the action film, film noir and the anti-hero character type.
We are here. We are close / Jesteśmy. Jesteśmy blisko / My ye. My poruch, dir. Roman Balayan, Ukraine 2020, 90 min.
A riveting story about how misdiagnosis, not necessarily in medical terms, complicates and corrupts lives, but can also bring the grace of enlightenment.
The Year Of Fury / Rok furii / El Año de la Furia, dir. Rafa Russo, Spain, Uruguay 2020, 101 min.
Uruguay, 1972. A drama in which, day by day, the lives of all the characters are deeply impacted by the yoke of dictatorship.
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“The Day Vladimir Died” is the biggest winner of this year's ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum. The project, directed by Fadi Syriani, won four awards in ANIMARKT Pitching. Apart from it, seven more films were awarded. The awards gala ended this year's ANIMARKT edition, which gathered online over half a thousand participants from 34 countries and made it possible to conduct over 260 business talks.
15 projects at the stage of the first script and the outline of the visual concept took part in Pitching.
- I was very impressed with the variety of themes and the dynamic poetics of the final projects - says Markéta Šantrochová, a member of the jury and emphasizes that the online event was organized not only professionally, but also with a great understanding of the participants' needs.
Ultimately, due to the high level of presentations, as many as 8 films were awarded. "The Day Vladimir Died" won 4 awards: a voucher worth PLN 40,000 to be used at CeTA Studio in Wrocław, purchase of a license by Ale kino +, RADIATOR IP SALES distribution award and expert consultation with Marcin Zalewski. This project, directed by Fadi Syriani, tells the story of an inhabitant of Beirut, a regular at funerals looking for his own obituary.
The feature film "Toni & Friends", a Numa Film production directed by Ion Indolean, will have its world premiere at the prestigious Warsaw Film Festival, in the Free Spirit competition section.
The event, at its 36th edition, will take place between October 9-18. A Category A festival, according to the FIAPF classification, the WFF is the most important film event in Poland.
Second edition of this unique MIDPOINT program focused on TV writing is announcing its participants. The program, which runs online through October 14-23, 2020, will be led by two tutors, Ben Harris (UK) and Gabor Krigler (HU). They will help the participants to get acquainted with the structure, hierarchy and processes running in a writers' room.
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.
