Anča Awards 2020: big winners I’m Going Out for Cigarettes (France) and SH_T HAPPENS (Slovakia)
Festivals 31-08-2020Fest Anča International Animation Festival 2020’s main competitive section has been dominated by loneliness and coping mechanisms, in keeping with this year’s The Day After theme. The Anča Award 2020 went to the I’m Going Out for Cigarettes (2018) short film by French director Osman Cerfon. Kaspar Jancis’s Cosmonaut was awarded a Special Mention in the same competitive category. The Anča Slovak Award goes to Michaela Mihályi and David Štumpf for their internationally successful SH_T HAPPENS.
Media representatives are invited to apply for accreditation to the Riga International Film Festival (RIGA IFF), which will allow them to attend screenings and industry events.
Apply via this link by 20 September, 2020. Each application will be assessed individually and applicants will be informed of the decision no later than 5 October.
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Astra Film Festival. 16 international and national premieres plus a film running for 2021Oscars nominations. Tickets are on sale
Festivals 31-08-2020The autumn film show begins at the Astra Film Festival 2020. Six world premieres, one international, nine national premieres, a film running for the 2021 Oscar nominations, meetings with directors, key questions, unexpected answers and special events complete the 27th edition of the Festival. Astra Film Festival Open Air 2020 starts in a week in Sibiu and will remain in the public memory for a long time.
Astra Film Festival 2020 offers his viewers 6 world premieres („Tamás Barta - Hurry, Mom’s Waiting at Home” by Eszter Hajdu – Hungary-Portugal, 2020; „Half Elf” by Jón Bjarki Magnússon, Iceland, 2020; “Burgan-I Did Not Breathe the Air for Nothing” by Duco Tellegen, Netherlands- Romania, 2019; "All rivers flow into the sea and the sea never fills", by Claudiu Mitcu- Romania, 2020; “Death...full stop or comma?” by Călin Terțan, Corina Terțan – Romania, 2020; "Reflections in the East", by Andreea Cristina Borţun- Romania, 2020), an international premiere, "Lost Kids on the Beach", by Alina Manolache- Romania, 2020 and 9 national premiers (“Forget Me Not” by Sun Hee Engelstoft –Denmark, 2019;“Lessons of Love” by Malgorzata Goliszewska and Kasia Mateja- Poland, 2019; “Talking About Adultery” by Bára Jíchová Tyson – USA-Czech Republic; “The World According to Amazon”, by Adrien Pinon and Thomas Lafarge – France-Germany-India-Poland-USA, 2019; “Caught in the Net” by Vít Klusák, Barbora Chalupová – Czech Republic – Slovakia, 2020; “Self Portrait” by Katja Høgset, Margreth Olin and Espen Wallin – Norway, 2020; "Songs of Repression" by Marianne Hougen-Moraga and Estephan Wagner – Denmark, 2020; “Holy Father” by Andrei Diaconescu – Romania, 2020; „iHuman” by Tonje Hessen Schei – Norway, 2019 ).
WARSAW: The first Kids Kino webinar on the topic of new content, partly resulting from the COVID-19 lockdown, will take place on 31 August 2020 at 15:00 CET.
TALLINN: The 2020 edition of Industry @Tallinn & Baltic Event is accepting applications for its several sections through 21 September 2020.
RIGA: Riga IFF will stream worldwide a concert created especially for its opening night on 15 October 2020. The festival runs through 25 October, and the opening night event is an example of the ways festivals are trying to reach the public during the COVID-19 pandemic.
BRATISLAVA: Slovak Production designer Valerián Stražovec has died in Canada at 87. He was nominated twice for the Emmys for his work on The Muppets: A Celebration of Thirty Years and Muppets Tonight, receiving an Emmy Award for the latter.
BUCHAREST: Romania will re-open cinemas, theatres and indoor restaurants on 1 September 2020, while maintaining a state of alert.
WARSAW: Dorota Kobiela's The Peasants has been acquired by the Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales. The film is produced by the same animation studio, BreakThru Films behind Loving Vincent, which Kobiela directed together with Hugh Welchman. The film is already in production for the FNE production profile Click HERE.
WARSAW: Applications are open for the 5th edition of the Kids Kino.Lab script development programme. The deadline is 23 October 2020.
