The world premiere of the Slovenian minority coproduction Oasis at the Venice festival
Press releases 29-07-2020This year, the Venice Film Festival will take place from 2 to 12 September. The Slovenian minority coproduction Oasis, directed by the Serbian director Ivan Ikić, will have its world premiere in the context of the Venice Days (Giornate degli Autori) programme. A total of 11 films were selected for this programme, aimed at encouraging original and innovative film expression of authors from all over the world. Oasis is the director’s second feature fiction, while his debut Barbarians (2014) won the Special Jury Prize at the Karlovy Vary IFF.
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New Horizons Studio+ organized by the New Horizons Association and Creative Europe Desk Poland, consisted of workshops and lectures on various aspects related to the project promotion and development.
New Horizons Studio+ selects European director-producer pairs who are developing their first or second feature film. 10 emerging talents from Poland and 10 from Spain, Estonia, Romania, Ukraine and Serbia took part in the programme under the supervision of the following experts: David Pope (London Film Academy), Alya Belgaroui-Degalet (EAVE) representing Wild Bunch, Michael Arnon (EAVE) from Wolf Consultants and sales agent Hédi Zardi - CEO of Luxbox.
FESTIVALS: Record Submissions for 13th Fest Anča International Animation Festival
Slovakia 30-07-2020ZILINA: A total of 1,650 films from 65 countries have been submitted for the competitive sections of the 13th edition of the Fest Anča International Animation Festival, set to take place in Žilina from 27 to 30 August 2020 and the best 250 titles have been selected for the programme. The theme of this edition is The Day After.
Reel Suspects Picks up Lithuanian Debut Feature Headed for Venice’s Critics’ Week
Lithuania 29-07-2020VILNIUS: Marat Sargsyan’s first feature The Flood Won’t Come has been acquired by the Paris-based sales agent Reel Suspects. The film will have its world premiere in the Critics’ Week section of the 77th Venice Film Festival (2-13 September 2020).
Croatian minority co-productions The Barefoot Emperor and Tales from a Prison Cell to screen at this year’s 19th Transilvania International Film Festival, while the programme dedicated to established international directors will include three titles by Vinko Brešan. The festival is held 31st July – 9th August, while the screenings will take place exclusively at open-air venues in the Transylvanian city of Cluj.
The fifth edition of First Cut Lab is addressed to Polish filmmakers. First Cut Lab is a programme designed for feature fiction films in editing phase. The majority of First Cut Lab-supported films are debuts and many projects have gone on trto premiere in festivals like Cannes, Berlinale, Toronto, Karlovy Vary and San Sebastian. This year, FCL is for the first time part of the Polish Days - industry events of the New Horizons International Film Festival. The filmmakers of the three selected feature debuts can meet the experts who will share their experience.
This year’s Sarajevo Film Festival Competition programmes have been announced, which will go ahead as planned, between 14th and 21st August, both on-site and online, in line with the circumstances caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Croatian titles and Croatian minority co-productions will screen in Feature Film, Documentary, Short Film and Student Film competitions, while for several of the titles these will be world premieres. In addition, Croatian filmmakers will appear on the juries of the Feature Film and Documentary competitions.
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After the qualification of the digitally restored Štiglic’s film The Valley of Peace (1956) for the 2016 Cannes Classics competition, the celebration of the 60th anniversary of its making, and its Cannes premiere, the same director’s film The Ninth Circle (1960) was the third work of his that was screened in Cannes (the first one had been the 1949 film On Our Own Land).
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CLUJ-NAPOCA: Ivana Mladenović’s sophomore feature Ivana the Terrible will screen in the Romanian Days competition at the 19th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF), running in Cluj-Napoca from 31 July to 9 August 2020. This Romanian/Serbian coproduction won the Special Jury Prize in the Cineasti del presente section of the 72nd Locarno Film Festival 2019.
CLUJ-NAPOCA: Liviu Săndulescu’s debut feature Cărturan will screen in the Romanian Days competition at the 19th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF), running in Cluj-Napoca from 31 July to 9 August 2020. The film is a Romanian/Swedish coproduction.
