On Sunday, June 7th, the 60th Krakow Film Festival finished with the screenings of the awarded films; it’s the first film festival in Poland that happened entirely online and ended in the Kino Pod Baranami cinema in Krakow! During the 8 festival days we organised 230 screenings and showed 172 latest documentary, animated and short films from all over the world, which were watched by the audience of over 40 000 people!
FNE Podcast: Festivals in Crisis: Barbara Orlicz-Szczypuła Head of Programming Krakow Film Festival
Poland 22-06-2020Barbara shares with us the reasons why the Krakow Film Festival's team decided to take the festival online this year and the results of the online event. She tells us how the experience of taking the festival online has changed her approach and why she believes that in the future many film festivals will be hybrid events with more online screenings and events for those who cannot attend in person.
TALLINN: Ivo Felt is coproducing for Estonia’s Allfilm the British/Estonian Burial, to be shot in Estonia in the autumn of 2020. The cast includes Diana Rigg and Tom Felton.
NICOSIA: The 15th Cyprus International Film Festival is accepting applications for its 2020 edition. Both short and full length films are eligible.
WARSAW: The Polish company New Europe Film Sales has sold the Polsih/Swedish coproduction Sweat to ARP in France.
PRODUCTION: Romanian Writer/Director Ioana Mischie in production with TANGIBLE UTOPIAS, a groundbreaking virtual reality world
Press releases 15-06-2020- the meditative virtual reality experience brings to life an Odyssey of future cities as inspired by the visions of children worldwide with the goal to inspire societal development for the very long term.
- the most recent virtual reality project is selected for Cannes XR, the global program for immersive entertainment, that will take place in between the 22nd and the 26th of June 2020 in an online setting
- artistic virtual reality worlds of this kind along with their international recognition open up a new field of artistic creation in Eastern Europe, with the potential to fuel up and revitalize the post-pandemic industry in unprecedented manners. Having a modular design, the project is designed as an ongoing piece, combining pioneering processes of cinematic and computer-generated creation.
The shooting of the feature The Space Within Us by the director Rahela Jagrič Pirc begins
Press releases 18-06-2020On Monday, 15 June, the shooting of the feature The Space Within Us by the director Rahela Jagrič Pirc, who also co-wrote the script with Darja Medić, began.
°efp and kviff invite young directors to make their first foray into the film business
Press releases 16-06-2020
EFP
EFP FUTURE FRAMES - Generation NEXT of European Cinema will be presenting ten selected films directed by some of the most promising European film students and graduates at the official Industry Days (KVIFF Eastern Promises) of this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF). The high-profile programme, which has been expanded by several kick-off events, will be running from 29 June to 8 July, 2020.
![[nh] A Sunday in the Country online reunion edition](/media/k2/items/cache/aebca038f65a607232bbb912d16dc071_Generic.jpg)
For many years, the New Horizons International Film Festival and the European Film Academy have been co-operating in the framework of a special edition of the EFA’s A Sunday in the Country for young film journalists and critics from across Europe.
For the first time, this year’s 73rd Film Market in Cannes will be held online from 22 to 26 June. The Slovenian Film Centre will present three Slovenian features at the virtual film market (Market Screenings 2020). The screenings are mainly intended for the festival selectors, who can ensure that the films have the best possible international festival premieres.
