Anthropocene - the human epoch
How does human presence on Earth jeopardize the future of our planet? In the context of the 22nd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, the participants of the online open discussion, which took place on Sunday, May 24, on the Festival’s YouTube channel, had a discourse on the Anthropocene Age and its geological, environmental, social, philosophical, political and cultural implications. The discussion was attended by Yiannis Boutaris, president and founder of Arcturos, Kostas Stasinopoulos, curator and art historian of Serpentine Galleries and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), Konstantinos Voudouris, Professor of Geology at AUTh, Vanessa Archontidou, alpinist and Chrysostomos Stamoulis, Professor of Theology at AUTh.
The latest shorts in the popular animated series Shammies will premiere at RIGA IFF
Festivals 26-05-2020
How Shammies Told Time
We are pleased to announce that three short films from the animated series Shammies will premiere in the children’s film programme KIDS WEEKEND at the Riga International Film Festival. The films, made by animation studio Atom Art and directed by Edmunds Jansons, will screen on Saturday and Sunday, 17 and 18 October. 10-ticket packages to RIGA IFF are currently available.
Open discussion with the renowned correspondent Robert Fisk and the director Yung Chang
Festivals 26-05-2020
This is not a Movie
The first live discussion of the online 22nd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, in which the renowned British war correspondent Robert Fisk and Yung Chang, the director of the documentary This Is Not A Movie, participated in, was held with great success on the night of Thursday 21 May, on the Festival’s YouTube channel
60th Krakow Film Festival begins next Sunday.
This edition will take place entirely online. The program is already available on the festival website, you can buy festival passes and tickets on our website now.
On the occasion of the jubilee, 60th edition, the passes are available at exceptional jubilee prices – for the opportunity to watch almost 200 films you will pay only PLN 60!
Movies can be watched all over Poland. The program includes the premieres of the best documentary, short and animated films from around the world and Poland.
HBO Europe Joins Cristian Mungiu for Second Edition of Write a Screenplay For… Contest
Romania 26-05-2020BUCHAREST: The TV mini-series The Untouchable / Intangibilul by Adina Sădeanu and German-American Kirsten Peters, and the feature film Is It Really Happened? / S-a întâmplat by Maria Avram are the winners of the second edition of the script contest Write a Screenplay for…, organised by Cristian Mungiu’s Asociatia Cinemascop together with HBO Europe.
BUCHAREST: The Romanian writer/director/producer Marian Crișan is currently in the financing stage with the feature film The Servant / Sluga, which is so far a Romanian/Hungarian coproduction between Crișan’s Rova Film, Hungary’s Focus Fox and Romania’s Chainsaw Europe.
RIGA IFF announces first tickets sales together with this year’s slogan – Owning the Unknown
Festivals 22-05-2020
The Riga International Film Festival is announcing sales of early bird tickets and introducing this year’s slogan – Owning the Unknown. The seventh RIGA IFF will take place this autumn from 15 to 25 October.
TETA has opened applications for the 6th edition of Pustnik Screenwriters Residency which has been scheduled for 7-15 September 2020. Pustnik is the only Romania-based residency for feature film development and is dedicated to young and emerging filmmakers from all over the world.
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival continues its online activities during the days of the quarantine. TIFF offers for free, through the streaming platform Festival Scope, digital screenings of Greek films from the program of the 60th TIFF.
TIFF assigns eleven directors to shoot short films in their houses, entertains children and young people
