We are pleased to let you know that the EnergaCAMERIMAGE Festival has been included in the list of 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2020. The list was prepared by MovieMaker, the prestigious American magazine, and the FilmFreeway platform. It includes film events from around the world, with only three of them held in Poland, which makes us all the more proud and satisfied.

For its 8th edition, SOFA – School of Film Advancement is looking for up to eight film initiators, cultural managers, entrepreneurs, facilitators and catalysts with unique project ideas in the audiovisual world. Selected participants will be trained in various creative ways to reach local and international cinema-goers and they will be given the opportunity to make connections beyond borders. With the help of experienced lecturers, SOFA participants will receive tailor-made coaching, enabling them to realise their dream project in an efficient manner. 

Live the experience of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, find out the latest news on its activities and discover filmmakers, films and moments from world cinema through the Festival’s new, user-friendly application ThessFest, which was created with the support of the ministry of Culture and Sports.

Rescheduled module for Slovak filmmakers, this time organized in collaboration with CHARACTER – Film Development Association and the Slovak Film Institute, is going on-line and will take place May 18 - 21, 2020. 

Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival and European Genre Forum, both affiliated with the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, are organising an interactive virtual panel titled “Fight or fright - opportunities for the genre industry to thrive during the global lockdown” with acclaimed genre industry players to discuss what the genre industry could and should do to cope with the ongoing crisis. 

From 104 applications from 50 countries the dok.incubator selection committee chose eight talented filmmakers' teams who will have the opportunity to work intensively on their documentary films with the support of more than 20 internationally established producers, editors and sales agents for more than 6 months.

CLOUDS /FI/
Director: Tuija Halttunen, Producer: Niina Virtanen, Editor: Jussi Sandhu

Clouds by Tuija Halttunen portrays a Finnish climate scientist Hannele Korhonen, a recipient of a unique research grant from the United Arab Emirates. Korhonen’s enthusiasm about her science research is gradually accompanied by omnipresent questions regarding the scientist’s responsibility and unavoidable inner conflicts.

LIFE OF IVANNA /RU, NO, FI
Director: Renato Borrayo Serrano, Producer: Vlad Ketkovich, Editor: Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas

Guatemalan director Renato Borrayo Serrano‘s Life of Ivanna is an observational documentary depicting the life of a comunity of Nenet nomadic reindeer herders in the Russian arctic. The film follows Ivanna and her family as it shows the dramatic changes in her life, emigrating from traditional way of life to live in the city, motivated by the deteriorating conditions of life in tundra and climate change.

WE ARE INSIDE /LB/
Director: Farah Kassem, Producer: Cynthia Choucair, Co-producers: Patricia Drati, Mohammed Belhaj, Editor: Anders Jepsen

In we are inside, Farah Kassem returns to her hometown Tripoli in Lebanon and visits her father's poetry club that's run by elderly men. Realizing that it's only through poetry that she'll be able to have a real and equal dialogue with her father and the poets, she challenges herself and asks to be granted permission to become the first female member at the club. Meanwhile, the outside world is getting hard to ignore.

DIAGNONSENSE /NO/
Director: Ane-Martha Tamnes Hansgård, Producers: Andrew Grant, Øyvind Nyborg Gregersen, Editors: Truls Krane Meby, Stéphanie Morin

Diagnonsense is Norwegian director Ane-Martha Tamnes Hansgård’s self-reflexive documentary about her experience of being diagnosed with several mental disorders over a fifteen year period. With a meta-approach, a newfound critical distance from her diagnoses, and years of reflection, she is ready to tell her story and to challenge the very need for psychological labelling.

THE LABUDOVIC REELS /RS, FR, QA, ME, HR/
Director: Mila Turajlic, Producers: Carine Chichkowsky, Mila Turajlic, Editor: Sylvie Gadmer

Director Mila Turajlic takes us on an intimate archival road-trip with Stevan Labudovic, the cameraman of Yugoslav president Tito, re-discovering through The Labudovic Reels the images of African and Asian liberation movements and revolutionary leaders that defined the era of the 60s and 70s. An examination of a life invested in the cinema of solidarity, and the key role it played in the information battle that defined the era of decolonization.

BROTHERHOOD /CZ, IT/
Director: Francesco Montagner, Producer: Pavla Janoušková Kubečková, Co-producer: Nadia Trevisan, Editor: Valentina Cicogna

In Brotherhood the Italian director Francesco Montagner brings an intimate portrayal of contemporary Bosnia and its insular Salafi community in the story of three brothers, suddenly loosing strict and rigid guidance due to their father imprisonment for terrorism. Brotherhood is an anthropological exploration of youth, brotherhood, religion, and extremism in the most radicalized region of Europe.

THE PAWNSHOP /PL/
Director: Lukasz Kowalski, Producer: Anna Mazerant, Editor: Adriana Fernández

Lukasz Kowalski’s film debut invites us to The biggest Pawnshop in the south of Poland run by a couple of extraordinary entrepreneurs Jola and Wiesiek. Surrounded by thousands of bizarre objects, accompanied by touching figures of the neighborhood they feel for, they are trying to find a way to save their business and love.

UNTITLED TURKEY PROJECT /DE/
Producer: Florian Schewe, Editor: Till Ufer

The UNTITLED TURKEY PROJECT follows one of the most famous, internationally acclaimed lawyers in Turkey, who has successfully defended human and women’s rights for decades. Now she is being accused herself. The lawyer is threatened by life imprisonment and declared the enemy of the state even before a fair trial. We follow a woman who fights for justice, not with weapons but with words.

Find more information about the projects here.

In the midst of the pandemic which the whole world is grappling with, we regret to inform that NEM Dubrovnik cannot be held this June in the beautiful city of Dubrovnik. We are monitoring the situation on a daily basis and, in the hope of a better tomorrow, we will joint our NEM Dubrovnik to our event in Zagreb - we present NEM Dubrovnik Meets Zagreb!

Where and when?
NEM Dubrovnik will be held jointly with NEM Zagreb, and both events will share the single name of NEM Dubrovnik Meets Zagreb!  We are organising three fantastic days devoted to the TV industry from December 9th to 11th 2020 at Zagreb.

Please read more information about the event in our official press release: https://bit.ly/2Sx5hBm

The best will choose the best

Acclaimed film industry figures, filmmakers, international festivals representatives as well as previous winners of the Krakow Film Festival and the hottest names in culture including Jan Komasa, Leszek Możdżer and Łukasz Żal! An impressive list of this year’s jury members as always will guarantee a professional assessment of the films in the competition.