Following on from our previous press release about the cancellation of this year’s edition of the Prague International Film Festival – Febiofest 2020 on the planned dates of 19–27.3.2020, we announce that replacement dates for the festival have been set. The 27th Prague International Film Festival – Febiofest will take place on 18–25.9.2020 in Prague.

We hereby inform you that the 16th edition of ZagrebDox, due to take place from 15 to 22 March at CineStar Zagreb – Branimir Mingle Mall, is being postponed.

Based on the information and guidelines received recently from the Republic of Croatia Civil Protection Headquarters, including a recommendation of a ban of indoor public gatherings with the aim of controlling the current epidemiological situation in Croatia, the neighbourhood and the rest of Europe, it is our duty and responsibility to the festival audience to take all the necessary precautions. 

The new Festival dates, as well as all other information, will be announced on time.

The activities of the film professionals training programme ZagrebDox Pro, as well as the Pitching Forum, will take place on the announced dates, online. That way we are trying to make possible for all the programme participants to develop their projects and present themselves to the international panel.

        

The Krakow Film Festival is one of the oldest and the most important events in the world, dedicated to documentary, animated and short feature films. This year, it celebrates its 60th anniversary. In the programme, over 200 films from all over the world will be shown, including several dozen premieres!

KFF passes and accreditations

For the viewers – festival passes

Only until the 10th of May, the passes are available at promotional prices – the normal festival pass at the price of 160 PLN, and the reduced price festival pass – 90 PLN.  After that time, the prices will increase to 210 PLN and 115 PLN. In addition to the passes for the entire Festival, there are also day passes on offer, at the price of 55 PLN.

Starting from the 10th of March, the festival passes will be available on the website of the Festival, and from the 11th of May, at the regular prices, at the box offices of the festival cinemas: Kino Pod Baranami, Mikro, Kijów, Paradox, Agrafka, the Academy of Theatre Arts. During the festival, all passes can be purchased in the Festival Centre in Małopolski Ogród Sztuki (ul. Rajska 12)

For the film industry, journalists and students of art schools – accreditations.

No later than on the 20th of May, you can submit an accreditation application using the online form on the official website of the festival. The Krakow Film Festival offers four types of accreditation. 

The accreditation for the representatives of the film industry entitles to participate in the film screenings – Industry and in the events of the KFF Industry – Industry and Industry Light.  The accreditation Media is addressed to press, radio, television journalists as well as to bloggers, whereas the accreditation Student is available to all art school students.

The 60th Krakow Film Festival will take place on May 31 – June 7, 2020

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The following production grants were announced by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre on 10 March 2020.

After eight years of the Visegrad Film Forum and facing various challenges that are mainly related to making our guests and visitors satisfied, it’s about time we have to make a tough decision. Based on the current situation in Europe and Bratislava a.k.a. the spread of the COVID-19 virus, we’ve decided to cancel the current edition of our event, which was to be held on March 10-14. We will let you know whether we will cancel VFF completely or just put it off to a later time.

The international industry event that was scheduled to take place March 30 – April 1 has been cancelled to protect the safety of participants amid coronavirus threat. The decision was also brought on by travel restrictions across Europe.

Meeting Point – Vilnius (MPV), which takes place during Vilnius IFF, attracts hundreds of European film industry professionals. Unfortunately, many of them must now cancel their plans due to international travel restrictions caused by coronavirus. This means that filmmakers who were selected to pitch their projects during MPV will not receive desirable consideration from sales agents and other decisionmakers.

“The number of applicants for the Coming Soon session doubled compared to last year. We feel enormous responsibility for our filmmakers and aim to provide their projects with well-deserved attention from agents, distributors, producers and institutions. Regretfully, the travel restrictions impede our ability to do so,” said Alessandra Pastore, head of MPV.

The industry event has received a lot of attention in 2020, forging significant international partnerships with renowned film organizations.

“This edition of MPV was on track to be our best. It was granted Eurimages patronage, the European Film Forum was scheduled to close out the conference, the Innovation Day Lab focusing on Baltic distributors and movie theatres was set up in cooperation with Europa Cinemas, discussions for producers were planned with the help of the European Film Academy. This situation is truly unfortunate,” said Algirdas Ramaška, CEO of Vilnius IFF.

Moreover, filmmakers from countries with significant coronavirus outbreaks will not be presenting their work at Vilnius IFF.

“In order to ensure the safety of our viewers, we have come to a mutual agreement with filmmakers who reside in coronavirus hotbed areas to cancel their visits. During the festival, premises will be ventilated and disinfected. Festivalgoers will receive refunds if screenings are canceled,” assured Ramaška.