Serbian Director Ognjen Glavonić and Hungarian Animation Filmmaker Réka Bucsi in Berlinale Juries
Serbia 05-02-2020BELGRADE: Serbian director and writer Ognjen Glavonić will be one of the three members of the GWFF Best First Feature Award Jury, while Hungarian animation filmmaker Réka Bucsi will sit in the Berlinale Shorts International Jury at the 70th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival (20 February-1 March 2020).
The eighth edition of the annual gathering of globally renowned companies that make TV and film industry history
29th January 2020 – New Europe Market, the biggest CEE region event specialised for the development of the TV industry, is back in Dubrovnik. For the eighth consecutive year the leading media and TV experts from Europe and the rest of the world will gather in Croatia. Under the slogan “The TV market with a view”, from June 8th to 11th 2020 NEM Dubrovnik will once again host numerous global companies at the Dubrovnik Palace Hotel: leading free-to air (FTA) and pay-TV channels, cable and satellite operators, IPTV, production, distribution and tech companies, domestic and international media, marketing and media agencies and numerous other experts with ties to the TV industry.
NEM Dubrovnik covers trends in global and local production, the competitiveness of the region through co-production (which implies bigger budgets), digital content development, relations between on-demand platforms and TV channels, as well the role of advertising in the TV industry, the fight against piracy in the region, and high prices of sports content like the broadcasts of football matches and tournaments.
Why is NEM Dubrovnik important to the CEE?
One of key segments of each NEM Dubrovnik is the NEM Showroom where new content by renowned production and distribution companies such as BBC Worldwide, Freemantle, Lionsgate and Global Agency are showcased. This is NEM’s way of informing European production companies with the Croatian and regional scene, setting up the terrain for new opportunities and deals. It was at NEM Dubrovnik that the Croatian series The Paper made a global distribution deal through Israel’s Keshet International.
NEM has for years had the support of leading global media industry companies, prominent and award-winning decision makers from the TV world such as BBC Studios, CBS Studios International, Disney, NBC Universal International Networks, Warner Bros., Fremantle, Sony Pictures Television, FOX Networks Group, MGM, ITV Studios Global Entertainment, Viacom International Studios, Global Agency, Viasat World, yes Studios, Eutelsat, NBC Universal, LG, ZDF, BETA Film, HRT, Nova TV, RTL and other global and local media companies. In view of the expanding role that telecoms have in the TV industry, Deutsche Telekom, Telekom Austria Group, A1 and Hrvatski Telekom have supported NEM throughout the years.
Among the prominent producers who visited NEM Dubrovnik are Tom Fontana, creator of the series Oz and Borgias, The Simpsons producer Bonita Pietila, Silent Witness creator Nigel McCrery, Peter Nadermann, one of the pioneers of the Nordic-noir genre and producer of the Millennium Trilogy (e.g. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), and Lars Lundström, the producer of one of the most famous Scandinavian series Humans. Kim Moses, the producer who worked with Netflix, NBC, CW and YouTube, was also one of the noted guests, with the Ghost Whisperer being one of her more successful projects.
NEM Dubrovnik hosted famous actors and actresses such as Jessica Alba, Gabrielle Union, Michael Weatherly, Alan Cumming and Tim Daly, who showcased their new projects.
For more information on NEM Dubrovnik, First Minute accreditation prices and available accommodation please see the NEM Dubrovnik official web-site.
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ABOUT NEW EUROPE MARKET:
New Europe Market (NEM) is the biggest TV industry event in CEE region, focused on its development, newest trends, opening new business opportunities and improving audiovisual industry in Croatia.
Under the claim „TV Market with a view“, NEM Dubrovnik gathers numerous media and TV experts from Europe and the world since 2013.
First edition of NEM Zagreb was organized at the end of 2019, claiming it is „All about content creation“. Along with business opportunities and exchanging ideas, NEM Zagreb is also a platform for creative writers who want to prosper in the TV industry and collaborate with leaders in the industry.
For many years, the project is supported by numerous global TV and media industry, and world of telecoms: BBC Worldwide / BBC Studios, CBS Studios International, Disney, Warner Bros, Fremantle, Sony Pictures Television, FOX Network Group, MGM, ITV Studios Global Entertainment, Viacom International Studios, Global Agency, Viasat World, yes Studios, Eutelsat, NBC Universal, Deutsche Telekom, Telekom Austria Group, LG, ZDF, BETA Film, HRT and many others.
NEM Dubrovnik and NEM Zagreb is organized by Mediavision, full service partner for positioning TV content on the CEE market.
TV Launch 2020 Call for Development Executive Participants Deadline: January 31, 2020
Press releases 28-01-2020The residential, 8-month training program TV Launch is intended not only to series development, but focuses also on the education of future commissioning editors.
Development Executive Training
The development process that 9 series projects of TV Launch program go through is used as a platform to train 3 attending development executive participants, who will be trained for their future role of commissioning editors or heads of development on real, existing series projects, acquiring skills needed for developing a diverse range of projects.
The participants will be assigned to groups and will work closely with the projects in their group, following all sessions of the program and also participating actively in the online consultations in between the residential workshops.
Together with the projects, the participants will present themselves within the Season Finale platform in Tallinn, Estonia, during Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event.
DATES AND VENUES
Workshop 1/ Czech Republic: April 23 – 30, 2020
Workshop 2/ Bosnia and Herzegovina (within FF Sarajevo): August 2020
Workshop 3/ Estonia (within Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event): November 2020
WHO CAN APPLY
Individual participants, who may, but not necessarily have to, be connected to a broadcaster.
If you would like to know more about the real experience of development executive training, read an interview with Zuzana Ferenczova and Martynas Mendelis, who represent the first generation of our development executive training graduates.
For more information about the program and access to the application, click here. Please note that many further questions can be answered within our FAQ section!
MIDPOINT TV Launch 2020 is realized with the support of Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the Czech Film Fund and the Slovak Audiovisual Fund. It is presented in cooperation with the Sarajevo Film Festival – CineLink Industry Days, Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event, HBO Europe, Marseille Web Fest, Serial Eyes, NEM Zagreb, C21 Media, Series Mania, CANNESERIES Institute, Seriencamp, MIA TV Market, MediaXchange, Meeting Point Vilnius and the Audiovisual Producers' Association. MIDPOINT operates under the auspices of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
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Czech Film Fund / Czech Film Center proudly present another collection of the best of Czech short films. The collection contains 12 brand new or festival-approved fiction, documentary and animated shorts produced in 2019 and 2020 - such as: the student Oscar winner and Academy Award nominee Daughter (Annecy IAFF 2019, Toronto IFF 2019, Sundance FF 2020), The Kite (Berlinale 2019, Annecy IAFF 2019), SH_T HAPPENS (Venice IFF 2019, Sundance FF 2019), Playing (KVIFF 2019, San Sebastian IFF 2019) or Leaf (Berlinale 2020).
The collection can be found HERE on our website. You can watch each film by clicking on "Film Preview", up on registration. The collection is inteded for film professionals only.
TOP ACHIEVEMENTS
- World premiere in Generation Kplus at Berlinale 2019
- Young Audience Award at Annecy IAFF 2019
- International Animated Short Competition at Cinekid 2019
TOP ACHIEVEMENTS
- World premiere in Future Frames at KVIFF 2019
- Nest Film Students at San Sebastian IFF
DAUGHTER
Czech Republic 2019 / 15 min
Directed by: Daria Kashcheeva
Produced by: Zuzana Roháčová / FAMU
Co-produced by: MAUR film
TOP ACHIEVEMENTS
- World premiere at Annecy IAFF 2019
- Cristal for a Graduation Film at Annecy IAFF 2019
- Junior Jury Award for a Graduation Film at Annecy IAFF 2019
- Short Cuts at Toronto IFF 2019
- Student Academy Award 2019 in category International Schools: Animation
- Academy Award nomination in category Animated Short Film
- Short Film Jury Award: Animation at Sundance FF 2020
TOP ACHIEVEMENTS
- World premiere at Venice IFF 2019
- Short films at Sundance FF 2020
LEAF
CZ 2020 / 6 min
Directed by: Aliona Baranova
Produced by: Lukáš Gregor / UTB ve Zlíně
TOP ACHIEVEMENTS
- World premiere in Generation Kplus at Berlinale 2020
FORGET ME NOT
CZ 2019 / 7 min
Directed by: Adéla Križovenská
Produced by: Ondřej Šejnoha / FAMU
THERE'S NO SHOOTING IN KYIV
CZ 2020 / 30 min
Directed by: Jakub Šedý
Produced by: Jan Macola / Mimesis Film
ABOUT-HAIR
CZ 2019 / 17 min
Directed by: Josefina Lubojacki
Produced by: Ondřej Šejnoha, Adam Ligas / FAMU
DON'T BE A PUSSY
CZ 2019 / 20 min
Directed by: Jakub Jirásek
Produced by: Ondřej Šejnoha / FAMU
TOP ACHIEVEMENTS
- International Animated Short Competition at Cinekid 2019
DEBT
CZ 2019 / 14 min
Directed by: Ondřej Novák
Produced by: Dagmar Sedláčková / MasterFilm
Czech Film Center operates as a division of the Czech Film Fund
Three Czech animated shorts will be screened at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2020. SH_T HAPPENS by Dávid Štumpf and Michaela Mihályi will compete in International Competition, The Kite by Martin Smatana and The Concrete Jungle by Marie Urbánková will please spectators in Young Audience section.
Czech films at Clermont-Ferrand ISFF 2020
SH_T HAPPENS
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Czech Republic, Slovakia, France 2019 / 13 min
Directed by: Dávid Štumpf, Michaela Mihályi
Produced by: Peter Badač / BFILM.cz (CZ)
Co-produced by: BFILM (SK), Bagan Films (FR), FAMU (CZ) ... (full crew)
An apartment building full of self centered inhabitants. Utterly exhausted caretaker and his sexually frustrated wife. Widowed deer drowning his sorrows in loads of alcohol... While trying to cope with their problems, they find themselves in a hard to solve triangle asking for absurd and irrational solutions. The consequences can easily become permanent, sometimes maybe too permanent. The film is a loose adaptation of a well-known biblical story while transforming it into an contemporary ironic narrative about how the world sometimes works.
SCREENINGS
SAT 02/01 | 22:15 | Genova
SUN 02/02 | 15:00 | Agnès Varda
MON 02/03 | 16:00 | Cocteau
TUE 02/04 | 20:15 | Genova
WED 02/05 | 18:00 | Genova
THU 02/06 | 18:00 | Cocteau
FRI 02/07 | 11:00 | Vian
SAT 02/08 | 13:00 | Hospital
FESTIVALS
Alexandra Gabrižová / BFILM
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THE CONCRETE JUNGLE
YOUNG AUDIENCE
Czech Republic 2019 / 7 min
Directed by: Marie Urbánková
Produced by: Mária Môťovská / UMPRUM (CZ)
Co-produced by: MAUR film (CZ)
A little boy runs away from his room and his homework into a colourful and noisy jungle, full of gorillas and crocodiles. Children’s fantasy has no boundaries and between the room and the jungle there are no concrete obstacles or unbeatable distances. Magical objects are within reach.
SCREENINGS
SAT 02/01 | 14:00 | Petit Vélo
SUN 02/02 | 10:00 | Jaude 1
SUN 02/02 | 14:00 | Rio
FRI 02/07 | 17:00 | Capitole 1
SAT 02/08 | 10:00 | Petit Vélo
FESTIVALS
Alexandra Hroncová / FAMU
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+420 724 753 713
THE KITE
YOUNG AUDIENCE
Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Poland 2019 / 13 min
Directed by: Martin Smatana
Produced by: Peter Badač / BFILM.cz (CZ)
Co-produced by: BFILM (SK), FAMU (CZ), CeTA (PL) ... (full crew)
The Kite deals with the topic of death in a metaphorical and symbolic way. Through the relationship between a little boy and his grandpa, the film shows that none of us is here forever and all living creatures must die, but at the same time it reminds us that death doesn’t mean the end of our journey.
SCREENINGS
SAT 02/01 | 16:00 | Conchon
SUN 02/02 | 14:00 | Petit Vélo
MON 02/03 | 09:45 | Capitole 2
TUE 02/04 | 09:45 | Capitole 2
WED 02/05 | 09:45 | Capitole 2
WED 02/05 | 14:00 | Jaude 1
THU 02/06 | 09:45 | Capitole 2
FRI 02/07 | 09:45 | Capitole 2
FRI 02/07 | 19:30 | Stade nautique
SAT 02/08 | 14:00 | Petite Vélo
SUN 02/09 | 14:00 | Rio
FESTIVALS
Alexandra Gabrižová / BFILM
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+421 948 505 304
Czech Film Center in Clermont-Ferrand
Vítězslav Chovanec - Festival Relations - Docs & Shorts
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3 - 6 February, 2020
Dear Professional,
As you know the MEDIA programme actively supports the training of professionals from new member countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Portugal, Romania, Republic of Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tunisia & Ukraine).
To this end, CARTOON encourages applications for scholarships to its CARTOON MASTERS. The next Cartoon Business will be held in Gran Canaria (Spain) from 24th to 26th March 2020.
CARTOON will cover hotel (3 nights from 24th to 27th March) and meals, and refund up to a maximum of 200 EUR for transportation expenses.
Cartoon Business is a top-level seminar focusing on the new generation models of financing and revenues brought about by the changes in the production and distribution markets. You can already consult the list and profiles of international speakers. The detailed programme will be updated soon.
For further information on scholarship, please consult this page.
In order to apply for a scholarship, please return us by 16th February 2020 this form together with a motivation letter and a curriculum.
You may directly address your application to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Kind regards,
Julie LIAMIN
Cartoon Masters
ZagrebDox's upcoming edition takes place at CineStar Zagreb – Branimir Mingle Mall, 15-22 March
Press releases 03-02-2020The International Documentary Film festival ZagrebDox has been for years transforming Zagreb into a vortex of recent documentary film production thus enabling audience a direct insight into impressive, daring stories and fates of colourful individuals from the farthest corners of the world.
The same goes for this year, only with new dates and a new venue. The 16th ZagrebDox takes place from 15 to 22 March at CineStar Zagreb – Branimir Mingle Mall. Throughout eight days all the visitors will get a chance to attend film screenings and reveal up-to-date creative preoccupations, consider a series of burning social issues and take part in a dialogue and meetings with filmmakers live, thus divulging and conveying the impressions of the tales told.
The 16th ZagrebDox festival will screen over a hundred feature and short documentaries from all over the world and host many local and international filmmakers.
*The Cave
ZagrebDox’s film programme includes titles honoured at festivals around the world and as many as three of this year’s Oscar nominees: The Cave by Feras Fayyad, For Sama by Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts, and Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re A Girl) by Carol Dysinger. All of these documentaries examine life and survival options in war-torn Middle East zones, sharing strong female protagonists whose actions and work cross the boundaries imposed on them by socio-religious-political circumstances. For more information, click here.
*Sea of Shadows
One of the new programme sections is Eco Dox, featuring four documentaries that in different ways point to the consequences of the global environmental crisis such as endangered animal species, air pollution, soil pollution, but also illustrate examples of innovative models of survival in areas struck by the crisis.
National Geographic’s thrilling documentary Sea of Shadows by the acclaimed Austrian director and cinematographer Richard Ladkani speaks about the disaster threatening the Baja California waters, today home to only 15 vaquita porpoises. Hollywood’s ardent eco-fighter Leonardo Di Caprio is the producer of this title, the audience award winner at Sundance, and the film confirmed the director’s status of a ‘docu-thriller’ master.
The Chinese city of Lengfang, haplessly crowned one of the worst air pollution cities in the world, is the scene of Smog Town by Chinese director Meng Han, and the documentary You Think the Earth is a Dead Thing by the French artist, director and photographer Florence Lazar speaks about the issue that befell the population on the Caribbean island of Martinique. In the film When Tomatoes Met Wagner by Mariana Economou, two Greek farmers set out on an unusual endeavour: with the help of Richard Wagner’s classical compositions, which they believe stimulate the growth of fruits, they grow tomatoes from authentic seed kept for hundreds of years. As the official Greek Oscar candidate, this film is one of the rare documentaries running in the best international film category.
Several titles from other sections of this year’s ZagrebDox also focus on environmental issues in different ways: in regional competition we will be watching films about the possibility to achieve a harmonious coexistence with nature: Then Comes the Evening by Maja Novaković, Siddharta by Damiano Giacomelli and Lorenzo Raponi and Acasa, My Home by Radu Ciorniciuc.
For more information, click here.
Not till a hot January: The One World Documentary Film Festival focuses on (not just) the effects of the climate crisis in films
Festivals 03-02-2020Drying rivers, parched fields, and empty wells. Climate change is starting to affect even our immediate surroundings. This is one of the reasons why this issue is being discussed by experts, in the media, by politicians, and often even amongst friends at the pub. The various manifestations of the environmental crisis within the context of the local landscape, as well as the role humans play in it, will also be among the topics addressed at this year’s 22nd One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, which will take place from 5 to 14 March in Prague and subsequently in thirty-five other cities and towns throughout the Czech Republic.
When William Shakespeare coined the phrase “not till a hot January”, he had no inkling that this phenomenon might actually occur one day. Currently, however, it quite accurately describes one of the main results of climate change – continuously rising temperatures. The increasingly warmer climate in combination with poor soil management has resulted in a landscape that is incapable of retaining water. According to One World’s director, Ondřej Kamenický: “By screening films that are (not just) about the climate crisis, we want to show the global dimension of the entire problem while focusing chiefly on its impact at the local level. We not only want to draw attention to the issue, but to also look for a solution and find inspiration in the specific events organised in each of the thirty-seven towns including One World in Brussels where the festival takes place. In short, we don’t want to wait till a hot January comes along.”
For the third year in a row, Studio MT (Matyáš Trnka in collaboration with Matěj Růžička) have been entrusted with creating the festival’s PR campaign. The stag we see running against the backdrop of a burning horizon in the festival trailer gradually metamorphoses into a camel – this year’s key visual element. “Withered trees, no forests, bare plains, hot and arid – that is how the Czech landscape might look if steps are not taken to deal with climate change. We are offering a glimpse of such a horizon not only in the case of Prague, but also for all of the other towns where the festival is taking place. In fact, we made an individualised visual for each location in question. In addition, we tried to ensure that both the poster and the video trailer are accessible even to people with compromised vision. The bold and highly contrasting colours were therefore chosen not only to stress the subject but also to make the visuals intelligible to as many people as possible,” explains Matyáš Trnka, the campaign’s author.
The UnEarthed category publicises environmental films
One World has been addressing environmental themes since more or less the time the festival was first established. For the past three years, the documentaries matching this description have been included in the UnEarthed category, which just happens to be the festival’s most important thematic grouping this year. The included films look at topics such as climate change, energy, and pollution. One of them is Apolena Rychlíková’s new documentary, The Czechs Are Excellent Mushroom Pickers, which tracks these issues in the Czech Republic through extra-terrestrial eyes. Director Meng Han shot her documentary Smog Town in Langfang, a Chinese city near Beijing, which is considered to be one of the world’s most air-polluted locations. In it, she considers questions such as what life is like in a city without a sky and what local politicians have to say about it. Pollution is also the main theme of the Canadian film There’s Something in the Water. The well-known actress and activist Ellen Page and the director Ian Daniel visit with women in the agricultural regions of Nova Scotia, who are battling industrial companies in order to save the local landscape, their community and, most importantly, the future. The documentary Sovereign Soil looks at life in a landscape that has remained almost untouched by humans. This film by the Canadian director David Curtis is an ode to the beauty of the remote Yukon Territory and the local inhabitants of the town of Dawson, who strive for food self-sufficiency through alternative farming methods in what are often unfavourable conditions.
The festival’s virtual reality section, which is entirely focused on ecology and nature, will allow visitors to travel to forests, to the desert, and even to the highest peaks of an iceberg. All of the virtual reality exhibits will be housed at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague’s Holešovice district, where visitors will also find special installations with themes revolving around nature. The Ayahuasca virtual reality experience provides a glimpse of the vivid psychedelic visions of living nature one sees after drinking the hallucinogenic plant-based tea known as Ayahuasca. The Songbird project is actually an expedition tracking the recently extinct ‘ōʻō (Moho bird), while Le Lac takes the spectator to Lake Chad, which is in the process of drying up and vanishing.
In addition to the UnEarthed category, One World 2020 includes the three traditional competitive categories (the Czech Competition, the International Competition, and the Right to Know Competition), and eleven additional thematic categories. This will be the third year of the special discussion programme entitled Talking Cinema. Experts in various subjects will come to Prague and present lectures to accompany selected film screenings. This year, Leilani Farhani, a United Nations Special Rapporteur, will discuss the worldwide problem of inaccessible housing, and the activist Amon Yiu Yeuk-wa, a member of the Demosistō political movement in Hong Kong, will talk about the current political situation in a region that has been fraught with protests and demonstrations for the past six months.
One World: Balanced, Ecological, and Harmoniously Eco-Friendly
The festival organisers think about the environment not only when they are selecting the films for the programme, but also when preparing for the festival and during it. Some steps are a given, such as conserving both energy and water, recycling waste in all of the offices as well as at all of the cinemas, limiting the volume of printed materials, and using eco-friendly paper. This year, the festival catalogue is being replaced by a brochure that uses only half the amount of paper, and all information is being published on-line. Furthermore, the festival strives to collaborate only with partners who are just as careful with regard to the environment. The same level of consideration applies when it comes to transport for the festival’s guests – mainly bus and rail transport are offered, and in those cases when flying is unavoidable, One World provides financial compensation for the resulting carbon footprint. This year, the festival is also offering its guests transport from the airport using Prague’s integrated transport system. “Guides will meet our guests at the airport and accompany them on public transport to their hotel or the Langhans Audience Centre,” explains Sabina Solničková, One World’s Head of Guest Services. She goes on to add that if a guest prefers to be transported around Prague by car, the festival partly uses electric cars some of the time. A change in the means of transport has also been implemented with respect to the delivery of film copies – as a matter of fact, the majority of them are only in digital format. Some things have remained the same however – the vegetarian buffets and the use of the festival’s own glasses and dinnerware make it possible to minimise the amount of generated waste.
In addition to being eco-friendly, the festival also considers it important to support filmmakers and local creativity in countries where there are non-democratic and dictatorial regimes – a quarter of all of this year’s films were made by local makers. Just as significant is the festival’s effort to ensure the balance between male and female directors.
One World for All
Over the past three years, accessibility to the festival for individuals with disabilities has become the norm and this year will be no different as One World strives to achieve universal accessibility. As explained by Mariana Chytilová, the festival’s accessibility expert: “We don’t focus only on some particular group of people with disabilities like so many other cultural events do, but instead want to implement measures that make the festival experience available to the broadest possible spectrum of visitors.” All of the documentaries screened in Prague, including those in Czech, will have Czech captions for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Just like last year, headphones with audio commentaries describing what is happening on the screen will be available at screenings of four different films for people who are blind or have vision loss. In addition, the festival includes three relaxed screenings which have a looser organisation that may be more comfortable for people who have mental disabilities or difficulty concentrating. And last but certainly not least, we aim to increase the number of places accessible to audience members who need a wheelchair or have other mobility issues.
One World in Schools
“To the cinema instead of class!” will be heard in many schools while the festival is underway. One World is organising special afternoon screenings for schools in all of the towns where the festival will be held. Just like in previous years, we have selected a range of films that will ensure the interest of all age categories. For primary school students, we have chosen three series of short films covering diverse subjects, including bullying, family relationships, and environmental issues. The selection for secondary school students consists of two short and two feature length films. One of them, Mai Khoi and The Dissidents, is about a Vietnamese singer who was forced to leave her homeland and its uncompromising censorship because of her anti-regime lyrics. Another, entitled For Sama, is set in Aleppo, the centre of the armed conflict in Syria, and has recently received an Oscar nomination. All of the films shown during the school screenings are followed by a discussion. Schools wishing to participate must register for the screening in advance – in Prague, via the JSNS.CZ portal during the first week in February, and in the other towns, through the local festival coordinators. For more information, see jsns.cz/festival.
East Doc Platform
The East Doc Platform (March 7–13, 2020) during One World IHRDFF offers free open programme in English for industry professionals and documentary film lovers: discussions, masterclasses, presentation Czech Docs… Coming Soon and East Doc Forum – prestigious central pitch for feature-length projects in development and early production stage. The East Doc Platform is the largest co-production, funding and distribution platform tailor-made for Central and Eastern European documentaries, every year connecting filmmakers and key decision makers – producers, broadcasters, distributors and festival programmers from around the world. Internationally successful titles, such as Over the Limit, When the War Comes, The Sound Is Innocent, Sofia’s Last Ambulance, Village Without Women, Ukrainian Sheriffs, The Russian Job and Brothers, were presented at the East Doc Platform. Film professionals who want to attend the industry programme can buy the industry accreditation until February 14.
We will publicise the festival programme as well as the names of our international guests at the accreditation press conference scheduled for Tuesday, 18 February at 10 am, which will take place at our audience centre in the Tibet Open House (Školská 28). You should be receiving an invitation from us soon via email.
Additional information, as well as this year’s visuals, are available for download at www.jedensvet.cz.
One World in the Regions 2020
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Benešov |
23–28 March |
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Boskovice |
17–22 March |
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Brno |
20–27 March |
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České Budějovice |
16–20 March |
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Český Krumlov |
12–14 March |
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Děčín |
25–28 March |
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Hradec Králové |
17–20 March |
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Jablonec nad Nisou |
23–26 March |
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Karlovy Vary |
18–22 March |
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Kladno |
1–3 April |
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Liberec |
23–29 March |
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Louny |
31 March – 4 April |
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Mladá Boleslav |
6–9 April |
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Nymburk |
1–4 April. |
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Olomouc |
16–21 March |
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Opava |
23–27 March |
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Ostrava |
26 March – 3 April |
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Pardubice |
17–21 March |
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Pelhřimov |
1–5 April |
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Pilsen |
23–28 March |
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Police nad Metují |
26–29 March |
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Polička |
2–5 April |
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Rožnov pod Radhoštěm |
30 March – 2 April |
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Řevnice |
26–28 March |
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Sušice |
31–4 April |
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Tábor |
2–5 April |
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Tišnov |
19–21 March |
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Třebíč |
20–22 March |
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Třinec |
19–22 March |
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Uherské Hradiště |
23–27 March |
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Ústí nad Labem |
23–27 March |
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Ústí nad Orlicí |
28 March – 4 April |
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Vsetín |
30 March – 3 April |
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Zlín |
30 March – 2 April |
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Znojmo |
24–27 March |
Films in the UnEarthed Category
Copper Mountains (Finland; Carolin Koss, 2018)
The Czechs are Excellent Mushroom Pickers (Czech Republic; Apolena Rychlíková, 2019)
Ice on Fire (Norway / Germany / United Kingdom / Switzerland / United States / Iceland / France / Croatia; Leila Conners, 2019)
No Gold for Kalsaka (Burkina Faso / Germany; Michel K. Zongo, 2019)
Smog Town (China; Meng Han, 2019)
Sovereign Soil (Canada; David Curtis, 2019)
Sumercé (United Kingdom; Victoria Solano, 2019)
The Last Male on Earth (Netherlands; Floor van der Meulen, 2019)
The Red Line – Resistance in Hambach Forest (Germany; Karin De Miguel Wessendorf, 2019)
The Secret Lives of Pigs (Norway; Ola Waagen, 2019)
There’s Something in the Water (Canada; Ellen Page, Ian Daniel, 2019)
One World Interactive
-22.7°C (France; Jan Kounen, 2019)
A Violated Dream: The Colombian No Man’s Land (Colombia; Elliot Graves, 2019)
Animalia Sum (Brazil / Iceland / Germany; Bianca Kennedy and The Swan Collective, 2019)
Anthropocene VR (Canada; Nicholas De Pencier, Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, 2019)
Ayahuasca (France / Luxembourg; Jan Kounen, 2019)
Cycling Across Barriers (Cyprus; Elliot Graves, 2018)
Dark Origins: Mephisto (United Kingdom; Calum Bowden, 2019)
Dreams of the Jaguar's Daughter (United States; Alfredo Salazar-Caro, 2019)
Le Lac (Chad / Kenya / Zimbabwe; Naysha Kadandara, 2019)
Museum Alive with David Attenborough (United Kingdom; Elliot Graves, 2019)
Songbird (Denmark / United Kingdom; Michelle and Uri Kranot, Lucy Greenwell, 2018)
The Wetland (Romania; Ioana Mischie, 2018)
Whispers (Poland; Jacek Naglowski, 2019)
4th ANNUAL HISTORY FILM FESTIVAL®, PRESENTED BY Istra Film, ANNOUNCES 2020 DATES, September 8 - 12, AND CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Festivals 03-02-2020RIJEKA, Croatia – January 20, 2020– For the 4th year, the History Film Festival presented by Istra Film, will bring creators, diverse audiences, and the industry together in Rijeka, Croatia during the annual storytelling festival running September 8-12, 2020.
History Film Festival is a unique international festival of historical documentary films which will take place in Rijeka (Croatia) from September 8 to 12, 2020. History Film Festival aims at offering viewers and film experts an insight into contemporary film and TV production of historical documentary films, at the same time providing a place where film professionals can meet and share their creative ideas for future projects.
The programme of 2020 HFF consists of a competition programme and special thematic programmes (documentary hommage to Federico Fellini, Asterix's 60th birthday, masterclasses, panels, exhibitions).
From its first edition History Film Festival cherishes and extends its collaboration with documentary filmmakers from all over the world. All of the films showcased at History Film Festival tell history in exciting, often unusual, sometimes very intimate and visually attractive ways, but they also shed revelatory light upon the present which is exactly one of the aims of History Film Festival. These films show all the talent and passion of documentarists who always seem to find innovative and creative techniques of shaping history into exciting story. Furthermore, documentary filmmaking based on the archives and research is essential for the understanding of the past and the present, especially as an answer to the fake news era.
In 2020, the City of Rijeka is caring the title of the European Capital of Culture and History Film Festival which will be held from September 8-12, 2020 is going to be part of the official programme of ECoC. In 2020 we plan to showcase documentaries which confirm how history can be extremely exciting and promote diversity, tolerance, intercultural dialogue and reconciliation as a way of exceeding the past and building a better future.
This year the festival will be especially focused on films connected to the following subjects:
- women as film authors or women as heroines in human history
- migrations
- re-thinking totalitary regimes and politics (especially Tito)
- Asterix
- Federico Fellini
Documentary films, regardless of the year of production, can be submitted on Film Freeway at the following link: https://filmfreeway.com/HistoryFilmFestival
The official deadline for submissions is February 10, 2020. For all queries concerning the festival please contact us at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The 2020 Festival is set to build on the momentum from last three editions, which set the bar high. The past line-ups featured breathtaking docs like Oscar winner O.J.: Made in America, Sundance Award Winner Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, Oscar nominee Touch of an Angel and amazing European stories such as Legacy, Hotel Jugoslavija and Aliona Van Der Horst's Love is Potatoes.
The Festival is curated by the programming team including Director and Head of Programming Bernardin Modrić, producers Tiha Modrić and Dejan Bojc, and a team of professional associates.
EDITORS NOTE: Images from History Film Festival can be found here for any photo or social needs: http://historyfilmfestival.com/en/media-2019/
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