BATUMI: Nine titles have been selected for the International Feature Films Competition of the Batumi International Art house Film Festival, running 18-24 September 2021.
An international jury headed by the Georgian director Lana Ghoghoberidze will award five prizes, including the Grand Prix. The competition line-up includes films from Georgia, Hungary, Lithuania and Poland.
Seven titles have been selected for the International Documentary Films Competition, where the jury is chaired by Georgian film director Vakhtang Kuntsev-Gabashvili.
Twenty Five films will compete in international short films competition, where the Jury is headed by Georgian film maker Dato Janelidze
Slovak-Czech-Ukrainian drama 107 Mothers has been honored with the Best Screenplay Award of the Orizzonti Competition within the 78th Venice International Film Festival's awards ceremony. On Saturday, the prize was handed over to Ivan Ostrochovský (also the producer) and Peter Kerekes (also the director and a co-producer) who joined forces and wrote the script about difficult conditions in women’s correctional facilities together. 107 Mothers was made in co-production with established Czech companies endorfilm and Hypermarket Film and it was supported by the Czech Film Fund.
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VALLETTA: The Last Voyage of the Demeter directed by André Øvreda and produced by Spielberg/s Amblin Partners, will spend over 18m EUR in Malta. Currently shooting in Malta the film is one of the biggest international productions to be shot in Malta in 2021.
BRATISLAVA: The Slovak/Czech/Ukrainian coproduction 107 Mothers / Cenzorka directed by the acclaimed Slovak director Peter Kerekes has been sold by Films Boutique to Switzerland and the Benelux. The film received the award for best script, for Peter Kerekes and Ivan Ostrochovský, in the Orizzonti section of the 78th Venice International Film Festival (1-11 September 2021).
SIBIU: Night Nursery by Bourkinabe director Moumouni Sanou received the Best Film Award in the New Voices in Documentary Cinema Competition of the 28th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival - Astra Film Festival, which took place in Sibiu, Romania, 5-12 September 2021.
Us Against Us (Andra Tarara, Romania), Night Nursery (Moumouni Sanou, Burkina Faso), Wolves at the Border (Martin Páv, Czech Republic) and Milkless (Lidia Ilie, Romania) are the big winners of AFF2021.
Best directors: Olga Lucovnicova („My Uncle Tudor”) – Romania Section and Maja Novaković („Then Comes the Evening”) – DocSchool Section
Ten awards were offered at the Astra Film Festival at the end of eight days in which the audience had the opportunity to participate in 200 cultural events. The jury, made up of cultural personalities from Romania and abroad, had to evaluate 41 films entered in the four competition sections - most of them presented in Sibiu in national or world premiere. The best film of the Romania Section was awarded to `Us against us` (directed by Andra Tarara - Romania, 2021).
Cel mai bun film_noi împotriva noastră - The best movie_Us against us
The award for Best Director of the Romania Section was given to Olga Lucovnicova, author of the film `My uncle Tudor` (Belgium, Hungary, Portugal - 2021). The best documentary in the New Voices in Documentary Cinema Section was awarded to a production from Burkina Faso, `Night Nursery` (directed by Moumouni Sanou, 2021). The best documentary of the Central and Eastern Europe Section was awarded to `Wolves at the Border` (directed by Martin Páv - Czech Republic, 2021). The production `Milkless` (directed by Lidia Ilie - Romania, 2021) was awarded best documentary of the DocSchool Section.
VENICE: FNE has teamed up with FIPRESCI critics attending the Venice Film Festival to rate the films in the Main Competition, Orizzonti, Venice Days and Critics Week giving the films 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 stars. 5 is the best and 1 is the worst. The ratings give an overview of critics’ opinions from a large number of countries and provide insights to what critics in many different countries think about the programme.
PODGORICA: The second season of Debt to the Sea by Gorčin Stojanović is being screened on the Serbian channel Superstar TV. The second season of the popular series was shot in Montenegro using the country's cash rebate within the Filming in Montenegro programme launched by the Film Centre of Montenegro.
RIGA: The 25th Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries, which ran in Riga and online from 1 to 12 September 2021, has announced its winners. Eighteen film projects from 17 countries including Latvia, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania and Georgia were presented at the training and pitching forum.
