The final deadline to submit an application for the Kids Kino.Lab, script development programme for film projects and TV series for young audiences, is approaching. We wait for the applications until October 23rd.
Who are the workshops for?
We are looking for teams: producer + scriptwriter who would like to develop their projects (full-length film or TV series in all the categories: animations/ documentaries/ live-actions).
Kids Kino.Lab is open to the projects from all the European countries.
The main festival award went to Ilya Povolotskiy in international competition and Radu Ciorniciuc in regional competition, and in the same category a special mention went to the Croatian director Đuro Gavran and his film 'One of Us'.
On Saturday, 10 October at 8pm, an online award ceremony ended this year’s special edition of the International Documentary Film Festival ZagrebDox. During the seven festival days the audience at the SC Cinema and &TD Theatre of the Student Centre in Zagreb had a chance to see around fifty documentaries and meet the filmmakers, at a safe distance and adhering as much as possible to the epidemiological guidelines. In a special live show hosted on the R+ platform by Robert Zuber, the festival award winners were announced.
The 24th Ji.hlava IDFF kicks-off in two weeks! Despite the recent forced shift of the event to digital space, the full-fledged festival programme with over 59 world and 26 international premieres remains. What can the viewers look forward to?
The programme features over 220 films: from the latest of Czech and international documentary crop, South Korean film retrospective, comprehensive showcase of Afro-American docs as well as new documentaries focusing on topics that are more than relevant these days: coronavirus pandemic, China and Hong Kong, climate change, and films asking the fundamental question – where is our home? The 24th Ji.hlava IDFF will take place between October 27 and November 8, 2020.
Black Nights Film Festival announces first 8 films * Accreditations are open * The Estonia-Uganda connection * Screen's Stars of Tomorrow 2020
Festivals 14-10-2020FIRST 8
We've announced the first 8 films of the Official Selection
Six of the announced films are world premieres, as Black Nights welcomes the return of Latvian auteur Laila Pakalnina with In the Mirror; the celebrated Kazakhstan director Adilkhan Yerzhanov with Ulbolsyn; the multiple-award-winning Croatian director Dalibor Matanić with The Dawn; veteran Russian scriptwriter and director Aleksandr Mindadze with Parquet; the up and coming Turkish director Nisan Dağ presenting her second feature When I’m Done Dying and the Portuguese film and TV director Leonardo António with Submission.
Academy-Award-winning Hungarian veteran István Szabó's new film Final Report will have its international premiere at Black Nights.
The first batch is rounded off by The Three by the Sundance Best-Director-award-winning Russian director Anna Melikyan.
ACCREDITATIONS OPEN
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival is moving on with preparations of a hybrid event, holding physical screenings, while the accredited foreign press and industry delegates access to the festival’s programme digitally via the Shift72 and Elisa Stage platforms, no matter their geographic location. The industry strand, Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event has moved fully online this year, using the Elisa Stage platform.
Travel of foreign filmmakers and the press will be decided upon according to the situation in early November. The festival has teamed up with medical companies SYNLAB and Medicum for building safety protocols for testing kits and masks.
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BUCHAREST: Despite the increase in coronavirus infection cases, the Romanian Committee for Emergency Situations (CNSU) has decided to re-open indoor cinemas, theatres and restaurants on 15 October 2020, unless the incidence rate of Coronavirus infections exceeds 3 cases for 1,000 citizens.
COTTBUS: Twelve films representing 22 countries will compete for the main prize of 25,000 EUR at the 30th edition of FilmFestival Cottbus, 3 – 8 November 2020. Serbia is especially prominent, with three films in competition, while Poland sends two films.
BRNO: In response to the newly announced COVID-19 measures closing cinemas in the Czech Republic, the organisers of the 46th edition of the EKOFILM 2020 International Film Festival have decided to postpone the film screenings at cinemas to a later date, which has yet to be determined. However, part of the promised accompanying programme will be available online.
VILNIUS: Short film projects from each of the four participating countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and 2020 guest country Poland) won the awards handed out at the conclusion of the Eighth Baltic Pitching Forum (BPF), that took place online on 10 October 2020.
PRAGUE: The first edition of the pitching session Animation Espresso, organised as part of the CEE Animation Forum, awarded its first prize to the short animation project Forgive / Odpust directed by Alžbeta Mačáková Mišejková.
SIBIU: The Astra Film Festival selected 10 titles in the New Voices in Documentary Cinema and 10 titles in the Central & Eastern Europe competitions of the online segment of its 20th hybrid edition. The films will screen online 16-25 October 2020 and will be available only for the Romanian audience.
