Climageddon, The Changing Woman, Re:Democracy, God & Co., Made in China – and most of all:  How Not To Be Afraid. These are the main topics covered by this year’s Inspiration Forum organised under the banner of the twenty-third Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival. Make sure your last weekend in October will be dedicated to the “festival of thought”. 

This year, the Inspiration Forum will take place for the ninth time. In the course of six festival days, it will open up six key topics and present over one hundred guests from all over the world, in more than thirty discussions. 

“Live discussions after the screenings are an integral part of the Ji.hlava IDFF and often the reason why many directors and visitors alike keep on coming back. However, the Inspiration Forum gave the festival a brand new dimension. I have long dreamt of creating a comprehensive discussion platform that will bring together educated and curious festival audience with inspiring personalities in a focused discussion format and I am very thrilled to see it happening in the past few years. A live dialogue is priceless and I am very happy that guests and debaters literally stepped out of the film screen directly to the audience,” says Marek Hovorka, the director of the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival and founder of the Inspiration Forum.

“The first step towards the transformation of the Inspiration Forum was made two years ago while last year, we finished the changes to create an authentic ‘festival of thought‘ which takes place concurrently with the film programme of the Ji.hlava IDFF. Topics, which will this year be discussed during debates, presentations, interviews and documentary dialogues were carefully selected and formulated. We believe that they are a key to better future. Because in order to change the world or at least to survive the threats we are facing, we have to understand the things around us a bit more: in civic, political as well as personal terms,” says Tereza Swadoschová, the Head of Inspiration Forum, summing up its purpose.

Climageddon!

What will you find on this year’s programme? Bill McKibben, a notable American environmentalist, will talk about the climate crisis as a challenge. His book The End of Nature published in 1989 provided a visionary account of today’s climate situation. Following will be Sini Harkki, the Head of Greenpeace Finland, who greatly contributed to the reduction of the consumption of fossil fuels in her country, and the chief of the Irish Green Party, Eamon Ryan, under whose term, the capacity of wind electric power plants in Ireland doubled. “The guests were chosen not only to sum up the existing media debate but also to discuss what to do next. The means of social transformation will be discussed not only with experienced agents in the field of environmental protection but also with the upcoming generation,” said Tereza Swadoschová commenting on the selection of the guests. 

This year, the environmental topic will also be reflected in the section of Documentary Dialogues selected and moderated by documentarian Filip Remunda. In an interview, we will introduce Isabella Salton, director of Brazilian 

environmental organisation Instituto Terra, who fights for the protection of Brazilian forest that the current president Jair Bolsonaro opened to the possibility of commercial use. 

The Changing Woman

One whole day will be dedicated to the debates on the position of women in society.  “Which are the ways that can bring us closer to the ideal of gender equality? What can be done and how in the sphere of politics, business, industry, education and healthcare? How to change the attitude to feminism so that the mere word is no longer regarded a slur?” says Swadoschová enumerating some of the questions that will be addressed. The topic of The Changing Woman will be discussed by Fawzia Koofi, an advocate for women rights and a candidate for the president of Afghanistan, or Slovak actress, diplomat and former presidential candidate Magda Vašáryová. 

Documentary Dialogues will present Dagestani writer Alisa Ganieva. Her debut, Salaam, Dalgat! had to be published under a male pseudonym to avoid the label “a story for women“. 

Re: Democracy

Another big topic of the ninth Inspiration Forum is the crisis of a democratic society. “How to involve the citizens in the decision-making process again? Which reforms should we be striving for? And how to deal with the issue of short election cycles which do not provide space for long-term visions?” says Tereza Swadoschová, asking some of the questions that will be brought up in debates on the next day. And who will be the debaters? “For instance, Sophie Howe, who has for three years been in office as the ‘future generations commissioner‘ in Wales. She caters to the needs of future generations, evaluates governmental projects from the long-term perspective and intervenes in situations when short-term profit could cause long-term losses,” add Tereza Swadoschová.  Another guest will be the political scientist and NATO’s strategic communication specialist, Jonathan Terra, who worked as a diplomat in Afghanistan. As a political analyst and commentator he writes about the state of democracy in the USA. 

Documentary Dialogue will introduce Croatian philosopher and political activist Srećko Horvat. 

How Not To Be Afraid

Environmental disasters, fake news, wars for water and resources, terrorism, end of the world. These catastrophic scenarios are slowly becoming an integral part of our everyday existence. This year, the Ji.hlava IDFF will also discuss “how to stop being afraid” of these visions and not to be paralysed by fear. The guests will include British futurologist Jonathan Ledgard, author of the cargo drone and droneport concept for Africa, or a former follower of German ultranationalist right-wing groups, Christian Weissgerber. “It is true that when I was young, I was feeling helpless and one of the ways of overcoming my despair was humiliation of others,” says the former Neo-Nazi.

Documentary Dialogue will feature the American of Mexican origin, writer and former border guard, Francisco Cantú. His novel, The Line Becomes a River, which draws on his own experience on the borderline between two worlds, has become a bestseller.

China and God

Another sphere of interest of this year’s Inspiration Forum is China. A country watched by the whole world – and watching the whole world. How does their combination of totalitarianism and capitalism work? How does the regime employ current technological possibilities to take control? What does China want from the world and what does the world want from China? These and similar issues will be the focus of a full-day block called Made in China. Norwegian political scientist Stein Ringen or Czech analyst Tomáš Rezek who is engaged with cyber safety and criminality will be one of those answering the questions.

A day block called God & Co. will then focus on the topic of Catholic Church, its role in today’s world, and its further developments. The guest will be the first Czech military chaplain, Bishop Tomáš Holub. He is one of the more progressive Catholic representatives: clearly denouncing nationalism just as the “building of ideological barricades against gender”.

 

And, finally, the Inner World

The Inspiration Forum also keeps in mind those who like to get up early. In a daily early morning programme entitled Inner World. “Extraordinary figures from the world of culture and arts will be our guests. They will discuss the ten points talking about what inspired them in their work, both in terms of meetings with others, situations or works of art,” says Tereza Swadoschová describing the format. The guests will include Bulgarian poet Kapka Kassabova whose works explore boundaries of all kinds. “It is important to be open and to listen, to try to understand each other despite the things that separate us. Now more than ever,“ says Kassabova. Lama Sonam Tsering has a similar opinion. For fourteen years, he has been studying as a monk in a Buddhist monastery in Northern India, but he decided to leave; today, he runs a Tibetan food stall in Prague.

9th Inspiration Forum will take place as part of 23rd Ji.hlava IDFF on October 24–29, 2019

http://www.ji-hlava.com/inspiracni-forum

 

Partners of Inspiration Forum:

Ministry of Culture Czech Republic

International Visegrad Fund

Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung

Charity Czech Republic

Palacký University Olomouc

Gender Equality Department Office of the Government of the Czech Republic

Slovak-Czech Women’s Fund

Creative Europe Desk Czech Republic

The Czech Christian Academy

Aktualne.cz

Salon Právo

Radio Wave

Greenpeace

City.cz 

Voxpot

The Riga International Film Festival (RIGA IFF), which will be held for eleven days from October 17 to 27 this year, is going to feature 148 films across 11 themed sections and competition programmes – bringing together contemporary cinema and classics, festival hits by renowned directors as well as courageous debuts. As of September 26, all the tickets are on sale; many of the films will be shown only once, exclusively at RIGA IFF.

The sixth Riga International Film Festival will open with a celebratory reception in the evening of October 17, finally providing Latvian viewers access to the new local animation talent Gints Zilbalodis’ feature Away, which has garnered rave reviews from viewers and critics alike, and has earned him the Contrechamp award at the prestigious Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

The centrepiece FESTIVAL SELECTION includes 12 exceptional motion pictures recently screened at major festivals. It will open on October 19 with Cannes Palme d’Or laureate, Parasite by Bong Joon-ho – an elegantly effortless mixture of drama, thriller, black comedy with elements of farce depicting a relationship between two families: the rich and the abjectly poor. The festival will present the only big-screen viewing of Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir – a dark relationship drama with autobiographical origins set in 1980s London, starring Honor Swinton Byrne alongside her mother, film diva Tilda Swinton. Other not-to-miss singular screenings include U.S. film critic, screenwriter and director Roger Ebert’s The Lighthouse – a black and white horror drama with Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe that shook up the auteur cinema space in 2019 – and Beanpole by promising young Russian director Kantemir Balagov, who took inspiration for his film from The Unwomanly Face of War, Nobel Prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich’s 1985 book of documentary stories.

Latvian audience will be happy to hear that the NORDIC HIGHLIGHTS section includes 11 films from Nordic countries this year. This section will cover the gamut from exquisite visual pleasure (Out Stealing Horses), to passionate, brave and unbelievably candid works. Two of the latter are extremely heartfelt yet very different stories of men coping with the loss of women they love. In Dogs Don’t Wear Pants, shot in Riga by Finnish film director J-P Valkeapää, a husband tries to deal with the death of his wife by probing the inner fringes of his pain tolerance in S&M sessions; A White, White Day by Hlynur Pálmason of Iceland features a former police officer obsessed with finding out the truth and exacting his revenge. The phenomenon of white nights, a feature of Iceland’s Arctic latitudes that makes night-time skies as white as land, catalyses these profound pain states. Both screenings will be made more special by the presence of their creative teams – Dogs Don’t Wear Pants director J-P Valkeapää and A White, White Day star Ingvar Sigurdsson will attend to the Latvian premieres. The NORDIC HIGHLIGHTS selection includes a treat for admirers of Sweden’s great Roy Andersson – For Infinity is his latest feature, a divine comedy of the tragicomic nature of life. The director, whose unique handwriting is virtually a genre of its own, is not a pessimist but looks earnestly at the truth of the eternal tale of life as a tragedy where nobody comes out the winner.

Looking out towards new horizons, RIGA IFF reaches across the ocean to bring the NEW CANADIAN CINEMA section to Latvia. On October 23, it will offer an exclusive screening of Ghost Town Anthology, reminiscent of Latvian folk mystery, with a Q&A session by its author Denis Côté – one of Quebec’s most peculiar and internationally recognised directors. The following day, attendees are welcome to view The Death and Life of John F. Donovan, Xavier Dolan’s feature premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival: a condemnation of the cruelty and prejudice American cinema and TV star John had suffered due to his sexual orientation. Donovan’s seventh feature film stars a constellation of brilliant actors.

This year’s festival will be notable for its tech slant, as the RIGA IFF retrospective and research programme IN TECHNO VERITAS provides a treatment of the interactions between humans and technology through classical films. The festival’s guest curator, film theoretician Viktors Freibergs, invites us for a closer look at works of cinema that have awed and inspired many generations of admirers and creators. The section will open with Stanley Kubrick’s legendary 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Made in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Riga, BERLINALE 2019 RIGA provides an annual glimpse at some of the Berlin International Film Festival’s most brilliant features, representing the expressive power and diversity of German cinema. The section will open on October 23 with Nora Fingscheidt’s feature-length story about a nine-year-old girl’s desperate attempt to find home and heart in System Crasher. Her picture proves that one can touch upon very uncomfortable topics and still be paraded through a head-spinning series of international festivals.

Our festival’s international FEATURE FILM COMPETITION will showcase 10 films produced in the Baltic Sea region, including Latvian director Laila Pakalniņa’s documentary, Spoon. Kaur Kokk carries the Estonian tradition of folk gothic cinema established by Rainer Sarnet with The Riddle of Jaan Niemand. Scandinavian Silence by another Estonian director, Martti Helde, and Lithuanian master Algimantas Puipa’s The Other Side of Silence will explore the Baltics’ most powerful trait of being unable to talk about what hurts. Yrsa Roca Fannberg documents the last autumn of an Icelandic sheep farmer. Paweł Ziemilski’s In Touch projects images on the surfaces of various spaces, objects and body parts to visualise longing and family isolation in a small Polish village.

The ARTDOCFEST/RIGA selection, as always, combines challenging documentary cinema and discussions with film creators and guests. ARTDOCFEST/RIGA opens on October 21 with School of Seduction, a film that took director Alina Rudnitskaya seven years of peering into the lives of three women that attended a psychologist’s course on seducing wealthy men in search of a prosperous life.

Traditionally, the first weekend at RIGA IFF is devoted to families and children, with the KIDS WEEKEND section at Splendid Palace, Riga’s oldest and most distinguished cinema, screening an all-day selection of European live-action films for children and animation films for the youngest film lovers. Like each year, we also have a rich selection of works at SHORT RIGA, while the HOME MADE section is devoted to animation this year. For the second year, the National Library of Latvia will be hosting the ARCHITECT'S CUT section, screening films selected in co-operation with architect Ieva Zībarte.

RIGA IFF will also be holding an event programme for industry professionals, public discussions, and meetings with the people behind many of the wonderful pictures being screened. The festival will conclude with an award ceremony recognising the winners of the feature, short film and music video competitions.

The full festival programme and tickets to all screenings are available on the festival’s website, rigaiff.lv.

RIGA IFF is possible thanks to the support of the State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia, the National Film Centre of Latvia, Live Riga, Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA) and the Riga City Council.

24th BUSAN International Film Festival 

World Cinema 

THE VOICE 

Glas 

World Premiere:  Sat, 5 Oct – 2:00 PM, CGV Centum City 4 

Screenings: Sun, 6 Oct – 2:00 PM, LOTTE CINEMA Daeyoung 1

Tue, 8 Oct – 1:00 PM, MEGABOX Jangsan Haeundae 6 

80 Min. / 1:2.39 / Surround 5.1 / Croatia, North Macedonia, Serbia 2019 / Color 

Teaser: https://vimeo.com/360637567


Director Ognjen Sviličić is available for interviews. 

October 2, 2019 – After showing his critically-acclaimed feature film “These are the Rules” in 2014, Croatian writer-director Ognjen Sviličić returns to Busan International Film Festival with THE VOICE (Glas). The film will celebrate its world premiere in the World Cinema section. 

THE VOICE is a film about the 17-year old Goran confronted with the unquestioned religious practices at a Catholic boarding school. In this community where everyone hears God, Goran is the only one who can't. 

When Goran arrives at the new school, he immediately feels suffocated by the religious believes and rituals imposed on him. He is convinced that you should not believe in something that is forced upon you. Even after everyone turns against him, he stands firm and won't convert. Until he finds out that even if you don't believe in God, He can help you in times of need. 

Writer-Director Ognjen Sviličić’s credits include the celebrated film “Armin” (2007). After its world premiere in Berlinale Forum the film screened at more than 100 international film festivals and won more than twenty awards, amongst them the East of the West Award at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and the FIPRESCI Award for Best Foreign Film at Palm Springs. “These are the Rules” (2014) was nominated for the Orizzonti Award at Venice International Film Festival where his main actor Emir Hadzihafizbegović won the Orizzonti Award for Best Actor. At Warsaw International Film Festival 2005, Sviličić won the Grand Prix for his comic drama “Sorry for Kung Fu” (2004). As a scriptwriter he worked with Slovenian director Damjan Kozole for the acclaimed films “Slovenian girl” (2009) and “Nightlife” (2016). Furthermore, he wrote regional box office hits like “We will be the World Champions” by Darko Bajić (2015) and has created popular Croatian TV series. The director is also teaching screenwriting at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. 

After successfully working together for films like “Armin” and “These are the Rules”, Sviličić again teamed-up with Damir Terešak. The Croatian producer’s slate contains the well-received “When day breaks” (2012) by Goran Paskaljević which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival 2012 as part of its Masters program, “The Eighth Commissioner” (2018) by Ivan Salaj and “The Enemy” (2011) by Dejan Zečević. Co-producers of THE VOICE are Tomi Salkovski and Nikolina Vučetić Zečević. The script was co-written by Marijana Verhoef. 

For the lead role in THE VOICE Ognjen Sviličić chose newcomers Franko Jakovčević and Belma Salkunić. The film also features the regional star Goran Bogdan “Agape” (2017), also known for his performance in the TV drama “Fargo” (2017) and Igor Kovač whose track record includes Tomislav Radić’s “Kotlovina” (2011) – a big winner at the 2011 Pula Film Festival – and “Kosac” (2014) by Zvonimir Jurić (Best Supporting Actor, Pula Film Festival 2014). 

THE VOICE is produced by MaXima Film, Skopje Film Studio, Biberche Productions with financial support by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, North Macedonia Film Agency, Film Centre Serbia, Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia, and Croatian Radiotelevision. 

After announcing the call for its 10th Co-Production Forum, WEMW now opens the calls for all its side events. The full programme of the 2020 edition includes a great mix of initiatives targeting projects in different phases of production as well as different formats: from the Work-in-Progress for feature fiction films to the Fine-Cut-Session for creative documentaries, from a lab for films in editing phase to a brand new programme for producers aspiring to shift to TV series content.

Have a look at our events and find the one that suits you best!

MIDPOINT Cold Open

TV Series Lab

Deadline: November 30, 2019

MIDPOINT Cold Open will select 6 producers, with a background in feature films, who aspire to shift to TV series content. The programme includes lectures, group sessions and individual consultations and aims to supply hands-on skills of production planning and financing of serialized drama content. Cold Open is participant-based, with each producer required to bring a series idea to serve as a starting point for the training programme. 

Last Stop Trieste 

Documentary Fine-Cut-Session

Deadline: November 30, 2019

LST will invite 5 documentaries at a fine cut stage already presented at one of our partner events:  Ex-Oriente Film, Balkan Discoveries at the Balkan Documentary Centre, Docu Rough Cut Boutique at Sarajevo Film Festival/Sofia, When East Meets West, ZagrebDox PRO and Baltic Sea Forum. Selected documentary fine cuts will be presented to an exclusive panel of decision makers and an international jury will deliver the Film Center Serbia LST Award, the HBO EUROPE award and the FLOW Digital Cinema Award.

This is IT

Fiction Film Work-in-Progress Session

Deadline: November 30, 2019

Section exclusively dedicated to long feature fiction films and hybrid works with a strong visual and artistic approach produced or co-produced by Italian producers. Selected teams will have the chance to screen 10' of their films to an exclusive panel of more than 40 international decision makers and an international jury that will give out the LASER FILM Award.

First Cut Lab | Trieste

Workshop for Films in Editing Phase

Deadline: November 30, 2019

First Cut Lab Trieste is a consultancy programme designed for feature fiction films in editing phase from Italy or from one of the WEMW 2020 East & West spotlight countries. Selected teams screen their full rough cut in a private session to receive feedback from three top industry advisers and a consultant editor. The main goal is to foster the artistic potential of selected rough cuts and, at the same time, increase the sales, festival and circulation potential of completed films.

The WEMW 2020 edition will also see the launch of two new initiatives: First Cut +, an extension of First Cut Lab with a programme of tailor-made modules for enhancing the promotion & audience engagement strategies of a carefully curated portfolio of feature fiction films, concluding in a Work-in-Progress presentation, and MIDPOINT Shorts, an initiative dedicated to short films that includes an intensive script and project development workshop concluding in a project showcase in Trieste.

We are also pleased to remind you that you can submit your project to the 10th WEMW Co-Production Forum until October 31, 2019. WEMW will have a new East & West focus, bringing together over 500 film professionals from all over Europe and, in particular, from our 2020 spotlight territories: Hungary, Moldova, Romania & Austria, Germany, Switzerland.  

We look forward to seeing you in Trieste next January!

More information are available at www.wemw.it  

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WEMW is organized once again by the FVG Audiovisual Fund in collaboration with the Trieste Film Festival, EAVE, Creative Europe Desk Italy and thanks to the precious and constant support of Creative Europe/MEDIA Programme, MIBAC -Direzione Generale per il Cinema, CEI – Central European Initiative, Film Center Serbia and the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia.

Preview of the industry programme

In three weeks, a rich variety of industry events will unfold as part of the 23rd Ji.hlava IDFF:

Emerging Producers 2020 – presentation of 17 up-and-coming documentary film producers from Europe and one from the guest country – Taiwan

Inspiration Forum – platform initiating new topics in documentary film and a source of inspiration for filmmakers

Festival Hub – unique showcase of world film festivals and other film events

Visegrad Accelerator – meeting of key personalities from the Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak film environments

Discussions and focused presentations for film professionals (Creative Europe – MEDIA programme, East-West Index, pitchings of new Czech documentaries, etc.)

Matchmaking Accelerator – a service that will connect you with other film professionals visiting Ji.hlava

Conference Fascinations – a conference on distribution of experimental documentary film, accompanied by a special retrospective of Ukrainian experimental cinema

Open programme of Ex Oriente workshop organised by the Institute of Documentary Film (IDF)

East Silver Market video library with hundreds of documentary titles from Central and Eastern Europe (IDF)

Masterclasses, panel discussions, presentations, industry drinks, and much more. Join over 1,100 film professionals expected to attend the 23rd edition of Ji.hlava IDFF between October 24–29, 2019.

Are you a film student? Then note that you can acquire a substantially discounted Early Bird industry accreditation until this Sunday!

First films revealed

Ji.hlava will see a special screening of documentary essay Communism by Karel Vachek, the classic of Czech cinema. The author’s ninth film that takes many hours and has four parts, maps out the contemporary Czech political scene, philosophy, religion and art. Other sections will offer the story of human relentlessness made by the Macedonian duo Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov, Honeyland, one of the winners of this year’s Sundance festival. The Canadian director team composed of Jennifer Baichwal, Nick de Pencier and Edward Burtynsky from Canada will bring to the audience Anthropocene: The Human Epoch in which the authors follow the effects of human activity on the planet’s ecosystem. The Brink by American director Alison Clayman shows the mentality of Steve Bannon, the right-wing populist and former strategist of president Trump. The full selection of the 23rd  Ji.hlava IDFF will be published at a press conference on October 8.

Tribute to Man Ray

As late as in the 1980s, Man Ray – American avant-gardist, a renowned photographer, painter and experimenter close to surrealism – was considered the author of only four films. This year, as part of his retrospective at Ji.hlava, you will have a chance to watch additional footage discovered in the estate of his partner, Ada Fidelin, that open the doors to Man Ray's private world. The exclusive screenings will include the dispute between Pablo Picasso and Paul Eluard during a palm-reading session and many other gems!

Erotica in experimental film

This year’s thematic section of the Conference Fascinations will focus on Erotica. Along with Man Ray, we will recall other classical authors such as Kenneth Anger, Carolee Schneeman and Peter Tscherkassky, as well as less-known authors whose works will for the first time ever be shown on the screen. The retrospective will show a range from pure visual joy inspired by the naked body to radical political manifestos.

Czech films look beyond the borders

The Czech Joy competition section will feature a diverse selection of documentaries. Barbora Berezňáková will present her debut Never Happened, which follows the leads in one large political and criminal case of the 1990s in Slovakia. Kiruna – A Brand New World by Czech-Swedish director Greta Stocklassa is a portrait of a town, which is to be moved away. The Sound Is Innocent by Johana Ožvold pays tribute to world’s electronic music and its development since 1950s until today.  Solo by the Czech-based French director and producer, Artemio Benki, follows the destiny of talented Argentinian piano player, Martín Perin, whose promising career was influenced by his long-term stay at a psychiatric clinic in Buenos Aires. The full selection of the 23 Ji.hlava IDFF will be published at a press conference on October 8.

Inspiration Forum will search for new topics for documentary films

The Ji.hlava’s Inspiration Forum, which annually offers space for discussion will host over 100 prominent guests from outside the film world. You can look forward to full six days dedicated to six particular topics, entitled God & co., The Changing Woman, Re:Democracy, How Not To Be Afraid,  Climageddon, and Made in China. This year's speakers include Dagestan-born novelist Alisa Ganieva, Croatian philosopher and political activist Srećko Horvat, writer and former US border patrol agent Fransisco Cantú, renowned environmentalist Bill McKibben, a former leading figure of German Neo-Nazi scene Christian Weissgerber, and Afghani writer and parliamentarian Fawzia Koofi. The full programme and list of guests will be announced on October 8.

Ex Oriente Film workshop with Niels Pagh Andersen and Audrius Stonys

Masterclasses and lectures by acclaimed documentary filmmakers will be open to the public at the Ex Oriente Film workshop in Jihlava (October 23-28). Editor Niels Pagh Andersen received numerous awards, and his editing credits include Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence and The Act of Killing, as well as Ai Weiwei’s Human Flow. Among other guests are director and cinematographer Erick Stoll, known for his award-winning América, and director and producer Audrius Stonys, whose Earth of the Blind got European Film Award.

The call launched in June for the fourth edition of Film +, the tailored support programme for low budget filmmaking, has closed with 73 entries from which 16 projects made the final line-up,  from four countries: 7 feature films, 5 short films and 4 documentaries.