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KVIFF EASTERN PROMISES 2019!
We would like to remind you that the submission deadlines for Film Industry projects at Karlovy Vary IFF are approaching!
WORKS IN PROGRESS 2019
The presentation of the new quality films in post-production or recently finished films from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and North Africa. This year, Works in Progress will be held for the 15th time.
The last year’s WiP winner ALL THIS VICTORY (dir. Ahmad Ghossein – Lebanon, France, Germany) was awarded 90 000 EUR in services from our festival partners UPP, Soundsquare and 10 000 EUR cash award from Barrandov Studio.
The deadline for submissions is May 15, 2019.
Find out more and submit your project at our official WiP website.
EURIMAGES LAB PROJECT AWARD 2019
For the fourth time, Karlovy Vary IFF will select a recipient of the Eurimages Lab Project Award.
The award is intended for the most promising cutting-edge film project which is made outside traditional rules of filmmaking both in terms of dramaturgy and production.
The last year’s ELP winner NORMAL (dir. Adele Tulli – Italy, Sweden) received 50 000 EUR cash award from Eurimages. The finished film had its world premiere at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival.
The deadline for submissions is May 8, 2019.
12th Fest Anča International Animation Festival has published the list of films that will compete for the main awards this year. More than 1200 short animated films and music videos from all over the world were submitted for the competition this year. The official selection includes 11 screening sections, 4 of them are competitive categories.
This year, the festival will screen a remarkably high number of new Slovak animation. For the first time, Fest Anča has decided to screen not only the Competition of Slovak Films, but also a non-competitive Slovak Panorama, showcasing contemporary local animation in all its forms.
Don’t miss the opportunity to discover the best contemporary animation from 27 June to 30 July 2019 in Žilina. Limited early bird festival passes are still available on Fest Anča’s website.
Here’s the complete listing of films selected for the 12th Fest Anča programme:
Films competing for Anča Award + Anča Student Award
| Bloeistraat 11 | Nienke Deutz |
| III | Marta Pajek |
| Don’t Know What | Thomas Renoldner |
| Sweet Sweat (s) | Jung Hyun Kim |
| Solar Walk | Réka Bucsi |
| Days off (s) | Filip Blažek |
| Cat Days | Jon Frickey |
| Dancing Frog | KIM Jin-man |
| For life | Roberto CATANI |
| Fest | Nikita Diakur |
| Mr. Mare | Luca Tóth |
| The Hunt | Mateusz Jarmulski |
| The Fall | Boris Labbé |
| Sounds Good (s) | Sander Joon |
| Wicked Girl | Ayce Kartal |
| Our House (s) | Fábián Balogh |
| Parsley girl | Youngmee Roh |
| The Other (s) | Marta Magnuska |
| Under the Rib Cage | Bruno Tondeur |
| Cold Pudding Settles Love | Urszula Palusińska |
| Still Lives | Elli Vuorinen |
| Hide N Seek | Barbora Halířová |
| Acid rain | Tomek Popakul |
| Slug Life | Sophie Koko Gate |
| Julia (s) | Julian Gallese |
| 300 g/m2 (s) | Kamila Kučíková |
| My Little Goat (s) | Tomoki Misato |
(s) = student film
Video Clips competing for Anča Music Video Award
| Vacationer: Magnetism | Raman Djafari |
| Pike tail | Anna Kislova |
| Corps – À corps | Yoann Stehr |
| Sigrid: Focus | Moth Studio |
| Mind Invaders | Frederic Siegel |
| Fjaak: I Could Never Live Without You by my Side | Raman Djafari |
| Kittone! | Sivan Kidron |
| Lasagne Rhythm | Antony Barkworth-Knight |
| A man in the internet | Anastasia Vorobeva |
| Four Years Time | Milo Lu |
| Aphotic Zone | Soyun Park |
| Reach the Sky | Daniel Sterlin-Altman |
| Ruunpe | Boris Labbé |
| A.B.O.P. | Katarzyna Kijek |
| Cadaver Synod | Peter Serruys / Mr. Eightyone |
| Flush It Out (Official Music Video for Likvid & Dan Riley) | Marian Vredík a Jana Vredík Hirnerová |
| Me | Ekaterina Zhuzhleva |
| Nauru | Petra Stipetic and Maren Wiese |
| Glass Onion | Alasdair + Jock |
| Cranberry Pearls | Harriet Titlow |
| 40 Point – Vels Trio (feat. Shabaka Hutchings) | Steph Hope |
| Simple Song | Matthew Robins |
| Her Name’s On My Cock | Mykyta Lyskov |
| Odds and Evens | Michał Czyż |
| Housing-Estate Dream | Katarína Krajčiová |
| Fairytale | Jakov Burov (Ivanusa) |
| But one bird sang not | Pierre Hébert |
Films competing for Anča Kids’ Award
| Kuap | Nils Hedinger |
| Sloth | Julia Ocker |
| Quiet Willow | Shiyii Xiong |
| The Man with the Birds | Quentin Marcault |
| Avalanche | Veronika Kocourková |
| Flipped | Hend Esmat and Lamiaa Diab |
| The Kite | Martin Smatana |
| Last Day of Autumn | Marjolaine Perreten |
Films competing for Anča Slovak Award
| 300 g/m2 | Kamila Kučíkova |
| Fifi Fatale | Mária Kralovič |
| I am not Playing Anymore | Matej Babic |
| A date | Michaela Mihalyi |
| Poetika Anima | Kriss Sagan |
| Avalanche | Veronika Kocourková |
| Flush It Out (Official Music Video for Likvid & Dan Riley) | Marian Vredík a Jana Vredík Hirnerová |
| The Kite | Martin Smatana |
World Panorama
| Imbued Life | Ivana Bosnjak, Thomas Johnson |
| Circuit | Delia Hess |
| Rain | Piotr Milczarek |
| Flood | Malte Stein |
| Spines | Elisa Morais, María Álvarez |
| The deep end | Elise Augarten |
| Applesauce | Alexander Gratzer |
| Li.Le | Natia Nikolashvili |
| Do It Again | Hsin Hsuan Yeh |
| Broken Things | Panni Gyulai |
| The Flood Is Coming | Gabriel Böhmer |
| Life24 | Kristjan Holm |
| Good Intentions | Anna Mantzaris |
| Ooffee | Alexandros Vounatsos |
| Sweet Night | Lia Bertels |
| Where I was born | Jungmin Cha |
| Mitya’s Love | Svetlana Filippova |
| Medium Rare | Luca Cioci |
| Intermission Expedition | Wiep Teeuwisse |
| The calves | Bela Bulgakova |
| Comfort | Weronika Banasinska |
| Grandpa | Zozo Jhen, Tena Galovic, Marine Varguy, Yen-Chen Liu, Ellis Kayin Chan |
| Butterboo | Emilie Pigeard |
| CEVA | Paul Muresan |
| Monster | Laura Pop |
| Deep Love | Nikita Liskov |
| Big | Anastasiia Belousova |
| The Death Vendor | Jeon Jinkyu |
| Adorable | Cheng-Hsu Chung |
| Floreana | Lou Morton |
| Lola the living potato | Leonid Shmelkov |
Slovak Panorama
| Housing-Estate Dream | Katarína Krajčiová |
| Bearserker | Bálint Alló |
| PANTOPOS | Eni Brandner |
| Bored on Retirement | Szilard Kardiak |
| Žabí rauš – Do lesov | Slavo Turanec |
| Save your files | Jakub Bondor |
| Machine | Slavo Turanec |
| Persona Grata | Daniela Krajčová |
| Born Free | Norbert Neuschl |
World Panorama for Kids
| On the same wavelength | Radoslava Lacková |
| Giraffe | Julia Ocker |
| Cloudy | Zuzana Čupova/ Fillip Diviak |
| Koyaa – Slippery Soap | Kolja Saksida |
| Ray’s Great Escape | Jie Weng |
| Fire | Veronika Kocourková |
| Bobo | Andrej Rehak |
| Cat Lake City | Antje Heyn |
| The Witch | Anna Němečková |
| First Step | Petra Kožar |
| Anglerfish | Julia Ocker |
| Saturday’s Apartment | JEON Seungbae |
| Sing Along | David Súkup |
| R.I.S.E Pathfinder | Chloe Dumoulin, Clementine Dudreuilh, Alexandre Fruitet, Megane Nousse, Gabriel Sepulchre. |
Contemporary Abstract and Non-narrative Animation
| The Dawn of Ape | Mirai Mizue |
| Matter and Motion | Max Hattler |
| Windshriek | Frédéric Doazan |
| Sun Zoom Spark | Gina Kamentsky |
| Orbit | Tess Martin |
| Nada | Tara Dougans |
| Half Asleep | Caibei Cai |
| Paper Trail | Jake Fried |
| Suggestion of least resistance | Michelle & Uri Kranot |
| Edge | Steven Subotnick |
| Erebeta | Francois Vogel |
| Artist and Friend | Daniel Wesseik |
| Selfshe | Kamila Müllerová |
| Tetarape | Boris Labbé |
Anča in Wonderland
| Catus Pocus | Merry Wijaya and Yujin Sick |
| A Cup of Tea in the Rainy Weather | Petre Tomadze |
| Sky City | Zhongsu |
| 6:1 | Sergei Ryabov |
| Boilermaker | Risto Kütt |
| 29 | Aleksandra Brozyna |
| Mouth(S) | Mathieu Girard |
| Bird Breakfast | Owen Roberts |
| After | Matouš Valchář |
| Top 5 Animation Containers | Ben Wheele |
| Bulba | Olga Kalagate |
| .MP4 | François Grumelin-Sohn |
| Opening Night | Margaret Bialis |
| St. Constantine and Methodius – Anime Opening ( E P I C ) | Lucia Gazdíková |
| Journey to the Magic Waterfall | Bogna Kowalczyk |
| Whispering Onion | Akari Hiraoka |
| Dacha, Aliens, Cucumbers | Ekaterina Mikheeva |
| Symbiosis | Paul Raillard |
| Hideouser and Hideouser | Aria Covamonas |
| The Last Coffee on Earth | Oktawian Jurczykowski |
| Love of Mud | Petra Stipetic |
| The Last Man on Earth Sat Alone in a Room | Junyi Xiao |
| Night session | Petre Tomadze |
| Shy & Ketchup | Teresa Romo |
| Bored on Retirement | Szilard Kardiak |
| Story | Antonio Iandolo |
Anča in Mordor
| Only one dream money in the world | Mikio Saito |
| Fallen | Klaus Schuster |
| Do Corpses Dream of Electric Roses | Darko Vukic |
| Beetroot | Marijan Loncar Bondo |
| Supersad(opus)_01 | Faiyaz Jafri |
| Re:print 12. | Davorin Marc |
| Buffer Zone Blues | Franz Milec |
| Machine Gun Mama | Justine Klaiber and Marwan Abdalla Eissa |
| Robot show | Saeed Amin Javaheri |
| Tailor Of Destinies | Tode Risto Blazevski |
| Euphorbia | Jessica Wheeler |
| An old man with green tea leaf hands | Mikio Saito |
| Babalon Temple | Mauri Lehtonen |
| Awkward Silence | Gašper Kunšič |
| Pattern Cognition | Thorsten Fleisch |
| Four Riders | Dominik Turan |
Extremely Short Section of Extremely Short Films
| Out of Touch | Arash Akhgari |
| Business Meeting | Guy Charnaux |
| Consequences | Rajesh RS |
| Desert Boy | Adrian Grgurev |
| Clonilly | Izabella Retkowska |
| Congratulations! | Lidia Lidia |
| The Freak | Grant Kolton |
| Reviver | Shalev Ben Elya & Renen Adar |
| Three Messages From the Mind of a Believer of Nothing | Lee and Eliška Oz |
| Cybercrime | Yu Feng |
| 4AM | Diana Jordan |
| The Choice | Sepehr Shokri |
| Date Night | Zhaoyi Liu |
| What Remains | Catherine Kennedy |
| Unknown | Saeed Amin Javaheri |
| Dolphin | Saeed Amin Javaheri |
| Replication | Saeed Amin Javaheri |
| Space | Saeed Amin Javaheri |
| Endless experience | Anastasia Vorobeva |
| Dream Drum Dream | Ileana Andrea Gomez Gavinoser |
| Transformation, A Story By Kelly Gavinoser | Ileana Andrea Gomez Gavinoser |
| Black hole | Rutger van de Wiel |
| The Rise Of Polaris | Vladimira Milanova |
| Ride | Richard O’Connor |
| Wolves at Night | Fernanda Resende Serradourada |
| Safe space | Ekaterina Zhuzhleva |
| No Peace in the Studio | Žoel Kastelic |
| A Magical Evening | Arseni Okruashvili |
| Jim Zipper | Alexandre Roy |
| Grey Studio | Çağıl Harmandar |
| Boom & Bust (Vicious Cycles #1) | Wobbe F. Koning |
| Spawn (Vicious Cycles #2) | Wobbe F. Koning |
| An Address to a President | Nэno Bэlchэv |
| Monsters Walking | Diego Porral Soldevilla |
| Moon | Miriama Trnavská |
| The Postcard | Device |
| Backwards | Amigo Total |
| Things You Can Do With Extendable Arms | Luca Paulli |
| Antic Mirage | Emma Van den Bergh |
| Circus | Pavel Endrle & Martin Hahn |
| Master painter Bah Bizon | Uli Seis |
| Best friends | Odinokov Andrei |
| Medium Rare | Juan Martín González |
| Hair Wars | Bui Luu Quynh Nguyen |
| Procrastination | Nata Metlukh |
| The Old Snake Fell Asleep On The Grass | Dominica Harrison |
| Ciciri | Boris Labbé |
| Hallucinations | Stognieva Alina |
| Voracious | Lucas Ansart, Miriam Lazrak, Arthur Sevestre,
Chloé Forestier, Julie Paturange, Loïck Piton |
| High Noon | Lucie Andouche, Thomas Appleman, Luc Armanet,
Ambre Decruyenaere, Cécile Despretz, Camille Sallan |
| Give me a french fessée | Lucas Ansart, Camille Sallan, Laura Passalacqua, Loïck Piton |
| Delta | Salomé Rouaud-nicod, Noémie Bevierre, Elodie Ferrer,
Clothilde Hiron, Lou Maurice De Reparaz, Clarisse Ye |
| Délice | Etienne Faivre, Louis-alexandre Lucotte, Manu Mohnblatt, Marie Deboissy |
| Cold Warmness | Helena Friedmannová |
| Love Bomb | Łukasz Pallado |
| Tobias Tatu | Júnia Consani |
| BORK | Martin Berta |
| Machine Gun Mama | Justine Klaiber and Marwan Abdalla Eissa |
| Fernand Léger. Beauty is Everywhere | Fong Nicolas |
2019 Fest Anča International Festival is financially supported with public funds from the Slovak Audiovisual Fund.
Fest Anča 2019: Call for Entries
WE WANT YOUR FILM!
Fest Anča International Animation Festival has launched a call for entries for its 2019 edition. Animated short films, student films, music videos and films for children are among the competition categories.
Fest Anča will take place in Žilina, Slovakia between June 27 and 30, 2019. Only digital copies submitted before February 28, 2019 will be considered for the festival.
Submissions are free and winners are awarded cash prizes. Find out more at our website. Submit your film via our online submission system.
Competition awards for Fest Anča 2019 are:
- Anča Award (EUR 800) for the best short animated film
- Anča Student Award (EUR 400) for the best short animated student film
- Anča Music Video Award (EUR 400) for the best animated music video
- Anča Kids’ Award (EUR 400) for the best short animated film for children
- Anča Slovak Award (EUR 700) for the best Slovak short animated film
Fest Anča International Animation Festival – the only Slovak multimedia festival focused on animated film – is based in a former train station that has been transformed into a vibrant cultural center.
The festival aims to showcase contemporary, progressive animated films, and commemorate the cream of the genre. The long-term vision is to approximate well-known international festivals by uniquely showcasing this art form in Slovakia.
The festival features an international competition of animated short films and music videos, as well as non-competitive screening sections. Attendees can additionally enjoy presentations, exhibitions, workshops, film screenings for children, and numerous accompanying events.
The lively and inspiring summertime festival atmosphere is supported by a camp site, twilight screenings, live music concerts, and a tasty range of refreshments.
More info at:
http://festanca.sk/2019/en/galeria/
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RIGA: Latvian director Laila Pakalnina receives a two week retrospective of her documentary films at the Paris Pompidou Centre, running through 17 May 2019.
WARSAW: HBO Europe’s Polish original drama series Blinded by the Lights has been made available to US subscribers of pay TV channel.
Karel Vachek is in post-production with his film novel Communism.
International short film competition and Festival award winners at the 59th KFF
Festivals 02-05-2019Short but sweet
Can you tell a complex story in less than 30 minutes? The films showcased in the short films competition prove that it is possible. Documentaries, animations and features are all fascinating stories from around the world, presenting different genre conventions: from love stories through dark comedies to suspense filled thrillers.
Documentary films: a trip to the inside of a family and other extraordinary places
The ten short documentaries that havebeen invited to the competition are both intimate portraits of heroesas well as films showing the problems of the modern world. Thefrighteningphenomenon, widespread in the environment of computergame lovers, is the topic of “Swatted”, whose heroes sendspecial SWAT units to their friends from the Internet for fun, justso that they can watch a live stream of brutal police operations.
Connected, dir. Aleksandra Maciejczyk
Short documents, however, are primarily intimate, family stories. In the film ”Dandelion Mum”the director follows the struggle of her mother with cancer, while in the ”Greykey” a daughter tries to revive memories of her father – a black participant in the war in Spain who goes to the concentration camp at Mauthausen. The family of Syrian immigrants living in a Dutch town is the hero of the documentary ”Like them“, and the film “Milady” presents the experiences of people adopted in their youth by foster families. Norwegian teenagers from the movie ”Viva Løten!“ also have to overcome a difficult past. The complex relationship between two people is shown in the documentary ”When the Dragon came“. The heroes got married very young, have eight children and live together, but somehow they are apart. Wiola and Krzysztof from the film “Connected” are the complete opposite -Krzysztof’s illness and their feelings make them almost inseparable.
Animated films: playing with the audience
– One of the questions we ask ourselves during the selection is the question about the audience: will viewers open to animated worlds dictated by the subversive anti-logic of sleep, desire, experiment? Our choice is based on the idea of a balance between traditional narrative films, inviting “beginner” viewers of animation to recognize the aesthetics and codes of the medium of animated film, and forms aimed at mixing genres, games with perception or film narration – says Olga Bobrowska, the selector of the Krakow Festival film.
Crème de la crème of international cinema
Sundance, SXSW, IDFA – the winners of the most important film festivals in the world are coming to cinema screens in Krakow as part of a speciel „Festival award winners” section. The KFF audience will have a chance to see twelve film productions that have already been recognized by international juries.
– You do not need to get on an airplane or train, just need to go to any of the films from the section “Festival award winners” to embark extremely exciting journey that will take you into two directions. One will transfer you to the most important festivals in the world, and the other to distant film lands. It is a lot of fun to check what has delighted other viewers and jurors in the last 12 months and let yourself be seduced by excellent, award-winning cinema – says Magdalena Walo, coordinator of the “Festival award winners” section.
Los Reyes, reż. Bettina Perut, Iván Osnovikoff
Two loveable dogs, Chola and Football are the heroes of the documentary “Los Reyes”, awarded at the IDFA festival. Quadrupeds living in the skate park are random listeners of conversations of young people, who are wat too familiar with drugs, quarrels with their parents or threats of being thrown out of the house.
The motels in the suburbs can also be involuntary witnesses of not always legal business dealings. They are hiding places for murderers, pit stops for lost travelers and hide-aways for surreptitious lovers. In the “Vacancy” awarded in Jihlava, viewers will get to know their real inhabitants – people who dream less and less of an American dream.
The 59th Krakow Film Festival will take place on May 26 – June 2, 2019
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PRAGUE: Central European Media Enterprises reported a 7 percent decline in net revenues to 146.6 m USD and 10 percent decline in TV advertising revenues during the first quarter of 2019. Operating income increased by 12 percent to 27.7 m USD.
VILNIUS: Three MIDPOINT programmes will take place in Lithuania 3 – 9 May 2019 presented in partnership with the Lithuanian Film Centre.
CANNES: Polish director and screenwriter Paweł Pawlikowski has been selected to serve on the prestigious jury of the Cannes Film Festival.
