Paris-based company Indie Sales has acquired Gabi Virginia Şarga and Cătălin Rotaru first feature film, “Thou Shalt not Kill”. The director duo is known for their short film 4.15 PM The End of the World which was selected in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. Thou Shalt Not Kill is set for a World Premiere at the upcoming Warsaw Film Festival’s 1st and 2nd competition

On 26^th of September, the Macedonian Film Agency within the framework of the 39th International Cinematographers' Film Festival “Manaki Brothers” in Bitola announced the one-year partnership with Less Is More – a training programme that was created by Le Groupe Ouest (France). The aim of the program is to help film professionals in the integration of the realization of films with a limited budget from the very beginning, that is, the development of the project.

Within this training program, a number of activities will be realized as part of this partnership, and as a particularly important one, is the organization of the workshop for local film professionals entitled "Pre-Writing Workshop". 

The goal of the workshop is to collect the ideas for films from all participants, reinforcing and directing them to make great future film projects even before they enter the process of development. The workshop will introduce the participants to the knowledge of how budget constraints may cause creativity. This is the first workshop of this kind that will be organized in Macedonia and is intended solely for the Macedonian film professionals who will acquire the knowledge of internationally renowned script doctors. 

The young film professionals that were present have expressed interest in the workshop and because of this we expect that a new film wave of more creative, more original and communicative projects will be born, which is our strategic goal.

More about this training program can be found on the following link: https://lim-lessismore.eu/

 

The annual Riga International Film Festival (RIGA IFF) pitching FORUM for children's and youth film projects will take place from October 18-19 in the Latvian capital Riga.

Each year Independent Film Foundation, organizer of ScripTeast, receives a a great number of projects, coming from all of the countries of the region and representing very high quality, spectrum of film genres and interesting subjects.  The organizers would like to thank all the writers for their interest in the program and congratulate authors of 11 selected projects.

CHEMISTRY
Adina Dulcu (Romania)

FLIGHT OF BLACK SWALLOWS
Rusudan Pirveli (Georgia)
Givi Odisharia (Georgia)

FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE
Ivan Marinović (Montenegro)

M
Vardan Tozija (Macedonia)
Darijan Pejovski (Macedonia)

MOTHER
Zornitsa Sophia  Popgantcheva  (Bulgaria)
Miglena Dimova-Kumitsky (Bulgaria)

NIGHTSIREN
Barbora Námerová (Slovakia)
Tereza Nvotová (Slovakia)

SPINNERS
Reinis Ubelis (Latvia)
Ivars Tontegode (Latvia)

STILLBORN
Olga Chajdas (Poland)
Lena Góra (Poland)

THE LAST DAD
Michał Walczak (Poland)
Marija Wojtyszko (Poland)

THE LIBEL
Diana Groó (Hungary)

THE SIBYL
Zuzanna Solakiewicz (Poland)

13 edition will be inaugurated with a stationary session in Poland, conducted between the 30^th of September and the 6^th of October followed by session during Berlinale and Cannes Film Festival  2019 .

ScripTeast is organized by Independent Film Foundation, co-funded by Creative Europe - MEDIA Sub-Programme of the EU, Polish Film Institute, The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage – Fund for the Promotion of Culture, Apple Film Production, in co-operation with the European Film Academy, Producers Network, European Producers Club, Transatlantic Partners, ACE – Atelier du Cinema Europeen and Film New Europe.

In October, digitally restored Slovak films from the National Film Archive collection of Slovak Film Institute (SFI) will be presented at renowned international film festivals! Retrospective of Viktor Kubal will introduce in Spanish premiere the works of Slovak director, animator and artist at 51^stSitges International Fantastic Film Festival(October 4 – 14, 2018) while
The Case of Barnabáš Kos (1964) by Peter Solan will be screened in world premiere at the prestigious 10^th Lumière Festival (October 13 – 21, 2018)
in Lyon.

Retrospective of Viktor Kubal will present digitally restored film The Bloody Lady (1980), inspired by the legend of a countess, whose obsession with eternal youth has cost many young virgins´ lives. The audience of Sitges will further have the chance to see Earth (1966), Tom Thumb at the Magician´s(1973), Cinema (1977), What Happened to Johnny on the Road (1981), 
The Weatherman (1983) and The Idol (1989).

Digitally restored film The Bloody Lady has had its world premiere last year at the 9^th Lumière Festival in France, within the section Archival treasures and curiosities, that brings together unique restored archive films from all over the world. This year´s edition of the section will present in world premiere digitally restored satirical tragicomedy The Case of Barnabáš Kos (1964) by Peter Solan. The story is about Barnabáš Kos, triangle player in a big symphony orchestra who is unexpectedly appointed its director. At first, the modest musician resists, but soon he realizes what kinds of behaviour form the inevitable rules governing people's careers.

The screenings of Slovak films in Sitges and Lyon will be introduced by Rastislav Steranka, director of the National Cinematographic Center of Slovak Film Institute.

More information HERE