PODGORICA: Bojan Stijovic is in development with his feature debut Brothers / Braca, a drama written by the European Prize for Literature winner Stefan Boskovic.
PODGORICA: The Film Centre of Montenegro has distributed 798,000 EUR as production grants to feature films, films in production, minority coproductions, animated films and documentaries.
PRAGUE: Michael Caine, Ethan Hawke, Johnny Depp, and Jan Sverak will be honoured at the 55th edition of the Karlovy Vary IFF, taking place 20 – 28 August 2021.
The first feature film Man Without Guilt by the director and screenwriter Ivan Gergolet was shot at the border area between Slovenia and Italy. The film is scheduled for release and distribution in March 2022.
The story of personal revenge and redemption is set in Trieste, a city on the Adriatic coast, at the border between Italy and Slovenia. A 50-year-old widow working in a hospital discovers that her husband's former employer, who is partly responsible for her husband's death, has been admitted to the hospital because of a stroke. His son offers her a job as a caregiver, unaware of the connection between them. Seeking revenge, she decides to accept the offer.
Registration for the International Online Course in Film Journalism and Criticism "Asian cinema: How to talk and write about it?" is now open!
Press releases 09-08-2021Do you love writing and talking about cinema? Do you feel like taking your publications to the next level? Are you looking for forms other than the traditional review? Are you interested in how a critic can cooperate with a film festival? Want to learn how to write sensitively about other cultures avoiding stereotypes?
The biggest industry event in Poland, Polish Days, will take place from 15th till 17th August in the frame of 21st New Horizons IFF. During Polish Days, 20 films at various stages of production will be presented to the international film industry representatives.
The following grants were announced by the Film Centre of Montenegro on 15 July 2021.
Learn to work in a professional writers' room – apply to our program till August 15!
Press releases 06-08-2021As one of MIDPOINT Institute’s series-oriented training programs, Writers’ Room is targeting writers and creative producers without a particular project in development whose ambition is to start their careers as writers' room members or showrunners.
Locarno 2021: Srđan Dragojević’s Heavens Above and Rok Biček’s Penalty Shot in LFF competition programmes
Festivals 05-08-2021Srđan Dragojević’s fiction feature Heavens Above, which is a Studio Dim minority co-production, with Darija Kulenović Gudan as co-producer, will have its world premiere on 5th August in the International Competition, while the world premiere of fiction short Penalty Shot, directed by Rok Biček, is scheduled for 11th August, in the new competition programme, Auteur Shorts (Corti d'autore).
Feature debut Murina directed by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in the Contemporary World Cinema programme, which offers compelling stories with a global perspective. This year’s TIFF is held 9th – 18th September.
