The Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) has initiated a network of festivals operating in the territory of common language of the former Yugoslavia. Alongside SFF, the network members are several prominent festivals: the Belgrade Auteur Film Festival (Serbia), the Zagreb Film Festival (Croatia) and the Herceg Novi / Montenegro Film Festival (Montenegro). The network, supported by Creative Europe, forms a strategic partnership that aims to stimulate the circulation and promotion of independent European film and talent in a common-language region with a population of 15 million inhabitants. It focuses on the creation of new audiences and on the augmentation of the overall organisational and operational capacities of its partners by introducing the most up-to-date advances in technology.

Every year, several outstanding Polish productions are included in the international competitions at the Krakow Film Festival. In the prestigious group of the latest and the most important films from all over the world, they have a chance to vie for the highest festival trophies and recognition of the domestic audience and the film industry from Poland and abroad. This year, in the international film competition, we will see the films “No hero at all” by Michał Kawecki and “Walk with Angels” by Tomasz Wysokiński.

We are announcing opening of submissions for this year’s edition of KVIFF Eastern Promises! Selected projects that are currently in development, production or post-production will be presented during our Industry online presentations this summer.

This year, KVIFF Eastern Promises include these categories:

Works in Progress - fiction + documentary projects with Post-production Development Award + 2 cash awards of 5 000 EUR each
First Cut+ - showcase of projects that recently participated in First Cut Lab programs
Works in Development - Feature Launch – with Development Award of 10 000 EUR
First Cut Lab - an expert workshop in editing

dok.incubator workshop has just announced the final selection of talented filmmakers whose projects will be supported in 2021.

scene from All Those Sensations in My Belly, The Tower 

The Short Film Competition of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival to screen Marko Dješka’s All Those Sensations in My Belly, while the Graduation Short Film category will feature The Tower by Sunčana Brkulj. In addition, Croatian works scheduled to compete in the Commissioned Films programme. This year’s 45th Annecy edition takes place in hybrid format, 14th – 19th June.

The recently unveiled programmes of the Visions du Réel festival and CPH:DOX International Documentary Film Festival confirm the good condition of Czech documentaries beyond borders of the Czech Republic. In Nyon, Living Water will celebrate its international premiere in the National Competition, and co-production documentary Gorbachev. Heaven takes part in the Grand Angle section. Both films have also been selected for noncompetitive sections of the CPH:DOX. Furthemore, A Marriage will celebrate world premiere within the Hot Docs Canadian EFP programme, and Blix will be pitched at the Hot Docs Forum.