The year FNE and FIPRESCI have invited film critics attending the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival to rate the films in the Main Competition and the East of the West competition.

Starting on Sunday 6 July we will be publishing the daily critics ratings so watch this spot.

Twelve documentary projects have been selected for the next edition of the Ex Oriente Film workshops.

WIDE is proud to present BARBARIANS Officially Selected in Competition in the East of the West section

The Pixel Market is now open for applications.

LIEGE: The 3D Content Financing Market (3DFM), an international co-production and financing market for projects for stereoscopic-3D (S-3D) contents, is open for applications through 31 August 2014, for the market taking place on 9-10 Dec 2014 in Liège, Belgium.

The Independent Cinema Office (ICO - the UK’s national organisation for the development and support of independent film exhibition) is excited to announce details of speakers for Developing Your Film Festival, its flagship course this summer.

20th International Festival of Local Television, Kosice, Slovakia

    Jury Awards:

  • Golden Beggar for the best local television program

 Sower (Poland /Belsat), directed by: Jerzy Kalina, chosen for the way it skilfully uses the rhythm of sowing and harvesting as a metaphor for life.

  • Golden Beggar for the best production company film

 La Parada (Spain), directed by: Lino Varela Cerviño, chosen for the quietly intense way in which it told a national drama through one person.

  • Golden Beggar for the best young author’s film

    Electric Indigo (Belgium), directed by: Jean–Julien Collette, chosen for the originality of its story and the smartness of its execution.

  • Prize of the Journalists Association of Serbia “Zora”

    Goran (Serbia), directed by: Roberto Santaguida, chosen for the technique it developed to permit a man with disabilities to tell his own story.

  • Prize of the Slovak Council for Broadcasting and Transmission for the Best Slovak Film

  Sledge Hockey (Slovakia), directed by: Matej Ligač, chosen for the sympathetic yet direct way in which It tells the story of a young man who transforms a handicap.

  • Prize of the TV Festival Vitez

  Battiti (Italy), directed by: Simeone Latini, chosen for the elegant simplicity with which it tells the story of an unexpected pregnancy.

  • Prize of the Fogelsong Family Foundation of the USA

 Destino (France), directed by: Zangro, Sylvain de Zagroniz, chosen for the wonderfully animated way in which it tells a love story.

  • Honorable mentions of the jury

 Historias de Balcones (Cuba/Denmark) Directed by: Helle Windeløv-Lindzélius

 Not Alone (Belarus) Directed by: Volha Dashuk

 I and Lucia (Slovakia) Directed by: Peter Komár

 Echoes (Spain) Directed by: Sergio Martinez Alberto

The Fugue (France) Directed by: Xavier Bonnin

 Faces (Italy) Directed by: Antonio de Palo

Ten European directors present their films at Karlovy Vary

DIE HEIMATLOSEN receives FFA Funding