With the start of the largest film festival in Lithuania approaching, it is time to introduce one of this year’s competition programmes. Titled “New Europe – New Names”, the programme promises to be notably diverse, showing films such as The Tribe from Ukraine, performed entirely in sign language, and the Lithuanian The Summer of Sangaile, which has been selected to compete at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
WARSAW: Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida has been nominated for BAFTA Film Awards in the Foreign Film category, and also for Cinematography (Lukasz Zal, Ryszard Lenczewski).
SOFIA: Isabel Coixet's Nobody Wants the Night will open the 65th Berlin International Film Festival on February 5. The Spanish-French-Bulgarian coproduction is competing for the Golden Bear.
VILNIUS: Eight films will compete in the New Europe – New Names section of the 20th Kino Pavasaris International Film Festival, one of the biggest film events in Lithuania running from 19 March to 2 April 2015.
The 65th Berlin International Film Festival will open on February 5 with the world premiere of Nobody Wants the Night, the most recent work by Spanish director Isabel Coixet. It will participate in the international competition.
Check out the programme and confirmed decision makers on www.wemw.it!
Bringing filmmakers from Turkey together with international professionals, Meetings on the Bridge will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2015, as part of the 34th Istanbul Film Festival, and sponsored by Anadolu Efes.
The members of the European Film Academy (EFA), more than 3,300 film professionals from across Europe, have elected six women onto the EFA Board, the EFA's executive body. Each board member is elected for a period of two years and eight of the mandates were up for (re-)election.
Ida, Tangerines and Corn Island are among the nine foreign films shortlisted from a number of 83 originally submitted for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Ida and Tangerines are also competing for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film which will be announced on 11 January in Los Angeles.
STRASBOURG: Eurimages decided support for 15 coproductions including the new films of Cristi Puiu, Kristijonas Vildziunas, Ralitza Petrova, Teona Strugar Mitevska, Emin Alper and Ümit Köreken at its 137th meeting held in Turin in December 2014,
