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The winners of the 22nd Vilnius Film Festival are announced
Polish The Last Family and Lithuanian Woman and the Glacierwin in Vilnius Polish Jan P. Matuszyński's feature debut film The Last Family and documentary Woman and the Glacier by Lithuanian director Audrius Stonys won the main competition programmes last night in Vilnius Film Festival Kino Pavasaris. Bulgarian social drama Glory…
Meeting Point – Vilnius: The complete list of upcoming films from the Baltics and beyond
25 film projects from 21 countries will be presented this Wednesday, at the 8th international film industry event Meeting Point – Vilnius. The projects were selected from more than 50 applications from the Baltic States as well as Central and Eastern Europe countries: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Georgia, Ukraine, Hungary, Slovenia,…
Unwavering Women and Born Fighters: The goEast Competition 2017
Festival Opening with Nana & Simon's MY HAPPY FAMILY The 17th edition of goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film will kick off with a screening of MY HAPPY FAMILY (CHEMI BEDNIERI OJAKHI, Germany, France, Georgia, 2017) on Wednesday, April 26th. The film, made by Georgian-German directorial duo…
Connecting, Educating and Inspiring Cinematic Engagement: goEast's Focus on Young Talents
In the scope of three projects, goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film (April 26th - May 2nd 2017) fosters up-and-coming filmmakers while raising their awareness of key human rights issues: presenting OPPOSE OTHERING!, East-West Talent Lab and Young Filmmakers for Peace.
Finále Plzeň will turn 30 in April, and will launch the celebration with Jan Hřebejk’s film Garden Store: A Family Friend
Pilsen will host the anniversary 30th year of the Finále Plzeň Film Festival, which will take place April 20-28, 2017.
Transilvania Pitch Stop goes international
The program was included by Eurimages Fund among the European industry events to present the Eurimages Co-production Development Award amounting to €20,000.
European Film Festival reveals its new narrative
Reaching its XXI edition, The European Film Festival is setting in motion with a spring in its step: an art director, a distinct orientation and a Romanian feature premiere that, for the first time in the festival’s history, will open all the local editions. Romanian premiere of Aki Kaurismäki's feature,…
From Cannes to Bucharest: Ever the Provocateur Alejandro Jodorowsky Opens BIEFF 2017
Within its long-term educational partnership with Cannes’ Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, BIEFF 2017 brings to Romania the latest feature by legendary cult filmmaker, Alejandro Jodorowsky, venerated for his provocative surrealist masterpieces of the 1970s (Santa Sangre, El Topo, The Holy Mountain).
LET’S CEE WINNERS 2017
Last weekend, this year’s winners of the fifth LET’S CEE Film Festival were announced at the Award Ceremony at the Viennese Urania, attended by a great number of international festival guests. Among the awardees of already nine categories were a lot of surprises too. After a strong Hungarian opening film,…
11th Festival of Tolerance 8 – 14 April, 2017 - Zagreb, Croatia
Organizer: Jewish Film Festival Zagreb PROJECT SUMMARY Festival of Tolerance is a cultural event whose programme includes film screenings, themed exhibitions, Festivals’ Market, discussions, lectures, educational and music events. The festival aims to spread the truth and the memory of the Holocaust and to promote the awareness and adoption of…
RELUCTANT FEMINISM: GOEAST SYMPOSIUM 2017 TRACES POSITIONING OF FEMALE FILMMAKERS FROM CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
The goEast Symposium takes place annually as a film and lecture series occurring within the scope of goEast Film Festival. This year the Symposium invites attendees to join goEast in rediscovering and honouring a group of individuals who have been consistently marginalised in the world of filmmaking: The focus here…
Life Begins at 100 wins Audience Award at One World 2017
Vigorous 104-year-old blogger Dagny Carlsson from Sweden enchanted audiences at the 19th annual One World Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. The documentary about her active experience of extreme old age Life Begins at 100 won this year's AVAST Foundation Audience Award. The film easily held onto first place throughout the…
Polish Days 2017 Submissions Open
Submissions are now being accepted for Polish films and projects as part of Polish Days 2017, to be held August 8-10, 2017, during the 17th T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival (August 3-13, 2017). Polish Days Polish Days, the most important industry event at the T-Mobile New Horizons International Film…
LET’S CEElebrate!
With 141 films to be shown, the programme of the fifth edition of LET’S CEE 2017 is going to be more wide-ranging than ever before. Austria’s only festival for Central and Eastern European films clearly remains on a growth path. From March 21st to 27th, 141 feature films, documentaries and…
The second edition of Industry Days is ready to kick off!
After a successful first launch last year, the upcoming 24th MFFK Febiofest Bratislava will once again host a second edition of Industry Days 2017 (March 7 - 8), a bright new event dedicated to the promotion of local film production as well as to meetings of Slovak and international film…
Filmmaking in CEE and in Austria: Meeting Tomorrow’s Challenges LET’S CEE Industry Days 2017
Please be aware that the detailed programme might be subject to alterations and amendments. Check out this page for potential changes.
goEast 2017: Hello, Gurus - Goodbye, Hate!
New Festival Section: goEast Gurus // Competitions, Awards & Juries // OPPOSE OTHERING! // Registering for Accreditation goEast GURUS With the new section goEast Gurus, goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film (to take place in Wiesbaden, Germany, from April 26th to May 2nd 2017) is opening up…
History Film Festival in Rijeka
History Film Festival, a unique international festival of historical documentary films, which will take place in Rijeka (Croatia, Europe) from September 6 to 9, 2017, aims at offering viewers and film experts an insight into contemporary film and TV production of historical documentary films, at the same time providing a…
