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Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: Zero
Zero is the feature film debut of Paweł Borkowski, a creative director in an advertising agency, known in Poland for his satirical drawings in the TV supplement of "Gazeta Wyborcza."
Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: Piggies
Director Robert Gliński's dark tale of youth, Piggies, is based on a true story.
13th International Documentary Film Festival Jihlava 2009
For the thirteenth time Jihlava IDFF brings to Vysočina region the most important points of the present and the past of documentary cinema. The festival competitions embody the decissive part of the Festival. Czech joy offers a journey through the Czech documentary landscape. Opus Bonum presents the most interesting documentaries…
Festivals: First Polish online documentary festival
Users of iplex.pl, the first Polish online cinema, will be able to watch over 60 documentaries free during the online festival DocBoat, launching September 4.
Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: Happy Aphonia
In his new film, Happy Aphonia Jan Jakub Kolski looks at the art of wrestling and goes back to begginings of cinema.
Festivals: Hungarian films conquer Montreal
Four Hungarian feature films and three shorts are screening at the Montreal Film Festival.
Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: All That I Love
Jacek Borcuch tackles one of the most important moments in Polish history with a moving coming of age story in his new drama All That I Love.
Spotlight on Gdynia Polish Film Festival: Case Unknown
One of the most awaited titles this year in the Gdynia Polish Film Festival competition is Case Unknown, a new movie from the renowned Polish director Feliks Falk.
DOCBOAT - Warsaw Nonfiction e-fest
On July 24 the submissions for the first edition of the Internet documentary festival DOCBOAT/WARSAW NONFICTION E-FEST were closed. The festival starts in September (www.iplex.pl). We received a lot of movies from around the world. They are very enjoyable to watch, but we must also prepare ourselves for the difficult…
Festivals: Miskolc announces line-up
The Miskolc International Festival of Young Filmmakers (CineFest) (www.cinefest.hu) has announced its festival program.
Festival: Krisztina Esztergályos wins Silver Leopard in Locarno
The Variations, a 28 minute diploma short from director Krisztina Esztergályos has won the Silver Leopard in Locarno.
Romanian IFF announces new plans
The former Bucharest International Film Festival has changed its name to the Romania International Film Festival and will be held September 27-October 4 in Arad.
Festivals: Gdynia announces line-up
The Polish Film Festival in Gdynia announced that Janosik by Agnieszska Holland and Kasia Adamik will be among the 22 films in competition, while Jasek Bromski offered to place his latest comedy, God's Little Village, in the panorama section.
ERA signs agreement with Cottbus
ERA New Horizons and the Cottbus film festival have established an ongoing collaboration in preparation for a Polish focus at the 2009 Cottbus festival.
FESTIVALS: Two Rivers Festival Brings Films to Cinema Hungary Audiences
The third edition of the Two Rivers Festival in the picturesque Polish village of Kazimierz brought a first class selection of Polish and international films to audiences who obviously have a thirst for cinema.
FESTIVALS: Hunger wins ERA's top prize
Hunger, the multiple-award-winning film debut of the famous visual artist Steve McQueen, has won the Grand Prix with an award of €20,000 of the ERA New Horizons International Competition.
Cottbus To Cooperate With Wroclaw
In the future, the FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema, will cooperate with the Film Festival Wroclaw, specifically in the mutual presentation of festival films.
34th Polish Film Festival - Film music concerts
For many years Gdynia Festival has been accompanied by film music concerts. The exceptional connection of the oldest and the youngest Muse attracts both music and cinema lovers. On 17 September 2009 in Teatr Miejski in Gdynia we will have an opportunity to listen to a concert entitled "Four Tenors…
ERA fest hosts Polish-Swedish Film Meetings
Eight film productions by Polish and Swedish producers are wrapping up three days of meetings at the ERA New Horizons film festival in Wroclav.
FNE at Pula FF: Pula Film Festival Showcases Growing Croatian Film Production: Pula Festival Winners
The 56th edition of the Pula Film Festival in Croatia (18-25 July) presented a programme that highlighted the first crop of new films produced under the new funding scheme that also saw the creation of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC) (www.havc.hr).