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Call for Submissions to the Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival
Al Jazeera Balkans announces a Call to authors and production companies to participate in the second edition of the Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival (AJB DOC), which will take place in Sarajevo from 20th to 24th September 2019. The Festival will focus on documentary films intended for television broadcasting.
30 days left for the Astra Film Festival film submissions
The 26th edition of Astra Film Festival, the most important event dedicated to non-fiction cinema in Romania, held from October 14th-20th, 2019, awaits its film submissions in the competition sections of AFF 2019, the deadline for submitting entries being March 25th. Nonfiction film professionals have 4 weeks to complete the…
One World in safe proximity!
Identity and the various forms it takes in the globalized world of the 21st century – this is the subject explored by this year’s One World film festival under the motto Safe Proximity. In addition to its traditional competitions and thematic categories, the festival program will thus also include two…
CYPRUS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Call for entries 2019
The call for entries for Cyprus International Film Festival "Golden Aphrodite" is still open! All genres are accepted. Short films up to 20 minutes Feature films up to 120 minutes Eligible are all films produced within the last 36 months We can’t wait to see what you’ve been working on,…
The FilmFestival Cottbus and connecting cottbus kick off a festival year full of innovations
The FilmFestival Cottbus and connecting cottbus kick off a festival year full of innovations The FilmFestival Cottbus (FFC) and the East-West co-production market connecting cottbus (coco) celebrated the official start of a new festival year with their traditional East European Brunch at the 69th Berlinale. The international industry meeting serves…
Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award to Pawel Pawlikowski
During the 25th anniversary edition, the Sarajevo Film Festival will pay tribute to director Pawel Pawlikowski and honour him for his outstanding contribution to the art of film and his lasting friendship with the city of Sarajevo and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The acclaimed director will be presented with the Honorary…
26th edition of the Prague International Film Festival – Febiofest 2019
26th Prague IFF – Febiofest to honour Oscar-winning director Bille August This year the Prague International Film Festival – Febiofest will once again deliver a broad range of contemporary world cinema, as well as bringing a number of noteworthy filmmakers to Prague. As well as going to Czech actress Jiřina…
Homo Homini Award for 2018 goes to Francisca Ramírez from Nicaragua
People in Need to present the prestigious Homo Homini Award for 2018 to Nicaraguan farmer Francisca Ramírez “It’s an honor for us, our families, and our country,” says Francisca Ramírez – leader of a Nicaraguan democratic movement whose determination to stand up against land appropriation and an authoritarian regime has…
Macedonian documentary Honeyland wins top prizes at Sundance
Macedonian documentary Honeyland directed by Ljubo Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska won the World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in the United States in the world documentary competition out of 12 documentaries from around the world.
SAVE THE DATE FOR 26th MFFK FEBIOFEST
Dear colleagues and friends, we are glad to announce that the 26th edition of International Film Clubs Festival Febiofest (March 20 – 26, 2019) is approaching! The festival is proud to announce a newly launched partnership with educational platform Visegrad Film Forum (March 19 – 23, 2019).
Identity, certainty, security. The One World documentary film festival goes in search of the things that bring us together
Who am I and where do I belong? At a time of political crises, in a divided society and on the threshold of irreversible climate change, finding an answer to this question is becoming ever more difficult. We thus all the more urgently feel the need to find our own…
“Brotherhood” wins the 2019 edition of When East Meets West
The Czech project “Brotherhood” is the winner of the ninth edition of When East Meets West. The project directed by Francesco Montagner and produced by Pavla Janouskova Kubeckova (Nutprodukce) is the story of three adolescent sons of a radical Salafi preacher, facing their father's sentence for terrorism, questioning their believes…
MEETING POINT - VILNIUS 2019 Call for entries for MPV COMING SOON SECTION and INDUSTRY SCREENING PLATFORM
Coming Soon section DEADLINE: February 6, 2019 It is now open the call for application for the 2019 edition of COMING SOON, the Work In Progress section dedicate to debut films from all over Europe. 20 projects will be selected for the pitching session that will take place in Vilnius…
We announce the date of the next Festival Two Riversides
July 27th – August 4th is the time when every cinema lover should put down in their calendars. For the 13th time already we invite you to Film and Art Festival Two Riversides to Kazimierz Dolny and Janowiec nad Wisłą. Festival Two Riversides is an international cultural event, which connects…
26th Prague IFF – Febiofest to get underway 21 March 2019
The Prague International Film Festival – Febiofest will deliver the best of contemporary international and Czech cinema for the 26th time this year, presenting over 150 films in 16 sections. After the Prague part it will again head to cinemas throughout the Czech Republic.
Call for submissions: New Horizons International Competition 2019
The 19th edition of the New Horizons International Film Festival will take place in Wrocław, from 25th July to 4th August 2019. The New Horizons International Competition — a platform where artistic cinema that extend the boundaries set by conventional filmmakers is presented — remains the core element of the…
Cinema of Small Nations Competition Valletta Film Festival 2019
Rules and Regulations for Film Submissions Valletta Film Festival is an annual event held in June at the capital city of Valletta on the Mediterranean Island of Malta. Over 40 feature films and twenty four short films are screened annually at various indoor and outdoor venues around the city. The…
Valletta Film Festival’s Competition to Focus on Cinema of Small Nations
Pjazza Teatru Rjal to showcase high-quality productions including festival winners, cult pictures and restored films. Films originating from thirty-four small nations in Europe, Middle East and North Africa will be the only productions eligible to participate in the competitive strand of Valletta Film Festival. The first edition of this competition…
Documentary Workshop 2019 Guidelines
The first documentary workshop organised by Valletta Film Lab will happen between Monday 18 and Saturday 23 March 2019. Directors/writers residing in Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, Georgia, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Moldova, Norway, Northern Ireland, San…
Film Grain Foundation Launches Valletta Film Lab
Film Grain Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of VALLETTA FILM LAB, a training and development platform open to filmmakers from Malta and other European small nation states. The platform, the first of its kind in Malta, is being set up with the financial support of Arts Council Malta…
