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100% TRANSILVANIA IFF 2011: THE COMPLETE WORKS OF LUCIAN PINTILIE

The most respected filmmaker in the history of Romanian cinema, director Lucian Pintilie, will be one of the guests of honour of the 10th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival.The festival audience & guests will be able to watch the Romanian master's complete film works – consisting in 10…
22-04-2011

CARTOON FINANCE - Scholarship

Dear professional, As you know the MEDIA programme actively supports the training of professionals from new member countries (Bulgaria, Czeck Republic, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia).To this end, CARTOON encourages applications for scholarships to its CARTOON MASTERS.The next Cartoon FINANCE will be held in…
22-04-2011

Show up on the FAF TWO RIVERSIDES!

All the time you can still put forward a films for the fifth edition of the Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES. Programming Department led by Grazyna Torbicka is waiting for the productions of feature films, documentary, animation and experimental, which during the first week of August will be presented…
19-04-2011

18th Titanic International Film Festival

Dear Friends!The awarded films of the 18th Titanic International Film Festival were announced at the festival's closing gala on 16th April.In his closing speech festival director György Horváth recalled the serious financial problems that the 18th Titanic International Film Festival had to cope with due the denial of government grants,…
19-04-2011

Haapsalu Horror Film Festival (HÕFF)

Haapsalu Horror Film Festival (HÕFF) brings hobos with shotguns, directors with axes and lots more fearsome fare to Estonia between 29th April and 1st May 2011. The city of Haapsalu will play host to weekend of gruesome gore, frightening films and devilish directors and the Haapsalu Horror Film Festival stakes…
18-04-2011

Theme and artists of the MIFF Media Forum are announced

For twelve years Media Forum has brought new media art to the Russian audience. It presented an avant-garde trend in the works of artists, performers, video artists and animation-makers experimenting with language, context and techniques of electronic and digital mass media. Theme of the Media Forum 2011 – «Expanded cinema».…
15-04-2011

TVP’s Productions Awarded in the Hugo TV Awards Competition in Chicago

Marcin Koszałka's "Declaration of Immortality" got the prestigious Silver Hugo for the Best Documentary and a TV animation series "The Storm Cloud Odyssey" by Agnieszka Sadurska received Special Mention in the category "children programming" in the 47th edition of the Hugo TV Awards in Chicago. The Gala Ceremony took place…
15-04-2011

16th Vilnius international film festival - 16 times more viewers

16th Vilnius international film festival ended with the record number of visitors. This year there were over 60 thousand film fans, who visited the biggest film event in Lithuania. This is 16 times more, than during the first festival in 1996, when festival had 4000 viewers. "The second generation of…
14-04-2011

The 30th Istanbul Film Festival Golden Tulip Jury presented to the press

THE COMPETITION EXCITEMENT HAS STARTED AT THE FESTIVAL!the 30th Istanbul fIlm festIvalInternatIonal and natIonal Golden TulIP competItIon jury has been presented to the press Since April 10, the films that are screened as a part of the 30th Istanbul Film Festival International and National Golden Tulip Competition has been introduced…
13-04-2011

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL GOLDEN TULIP JURY INTERNATIONAL GOLDEN TULIP COMPETITION JURY

Claire Denis (President)Born in 1948, in Paris. She grew up in Africa. She studied at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (now FEMIS) and was assistant director to Dusan Makaveyev, Jacques Rivette, Costa Gavras, and Wim Wenders. She is regarded as one of France's most important auteurs. She is also…
13-04-2011

33 MIFF presents: Werner Herzog retrospective

His name is usually associated with New German Cinema, a group of such directors as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge, Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta and Wim Wenders, who in 1962 reacted against the artistic and economic stagnation of German cinema in determination to build a new industry founded on…
09-04-2011

‘life in a day’ at the 51st krakow film festival opening

Krakow, 5th April 2011 - Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald invited the Internet users from all over the world to produce a film together. The result stirred a sensation in Sundance and in Berlin. A feature documentary, "Life in a Day", will open the 51st Krakow Film Festival on 23rd…
06-04-2011

Focus on dutch cinematography at the 51st Krakow film festival

Krakow, 28th March 2011 - Dutch cinematography is the special guest of the 51st Krakow Film Festival (23rd - 29th May). Each year the Festival focuses on a different national cinema with the aim of introducing documentaries from that region. The ‘Focus on...' section, showing national cinematography, has been initiated…
04-04-2011

33 MIFF presents: Sam Peckinpah

33 MIFF presents: Sam PeckinpahKathryn Bigelow and Michael Mann, Takeshi Kitano and Park Chan-wook acknowledge his influence, though he stays one of the most disputable filmmakers in history. Sam Peckinpah began his feature career in 1961. The Deadly Companions, Ride the High Country, Major Dundee, Pat Garrett and Billy the…
04-04-2011

51ST KRAKOW FILM FESTIVAL - FILMS SELECTED FOR NATIONAL COMPETITION ANNOUNCED

Krakow, 1st April 2011 - National competition of 51st Krakow Film Festival (23rd -29th May) includes 35 titles. The winner of the national competition will be awarded with the Golden Hobby-Horse.It is for the first time that feature documentaries enter the national competition. Two of them participate also in the…
04-04-2011

51st Krakow Film Festival – films selected for documentary competition announced

Krakow, 30th March 2011 - The selection for competitions of 51st Krakow Film Festival (23rd - 29th May) has ended. Films selected for the international documentary film competition has been announced in the first row.International documentary film competition was open to documentaries with a running time of 30 to 60…
02-04-2011

51st Krakow Film Festival – films selected for national competition announced

Krakow, 1st April 2011 – National competition of 51st Krakow Film Festival (23rd -29th May) includes 35 titles. The winner of the national competition will be awarded with the Golden Hobby-Horse. It is for the first time that feature documentaries enter the national competition. Two of them participate also in…
01-04-2011

MEETINGS ON THE BRIDGE 2011

In its sixth year, the Meetings on the Bridge (MoB), aims at creating a platform, a meeting point for the film industry within the frame of the 30th Istanbul Film Festival. The programme continues to bring together Turkish and European producers, directors, scriptwriters and representatives of institutions to provide the…
01-04-2011

“The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu” opens 5.New Europe Film Festival.

The 5th edition of the annual New Europe Film Festival will take place on 1-12 April at the Filmhouse in Edinburgh. This year's films come from Poland, Slovakia, Czech Rep, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia.The festival has been bringing films from the new EU member states to Edinburgh since 2007.…
01-04-2011

The winners of Vilnius International Film Festival

The winners of 16th Vilnius international film festival were announced during the official closing ceremony in the evening of March 31 in Vilnius, Lithuania. A film by Romanian director Bogdan George Apetri „Outbound" (Periferic) was announced the winner of competition programme „New Europe - new names". The statue and the…
01-04-2011