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Can we be in safe proximity to one another? Come and find out at One World, starting today
Prague, 6 March 2019 – The 21st annual One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival starts tonight. Under the motto, “Safe Proximity,” the festival explores the subject of identity and the search for what brings us together. “Documentary films often present stories from distant corners of the world, stories…
Ji.hlava News: Emerging Producers call, film submissions, and Echoes
Emerging Producers introduced at Berlinale, new call open! Eighteen up-and-coming documentary film producers from Europe were introduced to film professionals and journalists present at the 69th Berlinale (see photo gallery). The call for applications for the next edition of EMERGING PRODUCERS was also announced in Berlin, with a deadline on…
Complete programme of VIFF Kino pavasaris
Vilnius IFF Kino Pavasaris pays tribute to Claire Denis and Djibril Diop Mambéty Touki Bouki an adventure drama by Djibril Diop Mambety The biggest film festival in Lithuania finally revealed its entire line up of 170 films that will be screened over two weeks starting March 21. Vilnius IFF has…
Experiencing injustice first-hand - One World Festival confirms other interesting guests
21st International Human Rights Film Festival One World 2019 – List of festival guests Name and Surname Date Section Short Bio Aho Kaarle 9.-10.3. producer, International competition Finnish producer. Co-founder of the production company Making Movies, which has worked on more than 60 documentaries, including the documentary, The Magic Life…
FILM MUSIC CONTEST - first international competition of film music in Slovakia
Dear colleagues and friends, We would like to inform you about the upcoming first edition of FILM MUSIC CONTEST, international competition of original film and TV music that will take place April 2 – 4, 2019 in Košice, Slovakia. FILM MUSIC CONTEST is the first ever international competition of film…
Emerging Producers 2020 - call
EMERGING PRODUCERS 2020, 8th Edition October 24 –29, 2019 / 23rd Ji.hlava IDFF / Czech Republic February 17 – 22, 2020 / Berlin / Germany Promotional and networking project presenting a new generation of talented European documentary film producers. The aim of the project is to introduce an up-and-coming generation…
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…
