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goEast 2018: “Variety, Diversity and Originality in the Focus”

New Section: goEast Bioskop // Specials: Guest Appearance by Wajda School & Studio // Photo Exhibition “Swimming Pool” goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film continues to evolve in 2018 with a new section, goEast Bioskop: “With the new section, we intend to show great cinematic art without…
08-02-2018

Jiří Menzel will be awarded Berlinale Camera for his contribution to cinema

One week prior to the opening, Berlinale has announced that Jiří Menzel, renowned Czech film director and actor, will receive Berlinale Camera 2018 alongside Beki Probst and Katriel Schory. Jiří Menzel, whose artistic curriculum includes more than 20 feature films, is considered a legend of Czech cinema. Menzel’sworld-celebrated film Larks…
07-02-2018

Xavier Legrand's debute feature Custody to open Vilnius Film Festival

Every year Vilnius International Film Festival Kino Pavasaris pays great attention to emerging filmmakers and their films. The 23rd edition of the festival, taking place March 15 – 29, will be opened with France’s Xaviers Legrand’s award winning debut feature Custody (Jusqu'à la garde). Custody, the cutting-edge family drama, has…
05-02-2018

Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event announce dates; Storytek_ accelerator opens submissions for second round!

Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event have concluded another successful run, attracting nearly 600 film professionals to Tallinn and seeing the global online media reach double from 2016 results, reaching 70 million in 2017. The two Works In Progress showcases caught more attention than ever before, being attended by numerous high-profile festival…
01-02-2018

SERGEI LOZNITSA. THE DRAGON OF DRAGONS 2018

Krakow, 31st January 2018 - This year, the Krakow Film Foundation Programme Council decided to honour the eminent director of documentary films, Sergei Loznitsa, with the Dragon of Dragon award in recognition of his exceptional contribution to the development of the international cinema. The 21st laureate of this prestigious award…
31-01-2018

Message from the One World Film Festival: Do not turn off your computer. We are updating our system.

The term “fake news” was named as the famous Collins Dictionary’s official Word of the Year. Disinformation and media manipulation are amongst the greatest problems faced by the current world. Living in the information age places great demands on every individual: to differentiate between what is true and what it…
30-01-2018

NexT IFF 2018 is waiting for your film!

Send your short to NexT International Film Festival. We are getting ready for our 12th edition and we're looking out for creative and innovative short films. Our call is open for narrative films (animations included) not longer than 60 minutes, completed after January 2017. The submitted films will be taken…
29-01-2018

goEast 2018: Gearing up for Round Eighteen

Portrait of Boris Khlebnikov // Symposium: Hybrid Identities – Baltic Cinema // Prague 1968 // Virtual Reality goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film (taking place from 18 to 24 April 2018 in Wiesbaden, Germany) will set out in its 18th edition on a search for cinematic identity…
29-01-2018

TWO KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI SCRIPTEAST AWARD WINNERS IN OFFICIAL SELECTION AT BERLINALE 2018

When the Trees Fall is Ukrainian filmmaker Marysya Nikitiuk‘s debut feature. The script was developed at the 10th edition of ScripTeast with support from her Creative Advisors: Mark Peploe and Martin Stellman, and Christian Routh as Head of Studies.
26-01-2018

Three Czech Films at the Berlinale IFF

When the War Comes, Touch Me Not, Interpreter
26-01-2018

Last Call for Entries! TIFF 2018

First films for the 17th edition of the Transilvania IFF were announced. The list includes Venice Silver Lion winner, Foxtrot by Samuel Maoz, Audience award winner in Venice, Savi Gabizon’s black comedy Longing and Candelaria from director Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza. From San Sebastian comes Life and Nothing More, winner of…
16-01-2018

First Movies Confirmed for TIFF 2018

First films for the 17th edition of the Transilvania IFF were announced. The list includes Venice Silver Lion winner, Foxtrot by Samuel Maoz, Audience award winner in Venice, Savi Gabizon’s black comedy Longing and Candelaria from director Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza. From San Sebastian comes Life and Nothing More, winner of…
16-01-2018

Trieste Film Festival: the programme is online

The programme of the 29th Trieste Film Festival is online on website www.triestefilmfestival.it. Born on the eve of the fall of the Berlin Wall (the “0” edition is dated back to 1987), the Trieste Film Festival – now directed by Fabio Grosoli and Nicoletta Romeo – is the first and…
08-01-2018

Call for submissions: New Horizons International Competition — part of the New Horizons International Film Festival

The 18th edition of the New Horizons International Film Festival will take place in Wrocław, from 26th July to 5th August 2018. 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…
04-01-2018

Submissions Are Open for Meeting Point – Vilnius Industry Screenings

Attracting more than 200 film professionals, the industry conference Meeting Point – Vilnius is a part of Vilnius International Film Festival Kino Pavasaris. Submissions for debuting filmmakers as well as established directors are open until February 1st. This year in its 23rd edition, Kino Pavasaris has become a vital destination…
04-01-2018

’68 is the 1st Protagonist of the 29th Trieste Film Festival. Rebels 68. East ‘n’ West Revolution

Being the first film festival of the year has its advantages: for example being the first able to celebrate an anniversary as important as the 50th of 1968. At the 29thTrieste Film Festival, from the 19th until the 28th of January, the homage begins with the poster, which reinvents a…
03-01-2018

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival achieves 1 billion in online media reach for the first time

The 21st edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (aka PÖFF) saw the festival’s global online media reach cross the one billion mark, more than doubling last year’s result. The festival had media coverage in 70 different countries. Black Nights also set a new attendance record of 80 289…
13-12-2017

TIFF winners

Today, at the Cinema Amirani the closing ceremony of the 18th Tbilisi International Film Festival was held. British director and producer Uberto Pasolini was the head of the International Jury, while other jury members were Film Critic and a program coordinator at Seattle International Film Festival Maryna Ajaja (USA), Director…
11-12-2017

History Film Festival - Call for Submissions

We are proud to inform you that the submissions for the second edition of History Film Festival have just started. History Film Festival is a unique international festival of historical documentary films which will take place in Rijeka (Croatia, Europe) from September 5 to 9, 2018. History Film Festival aims…
08-12-2017

Fest Anča 2018: Call for Entries

Fest Anča International Animation Festival has launched a call for entries for its 2018 edition. Animated short films, student films, music videos and films for children are among the competition categories. Fest Anča will take place in Žilina, Slovakia between June 28 and July 1, 2018. Only digital copies submitted…
07-12-2017