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Awards of the 21st Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
The awards of the 21st Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival are presented at the Award Ceremony of the festival held in the Russian Theatre in the evening of the 2nd of December. OFFICIAL SELECTION Jury members: Dennis Davidson, Zeynep Atakan, Graziano Diana, Ivo Felt, Zygmunt Krauze, Naoko Ogigami, Laila Pakalnina…
Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event 2017 awards announced
At at ceremony in Tallinn tonight the 2017 awards of Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event were presented.
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival launches new initiative to boost creative industries
This year sees the launch of Creative Gate - a platform designed to increase the visibility of the Estonian creative sector and help it explore new opportunities for growth and export. A number of Estonian organisations in the field of film, culture, fashion, art and education have joined to create…
Developments of the film and audiovisual field discussed at the visionary conference in Tallinn
On 27 and 28 November, representatives of film and audiovisual field, experts, policymakers and visionaries will gather in Tallinn for the international visionary conference to discuss topical issues of the European media and film industry. The conference is organised within the framework of the Estonian Presidency of the EU Council,…
PÖFF Shorts announced winners for 2017
2017 saw two sub-festivals of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) – Animated Dreams and Sleepwalkers – join forces under one banner PÖFF Shorts, which ran from 21st-26th November, became the newest festival in the Baltics dedicated to short films and animation. At an award ceremony held in Tallinn's Kino…
The Film Garage: last chace to apply
The Film Garage is a story development workshop created by Scuola Holden(Italy), focused on genre movies (thriller, sci-fi, horror, crime, black comedy and road movies). 12 selected scripts which suffer from using cliché in an unimaginative way will benefit of an expert's eye to work on these problems. Click here …
Seven actors selected for the first edition of Screen Stars Tallinn
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and Industry@Tallinn announce participants of the new Screen Stars Tallinn initiative are announced - seven up-and-coming actors from Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland and Germany. Screen Stars Tallinn is a three-day lab and talent showcase for young actors from the Baltic Sea Region, launched this year…
11th Five Flavours Asian Film Festival winners revealed
The People's Jury of the 11th Five Flavours Asian Film Festival has awarded the Grand Prix of the Festival to "Free and Easy" (Hong Kong 2017) directed by Geng Jun. The 3500 euro award was founded by the Polish Film Institute. The Special Mention goes to "KFC" (Vietnam 2017) directed…
Fest Anca 2018 - Call for Entries
Fest Anca International Animation Festival has just opened its call for 2018 entries. Our webpage has all the info you need about our free submission process. Registration is open until February 25, 2018. Only short animated films and music videos created after January 1, 2016 can be accepted for competition.…
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces two Lifetime Achievement Award winners
Estonian actor Tõnu Kark and Finnish director and producer Jörn Donner to receive honorary Lifetime Achievement Awards. 84-year-old Jörn Donner is a renowned Finnish film director and producer, who has produced nearly 60 films, including Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny And Alexander, winner of four Academy Awards in 1984, including the Best…
CAMERIMAGE 2017 WINNERS!
MAIN COMPETITION Golden Frog: On Body and Soul cin. Máté Herbai dir. Ildikó Enyedi Silver Frog: Lovelesscin. Mikhail Krichmandir. Andrei Zvyagintsev Bronze Frog: First They Killed My Fathercin. Anthony Dod Mantledir. Angelina Jolie*** *** *** FIPRESCI AWARD The International Critics Prize to the director of the best film in the…
7. Malatya International Film Festival Closes
Pomegranate Orchard by Ilgar Najaf gets the Best Film Award in the International Competition; Daha/More from Onur Saylak wins the Best Film Award in the National Competition.
Malatya International Film Festival 2017: COUNTDOWN TO THE AWARDS NIGHT - PANEL OF THE TWO AMBITIOUS FILMS FROM THE COMPETITION: “BUGDAY” AND “DAHA”
15.11.2017 - As the closing ceremony and awards night is near, the excitement of the film teams increases. Today, after the second screening of Bugday by Semih Kaplanoglu, the director answered questions about his strong film.
Malatya International Film Festival 2017: FIRST SCREENING OF “THE BLUE-VEILED”’S RESTORED VERSION IN MALATYA FILM FESTIVAL AFTER 24 YEARS!
15.11.2017 - Rakhshan Banietemad, one of the most important directors of Iranian cinema, was one of the valuable international guests of MIFF this year. The festival is presenting her the Honorary Award on the closing ceremony night which will be held on the 16th of November 2017.
Awards of the 19th Bratislava IFF 2017
FICTION COMPETITION FICTION COMPETITION JURYJean-Marc Barr, USAKatarína Krnáčová, Slovakia Bojan Vuletić, Serbia Prize for the Best Fiction Film Men Don´t Cry / Muškarci ne plaču(directed by Alen Drljević, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Croatia, Germany, 2017) The theme of this year’s edition of the Bratislava International Film Festival was the art…
Malatya International Film Festival 2017: PANEL: IRANIAN FILM BLOCKAGE (Sade Ma'bar) TEAM ANSWERS THE QUESTIONS
14.11.2017 – As the end of the festival is near, one of the assertive competing films in the International Competition this year, “Blockage” was met with the audience. After the screening of the Iranian film, director Mohsen Gharaei and the leading actor Hamed Behdad was ready to answer the questions…
Malatya Internationa Film Festival 2017: An Interview with Kim Dong-Ho
A pioneer, a visioner, an entrepreneur… A man who changed the face of South Korean cinema. As this year marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Turkey and South Korea, a section called “60 Years of Friendship” has been included in the 7th Malatya International Film…
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival will be collecting donations for development of the festival
The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF), one the fifteen FIAPF-accredited competitive film festivals in the world which will be held for the 21st time this year, will be collecting donations for development of the festival in addition to the support from businesses, the state, and the local government. One…
Black Nights Film Festival introduces the lineup of the new programme Rebels With A Cause
The new section, dedicated to films that are experimental or unconventional in form or style, is a competition programme with an audience award. The first edition will see 10 films, with one having its world and another its international premiere. The selection includes the world premiere of Riga (Take One) …
Call for entries Transilvania IFF 2018
Submissions are now open for the 17th edition of Translvania International Film Festival, which will take place between May 25th – June 3rd, in the city of Cluj, Romania. The registration system works through the platform Eventival.eu. The guidelines and the entry online form can be found here: https://vp.eventival.eu/tiff/2018 Please…
