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CALL FOR ENTRIES CYPRUS FILM DAYS 2016 14th International Festival 15/4/2016 - 24/4/2016

Call for entries for the International Competition Section «Glocal Images» Submission of films The Ministry of Education and Culture and Rialto Theatre announce that the Call for Entries for the 14th Cyprus Film Days International Festival 2016, is now open. The Festival, now in its 14th edition, will host for…
11-12-2015

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival breaks attendance record, sparks sales deals

The 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (BNFF) broke last year’s attendance record of 77,500 with a total of 80,066 admissions. Audience enthusiasm has also prompted three deals on Tridens First Features Competition title Loev, directed by Sudhanshu Saria, to be signed less than 10 days after the festival. Filmmaker…
10-12-2015

ISTANBUL FILM FESTIVAL WILL CELEBRATE ITS 35TH ANNIVERSARY IN 2016

A NEW COMPETITION IN FESTIVAL: NATIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION Launched as a film week 35 years ago by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), Istanbul Film Festival, being not only the longest-running film festival in Istanbul but also the largest-scale film event in Turkey, will celebrate its 35th…
03-12-2015

Tallinn Black Nights awards winners

The 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival is announcing the following winners at its black carpet Awards Ceremony tonight at Nordea Concert Hall. The fest will run for two more days of screenings.
28-11-2015

Tbilisi International Film Festival press release

On 30th of November at 19:30 in cinema “Amirani” the 16th Tbilisi International Film Festival will be opened with a premier of the film by Levan Tutberidze - “Moira”. The film tells us the story of a family living in a seaside city. After Mamuka is released from prison, he…
27-11-2015

Opening Session of “Directors Looking Forward“ Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

The opening session of new FERA strand Directors Looking Forward held at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival heard about the importance of directors taking greater responsibility for the fate of their films in the new, emerging distribution landscape.
20-11-2015

"THE DYBBUK" AT IDFA 2015

"The Dybbuk. A Tale of Wandering Souls", feature length documentary by Krzysztof Kopczyński is a 2015 Polish-Swedish-Ukrainian co-production about a conflict between orthodox Jews and Ukrainian nationalists in a city of Uman, Ukraine. The film has already been screened and awarded at 9 festivals around the world. Now “The Dybbuk”…
19-11-2015

European Film Forum Tallinn wraps

At the 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, the European Film Forum Tallinn wrapped its two-day conference last night (19 November) marking the first European Film Forum on the Digital Single Market (DSM) initiative where not only filmmakers, sales agents and policymakers came together, but also tech industry professionals and…
19-11-2015

Baltic Event’s first Eurimages award goes to Lithuania

The Baltic Event award ceremony was this year held in Tallinn Teachers’ House in the historic Town Hall Square. Industry@Tallinn, the label under which Baltic Event collaborates with Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Industry Office, brought over 370 film industry professionals to Tallinn on November 16-19. Over five categories, 57…
18-11-2015

European Film Forum kicks off digital debate in Tallinn tomorrow

The debate on the future of Europe’s film and content industries will kick off tomorrow in Tallinn at the historic Theatre NO99 with the year’s last yet largest edition of the European Film Forum conferences. Titled #Digital Future of Film? the two-day conference programmed by the Black Nights Industry Office…
17-11-2015

ANIFILM REMINDER - CALL FOR ENTRIES

The deadline for submissions to ANIFILM, International Festival of Animated Films 2016, is approaching! Only two months leave to submit your films made after January 1st 2015 to following categories:
16-11-2015

Industry@Tallinn Starts In Four Days

European Film Forum Tallinn programme and line-up announced The main programme and speakers line-up of the European Film Forum Tallinn has been announced. To be held 18-19 November in Theatre NO99, the executive-level summit titled #Digital Future For Film, organised with the support of the European Commission, will see some…
13-11-2015

13th Zagreb Film Festival Kicks Off This Saturday

The 13th Zagreb Film Festival (November 14-22) kicks off this Saturday night with the screening of Grímur Hákonarson's Rams. The Cannes Un Certain Regard Award and nominee for European Film 2015 at the EFAs is among 12 other films in the competition for Golden Pram for Best Feature Film and…
12-11-2015

Tallinn Black Nights announces line-ups of Digitech Corner, Undiscovered Soundscapes, and IGDA GameJam

The 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival is announcing details of three exciting sidebars in the Industry@Tallinn event - Black Nights Digitech Corner, IDGA GameJam and Undiscovered Soundscapes. Digitech Corner (Nov 18-19) is a showcase of Nordic startups and audiovisual technology and content enterprises, while the pioneering IGDA Gamejam 2015…
02-11-2015

Call for Entries for the Festival of Migrant Film 2016

Ljubljana, 28th October 2015 We would like to share with you the news that the international Call for Entries for the 7th edition of the Festival of Migrant Film is open until 31st December 2015! International filmmakers, video artists and activists are invited to submit their films and video works…
30-10-2015

13th ZFF Program Presented

Thirteen debut or second films competing for the Golden Pram ▪ Competition includes films from all over the world, from Scandinavia to Oceania ▪ Czech Republic and Iceland appear with black humour dramas about families in crises, and Latin America is represented by powerful Venice Film Festival winners From Afar…
30-10-2015

Sofia IFF 2016: 5 DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT FOREIGN FILMS!

You are welcome to submit your films online. Terms & Conditions and Submission form are available on https://vp.eventival.eu/siff/2016 Deadline for foreign entries: November 1st, 2015Deadline for Bulgarian entries: December 15th, 2015Deadline for Jameson Short Film Award Competition: January 15th, 2016 20th Sofia International Film Festival 2016 International Feature Film Competition…
29-10-2015

Animated Dreams festival discloses the International Competition shortlist on International Animation Day

Today, when the world celebrates the International Animation Day, the Animated Dreams festival proudly discloses the official selection of the International Short Animation Films Competition. The Black Nights Film Festival’s (www.poff.ee) subfestival Animated Dreams takes place this year from 18 to 22 November in Tallinn, Estonia, in cinemas Sõprus and…
28-10-2015

BE Co-Production Market Reveals 2015 Selection

The 14th edition of Baltic Event presents 12 feature film projects in development in its Co-Production Market category. Beginning in 2015, the selected projects from the Baltics, Scandinavia, Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Ukraine, compete for the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of 20 000 Euros. In other sections, Baltic…
21-10-2015