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18th Vilnius International Film Festival Reveals Competition Lineup

One of the biggest and most important cinema events in Baltics – Vilnius International Film Festival (Vilnius IFF) – kicks off on the 14th of March and today reveals films and filmmakers of the competition programme “New Europe – New Names”. This year festival presents 12 impressive works from Eastern…
25-02-2013

The premiere of Gangster of Love opened the 9th ZagrebDox!

Zagreb, 24 February – The ninth edition of ZagrebDox began tonight at Cineplexx Kaptol Centre cinema with the opening of the film Gangster of Love by Nebojša Slijepčević. Visitors filled all five screening rooms and tickets were still very much in demand before the opening.
25-02-2013

More than 40 Croatian documentaries at 9th ZagrebDox!

The ninth edition of ZagrebDox takes place 24 February – 3 March at Cineplexx theatre / The film programme includes more than 180 films from numerous countries / Dox events feature ten premieres of local documentaries / Around 70 directors and filmmakers arriving soon in Zagreb / ZagrebDox opens on…
22-02-2013

One World Festival Programme Is Out Now

The screenings of the One World festival films are finally scheduled and venues assigned – get ready and start planning your own programme or visit our website at www.jedensvet.cz and try our personal scheduler!
19-02-2013

Marathon screenings at TIFF 2013

The 12th edition of Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) will take place between May 31 and June 9 in Cluj-Napoca.
14-02-2013

32nd Istambul Film Festival "Meetings on the Bridge - Work in Progress" sponsored by Efes

As the sponsor of “Meetings on the Bridge” which takes place on 5-12 April, Efes will award its first monetary prize of “Work In Progress” Workshop to be organised on 10-11 April under the scope of the 32nd Istanbul Film Festival.
14-02-2013

FilmFestival Cottbus celebrates successful start into new festival season with East European Brunch

By way of awarding a total of three prizes, the FilmFestival Cottbus, together with the East-West co-production market connecting cottbus (coco), launches itself into the new festival season. During the East European Brunch hosted by the FilmFestival Cottbus, coco and the federal representation offices of the Federal State of Brandenburg…
14-02-2013

Febiofest Celebrating 20 Years

With Geraldine Chaplin, a new competition section, and in all the districts of the Czech Republic!
08-02-2013

Pardo alla carriera for Otar Iosseliani

On the occasion of the Open Doors section focus on the Southern Caucasus countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, the Festival del film Locarno will pay tribute to the Georgian director, screenwriter and editor Otar Iosseliani, awarding him a Pardo alla carriera for his extraordinary contribution to film.
08-02-2013

The 13th Istanbul Biennial Public Program - Public Alchemy

"Making the City Public" 8-10 February 2013 Taking the accessibility of civic space and debate over rights to the city as the starting point for our discussion of publicness, the first events of the public programme focus on current urban transformations in Istanbul.
08-02-2013

Czech films at film festivals and markets, February 2013

Prague, 5 January 2013 - The Czech Film Center will once again be representing the Czech film industry at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival, which will take place from 7 to 17 February. Václav Marhoul will also be in Berlin, with his new project The Painted Bird (Nabarvené ptáče).
05-02-2013

CINEFEST HUNGARY : ANOTHER 3 YEARS WITH JAMESON

The festival’s name remains the same: on 31 January the Hungarian agency of Jameson Irish Whiskey and the representatives of the Miskolc International Film Festival signed an agreement on another 3 years of cooperation. Dr. Ákos Kriza, Mayor of Miskolc and MP Katalin Csöbör were also present at the ceremonious…
03-02-2013

Biennial's public programme begins

The public programme events of the 13th Istanbul Biennial will be held between February and November 2013 with the aim of examining the ways in which publicness can be reclaimed as an artistic and political tool in the context of global financial imperialism and local social fracture. The public programme,…
31-01-2013

L’immagine e la parola, Festival spin-off, and 2013 poster

The first edition of L'immagine e la parola, the Festival del film Locarno’s spin-off event that is part of Primavera Locarnese, will take place 24-27 March 2013. The event, with Carlo Chatrian as Artistic Director, focuses on the relationships between the moving image and the written word. L’immagine e la…
30-01-2013

One World 2013 Says: Don’t Be Scared of Eggality!

The 15th annual One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival will draw attention to the recent dangerous tendencies in the Czech society. The festival’s provocative Don’t Be Scared of Eggality! is to opena discussion about growing intolerance, racism and discrimination.
30-01-2013

JURY PRESIDENT FOR ISTANBUL FILM FESTIVAL NATIONAL GOLDEN TULIP COMPETITION WAS ANNOUNCED

NATIONAL COMPETITION AWARDS WILL BE SELECTED BY JURY CHAIRED BY TAYFUN PİRSELİMOĞLU Distinguished writer-director Tayfun Pirselimoğlu will serve as the jury president of the National Golden Tulip Competition in the 32nd Istanbul Film Festival, to be organised between 30 March and 14 April by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and…
29-01-2013

LASTING awarded at SUNDANCE. Jacek Borcuch’s film also receiving great reviews!

An aching look at first love in peril, Jacek Borcuch’s Lasting shows viewers just enough of its protagonists’ bliss to make us brokenhearted at the prospect of its premature end. Fine-tuned on every level, it’s unshowy but should generate strong enough word-of-mouth to succeed at the arthouse. John DeFore, The…
28-01-2013

'Moonstone Secret' Wins at Film Festival in Bangalore

An animated film about the exploits of dog detective Lotte has won the grand prize in its category at the Children's India festival. "Lotte and the Moonstone Secret," by Heiki Ernits and Janno Põldma, took the prize in the animations category at the eighth annual festival, which is held in…
25-01-2013

What´s SLOVAK in ROTTERDAM 2013

The word has already spread, and we are happy and proud to inform you / remind you that there are TWO SLOVAK FILMS presented in the Official Selection of ROTTERDAM IFF 2013.
23-01-2013

New documentary films arriving to Zagreb: Sundance winners, Emmy winners and potential Oscar winners!

Zagreb, 17 January – For the ninth year in a row the last winter weeks take the shape of hundreds of documentaries which attract the local audience with all kinds of stories and phenomena from all four corners of the world.
21-01-2013