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30th FilmFestival Cottbus postponed to December 8th – 13th, 2020
Following the decision announced on October 28th, 2020 by the Federal Government of Germany to contain the coronavirus pandemic, which includes the four-week closure of all cinemas, the organisers of the FilmFestival Cottbus (FFC) have decided to postpone the 30th edition. The dual festival will take place with film screenings…
Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event reveals all titles of 2020 Works in Progress projects
18 films in production or post-production, looking for sales agents or festivals for international premiers, will be presented at the Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event Works in Progress sessions in 2020. As this year’s Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event takes place fully online, the presentations of projects taking part of Works in…
ANDREW LEVITAS' „MINAMATA” TO CLOSE THE 28TH EDITION OF EnergaCAMERIMAGE WITH JOHNNY DEPP ACCEPTING AN ACTING AWARD!
Art can imitate life’s complex and idiosyncratic stories in many ways, making them emotionally resonant for audiences throughout the world and their messages universally recognizable. But it can also heighten the terrifying mundanity of mankind’s many dark hours to the extent that the cinematic handling of the real stories about…
A Celebration of Cinema in Person and Online across Latvia - the Seventh Riga International Film Festival Concludes and Announces the Winners
The seventh Riga International Film Festival (RIGA IFF) ended on Sunday 25 October. This year, the festival lineup consisted of 129 films in 10 thematic programs and was presented in a new format – films were available for viewing in person as well as online across Latvia. Viewers in Riga,…
Script Pool Film and POWR Baltic Stories Exchange have selected their 2020 projects
The initiatives of Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, Script Pool Tallinn and POWR Baltic Stories Exchange focusing on scriptwriting, announced selected projects - including participants from Chile, Turkey, Faroe Islands, Spain, Russia as well as Nordic and Central European countries, attending the programmes this year.
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces the complete lineup of the Official Selection – Competition
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) adds 17 films to the previously announced eight, with five of the new films having their world premieres in the Official Selection – Competition of the 24th edition of the festival. Adding five world, eleven international and two European premieres to the selection, the…
PÖFF Shorts National Competition 2020 revealed
Record number of Estonian entries received in first year PÖFF Shorts becomes an Academy Award qualifier 24 fiction, animation and documentary shorts from Estonia over four programmes will make up the 2020 PÖFF Shorts National Competition. The four programmes mark the largest number of Estonian shorts ever screened in competition…
Black Nights Stars 2020 are now announced
Black Nights Stars, the initiative of the Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event, has announced eight young actors from the Baltic Sea region to participate in the programme this November, also inviting young talents from Russia to attend for the first time within the RUSSIA IN FOCUS program. The Black Nights Stars…
EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2020 DOCUMENTARY SHORTS AND FEATURES COMPETITIONS' LINE-UPS!
We announce the line-ups of two of this year's EnergaCAMERIMAGE Competitions: Documentary Shorts Competition 2020 Documentary Features Competition 2020 The aim of the Documentary Shorts Competition is to recognize the art of documentary filmmaking as creative interpretation of reality. Putting emphasis on the visual and aesthetic aspects of the selected…
Awards of the 36th Warsaw International Film Festival
36th Warsaw Film Festival awards announcement was made on Saturday afternoon, October 17th, 2020, at Multikino Złote Tarasy in Warsaw. INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION Jury: Liana Ruokyte-Jonsson, Lithuania Robert Gliński, Poland Visar Morina, Kosovo / Germany gave the following awards: Warsaw Grand Prix: 18 Kilohertz by Farkhat Sharipov, Kazachstan Best Director Award:…
The winner of the 46th EKOFILM International Film Festival is the Russian film „Sockeye Salmon. Red Fish.“
The Festival President‘s Award goes to „Unrestrained Virgin Forest“ Breathtaking shots, topical issues, inspiration, optimism and chills from trying to answer the question if we, as a human beings, will ever learn. Each of the five winning films of the 46th EKOFILM International Film Festival triggered some of these feelings…
PÖFF Shorts announces International Competition titles for 2020
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival sub-festival announces 115 titles across five different competition as PÖFF Shorts (17th-25h November 2020) celebrates its first year of being an Academy Award qualifying festival. The 2020 edition of PÖFF Shorts, an official sub-festival of the A-List Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, has revealed the…
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) announces the First Feature Competition lineup for 2020
The festival has selected 18 films in competition and three out of competition, coming from many corners of the globe to be screened at the hybrid edition of the 24th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Featuring ten world premieres, seven international and one European, the programme embodies the festival’s mission…
From the butt in the backyard to the passion of the wastepaper collector – Short Film and U18 Youth Film Competition of the 30th FFC
From the butt in the backyard to the passion of the wastepaper collector – the Short Film Competition and the U18 Youth Film Competition of the 30th FilmFestival Cottbus Down-to-earth attitude mixed with poetry – alongside the international Feature Film Competition, FilmFestival Cottbus presents the Short Film Competition and the…
Kids Kino.Lab. 10 days left to submit your project!
The final deadline to submit an application for the Kids Kino.Lab, script development programme for film projects and TV series for young audiences, is approaching. We wait for the applications until October 23rd. Submit your project here. Who are the workshops for? We are looking for teams: producer + scriptwriter…
Competition sections of the 24th Ji.hlava IDFF
The 24th Ji.hlava IDFF kicks-off in two weeks! Despite the recent forced shift of the event to digital space, the full-fledged festival programme with over 59 world and 26 international premieres remains. What can the viewers look forward to? The programme features over 220 films: from the latest of Czech…
Black Nights Film Festival announces first 8 films * Accreditations are open * The Estonia-Uganda connection * Screen's Stars of Tomorrow 2020
FIRST 8 We've announced the first 8 films of the Official Selection Six of the announced films are world premieres, as Black Nights welcomes the return of Latvian auteur Laila Pakalnina with In the Mirror; the celebrated Kazakhstan director Adilkhan Yerzhanov with Ulbolsyn; the multiple-award-winning Croatian director Dalibor Matanić with…
Moving to digital asylum – 24th Ji.hlava IDFF will be fully online
Dear friends, As a result of measures introduced by the government of the Czech Republic yesterday – which include complete closure of cinemas in the country – we were forced to move the 24th Ji.hlava IDFF to a fully online edition. Both the film selection and the rich festival’s industry…
Warsaw Film Festival celebrates its International Competition
The calling card of the Warsaw Film Festival will present seven World Premieres, seven International Premieres and one European Premiere to the local audience gathered in Warsaw, as well as the international jury. 18 Kilohertz / 18 kiloherców / 18 Kilohertz, dir. Farkhat Sharipov, Kazakhstan 2020, 82 min. The realities…
The EKOFILM festival is postponing its screenings in compliance with the new measures, but fans will be able to see part of the program online
BRNO/the CR – In response to the newly announced measures against the spread of Covid, the organisers of the 46th year of the EKOFILM international film festival are postponing the film screenings at cinemas to a later date which has yet to be determined. However, part of the promised accompanying…
