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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has been selected as a consulting organisation for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (aka PÖFF) has been appointed as a consulting organisation for the 12th Asia Pacific Screen Awards to suggest nominees for the best Asian screen talents and films. The Asia Pacific Screen Awards appoints an international selection committee to choose around 40 nominees from the presented…
21st Festival of Slovenian film begins
The 21st edition of the Festival of Slovenian Film opened last night in Portorož, Slovenia, with the presentation of the 2018 Metod Badjura Lifetime Achievement Award. Introduced to honour lifetime achievement in filmmaking in 1995, the award was presented to this year’s recipient, screenwriter and director Tugo Štiglic, by Nataša…
Astra Film Festival Sibiu announces its 2018 selection - an exploration of reality in 101 top documentary films
The selection for the upcoming Astra Film International Festival, which takes places for the 25th time in Sibiu from 15 to 21 October, is now online. The program includes 101 titles, of which 56 films will participate in 5 competition sections. A total of 11 documentaries will have their world…
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event Call For Projects 2018
DEADLINE EXTENDED - CALL FOR PROJECTS! The submission deadline for Baltic Event Co-Production Market, POWR Baltic Stories Exchange, and Script Pool Tallinn has been extended until September 10, 2018! Baltic Event Co-Production Market (November 27-30), presenting the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award in the amount of 20 000 Euros, provides a…
Drifting on a tide of film stories during the 21st Festival of Slovenian film
The 21st Festival of Slovenian Film will be held in Portorož between 10 and 15 September 2018. As there seems to be no end to new creative endeavours, this year's edition of the Festival of Slovenian film will be one day longer than the previous one. Also, the festival venues…
BIAFF 2018 – International Jury and Final Line-up of Competition Sections
XIII Batumi International Art-house Film Festival will be held in Batumi during September 16-23 September, 2018, closed film submission on 5 August. Festival organizer is “Batumi Art-house ARGANI”, official partner – Batumi City Hall. BIAFF festival announces complete list of all competitions section films – Feature, Doc, shorts and its…
Warsaw Industry Days – submission for works-in-progress
The submissions are open for the Warsaw Industry Days Works-in-Progress. The organizers welcome works-in- progress that have not previously been presented at other markets or festivals until September 30, 2018. Warsaw Industry Days looks for projects from Poland (including co-productions). For the selection of Works-in-Progress, submissions are open for full…
The Films Consequences and Winter Flies at the Toronto International Film Festival
Consequences, the first film by the screenwriter and director Darko Štante, has qualified for the Discovery section of the Toronto International Film Festival, while the live-action feature coproduction Winter Flies by the Slovenian director Olmo Omerzu will be screened in the Contemporary World Cinema programme. After nine years, two Slovenian…
BIAFF 2018 announces Line-Up of Feature and Doc Films International Competition Section
XIII Batumi International Art-house Film Festival will be held in Batumi during September 16-23 September, 2018, closed film submission on 5 August. Festival organizer is “Batumi Art-house ARGANI”, official partner – Batumi City Hall.
Two Academy Award winners at the FilmFestival Cottbus
Short of three months before the 28th FilmFestival Cottbus (FFC) opens on 6 November 2018, the opening film and the majority of the programme have already been confirmed. The passing of the official submission deadline on 1 August rang in the last round of viewings and selection of potential festival…
Docu Talent Awards 2018 went to My Granny from Mars and Birthday
Emerging Producers 2019 were announced, with Chile as guest country / Ji.hlava introduces financial prizes for the winners in 2018
New Horizons Studio+ awarded projects
The ninth edition of New Horizons Studio+ took place July 27 – 30 during the 18th New Horizons International Film Festival (July 26 – August 5). Organized by the New Horizons Association and Creative Europe Desk Poland, it consisted of workshops and lectures on various aspects related to the project…
Tugo Štiglic, recipient of the 2018 Metod Badjura Lifetime Achievement Award
Jury commentary Director and screenwriter Tugo Štiglic ranks among the most widely known figures of the Slovenian youth film. As a child, he had a leading role in Valley of Peace (1956), one of the most crucial Slovenian films and one of the most successful ones beyond the country’s borders.…
Batumi will host XIII edition of BIAFF (Batumi Art-house Film Festival)
XIII Batumi International Art-house Film Festival will be held in Batumi during September 16-23 September, 2018, closed film submission on 5 August. Festival organizer is “Batumi Art-house ARGANI”, official partner – Batumi City Hall. BIAFF festival management finalized the submissions to festival. The complete program will be published by 1…
This year's edition of Polish Days took place on July 30 - August 1
Polish Days co-organized by the Polish Film Institute are the most important industry event of New Horizons International Film Festival, where industry representatives including programmers, sales agents, producers, film funds and distributors from all over the world meet to watch the latest Polish films at closed screenings. This year's edition…
Tartu Love Film Festival announces full lineup
The 13th Tartu Love Film Festival, organised by the team at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, has announced its full lineup, consisting of 11 features and three documentaries, including the Baltic premiere of the Berlinale Gold Bear winner, provoking docu-feature hybrid Touch Me Not, directed by Adina Pintilie. Tartu…
Sarajevo Film Festival generated $30,8m for local economy and has a positive effect on international perception of Bosnia and Herzegovina
An independent study on economic, cultural and social impact of Sarajevo Film Festival, conducted by Olsberg SPI, showed that the festival generated $30,8m income for the local economy, and jobs for 1.385 workers. Total economic output from the Festivals activities in 2017 amounted to $6,1m and 99 full time employees.…
Honorary Hearts of Sarajevo 2018: Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Nijaz Hastor
Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan will receive the Award in recognition of outstanding contribution to the art of film and support of Sarajevo Film Festival. Read more The Award to Nijaz Hastor, the owner and founder of the ASA Prevent Group and founder of the Hastor Foundation, is given for the…
Culture changes the world for the better. Film competition
Get inspired by the history of the Lumière brothers and make a spot of honesty in culture! The Legal Culture Foundation and the Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia announce a film competition that promotes the fair use of culture as one of the foundations of functioning in the digital…
Participants and guests of the 7th A Sunday in the Country
In 2018 A Sunday in the Country in Wrocław will take place during the 18th New Horizons IFF from July 29 till August 1st. A collaboration of Wrocław's New Horizons IFF and the European Film Academy (EFA), the 7th edition of 'A Sunday in the Country' gathers ten young film…
