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MIDPOINT Intensive Sofia Meetings announces selected projects
Feature film projects from Bulgaria, Serbia and Ukraine have been selected to participate in MIDPOINT Intensive Sofia Meetings 2021. Tailored exclusively for the 18th Sofia Meetings (March 17 - 24, 2021) of Sofia International Film Festival, the one-off online program welcomes three feature film projects in development. Bulgarian project LUST…
KKI Talk: Digital Transformation in Distribution
KKI Talks in March: Virtual Cinemas and parallel windows We are delighted to invite you to join us during the upcoming KKI Talks, a series of free monthly webinars for film industry professionals. This time, among our guests are Patrick O’neill from Wildcard Distribution (Wildcard projects includes the animated feature…
Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian filmmakers and scriptwriters wanted for 2021 Baltic Shorts Residency
Filmmakers and scriptwriters from all three Baltic countries are being encouraged to apply for the BALTIC SHORTS RESIDENCY, the third edition of which will take place in Lithuania from 1-20 June 2021 Now established as an important event on the Baltic film calendar, the BALTIC SHORTS RESIDENCY is an intensive…
SOFA 2021: Tbilisi Workshop Again Digital
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic SOFA – School of Film Advancement will hold its Tbilisi workshop for the second time in a digital form. With the experience of three online workshops in 2020, SOFA is putting a great effort in preparing the best possible digital performance for their participants and…
Ji.hlava Echoes & Reviving European Cinema
Echoes of Ji.hlava extended to New York, Belgium, France The Echoes of Ji.hlava IDFF are starting this week in the Czech Republic with an online showcase featuring over forty selected titles from the festival’s 2020 edition, plus a couple of new titles. This year, the Echoes will again have their…
71st Berlinale Golden Bear goes to Croatian minority co-production Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn by Radu Jude
Croatian minority co-production Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn directed by Radu Jude has won the main award at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival. The film, which had its world premiere in Berlinale’s main competition programme, is a co-production between Romania, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic and Croatia. The Croatian…
Czech Lion Awards 2020: Charlatan wins Best Feature Film
Charlatan is the main winner of the Czech Lion Awards 2020. A drama, directed by Agnieszka Holland and produced by Šárka Cimbalová & Kevan Van Thompson, won Best Feature Film, Best Director and three more categories. Six Czech Lions belong to Shadow Country, Best Documentary Feature award went to Caught…
KFF Industry: DOC LAB POLAND 2021 participants and projects announced
21 projects got selected for this year’s edition of DOC LAB POLAND organized by the Wladyslaw Slesicki Film Foundation. There are many recognized Polish filmmakers as Eliza Kubarska, Pawel Chorzepa, Piotr Bernas, Matej Bobrik among them. First session in 2021 will be held on April in Warsaw (online or in…
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn wins the Golden Bear
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn has been awarded the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival. It was announced by the Competition jury earlier today in a video presentation. Romanian-Luxembourgish-Czech-Croatian drama, directed by Radu Jude, was made with a contribution of Czech producer Jiří…
Save the Date! KKI Talk in March is all about the digital distribution
We hope you can’t wait for another KKI Talk. In March, we will focus on digital distribution, Virtual Cinemas and parallel windows. You can already save the date: 22nd March, 3-4 PM CET. Below, please find what you can expect from this session. The free registration for this session is…
The Dragon of Dragons 2021 for Piotr Dumała
Every year, the Krakow Film Foundation Programme Council grants the Dragon of Dragon award for the exceptional contribution to the development of international cinema. At the 61st Krakow Film Festival, on the 1st of June, the award will be given to Piotr Dumała – the international master of animated film…
!!Deadline extended!! Apply until 19 March 2021 to BDC Discoveries 2021
We extended our deadline, so you have one more week to apply to BDC Discoveries. New Deadline – 19th March 2021. After the challenging 2020, we are eager to continue supporting projects from the Balkans in 2021! 2020 was not easy for all of us. But we remained strong and…
This year everything stays different - FilmFestival Cottbus and connecting cottbus kick off their festival year #digitally
FilmFestival Cottbus (FFC) and the East-West co-production market connecting cottbus (coco) celebrated the official kick-off of the new festival year with the #digital East European Brunch. The international industry meeting was combined with a preview of the upcoming festival. Cozy get-togethers, interesting conversations, delicious appetizers: that's how we know and…
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival opens a year-round online cinema
Opening this month, Tallinn Black Nights (PÖFF) launches an online cinema where films can be watched all year round throughout Estonia's territory. The kick-off event will screen five films of the Women's Nights Film Festival, followed by films from the programme of the Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival.
DOCU ROUGH CUT BOUTIQUE 2021 call for entries
One more year has passed and it was definitely a challenging one! We hope you stayed healthy and that you are ready to embrace the new 2021, bringing new beginnings and opportunities to all. What we are eagerly looking forward to in 2021 is the 11th edition of Docu Rough…
Online Cinema DAFilms Launches Program of Works Selected by 11 Festivals across North and South America
Streaming service DAFilms is partnering up with 11 film festivals from across both American continents this month for a spectacular program of 12 titles hand-picked by festival programmers and directors entitled “Recommended By… Festivals”. These partner film festivals, some of the best-regarded nationally and internationally for non-fiction cinema, themselves chart…
CICAE at Berlinale EFM 2021
The evolution of the Arthouse Exhibition 3 March // 16:00 - 17:00 // via zoom (with pre-registration) and youtube The film industry is at a point of resetting. This panel, bringing together representatives of the film industry and policy makers, aims at reimagining the industry. The opening question is how…
LAUNCH OF THE NEW HORIZONS VOD PLATFORM
We are thrilled to share with you the news about the launch of the New Horizons VOD platform. The NH VOD platform is co-created by the team at the Kids Kino International Film Festival parent of Kids Kino Industry and Kids Kino.Lab. We are proud and happy that the selection…
What's Slovak in Berlin 2021?
Dear colleagues and friends, virtual Berlinale and EFM give you an opportunity to meet multiple talented Slovak filmmakers and producers while also catch up with Slovak cinema at market screenings. Berlinale Talents has two participants from Slovakia, both directors and producers: Barbora Berezňáková and Matúš Krajňák. Teodor Kuhn is participating…
Slovenia at the 71st Berlinale
This year’s 71st Berlin International Film Festival is a “hybrid event”, taking place in two stages – the online presentation of the official programme for the film industry representatives will last from 1 to 5 March; while the audiences will be able to see the selected films live between 9…
