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connecting cottbus 2021: AWARD WINNERS
While the East-West co-production market connecting cottbus (coco) is still in full swing, the award winners of this year’s hybrid edition were just announced.
Cult film meets contemporary cinema – The 31st FFC presents exciting film couples from Slovakia
Films have been made for the cinema in Slovakia for 100 years! Reason enough to look into the history and present of an unusual film country. The FFC compares cult films from the 1960s with current works - in exciting pairs of long and short films from Slovakia.
Kids Kino Lab - Scholarship programme for script consultants and a young producer. Apply now!
The applications for the Kids Kino Lab scholarship programme are open! Apply now and become a part of the Kids Kino Lab family.
Submit your projects to the East Doc Platform 2022
Submit your factual series, feature length and interactive projects to the 11th edition of East Doc Platform which will take place in Prague March 26 – April 1, 2022! The deadline is November 19, 2021. The East Doc Platform is the largest co-production, funding and distribution platform tailor-made for Central…
Slovenian film in focus for the second time at the MedFilm Festival in Rome
MedFilm is the oldest film festival in Rome, whose 27th edition will take place between 5 and 14 November 2021. This year, the festival that showcases the cinematographies from the Mediterranean region will be held in a hybrid format: in four cinemas and on the MyMovies online platform. Slovenian cinema…
Svaneti Residence Announces Call
This year, within the 1st Svaneti International Film Festival, script development residence was founded, which will last 20 days. Young directors that are working on their first or second projects including feature films, animation or documentary projects (script development, montage).
Croatian titles at festivals in B&H, Serbia and Slovenia
collage of films screening at festivals in BiH, Belgrade and Ljubljana, clockwise, scenes from: Murina, Tune Up, Heavens Above, Once We Were Good for You, A Blue Flower This year’s 15th Mostar Film Festival, held 28th October – 1st November, to present eight Croatian titles. The Free Zone Film Festival…
Celebrating 10 years of dok.incubator at Ji.hlava IDFF
12 films at Sundance, 29 at IDFA and even a nomination for Academy Awards! Over the past 10 years dok.incubator workshop has been working with outstanding documentaries, contributed to 150 films and led many of them to awards at the world's top festivals. This year's anniversary will be celebrated naturally…
CICAE announces ambassadors for its European Arthouse Cinema Day 2021
The sixth edition of the European Arthouse Cinema Day is set to take place in over 600 cinemas across the world on Sunday, 14 November 2021.
The first Slovenian film retrospective in China
From 28 October to 4 November, the first retrospective of Slovenian films shot between 1956 and 2020 will take place in China. A total of six Slovenian feature films will be screened. The retrospective will open in the Chinese capital of Beijing, at the local Film Archive. All films will…
Various Croatian titles at Cottbus Film Festival; domestic projects in industry programme
Five Croatian films and two minority co-productions will appear in various programme sections at the 31st edition of the Cottbus Film Festival. In addition, two Croatian projects will be presented at the co-production market and networking platform, Connecting Cottbus.
Five Short Films Nominated for the European Film Awards 2021
On the occasion of the 34th European Film Awards on 11 December, the European Film Academy proudly announces the nominations for the award category EUROPEAN SHORT FILM 2021.
The winner of the 47th IFF EKOFILM is the Polish film The Whale from Lorino // Slovak film The Golden Land wins the Festival President's Award
BRNO/Czech Republic – A dangerous tug-of-war for survival in an almost fantastical landscape full of whaling traces, but also the hope of saving a nearly extinct bird or the hope that comes from people pulling together in a threatening situation. These are the themes of the competing films that won…
What's Slovak in Ji.hlava 2021
Dear colleagues and friends, Two Slovak films, Lines (d. Barbora Sliepková) and Ordeal (d. Zuzana Piussi), will world premiere at the 25th edition of Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (26 – 31 October 2021) which will also showcase work of Karol Plicka, a pioneer of Czech-Slovak documentary cinema.
Czech films at Ji.hlava IDFF 2021
Opus Bonum, the international competition of the IDFF Ji.hlava 2021, will present world premiere of one Czech film - Out in Force by celebrated documentarist Martin Mareček, who made a portrait of Czech film critique Kamil Fila whose desire to achieve the greatest physical strength contrasts with moments of complete…
WEMW launches the brand-new Slate Market and opens call for all works-in-progress sections!
After announcing the call for its upcoming 12th Co-Production Forum, taking place both in Trieste and online between 24-28 January 2022, WEMW now opens the calls for an exciting first edition of the Slate Market and for all the sections targeting feature fiction films and full-length documentaries in post-production!
Eurimages - And the Audentia Award winner is ...
Strasbourg, 18.10.2021 – The Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund and Montreal’s Festival du nouveau cinéma are pleased to reveal the name of the winner of the sixth edition of the prestigious Audentia Award for Best Female Director: Florence Miailhe for her first feature-length animation The Crossing. The film about two…
Oscars: On the Water - The Estonian Entry for The Best International Feature Film at the 2022 Academy Awards
A select committee headed by Estonian Film Institute (EFI) decided by a narrow edge to represent Estonia in the race for Best International Feature Film (also known as Best Foreign Language Film) Oscars in 2022 a drama feature On the Water, directed by Peeter Simm and adapted for screen from…
WEMW 2022 | Slate Market and works-in progress sections
WEMW launches the brand-new Slate Market and opens call for all works-in-progress sections!
