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Institute of Documentary Film rounds out the slate of complex year-round activities focused on the support of East European documentary films. East Doc Platform in Prague hosted over 340 film professionals who networked, participated, tutored or observed the largest documentary industry event in the region: directors, producers, commissioning editors, sales agents, distributors, buyers, funders and film festivals representatives. In addition, the interest of broad public confirmed once...
Annually, over 5 days at the end of May, visitors can view the current year’s 170+ Competition films, screened in every corner of the village, attend Q&As, Premieres, Workshops and Discussions, enjoy family entertainment at the Tented Fringe all in the beautiful seaside town of Schull, West Cork.
The Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival is very much an ‘up close and personal’ experience. Filmmakers, directors, producers and invited guest speakers all share their expe...
The International Film Festival FEST 2013 in Belgrade has offered the greatest and most awarded films to Belgrade audience, from Hollywood productions, European productions and Serbian productions delivered to the audience at the very same level. However I may say this FEST is the saddest festival for us journalists, since we have lost our colleague and friend Dinko Tucaković (R.I.P) Serbian film director and film critic, who died just a day before FEST 2013 actually started.
But in a good...
The closing night of the 41th FEST declared winner of the competition program Europe out of Europe of the International Film Festival FEST2013 Israeli film Eagels/Nevelot directed by Dror Sabo: the Award includes a financial prize of 2000 euros. Just another successful festival records more than 90.000 tickets sold and happy audience going home.
"When Daphna Levin and I started adapting a Yoram Kaniuk's novella into a script, I thought it was a very local story, an Israeli st...
As the worldwide, preeminent discovery ground for both cinema and media innovation, Cinequest Film Festival 23 (CQFF23) unleashed record-breaking premieres and audiences, leading edge technologic innovations, and a spectacular class of Maverick Spirit Award recipients. Over o ne hundred thousand participants enjoyed 86 World and U.S. Premieres from 48 countries in world class venues. The organization that led the revolutions of digital film making, internet distribution, and digital ex...
15th TDF FILM LINE-UP, FIPRESCI JURY & SIDEBAR EVENTS
The 15th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century, part of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, presents approximately 200 films (shorts and features) by directors from all over the world, as well as a full parallel events program.
OPENING FILM
First Position by Bess Kargman, USA, 2011, 90’.
Multi-award winning documentary First Position takes us on a journey inside the w...
Only two days until Nijmegen turns into the Dutch capital of short film. Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen is ready to take off. Go Short received 2246 entries from which only 92 screen in three competitions. A fierce battle with its grand finale at the Go Short Awards.
Premieres
The upcoming edition has its fair share of premieres. From the 300 shorts that are shown no less than 54 are shown for the very first time on Dutch soil. Go Short has 5 World...
11th March 2013, London, UK: The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) today announced that it will present the first complete retrospective of the highly admired New York-based production company, Borderline Films during its 48th edition which runs June 28 – July 6th. The trio of friends that make up Borderline; Antonio Campos, Sean Durkin and Josh Mond, are one of the most innovative and respected groups of independent filmmakers and their movies, such ...
The new symbol of the FEFF, designed by Tomas Marcuzzi, pays homage to one of the most recurring and important symbols of Asian iconography.
Always keeping a keen eye on pop aesthetics, a reliable mirror of a cultural vocation that is not averse to playfulness, the Udine Far East Film Festival (April 19th to 27th) is readying itself for its fifteenth change of image. An image that, while affectionately paying all due respect to a classic dot-to-dot, aims to celebrate on...
Jaie Laplante MIFF Director
Miami International Film Festival (MIFF), produced and presented by Miami Dade College (MDC), celebrated the closing of the Festival (with one additional day of film screenings still to go) by reflecting on 138 films from 41 countries that culminated in its annual Awards Night Ceremony at the Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts.
The screening of the revealing documentary, Venus and Serena, directed by Maiken Baird & M...
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A Monumental Tribute to Indian Cinema
There have been many events in India, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the country’s film industry, and...
Sherry Lansing will be honored with the 2013 IFF Lifetime Achievement Award at the 27th Opening Night Gala of the Israel Film Festival taking place on Thursday, April 18th at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills, California. Ballad of the Weeping Spring, which was directed by Benny Torati, will have its West Coast Premiere as the festival’s opening night film that evening. The Israel Film Festival will run from April 18 through May 2 and showcase over 30 new Israeli f...
After its 2011 public relations catastrophe, Netflix is back on track with its first original television show, "House of Cards" (2013) starring Kevin Spacey, who also executive produces. About a corrupt politician in the perpetually horse-trading, if not outright venal, Washington DC, "House of Cards" is an icon for our era.
Certainly, CEO Reed Hasting would not have tried to split Netflix's fees, into one for mailorder DVDs, the other for web streami...
Arab Women's Film Festival 2013 presents: Wadjda, the first Saudi feature film by a female filmmaker, de world premiere of the Syrian film Mariam, and the presence of BAFTA-winner Jeremy Brock, screenwriter of The Last King of Scotland
From 8 till 10 March 2013, the third edition of the Arab Women's Film Festival in The Hague will take place. The Arab House of Arts organizes in cooperation with Filmhuis Den Haag and The American Book Center this unique...
With general praise for the quality of the selection, the latest edition of Fantasporto, Portugal’s leading film festival, has just ended. So much said the members of the juries of the three competitive sections (Fantasy, Directors Week and Orient Express).
“MAMA” by Andrés Muschietti in the Fantasy Competition and “PIETÀ” by Korean director Kim Ki Duk in the Directors Week, are the winners of the 33rd edi...
Animation highlights, from art-house to commercial, from cartoon to 3D, at the largest animation film festival of the Netherlands the 16th Holland Animation Film Festival will run from 20 to 24 March 2013 in Utrecht
Guest programme René Windig
René Windig, famous with Heinz, drawn with co-drawer Eddie de Jong, has created a programme for the Holland Animation Film Festival with his favourite Felix the Cat films. The programme is put togethe...
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CALL FOR ENTRIES:
The 14th annual Woodstock Film Festival (October 2-6, 2013) is NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS of independent films of all genres and lengths and in all categories Early deadline April 15. Final deadline June 7. Withoutabox extended deadlines for shorts June 14 and June 21 for features. Entry fees range from $5 - $50.
Hailed by Indiewire as "A true American Maverick Among Fests," WFF is listed as one of their TOP 50 film festiv...
Ali leads a solitary existence in a semi-basement apartment. His life is endlessly monotonous: he prepares his frugal meals, prays and then goes to sleep. His only diversion is the kick-boxing championship he’s training for. He makes a meager living by pilfering trash cans for scrap metal he hauls around town in a super-market cart. He’s plagued by memories of his home town, his family and his girlfriend. But worst of all, he’s haunted by the Ashura, which he always obser...
During 18th Vilnius International Film Festival, cinema professionals from various European countries will visit Vilnius. On March 25th-28th international industry event “Meeting Point – Vilnius” will take place for the fourth time already, aiming at Lithuanian and European cinema professionals: producers, programme managers, film festival organizers and cinema centers.
“It is a part of VIFF that is invisible to the audiences, but especially important to cinema p...
There is a cinema that is rebellious, uncompromising, unreasonable and at times brilliant. It does not have to choose between blockbuster and arthouse. A cinema, where art and genre, experiment and narrative, adherence to style and breaching of style love each other with neither snobbery nor pride. From June 4th till June 10th, it will be our guest. There will be more than 300 films from all around the world, in all genres and all film languages, with five competitions, six speci...
THE 61ST TRENTO FILM FESTIVAL will run 25 April – 8 May 2013 in Trento and Bolzano
«At last Trento Film Festival also has a symbol which represents it around the world, like all the other major film festivals». This is how Roberto De Martin, President of Trento Film Festival, presented the new logo created by the graphic design studio Plus Communication today in Trento. A blue gentian, a ‘leitmotif’ which from 2013 will accompany all ...
THE 11th ANNUAL INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF LOS ANGELES ANNOUNCES FILM LINE-UP
Highlights include Mira Nair’s THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST,
as well as MISS LOVELY, PEDDLERS, SHAHID, and SALMA
Today, the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) proudly announced its 2013 lineup of narrative and documentary features and short films for this year’s festival. The impressive program reflects the rich diversity of Indian cinema, which is celebrating its 100th Anniversary this year...
Filmmakers and producers are kindly invited to send in their film for the AFFR 2013 filmfestival before July 1, 2013. Entry is free.
We are looking for new, serious, funny, unique, classic, experimental, lighthearted or personal films about the built environment: cities, landscape and architecture. Documentaries or feature films that have never been screened on regular TV or in cinema, artistic short films or astonishing animations: films about that one particular city, or that specific bu...
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