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TRIESTE: The Czech project Brotherhood directed by Francesco Montagner and produced by Nutprodukce is the winner of the 9th edition of When East Meets West, the Italian coproduction forum, which took place 20-22 January 2019 within the Trieste Film Festival.
PRAGUE: Three documentaries developed at the dok.incubator workshop have been selected for the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival 2019. Nine films made it to Sundance in the last seven years of the workshop.
Upcoming DocPoint Helsinki (28 January – 3 February 2019) included Helena Třeštíková's retrospective and Jan Gebert's When the War Comes in its programme, while DocPoint Tallin (30 January - 3 February 2019) will screen Šimon Šafránek's King Skate. Martin Páv's Vote for Kibera was selected for FIPADOC Biarritz (22-27 January 2019).
3 films developed in dok.incubator workshop are competing at Sundance Film Festival! In the last 7 years of the workshop, 9 films have been selected for Sundance. The call for our applications deadline is on the 30th of January.
World Cinema Documentary Competition
In an intimate portrait “The Disappearance of My Mother” by debuting Beniamo Barrese (IT) we witness a once-iconic fashion model striving to escape the world of images and disappear for good. But her son's determination to make a final film about her sparks a confrontation with the camera's gaze.
Another debut, “Lapü”, directed by César Alejandro Jaimes & Juan Pablo Polanco (CO) takes us on a sensory journey through the desert of La Guajira in Columbia where a young Wayuu woman exhumes her cousin's remains in order to meet her for the last time.
With remarkably intimate access Petra Costa’s “The Edge of Democracy” (BR) follows Brazil’s embattled leaders Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva as they grapple with a scandal born out of their country’s fascist past and inflamed by a furious and ideologically divided nation.
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DEADLINE: 30th January
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WARSAW: Cold War has been nominated for the Cesar Awards 2019 in the Best Foreign Film category. The prizes are awarded by France’s Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences. The gala will take place on 22 February 2019.
TRIESTE: Representatives of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC), the Friuli Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Fund and the Slovenian Film Centre announced the recipients of the 4th RE–ACT co-development funding support during the When East Meets West Co-production Forum in Trieste. Six projects were awarded 10,000 EUR each.
BUDAPEST: The Hungarian-American film producer Andy Vajna has died at 74 after a long illness, according to the Hungarian National Film Fund
BERLIN: Several films from CEE countries have been selected for various sections of the 69th Berlin International Film Festival, including the Competition. The festival runs from 7 to 17 February 2019.
Slovakia will be one of the countries in spotlight of industry platform When East Meets West (January, 20 - 22, 2019). A numerous delegation of Slovak film professionals will be representing the country at the event that is running paralely to 30th Trieste Film Festival(January 18 – 25, 2019). At the same time, the festival will introduce five Slovak films in various sections.
The 9th edition of WEMW will draw attention to the region of Central Eastern Europe,notably Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland and Ukraine, as well as Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands for the Benelux region. The aim of this regional East&West double focus is to offer the countries in spotlight a special room for the presentation of their audiovisual landscape, with the aim to strengthen collaboration between them. One of the case studies for an already existing and successful collaboration between the countries in focus will be Slovak-Ukrainian film The Line by director Peter Bebjak.
Furthermore, Slovak producer and directorPeter Kerekes will be jury member of theco-production forum. Among the 22 selected projects of this year´s edition is also feature debut by Michal BlaškoVictim. Last Stop Trieste, a work in progress section for projects in fine cut stage, will screen Polish-Slovak documentary Wind (d. Michał Bielawski, co-prod. Peter Kerekes) to an exclusive panel of international sales agents, festival programmers and TV commissioning editors.
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