FESTIVALS: Record Submissions for 13th Fest Anča International Animation Festival
Slovakia 30-07-2020ZILINA: A total of 1,650 films from 65 countries have been submitted for the competitive sections of the 13th edition of the Fest Anča International Animation Festival, set to take place in Žilina from 27 to 30 August 2020 and the best 250 titles have been selected for the programme. The theme of this edition is The Day After.
Reel Suspects Picks up Lithuanian Debut Feature Headed for Venice’s Critics’ Week
Lithuania 29-07-2020VILNIUS: Marat Sargsyan’s first feature The Flood Won’t Come has been acquired by the Paris-based sales agent Reel Suspects. The film will have its world premiere in the Critics’ Week section of the 77th Venice Film Festival (2-13 September 2020).
Croatian minority co-productions The Barefoot Emperor and Tales from a Prison Cell to screen at this year’s 19th Transilvania International Film Festival, while the programme dedicated to established international directors will include three titles by Vinko Brešan. The festival is held 31st July – 9th August, while the screenings will take place exclusively at open-air venues in the Transylvanian city of Cluj.
The fifth edition of First Cut Lab is addressed to Polish filmmakers. First Cut Lab is a programme designed for feature fiction films in editing phase. The majority of First Cut Lab-supported films are debuts and many projects have gone on trto premiere in festivals like Cannes, Berlinale, Toronto, Karlovy Vary and San Sebastian. This year, FCL is for the first time part of the Polish Days - industry events of the New Horizons International Film Festival. The filmmakers of the three selected feature debuts can meet the experts who will share their experience.
This year’s Sarajevo Film Festival Competition programmes have been announced, which will go ahead as planned, between 14th and 21st August, both on-site and online, in line with the circumstances caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Croatian titles and Croatian minority co-productions will screen in Feature Film, Documentary, Short Film and Student Film competitions, while for several of the titles these will be world premieres. In addition, Croatian filmmakers will appear on the juries of the Feature Film and Documentary competitions.
Sarajevo Film Festival
After the qualification of the digitally restored Štiglic’s film The Valley of Peace (1956) for the 2016 Cannes Classics competition, the celebration of the 60th anniversary of its making, and its Cannes premiere, the same director’s film The Ninth Circle (1960) was the third work of his that was screened in Cannes (the first one had been the 1949 film On Our Own Land).
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CLUJ-NAPOCA: Ivana Mladenović’s sophomore feature Ivana the Terrible will screen in the Romanian Days competition at the 19th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF), running in Cluj-Napoca from 31 July to 9 August 2020. This Romanian/Serbian coproduction won the Special Jury Prize in the Cineasti del presente section of the 72nd Locarno Film Festival 2019.
CLUJ-NAPOCA: Liviu Săndulescu’s debut feature Cărturan will screen in the Romanian Days competition at the 19th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF), running in Cluj-Napoca from 31 July to 9 August 2020. The film is a Romanian/Swedish coproduction.
On Thursday 23rd of July, all three competition programmes of the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival, which is to take place between 14 and 21 August, were announced.
The selection of ten shorts includes the second professional short film by the director Sara Kern, titled Vesna Goodbye, which will thus have its world premiere at the most important festival of our region.
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KIDS KINO INDUSTRY – THE ONLY POLISH INDUSTRY EVENT CO-FINANCED BY CREATIVE EUROPE
Press releases 27-07-2020Kids Kino Industry, the international co-production film and series pitching forum which takes place in Warsaw every September is going to be fully online this year. This is the only Polish industry event to have received funding from the European Union and recognition among European experts.
Kids Kino Industry is the third component of the Kids Kino programme implemented by the New Horizons Association, recognised by the film industry in Europe. Apart from the industry event, the programme consists of two parts: Kids Kino International Film Festival (as one of the three selected Polish festivals, others being the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival and the New Horizons International Film Festival) and Kids Kino.Lab, an international programme for the development of films and series for young audiences.
