BRATISLAVA: The historical drama The Auschwitz Report / Správa directed by the acclaimed Peter Bebjak is Slovakia's candidate for the 93rd Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award in the best international feature film category. The film is a Slovak/Czech/German coproduction.
SOFIA: Petar Valchanov’s and Kristina Grozeva’s Bulgarian/Greek coproduction The Father has been selected as Bulgaria’s candidate for the 93rd Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award in the best international feature film category.
Creative feature length documentary projects, docu-series and non-fiction transmedia projects from the CEE region are welcome to apply to the East Doc Platform 2021 (March 6–12). The deadline is November 13, 2020. Applying is free of charge.
APPLICATION FORM (one for all the projects)
Please, read the Guidelines before applying
Also, see the list of CEE countries eligible for submissions
The 22nd edition of East-West co-production market connecting cottbus (coco) is still underway, taking place entirely online this year from 4-6 November 2020, and announced the award winners of its two sections – feature films in development in cocoPITCH and works in progress in cocoWIP.
Institute of Documentary Film and Film New Europe are happy to announce the new collaborative project, the podcast series dedicated to the documentary film of Central and Eastern Europe: True Story.
NICOSIA: The 15th Cyprus International Film Festival, running 15 – 22 November 2020, will announce its on-site screening programme on 13 November, depending on the COVID-19 situation at that time. The festival already has an online version in place.
COTTBUS: The Bulgarian project Kiril’s Luck directed by Milena Andonova and produced by Katya Trichkova for Contrast Films was pitched at the 2020 online edition of connecting cottbus, running 4-6 November 2020.
COTTBUS: The Norwegian/Polish project Norwegian Dream, directed by Live Igor Devold and produced by Havard Wettland Gosse for Spaett Films and Bartek Glinski for Impakt Film, was pitched at connecting cottbus, which took place online 4-6 November 2020.
COTTBUS: The Lithuanian project Parade directed by Titas Laucius and produced by Klementina Remeikaite for Afterschool Production was pitched at connecting cottbus, which took place online 4-6 November 2020.
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces collaboration with three medical companies to ensure the safety of its events and guests
Festivals 04-11-2020Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) collaborates with medical companies SYNLAB Estonia and Medicum to ensure safety of its guests and venues and to test all guests coming to Tallinn from abroad. Private company Sinu Arst will help the festival with registere COVID cases.
