The 12th Tartu Love Film Festival, aka TARTUFF, the biggest open air film festival in the Baltics has announced its full lineup. This year's programme is made up of 13 features and 5 documentaries. 

The feature programme includes Keep the Change directed by Rachel Israel, which won several awards at Karlovy Vary and Tribeca this year; another Tribeca award winner The Divine Order by director Petra Biondina Volpe; the winner of the Un Certain Regard Best Actress Award (Jasmine Trinca) at this year’s Cannes Fortunata by director Sergio Castellitto; the 2016 festival circuit hit Welcome to Norway!, directed by Rune Denstad Langlo and the 2015 Academy Award nominee Tanna, directed by Martin Butler and Bentley Dean. The two classics to be screened are Léon: the Professional (1994) directed by Luc Besson and Moulin Rouge (2001) by Baz Luhrman.

The documentary programme is headed by Matt Tyrnauer’s Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (2016) and the Berlinale Generation Kplus jury Grand Prix winner Becoming Who I Was (2017), directed by Moon Chang-Yong, Jeon Jin.

The Tartu Love Film Festival, aka TARTUFF, which is organised by the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival team, takes place from the 7th until the 12th of August. Tartu, the so-called Southern Capital of Estonia, is the second largest city in the country and is situated on shores of the scenic river Emajõgi.
 
The festival venues include the 1500-seated open air theatre on the Town Hall Square which starts screenings at sunset – 10 pm - and the Athena Theatre where the documentary programme screenings will take place. All screenings are free of charge and more than 90% of the films have English subtitles.
 
The festival, dedicated to films about love in all its colours, forms and manifestations, has a feature and a documentary programme.

The full feature programme lineup:
The Art of Loving. Story of Michalina Wislocka / “Sztuka kochania” - dir Maria Sadowska, Poland, 2017
Bad Lucky Goat – dir Samir Oliveros, Colombia, 2017
Being Charlie - dir Rob Reiner, USA, 2015
The Divine Order / Die göttliche Ordnung – dir Petra Biondina Volpe, Switzerland, 2017
Fortunata – dir Sergio Castellitto, Italy, 2017
Keep the Change – dir Rachel Israel, USA, 2017
Léon: the Professional / Léon – dir Luc Besson, France, 1994
Moulin Rouge – dir Baz Luhrman, Australia, USA, 2001
Permission – dir Brian Crano, USA, 2017
Rock’n Roll – dir Guillaume Canet, France, 2017
Tanna – dir Martin Butler, Bentley Dean, Australia, 2015
Welcome to Norway! – dir Rune Denstad Langlo, Norway, 2016

+ a children’s film:
Raven the Little Rascal – The Big Race / Der kleine Rabe Socke – das grosse Rennen – dir Sandor Jesse, Ute von Münchow-Pohl, Germany, 2015

The full documentary programme linup:
#SINGLE – dir Andrea Eder, Austria, 2017
Barbecue – dir Matthew Salleh, Australia, 2017
Becoming Who I Was – dir Moon Chang-Yong, Jeon Jin, South Korea, 2017
Citizen Jane: The Battle for the City – dir Matt Tyrnauer, USA, 2016
When Two Worlds Collide – dir Heidi Brandenburg, Mathew Orzel, Peru-USA-UK, 2016

INFORMATION

Find the film schedule here: http://2017.tartuff.ee/en/schedule/
For further inquiries: Hannes Aava, Head of International Communications of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival/ Tartu Love Film Festival - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. / +37255529211

Presided over by Mexican director, writer and producer Michel Franco, the Jury of the Competition Programme – Feature Film for the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival comprises prominent filmmakers, actors and film professionals from five countries.

The jury will determine the winners of the the Heart of Sarajevo Awards, which will be announced on 17 August at the Awards Ceremony at the National Theatre.

The Sarajevo Film Festival is proud to present the Jury of the Competition Programme – Feature Film:

President of the Jury: MICHEL FRANCO, Director/Writer/Producer (Mexico)

MARK ADAMS, Artistic Director of Edinburgh International Film Festival (UK)

GORAN BOGDAN, Actor (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia)

FATMA AL REMAIHI, Chief Executive Officer of Doha Film Institute (Qatar)

MELISA SÖZEN, Actress (Turkey)

Co-organized by the Polish Film Institute, Polish Days is the most important industry event at the T-Mobile New Horizons IFF. Polish Days will take place on August 8-10, 2017 during the 17th T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival (August 3-13, 2017).

We are happy to announce our partners for this year's event.

We will be joined by five film comissions this year: the Wroclaw Film Comission; the Mazovia Warsaw Film Comission; the Łódź Film Comission, which is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Łódź Film Fund; the Krakow Film Comission, a partner of LIM - Less is More - the European platform for project development of limited-budget feature films; and the Podkarpackie Film Commission. 

We will be partnering with EAVE for the second time, which, together with the Polish Film Institute, will provide a grant to a Polish producer and Polish film project in development, which will cover the costs of participation in the prestigious EAVE Producers Workshop in 2018.

Our post-production partners, Coloroffon Film and Aeroplan Studios, will give awards to selected projects in the form of preferential terms for image and sound post-production.

We will also be partnering with the National Audiovisual Institute (FINA), which was established on June 1, 2017 when the National Film Archive merged with the National Audiovisual Institute.

FINA's work involves the collection, cataloging, restoration and sharing of collections and documentary materials related to both Polish and international audiovisual heritage, including film, as well as the co-creation, production, recording and promotion of high-level cultural works for broadcast through public and private media. FINA also conducts activities in the areas of education, cultural promotion and publishing as well as using new technologies (including the Internet) to promote audiovisual culture.

Media partners: Film & TV Kamera, Film Pro and Film New Europe.

The 2017 edition of Polish Days will take place August 8-10 during the 17th T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival (August 3-13, 2017). This year's event will feature 5 completed films, 9 as part of a presentation of works in progress and 11 projects in development.

Full list of selected films:

Completed films 
Panic Attack (Atak paniki), dir. Paweł Maślona
Wild Roses (Dzikie róże), dir. Anna Jadowska
Thrice Falls the Saint (Trzy upadki świętego), dir. Jacek Januszyk
Tower. A Bright Day (Wieża. Jasny dzień), dir. Jagoda Szelc
The Reconciliation (Zgoda), dir. Maciej Sobieszczański

Works in progress
Silent Night (Cicha noc), dir. Piotr Domalewski
A Coach’s Daughter (Córka trenera), dir. Łukasz Grzegorzek
The Man with the Magic Box (Człowiek z magicznym pudełkiem), dir. Bodo Kox
The Fastest (Najlepszy), dir. Łukasz Palkowski
The Mute (Niemy), dir. Bartek Konopka
Nina, dir. Olga Chajdas
Back Home (Powrót), dir. Magdalena Łazarkiewicz
The Art of Understanding (Sztuka zrozumienia), dir. Matej Bobrik
Speedway (Żużel), dir. Dorota Kędzierzawska

Pitchings
Bailout, Folks! dir. Marek Lechki
Corpus Christi (Boże ciało), dir. Jan Komasa
Dark, Almost Nighttime (Ciemno, prawie noc), dir. Borys Lankosz
Fisheye, dir. Michał Szcześniak
The Hunter’s Son, dir. Ricky Rijneke
Kalina, dir. Katarzyna Klimkiewicz
Neon Tears (Kolorowe łzy), dir. Karolina Bielawska
Lipstick on the Glass, dir. Kuba Czekaj
Pilot 9/11, dir. Norman Leto
Sweat, dir. Magnus von Horn
The War Has Ended, dir. Hagar Ben Asher

Some 150 professionals from Poland and abroad have already confirmed their participation, including programmers from numerous international festivals, sales agents, distributors and film producers.

As part of the event, industry representatives from around the world attend closed screenings to learn about the latest Polish films at every stage of production: they watch completed films and fragments at the post-production stage, and they also listen to pitchings about projects in production. Polish Days is an excellent opportunity for producers and filmmakers to promote their projects and to find foreign partners. During the selection process, the organizers choose the most interesting films currently being made in the Polish market. Projects presented in past years included, among others, Spoor, The Last Family, The Birds Are Singing in Kigali, All These Sleepless Nights, Warsaw '44, Papusza, Floating Skyscrapers and Congress. This year, Polish Days offers guests an opportunity to learn about new projects by filmmakers such as Kuba Czekaj, Borys Lankosz, Dorota Kędzierzawska, Łukasz Palkowski, Magnus Von Horn, Katarzyna Klimkiewicz and Norman Leto.

Organized since 2013 in cooperation with the Polish Film Institute, Polish Days is the most important industry event at the T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival.

Polish Days is co-organized by the Polish Film Institute. Event partners include the Wrocław Film Commission, the Mazovia Warsaw Film Commission, the Łódź Film Commission, the Krakow Film Commission, the Podkarpackie Film Commission, the National Audiovisual Institute, EAVE, Coloroffon and Aeroplan Studios. Media partners include Film Pro, Film New Europe and Film & TV Kamera.

More on New Horizons IFF Polish Days and other industry events can be found here.

Sarajevo Film Festival proudly presents Competition Programme – Feature Film and In Focus.

Two selections, which brings exciting crossover of South East European cinema, were unveiled at the press conference held on Tuesday in Sarajevo.

Sarajevo Film Festival is honored to pay tribute to the preeminent filmmaker Oliver Stone, who will also receive Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award for his extraordinary contribution to the art of film at the 23rd edition of the Festival.

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This section consists of 17 films from around the globe excluding the Southeastern European territories which compose the festival’s competition strand.

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