Festival runs in St Petersburg and Moscow from Dec 9-16.
Nicola Bellucci’s Grozny Blues (Switzerland) [pictured], Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosolowski’s Domino Effect (Poland/Germany) and Rodion Brodsky’s 7 Days In St Petersburg (Israel) are among the first titles confirmed for the Competition line-up at this year’s ArtDocFest in St Petersburg and Moscow (Dec 9-16).
The selection which covers Russian films, films about Russia or those made in the Russian language, also includes Jaak Kilmi and Arbo Tammiksaar’s Christ Lives In Siberia (Estonia/Finland), Chad Gracia’s The Russian Woodpecker (Us), Ivette Löcker’s Wenn es blendet, öffne die Augen (Austria), and Steve Hoover’s Crocodile Gennadiy (Us).
A selection of ArtDocFest’s 2015 programme was presented during October’s Riga International Film Festival - with such films as Grozny Blues and Domino Effect - by ArtDocFest’s director Vitaly Mansky, who was at Dok Leipzig last week for the world premiere of his latest...
Nicola Bellucci’s Grozny Blues (Switzerland) [pictured], Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosolowski’s Domino Effect (Poland/Germany) and Rodion Brodsky’s 7 Days In St Petersburg (Israel) are among the first titles confirmed for the Competition line-up at this year’s ArtDocFest in St Petersburg and Moscow (Dec 9-16).
The selection which covers Russian films, films about Russia or those made in the Russian language, also includes Jaak Kilmi and Arbo Tammiksaar’s Christ Lives In Siberia (Estonia/Finland), Chad Gracia’s The Russian Woodpecker (Us), Ivette Löcker’s Wenn es blendet, öffne die Augen (Austria), and Steve Hoover’s Crocodile Gennadiy (Us).
A selection of ArtDocFest’s 2015 programme was presented during October’s Riga International Film Festival - with such films as Grozny Blues and Domino Effect - by ArtDocFest’s director Vitaly Mansky, who was at Dok Leipzig last week for the world premiere of his latest...
- 11/2/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Swiss films have punched above their weight on the international stage this year but the industry continues to face challenges.
The year got off to an auspicious start. Stefan Haupt’s local box office hit and Swiss Films champion The Circle, produced by Contrast Film, was sold to Netflix in North America after Wide House cut a number of international deals.
Swiss films remain in demand for festivals at home and abroad. Two films play in international competition in Zurich – Micha Lewinsky’s A Decent Man (Nichts Passiert) and Ruxandra Zenide’s The Miracle Of Tekir – while Guadalajara festival director Ivan Trujillo is in town scouting films for a Swiss focus at the Mexican showcase in March.
Swiss titles have also been long-listed for European Film Academy awards.
The four Swiss documentaries in contention for nominations are: Nicola Bellucci’s Grozny Blues; Marcel Gisler’s Electroboy; Above And Below from Nicolas Steiner; and co-production The Good Life from German...
The year got off to an auspicious start. Stefan Haupt’s local box office hit and Swiss Films champion The Circle, produced by Contrast Film, was sold to Netflix in North America after Wide House cut a number of international deals.
Swiss films remain in demand for festivals at home and abroad. Two films play in international competition in Zurich – Micha Lewinsky’s A Decent Man (Nichts Passiert) and Ruxandra Zenide’s The Miracle Of Tekir – while Guadalajara festival director Ivan Trujillo is in town scouting films for a Swiss focus at the Mexican showcase in March.
Swiss titles have also been long-listed for European Film Academy awards.
The four Swiss documentaries in contention for nominations are: Nicola Bellucci’s Grozny Blues; Marcel Gisler’s Electroboy; Above And Below from Nicolas Steiner; and co-production The Good Life from German...
- 9/26/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
A total of 15 European documentaries selected for European Film Awards 2015.
The European Film Academy and Efa Productions have announced the first ever Efa Documentary Selection, a list of 15 European documentaries recommended for a nomination for this year’s European Film Awards.
The change follows a decision by the Efa Board to “acknowledge the growing importance of European documentary cinema”.
The titles include Asif Kapadia’s Amy Winehouse documentary, Amy, which has broken box office records in the UK and Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look Of Silence, a follow-up to award-winning The Act Of Killing.
A further development is the involvement of 10 documentary festivals that recommended to the committee up to three films each which have had their world premiere at the respective festival’s latest edition. Chosen in co-operation with the European Documentary Network Edn, these festivals are:
Idfa (the Netherlands)Cph:dox (Denmark)Visions du Réel (Switzerland)DokLeipzig (Germany)Docslisboa (Portugal)Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (Greece)Jihlava...
The European Film Academy and Efa Productions have announced the first ever Efa Documentary Selection, a list of 15 European documentaries recommended for a nomination for this year’s European Film Awards.
The change follows a decision by the Efa Board to “acknowledge the growing importance of European documentary cinema”.
The titles include Asif Kapadia’s Amy Winehouse documentary, Amy, which has broken box office records in the UK and Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look Of Silence, a follow-up to award-winning The Act Of Killing.
A further development is the involvement of 10 documentary festivals that recommended to the committee up to three films each which have had their world premiere at the respective festival’s latest edition. Chosen in co-operation with the European Documentary Network Edn, these festivals are:
Idfa (the Netherlands)Cph:dox (Denmark)Visions du Réel (Switzerland)DokLeipzig (Germany)Docslisboa (Portugal)Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (Greece)Jihlava...
- 9/16/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
European Film Promotion (Efp) has unveiled the list of titles it will support at this year’s Busan International Film Festival (Oct 1-10) in South Korea.
It marks the 18th year that Efp has supported cultural exchange between European filmmakers and Korean audiences as well as helping European films find their way onto Asia’s screens.
Efp’s programme, Opening Doors, is backed by the Creative Europe – Media Programme of the European Union and participating Efp member organisations.
A total of 13 mostly young European film artists will travel to Busan with the support of Efp to present their titles at the Asian film showcase.
Several of the films have already been recognised this year on the film festival circuit.
Babai, the feature debut of Kosovo-born, Germany-based filmmaker Visar Morina won best director at Karlovy Vary in July. The film tells a father-and-son-story of unwanted economic migrants.
Adriano Valerio’s debut film, Banat, about...
It marks the 18th year that Efp has supported cultural exchange between European filmmakers and Korean audiences as well as helping European films find their way onto Asia’s screens.
Efp’s programme, Opening Doors, is backed by the Creative Europe – Media Programme of the European Union and participating Efp member organisations.
A total of 13 mostly young European film artists will travel to Busan with the support of Efp to present their titles at the Asian film showcase.
Several of the films have already been recognised this year on the film festival circuit.
Babai, the feature debut of Kosovo-born, Germany-based filmmaker Visar Morina won best director at Karlovy Vary in July. The film tells a father-and-son-story of unwanted economic migrants.
Adriano Valerio’s debut film, Banat, about...
- 8/25/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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