Can anyone harness enough courage to raise such a question? It is as if to ask about chances of survival of a live organism that is ridded of its heart. Or both lungs. This live (and very much so!) organism stands for cinema, whereas it is the film festivals that constitute the heart and the lungs. Although "the death of the cinema" has long b...

    „Future of film festivals - between the Local and the Global": Film Forum guests list   The Forum is parrt of Ars Independent, organized by Anita Skwara for the Festival. THE AGENDA    September 24th at Rondo Sztuki 10:00 - 10: 30 welcome speech Introduction during which the managers will present goals and ideas of the Forum and intro-duce the attendees. "Authorial word&...

SFF is organized by Art Fest under the patronage of the Sofia Municipality, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture, the National Film Centre and National Palace of Culture, with the support of the programs MEDIA and MEDIA Mundus of the European Commission, UNESCO – Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, national and foreign cultural institutes and sponsors. The main sponsor of the 16th edition of the festival is Jameson Irish Whiskey. The 16th Sofia Intern...

VII GDAŃSK DOCFILM FESTIVAL (Godność i Praca , Dignity and Work) 23-25.04.2009 We would like to invite all film documentaries to take part in the Seventh Gdansk DocFilm Festival, which will take place on 23-25 April 2009 in the Tri-City. If you have in your documentary output films which fit our festival canon, we invite you to participate in the preselection and then in the contest for "The Gate of Freedom".  Film copy (dvd/beta/35mm) please send to: VII Gdańsk ...