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Agnieszka Holland among jury for Georgia’s Eliso film awards
EXCLUSIVE: Carlos Reygadas, Dito Tsintsadze also on jury for June 14 awards.
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Sarajevo, Zagreb, Auteur film festivals launch Adriatic Film and TV awards
Inaugural ceremony will be held in October 2025.
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Sarajevo selects first nine features for CineLink Co-Production Market
Selection includes new features from Hilal Baydarov, David Kapac.
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Jiri Bartoska, Czech actor and Karlovy Vary president, dies aged 78
The popular Bartoska had been festival president since 1994.
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Hungary shoot underway on horror ‘Ever After’ starring Malcolm McDowell (exclusive)
Laszlo Illes’s film depicts a group of lunatics who believe they’re fairy tale characters.
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Sarajevo Film Festival adds youth-focused award
Award presented in conjunction with the Council of Europe.
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‘2000 Meters To Andriivka’: Sundance Review
Mstyslav Chernov follows up ’20 Days In Mariupol’ with a brutal missive from Ukraine’s front line
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International execs choose favourite projects, praise youth focus of Tallinn’s 28th edition
‘Emi’, ’The Worker’ and ‘Late Shift’ all gathered plaudits from industry attendees.
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Russian director on ‘Deaf Lovers’ PÖFF controversy: “Censorship is the biggest threat to art in our world”
‘Deaf Lovers’ was removed from Tallinn’s ‘Standing With Ukraine’ programme but kept in the festival.
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‘Silent City Driver’ leads Tallinn 2024 winners; Palestinian, Israeli films take prizes
Several winners referenced ongoing global conflicts in their speeches.
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Migration stories head Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event 2024 winners
17 awards distributed to film projects at various development & production stages.
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“Like ‘Black Mirror’ without the technologies”: Tallinn filmmakers discuss working in exile
Producer Uldis Cekulis suggested making projects faster to respond to current events.
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‘Trains’: IDFA Review
IDFA top prize-winner is a timeless train trip through black-and-white archive footage
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How Tallinn’s AI recommender aims to help audiences discover new films
Susi allows users to input any information, and it will suggest films from the PÖFF programme.
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Finnish series project ‘The Women I Think About At Night’ leads Tallinn TV Beats winners
German project ‘In Paradise’ wins new Public Favourite award.
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Atlas acquires Tallinn title ‘The Weeping Walk’ (exclusive)
Film will have its world premiere in Tallinn’s First Feature Competition.
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Tallinn’s industry head looks forward to presenting projects, talking AI and debating funding sources
The Tallinn industry programme closed attendance applications early for the first time.
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Tallinn Black Nights responds to criticism of Russian film: “This is an anti-war work”
Film has been removed from the Standing with Ukraine programme, but remains in competition.
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Tallinn director Tiina Lokk warns about threats to film festival independence
”There is no right to demand that you should take a film off your programme,” says Lokk.
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‘All We Imagine As Light’, ‘Honeymoon’ among Kyiv film festival winners
Bogdan Muresanu’s ‘The New Year That Never Came’ won a special mention.