european films

46th Annual Giffoni Film Festival Awards

46th Annual Giffoni Film Festival Awards

The 46th edition of the Giffoni Film Festival has ended so here is the complete list of this year’s winners, which have been proclaimed during the closing press conference by Director Claudio Gubitosi, together with artistic managers Manlio Castagna, Luca Apolito, Gianvincenzo Nastasi, Tony Guarino and Antonia Grimaldi, who viewed and selected the films. Giffoni […]

33rd Annual Jerusalem Film Festival

On May 17, 1984, Le Bal, directed by Ettore Scola, opened the first Jerusalem International Film Festival. Over the course of three weeks, about one-hundred films were screened, including Israeli premieres, alongside the year’s best selection of international films. In addition, a distinguished group of guests honored the first festival, among them, the First Lady […]

44th Annual Festival International du Film de La Rochelle

The 44rd La Rochelle International Film Festival will take place from July 1 – 10, 2016 and will screen films from around world. Their programs include: TRIBUTES (Alain Guiraudie, Barbet Schroeder & Frederick Wiseman), RETROSPECTIVES (Jean Vigo, Maurice Jaubert, Alberto Sordi), ANIMATED DOCUMENTARY, MUSIC AND MOVIES, YESTERDAY TODAY & HERE AND ELSEWHERE. For a Full […]

51st Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival Best Selection Poster Contest

51st Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival Best Selection Poster Contest

The first year of one of the world’s oldest film festivals was in 1946 in Mariánské Lázně. The festival moved to Karlovy Vary in 1947, and the following year the festival became competitive awarding its first Crystal Globe. In 1956, the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF) officially designated Karlovy Vary a category A […]

Berlin Short Film Festival

Berlin Short Film Festival

The Berlin Short Film Festival has been running to great critical and audience acclaim for three years. The international short films exhibited annually at BSFF never fails to attract a great number of film professionals and the general public. All BSFF films have been chosen for their outstanding quality and are vying for awards in […]

Annecy International Animation Film Festival & Market (Mifa)

This year, the Annecy International Animation Film Festival has received over 2,600 films (short and feature films, TV and commissioned films and graduation films) from all over the world between November and March. More than 200 films have been shortlisted to take part in the official selection. – Annecy International Animation Film Festival & Market […]

32nd Hamburg Int’l Short Film Festival

No other form of cinematic art is as open, experimental, fast, courageous, abstract, hard, discursive or reactive as the short film. At the same time, it has to be incredibly disciplined. Its art lies in its focus – on single pictures, takes, tracking shots or dialogues. It never has enough time and it only has […]

Oberhausen Short Film Festival

On 28 February 1962, at the 8th West German Short Film Festival in Oberhausen, 26 West German filmmakers proclaimed the Oberhausen Manifesto. This moment marked a milestone in the development of German cinema – never before, and never again, would a break with existing production conditions be demanded, and induced, with such vehemence. With a […]