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www.DOKweb.net is a portal dedicated to East European documentary film. The news section provides up-to-date information on upcoming and just completed films, interviews with filmmakers and other documentary professionals, in-depth articles exploring the state of documentary filmmaking in various parts of the region, as well as insightful texts on current trends, funding, etc. The portal also boasts the largest published databases of completed and upcoming documentary films from Eastern Europe, an industry directory, as well as trailers and original video content. www.DOKweb.net is IDF´s key online project that provides comprehensive details on all IDF´s activities and links them with general information service.
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- About Institute of Documentary Film
- Ex Oriente Film
- East European Forum
- Doc Launch
- East Silver
- East Doc Platform
- Czech Docs Project
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- IDF Calendar
Founded in 2001, the INSTITUTE OF DOCUMENTARY FILM (IDF) is a non-profit training and networking centre based in Prague, Czech Republic, focused on the support of East European documentary films and their wider promotion. Our activities support filmmakers through all stages of completion – development, funding, production, post-production, and distribution. We aim at individual filmmakers (tailored consultations), groups of carefully selected professionals with projects or films (Ex Oriente Film, East European Forum, East Silver, Doc Launch, etc.), broader professional community (East Doc Platform), as well as the general public (portal www.DOKweb.net). We closely work with key int. festivals, broadcasters, distributors, sales agents, markets, or training initiatives and serve as the GATEWAY TO EAST EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY FILM.
Asiatica Film Mediale
Country
Italy
Type of link
Festival
Section
fiction
Asiatica Film Mediale sets out to present outstanding cinematic works as a bridge between Asia and Italy. The programme includes feature and documentary films, all Italian premieres, and other special events. The festival will propose films from the following countries: China, Japan, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, The Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Uzbekistan.
Contact
Asiatica Film Medialec/o Ass. Cult. Mnemosyne
Via Garibaldi 22
00153 Rome
Phone:
+39 06 3938 83 86
Fax:
+39 06 3938 64 18
WWW:
Email:
Asolo Art Film Festival
Country
Italy
Type of link
Festival
Deadline month
April
Event month
August
After a long break, the International Festival on Art and Artist's Biographies was re-established in 2001 as “AsoloArtFilmFestival”. Its origins date back to 1973, when Flavia Paulon, together with the local authority, decided to encourage the cultural awakening of Asolo’s small town, by creating the “Festival Internazionale del Film sull’Arte e di Biografie d’Artisti”, destined to become right from its first edition one of the most important exhibitions in the world.
Contact
Asolo Art Film FestivalVia Foresto Vecchio 8
31011 Asolo
Phone:
+39 0423 199 52 35
Fax:
+39 0423 951 320
WWW:
Email:
Aspekty - Festival of Visual Anthropology
Country
Poland
Type of link
Festival
Deadline month
July
The Aspects is a annual anthropological film festival that aims at exploring various areas of culture. The principle of the festival is to discover and present various relations, phenomena, interactions and mechanisms, which take place within a culture or between cultures. The audience will be acquainted with various cultural threads though festival discussions or events such as exhibitions, workshops and concerts.
Contact
Aspekty - Festival of Visual Anthropologyul. Podgorna 50/3
87-100 Torun
Phone:
+48 609 688 852
Fax:
+44 566 589 721
WWW:
Email:
Assim Vivemos - Brazil's International Disability Film Festival
Country
Brazil
Type of link
Festival
Section
short, fiction, documentary, animated
Formats
DVD
Deadline month
April
The main objective of Brazil's International Disability Film Festival is to encourage new ways of seeing special needs and disabilities and stimulate discussions about inclusion of disabled people in the society. By disability we mean any physical, mental or intellectual impairment. The festival accepts works of any genre, length and year of production dealing with the theme of disabilities. Festival screenings will be presented in Rio de Janeiro, Brasília and Sao Paulo.
Contact
Assim Vivemos - Brazil's International Disability Film FestivalLavoro Producoes Artísticas Ltda.
Rua Bartolomeu Portela 50/106
22290-190 Botafogo - Rio de Janeiro
Phone:
+55 212 235 5255
Fax:
+55 212 235 5255
WWW:
Email:
Association Rocade
Country
Canada
Type of link
Festival
Contact
Association Rocade851, 5e Avenue
H4G 2Z4 Montréal
AsterFest - International Film&Video Festival of Authors from Southeastern Europe
Country
Macedonia
Type of link
Festival
Section
short, fiction, documentary
Formats
?, 35 mm, Beta, DVD
Event month
May
The aim of the festival is to promote and present cultural trends recorded through contemporary film&video technologies made by professional authors from Southeastern Europe and outside. Screenings will be held in the city of Strumica, ancient capital of Macedonia. Author (director) must be born in Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Slovenia, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Moldova or Kosovo.
Contact
AsterFest - International Film&Video Festival of Authors from Southeastern EuropeP.O. Box 10
2400 Strumica
Astra Film Festival
Country
Romania
Type of link
Organization/Institute, Producer, Festival
Section
documentary
Formats
Beta, DV, HD
Deadline month
April
Event month
October
Astra Film Festival – the Sibiu International Festival for Documentary Film – is a major event in the European community of documentary film. The Festival is a meeting point for documentary filmmakers from all over the world, promotes the production of quality non-fiction film in Romania and in the region. AFF is dedicated to showing realities of our world as perceived and interpreted by committed creative documentary filmmakers, and to facilitating open debates with the audience, as well as among professionals. The festival has four competition sections: International for documentaries made outside Europe; European for docs about Europe; Romanian for docs about Romania, and Student Docs.
Contact
Astra Film FestivalPiata Huet 12
550182 Sibiu
ATA Film + Video Festival
Country
USA
Type of link
Festival
Section
short, experimental, documentary, animated
Formats
16 mm, 8 mm, HD
Deadline month
June
The ATA Film & Video Festival...is taking 2012 off!
The ATA Film & Video Festival is dedicated to celebrate and support underground film exhibiting every year 2 original ensembles of short works by emerging and established film and video artists from all over the world. The festival also includes installations in our Mission District storefront gallery, a lunch for the filmmakers, and a discussion forum for the exchange of ideas amongst filmmakers, curators and audiences. Throughout the year, work from the festival is broadcast to the San Francisco community on ATV, ATA's weekly cable-access television show, and screened in other national and international venues.
Contact
ATA Film + Video Festival992 Valencia St
CA 94110 San Francisco
Athens International Film Festival
Country
Greece
Type of link
Festival
Section
short, fiction, documentary, animated
Formats
16 mm, 35 mm, Beta, DVD
Deadline month
July
Event month
September
The Athens International Film Festival focuses on the best of independent cinema from around the world and especially on independent American productions which give it its distinctive identity. Golden Athena Award for Best Film (5,000 euro in cash).
Contact
Athens International Film FestivalBenaki Str.
Metamorfosis
152 38 Halandri Athens
Athens Video Art Festival
Country
Greece
Type of link
Festival
Section
short, new media, music, experimental, animated
Formats
?, DVD
Deadline month
March
Event month
May
The Athens Video Art Festival first took place in 2005 and it is an event that celebrates video art. Its aim is to support digital culture and the promotion of modern and innovative forms of expression, giving the artists additional motivation to create and express themselves freely using all audiovisual means. Artists may participate with works of video art, video installations, installations and live art (performance art). No restrictions apply regarding the subject. In the case of submission of video art, the length of the video should not exceed 15 minutes. Artists have the right to participate with a maximum of four submissions. A separate entry form must be completed for each one.
Contact
Athens Video Art FestivalAthens Video Art Festival
Miltiadou 18, Monastiraki
10560 Athens
Atlantic Film Festival
Country
Canada
Type of link
Festival
Section
music, fiction, documentary
Deadline month
May
Event month
September
The fourth major film festival in Canada is the international Atlantic Film Festival, held every September in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Strong East Coast roots support a unique format for AFF with its distinctive focus on film and music. Large enough to attract the world’s most notable actors, directors and producers, but intimate enough to be Canada’s kitchen party Festival, the AFF provides an unpretentious atmosphere for watching some of the best international, Canadian and Atlantic Canadian films, with opportunities to hear some of the best artists the region offers.
Contact
Atlantic Film FestivalPO Box 36139
B3J 3S9 Halifax, Nova Scotia
Aubagne International Film Festival
Country
France
Type of link
Festival
Deadline month
October
Aubagne International Film Festival supports the young cinematographic creation and the musical creation related to image.
Contact
Aubagne International Film Festival6 rue Laget
13400 Aubagne
Augsburg Short Film Festival
Country
Germany
Type of link
Festival
Section
short, children, documentary, animated
Formats
16 mm, 35 mm
Event month
October
The Augsburg Short Film Festival shows international short feature, animation and documentary films, film-historical programmes and short films for children. At the Augsburg Short Film Festival the audience itself is the jury of the competition programme.
Contact
Augsburg Short Film FestivalSchroeckstr. 8
D-86152 Augsburg
Autrans International Mountain Film Festival
Country
France
Type of link
Festival
Section
fiction, documentary
Formats
?, 35 mm
Deadline month
April
Event month
December
The festival is a competition of fiction and documentary films that explore at least one of the following topics: snow and ice, nature and environment, ethnology, adventure, mountain sports, expeditions. Fiction films can be admitted as long as they were made on location of the North/South Pole, or as long as they relate to adventure.
Contact
Autrans International Mountain Film FestivalRue du Cinema
38880 Autrans
Phone:
+33 04 76 95 30 70
Fax:
+33 04 76 95 38 63
WWW:
Email:
Avanca - International Meeting of Cinema, TV, Video and Multimedia
Country
Portugal
Type of link
Festival
Section
TV prog., short, new media, fiction, experimental, documentary, animated
Formats
16 mm, 35 mm, DV, DVD
Deadline month
April
Event month
July
The aim of the festival is to draw attention to contemporary production in the area of film, television, video and multimedia. The festival accepts productions that have not yet been released in Portugal, in the following categories: cinema - feature and short films; video - productions of max. 20 minutes; television - documentary programmes; multimedia - fiction, experimental and animated films produced for the internet. An international jury will select the winners in each category. The festival also organizes a number of workshops and seminars led by international professionals.
Contact
Avanca - International Meeting of Cinema, TV, Video and MultimediaCine Clube de Avanca
3860-078 Avanca
Aye Aye Film Festival
Country
France
Type of link
Festival
Section
short
Formats
16 mm, 35 mm, Digi Beta, DV, DVD
Deadline month
April
Event month
August
The Aye Aye Film Festival hosts an international competition that features approx. 30-40 short films. All sort of films (max. 40 min.) are welcome: fiction, documentary, animation, be it professional, student or amateur works. In addition to a variety of independent screenings, in its section Orient Express, Aye Aye highlights films focused on East and Central Europe.
Contact
Aye Aye Film Festival26, rue de Paris
54000 Nancy
Azyl Film Festival
Country
Czech Republic
Type of link
Festival
Deadline month
March
Azyl is a festival of one- and five-minutes long films. It seeks films which reflect the contemporary points of view.
Contact
Azyl Film FestivalGregor Multimedia, s.r.o.
Nad Zámečnicí 2127/28
150 00 Praha 5
B-EST International Film Festival
Country
Romania
Type of link
Festival
Section
fiction, documentary
Formats
Beta, DV, DVD
Deadline month
February
Event month
April
Founded in 2005, the Buchar-EST International Film Festival (B-EST IFF) is the first major feature film competition organized in Bucharest. The aim of the festival has been to become a forum that encourages new cinema trends. We wish to discover new talents, to promote young filmmakers that have achieved recognition both at a national level, as well as in prestigious international competitions. B-EST is a festival dedicated to art cinema, but also to those that want to express something new and different through film. Although the focus is represented by independent creations, low and medium-budget productions, B-EST has always managed to include important international awarded films in its selections.
Contact
B-EST International Film FestivalCharta Foundation
13A Rabat Street, sector 1
011835 Bucharest
backup_festival - New Media in Film
Country
Germany
Type of link
Festival
Section
short, new media, music, experimental
Formats
?, ?, 16 mm, 35 mm, Beta, DVD
Deadline month
February
Event month
May
backup_festival is an event for film and video productions developed using digital means. backup began in the European Cultural Capital Year of Weimar that was celebrated in 1999, and with its 2001 edition, backup has reached a level that secures it a respectable place among the European festivals. In 2004, the festival received more than 1,000 entries from 44 countries, and had over 3,000 visitors. The festival is looking for films in which aesthetics, narrative style, production and distribution strategies depart from the traditional paths of analogue cinema.
Contact
backup_festival - New Media in Filmc/o Bauhaus-Universtität Weimar, Bauhaus Film-Institut
Bauhausstrasse 15
99423 Weimar
Badalona International Short Film Festival
Country
Spain
Type of link
Festival
Section
short, fiction, documentary, animated
Formats
Beta, DV
The Badalona International Short Film Festival showcases short films under 30 minutes on film and video. The Venus of Badalona Award is given to the best film / video and is endowed with Euro 3,000. The festival also awards the best works of fiction, animation, documentary and video, the best film produced in Catalonia and the best work by an author under 25.
Contact
Badalona International Short Film FestivalC/ Sant Agustí 11
08915 Badalona (Barcelona)
Balkanima
Country
Serbia
Type of link
Festival
Section
student, short, music, children, experimental, commercials
Formats
?, DVD
Deadline month
August
Event month
October
The main goal of the festival is to promote the art of animation of South-Eastern European countries and to enable the younger generations of today to create conditions that will enable them to fit into the world trends of animated films by means of conquering new technologies.
Contact
BalkanimaDom kulture Studentski grad
Bulevar Zorana Djindjica 179
11070 Novi Beograd
Baltic Pearl - International Festival of Film Actors
Country
Latvia
Type of link
Festival
Section
fiction
Formats
16 mm, 35 mm
Held annually since 1994, the festival focuses on the acting profession by offering not only a varied program of feature films and a competition, but the opportunity to meet such living legends of the cinema as Gina Lollobrigida, Pierre Richard, Alain Delon and Ornella Mutti. They have all visited Latvia. Discussion sessions, laboratories and lectures are also held with the participation of festival guests.
Contact
Baltic Pearl - International Festival of Film Actors26-18 Blaumana Str
Riga
Banff Mountain Film Festival
Country
Canada
Type of link
Festival
Section
short, fiction, experimental, documentary, animated
Formats
?, Beta, Digi Beta, DV, HD
Deadline month
August
Event month
October
The Banff Mountain Film Festival is a programming-driven, competitive event bringing the best films on mountains and their spirit of adventure from around the world to the mountain town of Banff, Alberta. The festival provides an opportunity for filmmakers to showcase their work and to meet and exchange ideas in a relaxed environment.
Contact
Banff Mountain Film FestivalMountain Culture, The Banff Centre
Box 1020, 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive
T1L 1H5 Banff, Alberta
Phone:
+1 403 762 6441
Fax:
+1 403 762 6277
WWW:
Email:
Banff World Media Festival
Country
Canada
Type of link
Festival
Deadline month
March
Event month
June
Building on the knowledge and expertise of more than thirty years, the Banff World Media Festival is the world's premier forum for professionals working in content creation, distribution and broadcast in Television and Digital Media.
Contact
Banff World Media Festival21 St. Clair Avenue East, Suite 1420
M4T 1L9 Toronto, ON
Banja Luka International Animated Film Festival
Country
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Type of link
Festival
Section
animated
Formats
DVD
The festival programme consists of the following: Competitive programme; Informative selection of the films; Non-competitive screenings; Workshops of animated film; Book promotions, exhibitions, meetings with filmmakers; Music events.
Contact
Banja Luka International Animated Film FestivalVida Nježića 68
78000 Banja Luka
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