Ahead of its 39th edition, Poland’s Warsaw Film Festival is betting on timely topics.
“The role of filmmakers, and artists in general, is to react,” says festival director Stefan Laudyn.
“For years, we have been showing films that criticize the situation in various countries, not just in Poland. We try to avoid puff pieces.”
While there is space for “lighter topics” as well, supporting Ukraine – and Ukrainian filmmakers – remains one of the priorities.
“We initiated the first solidarity action with Ukraine back in 2014, after the annexation of Crimea, we also supported Oleg Sentsov. Last year, we featured the entire Ukrainian competition from Odesa International Film Festival, which couldn’t take place due to the war.”
This year, eight Ukrainian productions and co-productions will be shown at the fest. Including “Diagnosis: Dissent” by Denys Tarasov, about punitive psychiatry used by the Kgb, and Taras Dron’s “The Glass House,” where...
“The role of filmmakers, and artists in general, is to react,” says festival director Stefan Laudyn.
“For years, we have been showing films that criticize the situation in various countries, not just in Poland. We try to avoid puff pieces.”
While there is space for “lighter topics” as well, supporting Ukraine – and Ukrainian filmmakers – remains one of the priorities.
“We initiated the first solidarity action with Ukraine back in 2014, after the annexation of Crimea, we also supported Oleg Sentsov. Last year, we featured the entire Ukrainian competition from Odesa International Film Festival, which couldn’t take place due to the war.”
This year, eight Ukrainian productions and co-productions will be shown at the fest. Including “Diagnosis: Dissent” by Denys Tarasov, about punitive psychiatry used by the Kgb, and Taras Dron’s “The Glass House,” where...
- 10/5/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
More than 70 speakers from 17 countries, including “Skam” showrunner Julie Andem, “It Takes Two” game creator/filmmaker Josef Fares, and top commissioners from Viaplay, Netflix, Amazon Studios, Dr, Svt, Nrk and Yle will take center stage at Göteborg Film Festival’s TV Drama Vision.
The festival’s flagship drama confab will run Feb. 1-2 both on-site in Sweden’s second largest city, and online, with all streamed sessions open to accredited professionals.
A record 542 delegates – including 39 online visitors – have signed up for the sold-out event, set under the overarching theme “Navigating Disruption and Cultivating Talent.”
”It’s been a challenge to set the core of this year’s program, considering the drastic changes in the drama industry, fuelled by the macroeconomic uncertainties, streaming wars and changing strategies,” acknowledges TV Drama Vision honcho Cia Edström. “But our top industry guests will offer inspiring best-practices on how to navigate these changing times, cultivate talent and innovate in storytelling.
The festival’s flagship drama confab will run Feb. 1-2 both on-site in Sweden’s second largest city, and online, with all streamed sessions open to accredited professionals.
A record 542 delegates – including 39 online visitors – have signed up for the sold-out event, set under the overarching theme “Navigating Disruption and Cultivating Talent.”
”It’s been a challenge to set the core of this year’s program, considering the drastic changes in the drama industry, fuelled by the macroeconomic uncertainties, streaming wars and changing strategies,” acknowledges TV Drama Vision honcho Cia Edström. “But our top industry guests will offer inspiring best-practices on how to navigate these changing times, cultivate talent and innovate in storytelling.
- 1/23/2023
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
The spectre of the war in Ukraine loomed large at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) on Tuesday as it hosted the annual Work in Progress showcase of the Ukrainian Odesa International Film Festival (Oiff).
In its 13th edition, the showcase normally takes place within the framework of the Oiff, which was due to unfold in its Black Sea resort home from July 23-30 but was cancelled due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
“It’s a strange feeling as we were preparing to run our festival in Odesa as normal until February 24, and now we have to travel around other festivals to present our projects but it’s a way of carrying on,” festival director Anna Machuh told Deadline.
“I hope that by next year, these films will be completed, and we’ll be watching them in cinemas in Ukraine and in Odesa at the festival,...
In its 13th edition, the showcase normally takes place within the framework of the Oiff, which was due to unfold in its Black Sea resort home from July 23-30 but was cancelled due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
“It’s a strange feeling as we were preparing to run our festival in Odesa as normal until February 24, and now we have to travel around other festivals to present our projects but it’s a way of carrying on,” festival director Anna Machuh told Deadline.
“I hope that by next year, these films will be completed, and we’ll be watching them in cinemas in Ukraine and in Odesa at the festival,...
- 7/5/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
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In a typical year, fans of Eastern European cinema, after enjoying the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in early July, would hop on a two-hour flight to Odesa, Ukraine for the Odesa International Film Festival, the No. 1 annual event for Ukrainian cinema.
2022, of course, is a far from typical. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 has made the Oiff untenable this year, but festivals across the region are showing cross-border solidarity with Ukraine filmmakers and the country’s stricken local industry. The PriFest in Kosovo (July 26-31) has agreed to cooperate with the Oiff on a series of special screenings of full-length and short films by Ukrainian debutant directors, and Poland’s Warsaw Film Festival will take over the screening of Oiff’s entire competition program at its event, which runs Oct. 14-23.
In Karlovy Vary, meanwhile, the festival is devoting a section...
In a typical year, fans of Eastern European cinema, after enjoying the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in early July, would hop on a two-hour flight to Odesa, Ukraine for the Odesa International Film Festival, the No. 1 annual event for Ukrainian cinema.
2022, of course, is a far from typical. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 has made the Oiff untenable this year, but festivals across the region are showing cross-border solidarity with Ukraine filmmakers and the country’s stricken local industry. The PriFest in Kosovo (July 26-31) has agreed to cooperate with the Oiff on a series of special screenings of full-length and short films by Ukrainian debutant directors, and Poland’s Warsaw Film Festival will take over the screening of Oiff’s entire competition program at its event, which runs Oct. 14-23.
In Karlovy Vary, meanwhile, the festival is devoting a section...
- 6/28/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Cannes Film Marché has unveiled the full lineup of its Ukraine in Focus program which will provide Ukrainian filmmakers and producers with networking, pitching and co-financing opportunities over two days during the Cannes Film Festival, on May 21 and 22.
Under the program, key market initiatives such as Goes to Cannes, Cannes Docs Showcase and the Producers Network will be skewed towards projects and executives from Ukraine in order to support the country which was invaded by Russia on Feb. 24 and has been at war since then. Deadline first reported the news that Cannes was planning a focus on Ukraine program.
The Producers’ Network, organized in collaboration with the Ukrainian Institute, will include six producers, including Denis Ivanov from Arthouse Traffic, Darya Bassel from Moon Man, Natalia Libet from Digital Religion, Sashko Chubko from Pronto Film, Olga Beskhmelnytsina from Esse Production House and Vladimir Yatsenko from ForeFilms.
Docs in Progress, presented...
Under the program, key market initiatives such as Goes to Cannes, Cannes Docs Showcase and the Producers Network will be skewed towards projects and executives from Ukraine in order to support the country which was invaded by Russia on Feb. 24 and has been at war since then. Deadline first reported the news that Cannes was planning a focus on Ukraine program.
The Producers’ Network, organized in collaboration with the Ukrainian Institute, will include six producers, including Denis Ivanov from Arthouse Traffic, Darya Bassel from Moon Man, Natalia Libet from Digital Religion, Sashko Chubko from Pronto Film, Olga Beskhmelnytsina from Esse Production House and Vladimir Yatsenko from ForeFilms.
Docs in Progress, presented...
- 4/13/2022
- by Patrick Frater and Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The world of mixed martial arts and the emotional terrain of war widowhood might sound like uneasy bedfellows, but Ukranian director Taras Dron makes a virtue of the backdrop for his inventive second feature, which won the best debut award at this year's Warsaw Film Festival. Yulia (Maryna Koshkina) is on the top of her game, in the physical sense at least. An Mma champ, she is surrounded by what, at least at first, appears to be a staunch set of allies at the training club she has been a part of since she was a teenager.
Dron doesn't waste time with setting the scene, instead dropping us into the run-up to a fight, so that we learn, by degrees, that her fiance Denys is missing, presumed dead, following the war in the east of the country and that someone else is now showing an interest. Yulia may be making tentative.
Dron doesn't waste time with setting the scene, instead dropping us into the run-up to a fight, so that we learn, by degrees, that her fiance Denys is missing, presumed dead, following the war in the east of the country and that someone else is now showing an interest. Yulia may be making tentative.
- 10/27/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Modovan comedy project ‘Carbon’ was the big winner.
Moldovan comedy Carbon has won the best pitch award at the Connecting Cottbus (coco) East-West Co-production Market held in Germany this week.
It is being produced by Sergiu Cumatrenco Jr and Ion Bors and will mark Bors’ feature directorial debut. The award includes a cash prize of €1,500 and free accreditation to the Producers Network at the Marche du Film in Cannes 2020.
The absurdist road movie, set during the armed conflict in Transnistria in the early 1990s, had been selected after winning the Transilvania Pitch Stop coco Award in Cluj in June.
It...
Moldovan comedy Carbon has won the best pitch award at the Connecting Cottbus (coco) East-West Co-production Market held in Germany this week.
It is being produced by Sergiu Cumatrenco Jr and Ion Bors and will mark Bors’ feature directorial debut. The award includes a cash prize of €1,500 and free accreditation to the Producers Network at the Marche du Film in Cannes 2020.
The absurdist road movie, set during the armed conflict in Transnistria in the early 1990s, had been selected after winning the Transilvania Pitch Stop coco Award in Cluj in June.
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- 11/8/2019
- by 158¦Martin Blaney¦40¦
- ScreenDaily
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