Open Call for Circle 2020
CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator announces the call for an exclusive one-year training program.
2020's Short Film Fund is open (early bird deadline: February 28th)
The Shore Scripts Short Film Fund offers an opportunity for emerging screenwriters and filmmakers to have their short film financed and produced.
IceDocs open for submissions
Documentaries of all lengths are accepted. All submitted films should have been released after January 1st 2018
Art Film Fest’s competition sections open to film submissions
Owners of screening rights may submit short films until 15 March 2020
Call for entries for the 39th Uppsala Short Film Festival
Submissions for the 39th Uppsala Short Film Festival. International short films can be submitted to the International Competition or the Children’s Film ...
Submissions for the 52nd edition of Directors' Fortnight are open
Entry deadline for Feature films: March 27, 2020.Entry deadline for Short and medium length films: March 13, 2020.
Open Call for Circle 2020
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2020's Short Film Fund is open (early bird deadline: February 28th)
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IceDocs open for submissions
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Art Film Fest’s competition sections open to film submissions
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Call for entries for the 39th Uppsala Short Film Festival
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rbb is the New Award Sponsor for Berlinale Documentary Film Award 2020
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Submissions for the 52nd edition of Directors' Fortnight are open
7Interviews
Interview: Monica Mazzitelli, the director of “The Wedding Cake” (2020)
With her latest short “The Wedding Cake”, Monica Mazzitelli won the international short film competition at the RVK feminist Film Festival, which kicked off in January this year.
Interview: Eydís Eir Brynju-Björnsdóttir, the director of Islandia (2018)
Eydís Eir Brynju-Björnsdóttir studied directing and script writing at the Icelandic Film School, and has gathered experience in the film production. With her debut short film Islandia, a very personal take on her own traumatic experience, she steered controversy in her home country by openly addressing the sensitive topic of rape…
Documentaries
Film Review: SJÄLÖ-Island of Souls (2020), by Lotta Petronella
Själö – also known as Seili in its alternative Finnish spelling – is the subject of Lotta Petronella’s lyrical film Island of Souls, which earned a Special Mention from the Nordic Jury at CPH:DOX festival last week.
Shorts
Film Review: White Eye (2019), by Tomer Shushan
Shot in one continuous take – which gives the film a sense of energy but never feels like cheap gimmickry – White Eye shows how seemingly simplistic choices ripple with a hugely complex wave of cause and effect.
Experimental Films
Film Review: Zeus Machine: The Invincible
Like most experimental collage films, Zeus Machine is an uneven patchwork. Some sections feel too slight and open-ended, others overly cryptic and wilfully obscure.
Film Review: Anbessa (2019), by Mo Scarpelli
Anbessa is a story about Asaif, a boy who lives with his mother in a mud house amidst the growing block of houses in the expanding suburb of Addis Ababa.
So what if the goats die (2020), by Sofia Alaoui
Director Sofia Aloui delivers a piece of work that is gently playful as it filters a narrative that would be the staple of any Hollywood blockbuster through the point of a view of a protagonist who is one step removed from everything that is happening around him.
Film Review: Sodom & Gomorrah (2019), by Curtis Essel
of the most memorable titles from the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival’s international competition is a one-man experimental documentary Sodom & Gomorrah, produced by the London-based visual production collective 33BOUND.
Open Calls
Open Call for Circle 2020
CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator announces the call for an exclusive one-year training program.
