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European titles submitted for the Oscars race

Despite this year's atypical situation, European countries are starting to reveal their titles submitted for the Best International Feature Film Award at the 2021 Academy Awards

16/11 | Oscars 2021

The European film industry strives to find its way through the second wave of the coronavirus

We present an overview of the film events affected by the new measures announced by national governments to contain the fresh surge in the COVID-19 pandemic

16/11 | Europe

The European Short Pitch hands out its awards

The 14th edition of the pan-European initiative dedicated to short films ran online, with new projects from Hanis Bagashov and Hilke Rönnfeldt receiving the main awards

16/11 | Shorts | Europe

Review: Karen

María Pérez Sanz signs her name to a calm, intimate and rather down-to-earth portrait of the Danish writer Isak Dinesen, which is a far cry from the character we all know from Out of Africa

13/11 | Seville 2020

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Film Reviews

The Last Ones
by Veiko Õunpuu
Veiko Õunpuu’s new film, Estonia’s submission for the 2021 Oscars, is a modern Lapland-set western rich in testosterone where capitalism clashes with ecology, dreams with reality

Karen
by María Pérez Sanz
María Pérez Sanz signs her name to a calm, intimate and rather down-to-earth portrait of the Danish writer Isak Dinesen, which is a far cry from the character we all know from Out of Africa

Rascal
by Peter Dourountzis
Pierre Deladonchamps dazzles as a seductive and dangerous vagabond, the troubling protagonist of Peter Dourountzis’s first feature, a social thriller about the role of the individual

Death on the Streets
by Johan Carlsen
Johan Carlsen’s drama tells the story of a hopeless young man struggling to provide for his family

Ons
by Alfonso Zarauza
Alfonso Zarauza’s latest film testifies to the maturity of a director whose steady hand maintains the fragile equilibrium of a story packed full of sharp edges and hidden mysteries

Meander
by Mathieu Turi
Awarded the Nocturno New Visions Prize at Trieste Science+Fiction 2020, Mathieu Turi's horror will have you hyperventilating from claustrophobia

Castro’s Spies
by Gary Lennon, Ollie Aslin
Irish filmmakers Gary Lennon and Ollie Aslin deliver an informative and engaging documentary on the Cuban Five, a group of top-notch spies operating in 1990s Miami

Unidentified
by Bogdan George Apetri
Romanian director Bogdan George Apetri’s second film is a bleak drama following a wayward, eccentric small-town police inspector pushed to breaking point

Review: Daniel '16

Dimitris Koutsiabasakos delivers a buddy movie with a social conscience. And emus

16/11 | Thessaloniki 2020

Review: The Last Ones

Veiko Õunpuu’s new film, Estonia’s submission for the 2021 Oscars, is a modern Lapland-set western rich in testosterone where capitalism clashes with ecology, dreams with reality

16/11 | Black Nights 2020

L’Alternativa revs its engines in the year of the pandemic

With Catalonia’s theatres shuttered because of health-and-safety measures, the 27th Barcelona Independent Film Festival is gearing up to take place online, via various digital platforms

16/11 | Festivals | Awards | Spain

The 65th Cork International Film Festival announces its award winners

The D’Innocenzo brothers’ Bad Tales has snagged the Spirit of the Festival Award, whilst Estephan Wagner and Marianne Hougen-Moraga’s Songs of Repression was crowned Best Documentary

16/11 | Festivals | Awards | Ireland

The first clapperboard slams in Sardinia on Leonardo Di Costanzo’s Dall’interno

Toni Servillo and Silvio Orlando are set to lead a cast together for the very first time in the Italian director’s third feature film, shot in a former prison in Sassari

16/11 | Production | Funding | Italy/Switzerland

Malmkrog pockets Seville’s Golden Giraldillo for Best Film

Cristi Puiu’s garrulous movie, set in 19th-century Russia, has also scooped the Award for Best Screenplay at the Spanish gathering, which was heavily affected by the pandemic

16/11 | Seville 2020 | Awards

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Interviews

We talked to Sascha Keilholz and Frédéric Jaeger, the new director and head of programme of the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, which goes online from 12-22 November

We spoke with Alessandro Stellino, the new artistic director of Florence’s Festival dei Popoli, about the upcoming edition of the event which is unspooling entirely online between 15 - 22 November

We chatted with Giona A Nazzaro who spoke with enthusiasm about his recent appointment as Artistic Director of the Locarno Film Festival

We talked to Adrian Jasion, one of the organisers of the Post Production Forum, about the upcoming event

We spoke to Nermin Hamzagić, who is competing at the Zagreb Film Festival with Full Moon, a socially aware thriller that is also nominated for the EFA Award in the European Discovery competition

We talked to Ramiro Ledo, president of the Spanish association PROMIO, which stands up for cultural diversity, audiovisual literacy and a greater presence of European titles in movie theatres

Spaniard María Pérez Sanz is competing at Seville with her second film, Karen, an intimate portrait of the day-to-day existence of famous author Isak Dinesen

We caught up with Daniel Goroshko, Head of Acquisitions and CEO of A-One Films, to discuss the arthouse movie market in Russia

17 titles set to grace the French-German Film Meetings line-up

Projects by Claire Burger, Kamal Lazraq, Hicham Lasri, Julie Caty and brothers Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi steal focus on the agenda of the co-production market, which is unspooling online 17 - 18 November

16/11 | Industry | Market | France/Germany

Thessaloniki’s Agora reveals its winners

A handful of awards have been bestowed upon the participating projects in the Crossroads and Works in Progress sections

16/11 | Thessaloniki 2020 | Agora/Awards

Oasis triumphs at the 18th Zagreb Film Festival

Ivan Ikić’s bold film has won the main award at Zagreb, the Golden Pram, while Danilo Šerbedžija’s Tereza37 scooped the Audience Award

16/11 | Zagreb 2020 | Awards

Trailers/Teasers/Clips

Should the Wind Drop
dy Nora Martirosyan
Cannes 2020 - ACID and Official Selection
Tallin 2020 - First Feature Competition

Final Report
by István Szabó
Tallin 2020 - Competition

Erna at War
by Henrik Ruben Genz
Tallin 2020 - Competition

Armugan
by Jo Sol
Tallin 2020 - Competition

Caged Birds
by Oliver Rihs
Tallin 2020 - Competition

Interview: Nermin Hamzagić • Director of Full Moon

“I had the urge to speak about the dysfunctional society in Bosnia”

We spoke to Nermin Hamzagić, who is competing at the Zagreb Film Festival with Full Moon, a socially aware thriller that is also nominated for the EFA Award in the European Discovery competition

13/11 | Zagreb 2020

Watch on Cineuropa: On top of the world - 10 years of festival prizewinners

More hits from the world’s best festivals for you to watch on our pages – enjoy, and stay tuned for more!

13/11 | Watch on Cineuropa

The third edition of Torino Film Industry moves online

From 17 – 24 November, the event will host meetings on its dedicated streaming platform between exhibitors and professionals from the world of film and the Italian and international audiovisual scene

13/11 | Turin 2020 | Torino Film Industry

Film Reviews

That Was Life
by David Martín de los Santos
David Martín de los Santos makes his fiction debut with a humble, emotional and intimate film whose subtle subject-matter is shored up by the acting abilities of the great Petra Martínez

Atomic Summer
by Gaël Lépingle
Gaël Lépingle retraces through fiction the first 24 hours, in survival mode, of five childhood friends stuck inside a closed perimeter established after a nuclear incident

Walden
by Bojena Horackova
Bojena Horackova looks back on a love affair riddled with difficult choices between two youngsters living in Lithuania in 1989, a country caught in the middle, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall

Amercement
by Fokion Bogris
Fokion Bogris' debut film is an elevated Greek gangster picture that takes a pop shot at toxic masculinity and homophobia

The Bright Side
by Ruth Meehan
Ruth Meehan’s film is a pleasant dramedy, rich in brilliant moments and able to treat a delicate topic with depth and courage

Baby
by Juanma Bajo Ulloa
Juanma Bajo Ulloa continues to prove that he is clearly not an accommodating filmmaker with this daring, macabre tale completely devoid of dialogue, which you will either love to bits or detest

Spiral
by Cecília Felméri
Cecilia Felmeri signs a very promising first feature by immersing herself in nature, in a disquieting realism for a metaphor of couplehood and the life cycle

The Food Club
by Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg
Danish director Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg sets her over-60 comedy in Italy, a story of friendship and solidarity between mature women. A special event at the 21st Lecce European Film Festival

Zinebi turns 62 and makes the leap online

The exclusive international rendezvous for short films and documentaries is unspooling between 13 and 20 November, on site in Bilbao and – for the first time – online

13/11 | Zinebi 2020

Review: Ons

Alfonso Zarauza’s latest film testifies to the maturity of a director whose steady hand maintains the fragile equilibrium of a story packed full of sharp edges and hidden mysteries

13/11 | Seville 2020

Adam Berg’s Scandi action thriller Black Crab in development

The new production, based on Jerker Virdborg’s novel of the same name, stars Noomi Rapace in the lead role

13/11 | Production | Funding | Sweden

Interviews

We talked to Danish director Lin Alluna, whose project Twice Colonized won the inaugural Cineuropa Marketing Prize for the best project from CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator

Alamode Film's Tobias Lehmann discusses the role of independent distributors, the particularities of Germany and the effects of the COVID pandemic on their business

We chatted with David Martín de los Santos who is competing in Seville’s European Film Festival with his intimate and emotional debut work That Was Life

We talked to Boris T Matić, the director of the Zagreb Film Festival, which is celebrating its 18th edition this year and happening entirely online from 8-15 November

Carole Scotta, co-founder of Haut et Court and co-president of the Reunited European Independent Distributors (DIRE), analyses the current crisis and evaluates recovery options

Swedish director Lisa Langseth talks about accidentally giving birth to Netflix series Love & Anarchy, about her love of inept characters and about decent treatment for creators, not least in her home country

We talked to Elise Jalladeau and Orestis Andreadakis, general director and artistic director of the Thessaloniki IFF, about the upcoming online edition, unfolding from 5-15 November

We talked to the director of Eternal Jožo, Jan Gogola Jr, about finding a spiritual side to a pop star

Review: Death on the Streets

Johan Carlsen’s drama tells the story of a hopeless young man struggling to provide for his family

13/11 | Thessaloniki 2020

Review: Meander

Awarded the Nocturno New Visions Prize at Trieste Science+Fiction 2020, Mathieu Turi's horror will have you hyperventilating from claustrophobia

13/11 | Trieste Science+Fiction 2020

Review: Castro’s Spies

Irish filmmakers Gary Lennon and Ollie Aslin deliver an informative and engaging documentary on the Cuban Five, a group of top-notch spies operating in 1990s Miami

13/11 | Films | Reviews | Ireland

Trailers/Teasers/Clips

Riders of Justice
by Anders Thomas Jensen
Danish release Novembre 19

The Last Ones
by Veiko Õunpuu
Tallin 2020 - Baltic Competition

Submission
by Leonardo Antonio
Tallin 2020 - Competition

The Sign Painter
by Viestur Kairish
Tallin 2020 - Competition

On the Water
by Peeter Simm
Tallin 2020 - Competition

Industry Reports

11/02/2020

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