In this article, we will talk about the correlation between cinema and short films. We will try to understand the place of this type of art among contemporary forms of media expression. What is the place? First of all, let’s define a short film. The first thing that comes to mind is its length. After[…]
How many films do film festivals accept out of the total number of movies submitted? To answer this question, we sampled 150 Academy Qualified/FIAPF/ BAFTA and 300 other festivals on the Filmfreeway. We found film festivals that shared information about the number of films submitted and the number of selected films. Then we summarized this[…]
THE BEST BACKSTAGE PHOTOS We have collected the most exciting behind-the-scenes photos of films that have been submitted to our festival in the past year. In these photos we can see the work and energy on the set. Where the story unfolds, too. Perhaps no less inspiring than the film itself. Enjoy. ALL PHOTOS […]
Best Short Films Online We are glad to present you with our virtual movie theater. Here you can watch the best short films online. We decided to collect in one place the films that the authors have posted online. We are talking about the films that have been selected for the programs of our festival.[…]
How to make DCP Festival participants and filmmakers often have the question of how to make a DCP (Digital Cinema Package). The point is that DCP is a special format for the projection of films on cinema equipment. DCP is a unified standard that ensures the reliability and quality of the projection. In addition, DCP[…]
This article presents our DJ set, a variation on the theme of platitudes about cinematography in academic papers. Thank you for your attention! Allegro: Cinema and Technology As it is known, cinema was born because of the progress of science and technology, but at the same time, it is the result of the centuries-old development[…]
FESTIVAL DATES: March 12-14, 2021 VENUES: | Cinema theatre “BELARUS” | Lo-Fi Social Club| | WINNERS | PROGRAMMES | JURY | The festival remains one of the rare festivals to be held physically. Thus, the festival continues to be a memorable event for foreign visitors and audiences alike. During the three days of the festival, about 60[…]
We still have to go through this nebula in March, between Scylla and Charybdis. But there is one thing. True vivid cinema lives where the revolution lives, where the youth of cinema passed. Paris 1968? No, Minsk 2021. Perhaps selecting films and composing the competition program is like a girl that turning into a woman and[…]
Finally, after all the twists and turns of 2020, we announce the selected films for the Pandemia online film festival. The past year has shown that pandemic and lockdown have affected the style, approach and editing of short films. Filmmakers found themselves constrained in their choice of means and opportunities to organise filming. However, new forms[…]
The best websites for short films submitted to our festival in 2019 We hope that this experience of creating short film websites will be useful not only for beginners but also for those who are interested in film promotion. The website is not only a business card for a film or a film company, but[…]
The United Nations General Assembly has designated November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The premise of the day is to raise awareness of the fact that women around the world are subject to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence; furthermore, one of the aims of the[…]
Artificial Intelligence in the Film Festival The Film Festival “Nefiltravanae Kino” announces a unique film program composed by artificial intelligence. The selection of films and the winners in the new section will be carried out by a two-layer convolution neural network. The model has been trained to mark films, using more than fifty information parameters[…]
The Top 100 Best Reviewed Festivals Our team was notified that the Short Movie Club film festival Nefiltravanae Kino has ranked as one of the Top 100 Best Reviewed Festivals on FilmFreeway for the month of June! According to reviews from real FilmFreeway users, our festival ranks in the top 1.5% of more than 9,000[…]
Genius Loci Weimar: Video Mapping – Immersive & Barrier-free It can be said that a person lives in an artificial environment. Since some time, the physical environment has been supplemented by the digital environment, if no substitution has taken place. In other words, the virtual world has become a reality. And we are dealing with[…]
Crowdfunding for filmmakers with the Short Movie Club An accelerator of crowdfunding for filmmakers. The film crowdfunding campaign can be more effective with the Short Movie Club. Hello, we’ve upgraded our accelerating crowdfunding page. So now you can add your film crowdfunding campaign to the Short Movie Club list. Then we will make a mass mailing[…]
The rubric is dedicated to research in film theory. Every month we will publish the most interesting scholarly articles, which were presented at the film studies conference in Minsk on March 13, 2020, with the support of the Short Movie Club. This time you will find a paper devoted to gender issues in movies. This time it’s[…]
Now our guest, director of the short film ANNA, the winner of the Short Movie Club Film Festival, Dekel Berenson. According to the IMDb page, Dekel Berenson is a writer, director, and graphic designer. Drawing inspiration from traveling to more than sixty countries, Dekel explores real-world social and humanitarian issues. His 2nd film Ashmina won[…]
Sometimes our team gets questions about why we use the image of Lenin in our symbols. The festival is placed in Belarus country with former bolshevism traditions. We involve theater, artists to interpret symbols and history. We work with the audience’s reaction and participants’ as well. A little history of how Lenin is related to[…]
Updated lists of film grants, free courses, streams, and major festivals … April COVID news Well, they say it’s a tough time for the film industry. We have updated the list of film grants for 2020. We also want to present you a mini-guide to the most prestigious film festivals. Look details here Did you know that Toronto[…]
Going back to past events again. I wonder how we managed to get the festival through the last days before quarantine! This festival of 2020 can be rightly called a COVID film festival. Many of our guests, if they were able to come to the festival, have returned to quite different countries than those from[…]