Is the best what they say it is? The topic of “The Best” arises with the issue of choice in the context of supply and demand. What does “the best” mean in the rich palette of film festivals today? Let’s break down what the criteria might be in the ranking. What types and kinds of[…]
THE BEST REAL FILM FESTIVAL The event that everyone had been looking forward to finally happened. The Short Movie Club Film Festival Nefiltravanae Kino took place! This year the festival featured 10 programs: video art, experiment, documentary, fiction, animation, national program, human dignity, women in cinema, unfiltered program and, of course, a program of films[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
WINNERS OF THE 6th SHORT MOVIE CLUB FILM FESTIVAL “NEFILTRAVANAE KINO” Winners of the 6th edition of the Short Movie Club Film Festival “NEFILTRAVANAE KINO”. The festival was held on March 13-15, 2020 in Minsk, Belarus. GRAND-PRIX + The Best Belarussian Film ALL ACTIVITIES ACCORDING TO THE PLAN Ales Lapo (Belarus, 13 min) The young[…]
UPCOMING DEADLINES OF QUALIFIED FESTIVALS WITH SHORT FILM COMPETITION We selected FIAPF, Academy Qualified Film Festivals deadline with short film competitions that are not on the Filmfreeway. A list of the rest qualified festivals on the Filmfreeway is here. ALL QUALIFIED FESTIVALS RELATED ARTICLES: ALL ARTICLES: PROJECTS:
What film festivals should I submit to? The festivals landscape is not the same as it was five or ten years ago. There are thousands of festivals you can find on the Filmfreeway. Their number reaches 10.000 almost. Majority of the festivals demands entry fee. Thus a festival circuit can be not cheap for a[…]
WINNERS OF THE 5th SHORT MOVIE CLUB (UNFILTERED CINEMA) FILM FESTIVAL Winners of the 5th edition of the Short Movie Club (Unfiltered Cinema) Film Festival and honorary mentions. GRAND-PRIX+THE BEST FICTION FILM KAPITALISTIS Pablo Munoz Gomez (France-Belgium, 15 min) Santa is capitalist. He brings toys to the rich kids and swea shirts to the poor[…]
WINNERS OF THE SHORT MOVIE CLUB FILM FESTIVAL (3d EDITION) Winners of the film festival that was held in July 2017 at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Minsk. GRAND-PRIX AURORA, dir. DIEGO FANDOS (Czech, Spain; 11 min) THE BEST FICTION FILM ENTRE DEUX EAUX, dir. PATRICE CORDONNIER (France , Morocco; 28 min) THE BEST[…]