33e Festival international du cinéma méditerranéen de Montpellier

Se déroulera du 21 au 29 octobre 2011.

Ici, le programme complet du festival.

Prix documentaire organisé au Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels (FIPA).

L’appel à projet pour documentaire est lancé, la date limite de réception des dossiers, est fixée au 31 octobre. 10 projets seront sélectionnés par un jury de professionnels. Les producteurs seront invités à l’atelier de formation.

Pour plus d'information:

cps@cfi.fr
lkt@cfi.f

62nd Berlin International Film Festival

The 62nd Berlin International Film Festival will take place from February 09-19, 2012.

Online Film submission is now activated and you can start entering films for the programme there.

Film submissions can only be made via online registration from September 20 until October, 31st (feature length films) and November 14, 2011 (short films).

The 9th International Festival Signes de Nuit

The 9th International Festival Signes de Nuit
(October 5th 16th 2011)

A particular festival focused on a
"Cinema different"

Discover the world in another way
Discover other worlds
Discover other worlds in another way

The Creation of Difference

Program
Dossier de presse

DOCmed calls for entries

Producers and directors from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and Palestine can now register to participate in DOCmed, a documentary programme designed to help filmmakers improve development standards, finance and the management of documentary projects.

Deadline for registration is January 25, 2012. More information on DOCmed

Oslo Screen Festival

Oslo Screen Festival, international festival for video art, is now open for entries to its third edition in March 2012 and would like to invite all artists and filmmakers to send their works.

Please find regulation & entry form here.
The deadline for entries is November 1st.

In: The Daily Star - Time to rethink the festival formula (Aug 4, 2011)

BEIRUT: Pierre Sarraf says the financial crisis did not kill Né a Beyrouth’s Lebanese Film Festival. The dodgy business practices that drove the juggernaut of deregulated global capital before 2008 may have had a crushing impact upon many states’ social welfare and arts funding programs, but it left Né a Beyrouth intact.

“Bank Audi [LFF’s official partner] had some major budget cutbacks,” Sarraf says. “They wanted to cut their participation but, during negotiations, they increased it a little from the original cut so it wasn’t so damaging.”

Festival director since LFF was launched in 2001 – under the name “Né a Beyrouth,” after the production company that created and ran it – Sarraf says that, the 2010 edition actually ran at a surplus.

“People … assume that that bank’s budget cuts are the reason we’re stopping,” he smiles. “Just like some other people will say, ‘Ah there’s a change of government! That’s why!’”

Since it was launched in 2001, the August event has opened Lebanon’s film festival season and come to fill a niche for Beirutis yearning to see their stories projected in air-conditioned comfort. LFF’s extinction is surprising, since its 2010 edition was more successful – in terms of box office receipts and film quality – than any other.

To read the full article: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Film/2011/Aug-04/Time-to-rethink-the-festival-formula.ashx#axzz1U3jYjQD4