More exciting news! The shooting of the Goethe-Institut’s FIRST FILMS FIRST project RIDERS by Dominik Mencej has begun in Croatia. The film follows two best friends, TomaĹľ and Anton, who are both in their mid-twenties and living in a small Slovenian village. After watching Easy Rider, they redesign their mopeds to make them look like …
We are extremely excited and proud to announce that feature film INVENTORY by Darko Sinko has started shooting in Slovenia! The film tells a story about an ordinary man who suddenly gets shot through the window in his own house. As police is convinced that the shooting was a mere coincidence, he starts investigating on …
After a long and thorough deliberation, our Jury Committee has reached the final decision. It was an extremely difficult one to make, having in mind an impressive number of exceptional projects we have received. We proudly present you the 4 th generation of FIRST FILMS FIRST participants and their projects: (in alphabetical order) SHAME Urška …
Once again we are facing the familiar problem. We have received an impressive number of high quality projects and there can be only 8 participants. Therefore, we have to ask you for a little more patience as our Selecting Committee is deliberating and making difficult final decisions. We will announce the 8 finalists on May …
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Goethe-Institut’s First Films First training program couldn’t be more thrilled and proud! Nikos Labot’s debut feature Her Job, the first completed film of the program received three awards in the night of Hellenic Film Academy’s Iris Awards. Nikos Labot wins the Best Debut Film Director Award! Marisha Triantafyllidou wins the Best Actress Award! Maria Filini …
FIRST FILMS FIRST’s HER JOB wins 3 awards at the Hellenic Film Academy Awards!!! Read More »
Goethe-Institut’s First Films First training program is so proud that Nikos Labot’s debut feature Her Job, the first completed film keeps travelling and collecting awards. Now, the film is nominated in 6 categories of Hellenic Film Academy’s Iris Awards for Best Film, Best First Film, Best Script, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best …
HER JOB is nominated in 6 Categories for Hellenic Film AcademyAwards ! Read More »
During the last module at Sofia Meetings, after an exciting pitching, goEast Film Festival award went to Goethe-Institut\’s FIRST FILMS FIRST’s project “HONEY BUNNY” from Croatia, director Igor Jelinović, producer Rea RajÄŤić. Andrea Wink handed the award which takes the filmmakers to East-West Talent Lab during goEast. Good luck!
So glad to have received 98 applications for Goethe-Institut’s First Films First training program this year. We are looking forward to discovering new talents and cinematic voices from South-East Europe region! The selection results will be out by April 30th!
[vc_row row_type=\”row\” use_row_as_full_screen_section=\”no\” type=\”full_width\” angled_section=\”no\” text_align=\”left\” background_image_as_pattern=\”without_pattern\” css_animation=\”\”][vc_column][vc_column_text]3 rd Module of this year’s Goethe-Institut’s First Films First training program is now midway and we already had the fruitful Case Study of first completed FFF film, Her Job with the director Nikos Labot. All the phases and aspects of making the debut film in Europe were …
Cristi Puiu, Romanian auteur of several award winning films like Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Sierenevada, Aurora will have an open to public masterclass on his method of Directing Actors and he will also talk about the other aspects of his singular filmmaking moderated by Petar Mitric. This masterclass is organized by Goethe-Institut’s First Films First …
OPEN MASTERCLASS: ROMANIAN AUTEUR CRISTI PUIU on DIRECTING ACTORS Read More »