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FFF\’s LONG WEEKEND Receives HUBERT BALS FUND!

Katarina Koljevic\’s debut Long Weekend has been granted the prestigious Hubert Bals Fund of the International Rotterdam Film Festival worth 10K Euro for the development. \’One woman\’s leap to death will lead to another woman\’s leap of life.\’ Directress is a current participant in Goethe-Institut\’s FIRST FILMS FIRST where she is developing her project as …

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BEST DEBUT is FFF\’s BEHIND THE HAYSTACKS @ INDIA, GOA!

The best debut award of The International Film Festival of India, Goa goes to Asimina Proedrou for her debut feature film, Behind the Haystacks “to recognize and encourage the most prominent directorial talent in World Cinema”.  “Behind the Haystacks is a culmination of an intense psychological dissertation of redundant morality, ingrained aversiveness towards the ethnic …

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FANTASTIC REVIEWS for FFF\’s THE MAN WITHOUT GUILT!

\”The way he intertwines complicated personal histories with equally toxic national ones is simply masterful… His smart writing is matched by his equally deft directing, with a strong sense of visual style… The casting, acting and directing of the actors are also high points of the film, with Branko Završan’s effort being the most impressive…. …

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3 AWARDS for FFF\’s RIDERS @ FESTIVAL of SLOVENIAN FILM!

Dominik Mencej\’s debut RIDERS has received Best Lead Actor (Petja Labovic), Best Editing (Andrej Nagode & Matic Drakulic), and Best Sound (Samo Jurca) awards at the Festival of Slovenian Film being the most important national event of Slovenian Cinema!  We would like to share with you the video interview conducted with the director by Cineuropa …

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6 AWARDS for FFF\’s BEHIND THE HAYSTACKS @THESSALONIKI FF!

We are extremely excited to share with you that Asimina Proedrou\’s debut Behind The Haystacks, the 10th completed film of Goethe-Institut\’s FIRST FILMS FIRST has just received 6 awards right after its world premiere in the Meet The Neighbors competitive section of Thessaloniki International Film Festival! Great news, grandest congratulations! Here are the awards and …

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WORLD PREMIERE for FFF\’s BEHIND THE HAYSTACKS @THESSALONIKI!

Asimina Proedrou\’s debut BEHIND THE HAYSTACKS is the 10th completed film developed via Goethe-Institut\’s FIRST FILMS FIRST and having a world premiere tonight as part of the Meet the Neighbors section of Thessaloniki International Film Festival! A tragic incident on Greece\’s northern border strikes a local family of three, pushing them to face their own …

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FFF\’s LOST YEARS AWARDED @AGORA CROSSROADS!

Aron Horvath Botka’s debut project Lost Years returns with the EAVE Marketing Scholarship award from the Agora Crossroads Co-production forum of Thessaloniki International Film Festival.  The producer is Andraz Jeric of Temporama from Slovenia. Congratulations Aron and Andraz! Lost Years is a zeitgeist story taking place in a small town on the Slovenia-Hungary border where time and space seem …

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WORLD PREMIERE for FFF\’s THE MAN WITHOUT GUILT @TALLINN!

Ivan Gergolet\’s feature fiction debut The Man Without Guilt will have its world premiere in the First Features competition of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival which is the A-list festival of Northern Europe. Huge congratulations! Angela, an asbestos widow, meets the man responsible for her husband’s death. Deciding to become his caregiver to punish him, …

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