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Darko Sinko\’s first feature fiction project Inventory is among the five selected projects in the WIP EUROPA section of San Sebastian Film Festival. WIP EUROPA takes place from Sept. 22nd to 24th. https://www.sansebastianfestival.com/2020/sections_and_films/wip_europa/7/686491/in Darko Sinko is an alumnus of Goethe-Institut\’s First Films First training program where he developed Inventory during 4 modules of the program. …

INVENTORY goes WORK in PROGRESS of SAN SEBASTIAN! Read More »

Ankara Film Festival every year supports one first or second feature fiction project of a director from Turkey with the support of European Union Delegation. This year, A Deserved Kiss received the development award for best project which is worth 30000 Turkish Lira .  Murat Uğurlu is currently a participant of Goethe-Institut’s First Films First …

A DESERVED KISS receives the Development Award in ANKARA FF! Read More »

Filmmakers take the necessary precautions during the pandemic and start going back to film sets.  We are so glad to share that Goethe-Institut’s First Films First alumnus Ştefan Constantinescu hit the first clapperboard for his debut feature fiction film Man and Dog which is an investigative pseudo-noir following an guest worker coming back from Sweden …

FIRST CLAPPERBOARD for MAN and DOG! Read More »

The 1st online module of the Goethe-Institut’s FIRST FILMS FIRST program has finished. For seven days, new participants from our 5th generation have been developing their scripts with the help of tutors Gabriele Brunnenmeyer and Srdjan Koljević. It was challenging, but the result went beyond our expectations, as the participants and tutors managed to connect …

FIRST FILMS FIRST’S 1ST ONLINE MODULE WRAPS!  Read More »

The Goethe-Institut’s FIRST FILMS FIRST 4th generation of directors finally got the chance to present their exciting projects to the film world at the online edition of the Sofia Meetings co-production market. A big thanks to Sofia Meeting\’s co-production market for having us! Our participants and their producers made us super proud of great pitching …

FIRST FILMS FIRST 4TH GENERATION GRADUATES!  Read More »

The Board of Management of the Council of Europe\’s Eurimages Fund has awarded FIRST FILMS FIRST project BEHIND THE HAYSTACKS by Assimina Proedrou with €160.000 for production!  Congratulations to our dear Asimina and her creative team! We can’t wait for the film!! The project is co-production between Greece and Germany and already got support from …

BEHIND THE HAYSTACKS WINS EURIMAGES FUNDING!  Read More »

Great news from Croatia! PULA by Andrej Korovljev has received support for production in the amount of 438,000 Euros. The film explores an impossible love story set in a touristic seaside town Pula flooded with refugees during the war in Bosnia in the 90s. Dijana Mlađenović is producing through the production house Kinematograf. LEAVE THE …

3 FFF PROJECTS FUNDED BY CROATIAN AUDIOVISUAL CENTRE! Read More »

This year we have received 103 exciting debut film projects from Southeast Europe. It was very difficult to choose only 8. After thorough and long deliberation, our Jury Committee has reached the final decision. We proudly present you the 5th generation of Goethe-Institut’s FIRST FILMS FIRST participants and their projects: (in alphabetical order) APOLLON BY …

ANNOUNCING THE 5th GENERATION OF GOETHE-INSTITUT’S FIRST FILMS FIRST! Read More »

As he is finishing the editing of his humorous existentialist thriller INVENTORY, our FIRST FILMS FIRST fellow alumnus Darko Sinko opens up about surprising mix of films he watches these days, recommends a Slovenian classic and shares insights from the shooting of his debut feature. What films do you recommend to watch during self-isolation? I …

FIRST FILMS FIRST TALKS: Darko Sinko Read More »