Florenc Papas was successfully touring international film festivals with his debut film OPEN DOOR when the pandemic broke and stopped everything. Goethe-Institut’s FIRST FILMS FIRST fellow alumnus shares his feelings about the sudden change, explains the importance of exteriors in films, and recommends what to watch, including two Albanian classics. What do you recommend to …
After amazing success with his short PATISION AVENUE (Venice competition, 3 awards at Clermont-Ferrand), Goethe-Institut\’s FIRST FILMS FIRST alum Thanasis Neofotistos is preparing his feature debut PETER AND THE WOLF. He shares with us which classic Greek movie was his main inspiration, reveals how quarantine has become his guilty pleasure and offers tips on what …
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Goethe-Institut’s First Films First training program will continue developing the debut fiction projects of young filmmakers from South-East Europe with big pleasure in its the fifth year. Due to the unprecedented pandemic, we are witnessing, we will need slightly more time to finalize the selection of projects. Therefore, we’d like to share with you that …
FIRST FILMS FIRST SELECTION WILL BE OUT on MAY 15th! Read More »
Nazlı Elif Durlu, an alumna of Goethe-Institut\’s FIRST FILMS FIRST development program received the Color-Up post-production award with her feature debut ZUHAL at Meetings On the Bridge, the industry platform of Istanbul Film Festival which recently took place online. We are extremely excited about the award and so curious to see ZUHAL on screen as soon as …
ZUHAL gets Post-Production AWARD at MEETINGS ON THE BRIDGE! Read More »
In these crazy crisis times, we have reached out to our fellow participants to check how they are dealing with the situation and give us some tips. As she is locked down in Hamburg, in the editing of her debut SNOW AND THE BEAR, Selcen Ergun shares why watching post-apocalyptic films could be calming, …
MENCEJ’s Debut gets POST-PRODUCTION support from CROATIA! In the near future, filmmakers will be able to use the funds they received in order to complete their films. Goethe-Institut’s First Films First alumnus Dominik Mencej is amongst them. He completed the principal cinematography of his debut feature fiction film entitled Spring Dreaming (formerly known as Riders) …
MENCEJ’s Debut gets POST-PRODUCTION support from CROATIA! Read More »
We are so delighted to have received 103 applications for Goethe- Institut’s First Films First training program this year. We just can’t wait to discover new talents and cinematic voices from the South-East Europe region! The selection results will be out by April 30th!
Oscar-nominated Honeyland’s director Tamara Kotevska (co-directed with Ljubomir Stefanov) is preparing her feature fiction debut Man vs. Flock (working title) which she developed during Goethe-Institut’s First Films First program. The project is already supported by a production grant of  325.738 EURO by The Macedonian Film Agency. Variety reported during Berlinale that Kotevska plans to start shooting …
We have extended the deadline for our call for entries to March 10th. To apply, go to: http://localhost:8888/how-to- apply/.
We are so proud to announce that Italian Ministry of Culture’s Audiovisual Directorate gave a production support to 3 projects which were all developed during Goethe-Institut’s First Films First program. All three filmmakers were classmates as part of the third generation of FFF while developing their debut feature fiction projects. Magdelena Ilieva’s ETERNITY PACKAGE is …
THREE PROJECTS of FFF SUPPORTED for PRODUCTION by ITALY! Read More »