Film Center Serbia Prioritises PCR Testings for Film Crews in Serbia
BELGRADE: Film Center Serbia (FCS) is making the PCR testing for film crews a priority, and in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and Information, it is supporting the filmmaking trade associations and guilds in organising group vaccinations for their members.
Since May 2020, when the official and compulsory healthcare guidelines regarding filmmaking during the pandemic were established, Film Center Serbia has been formally aiding film crews to get PCR testing as priority groups.
According to the official data, more than a million of Serbian citizens have been vaccinated by the beginning of March 2021, reaching 95% of those who had applied for the vaccination up to that point. The goal is to reach two million vaccinated persons. Serbia has one of the highest inoculation rates in Europe, mainly thanks to the government s large purchases of the Sinopharm vaccine from China and the Russian Sputnik V vaccine. T
SOFIA: Bulgaria s Ministry of Health has allowed the re-opening of cinemas on 1 April 2021, together with theatres, museums, galleries, libraries and circus performances, but only at 30% of their capacity.
The activity of restaurants and entertainment centres will be allowed indoors from 6.00 a.m. to 11 p.m. As restaurants in malls and commercial centres will not be allowed to function, the consumption of drinks and food will not be possible, even if the respective cinemas are open.
Classes in dance, creative and musical arts are also allowed starting 1 April 2021.
Forced to follow the anti COVID-19 epidemic measures, which ordered the closure of all cinemas throughout the country from 22 to 31 March 2021, the 25th Anniversary Sofia Film Fest will now restart with some of the films that could not meet the audience live. The festival will restart from 2 to 8 April 2021 presenting highlights from its traditional programmes in cinemas.
The Dream of Cinema – YELLOW CAT Poised to Open 21st Edition of goEast
Short, Shorter, Anarchic – The RheinMain Short Film Award and Anarcho Shorts at goEast // Propulsive Balkan Beats // Experimental Film Master Class with Péter Lichter and Márió Z. Nemes
Wiesbaden/Frankfurt, 4 March 2021
YELLOW CAT (Zheltaya Koshka, Kazakhstan/France, 2020), directed by long-time festival friend Adilkhan Yerzhanov, has been selected as the opening film for this year s edition of goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film (running from 20 to 26 April). The festival, hosted annually by DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, is proud to present the German premiere of this tragicomic road movie revolving around Kermek, who is released from prison thanks to a shady deal. In the grim reality of life on the outside, Kermek seeks escape in cinema, spurred on by the dream of creating his own movie theatre in the mountains where he can finally lea
04-03-2021 Industry platform gets a boost for the 20th anniversary edition. First Cut Lab Cluj is the newest addition
Transilvania International Film Festival (Cluj, Romania) reinforces and expands its industry platform for the 20th edition, in order to address current issues of the film sector and strengthen the Romanian pool of talents and its ties to neighbouring countries.
Transilvania IFF was the first major film festival to take place physically in Europe during the pandemic in the summer of 2020. The festival will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a new summer edition, from July 23 to August 1, 2021.
The already established programmes
East Doc Platform Presents Five Czech Productions
The Law of Love / Zákon lásky
The Czech Republic was the first country in the former Eastern bloc to legalise same-sex marriages, but the law has still a long way to go. Barbora Chalupová (co-director of
Caught in the Net, the most successful Czech documentary of all time and highest grossing Czech film of 2020) observes the ongoing political struggle.
Directed by Barbora Chalupová
Country: Czech Republic
Producer Jíří Konečný (co-producer of the 2021 Golden Lion winner
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn) takes on a portrait of Czechoslovak communist leader and reformer Alexander Dubček, who led the country before the Soviet invasion of 1968.