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Tuesday 13 June, 2017

Glocal in Progress has changed its Industry Award Rules

The Glocal in Progress Industry Award aims to contribute to the completion of a European feature produced in non-hegemonic language.

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Monday 5 June, 2017

Krakow Film Festival 2017: Prize Winners

The 57th edition of the Krakow Film Festival (28 May – 4 June 2017) wrapped with awards for the best documentary, short and animated films in one of Europe’s top showcases for non-fiction feature films.

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Monday 29 May, 2017

Poland and Lithuania sign a cooperation agreement

The Polish Film Institute and the Lithuanian Film Centre to strengthen the cooperation between the two countries.

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Monday 29 May, 2017

Cannes Prize Winners

The 70th Cannes Film Festival held from 17 to 28 May awarded its top prize the Palme d’Or to The Square, a Swedish, German, French, Danish and USA coproduction directed by Ruben Östlund. The jury headed by Pedro Almodóvar also made a surprise special award for the 70th anniversary of Cannes to Nicole Kidman, who appeared in two competition films The Killing of a Sacred Deer and The Beguiled and two films screening out of competition, the season two of Top of the Lake and special screening How to Talk to Girls at Parties.

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Tuesday 16 May, 2017

Filmax International will introduce ERREMENTARI to buyers in Cannes

CANNES — Barcelona-based Filmax International has taken all rights to fantasy horror “Errementari – The Blacksmith and the Devil,” the feature debut of Basque country-born Paul Urkijo Alijo. The new acquisition will be presented to buyers for the first time at the Cannes Marché du Film.

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Tuesday 25 April, 2017

The first edition of Glocal in Progress call for submissions is now open

San Sebastian Festival’s new industry activity is aimed at European productions in non-hegemonic languages

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Monday 10 April, 2017

Glocal Cinema participated in European Film Forum organised by European Commission and Vilnius International Film Festival “Kino pavasaris”

Last April 6th Aitziber Atorrasagasti, Director for the Promotion of Culture at the Basque Government, was invited to participate in the European Film Forum, held in Vilnius, as a representative for the Glocal Cinema Network.

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Thursday 23 February, 2017

Reykjavik’s Stockfish Film Festival focuses on female filmmakers

“Guys can make those lousy films, but they will always have another chance; women only have one shot,” says festival director Friðrik Þór Friðriksson

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Monday 31 October, 2016

THE FIRST BRUSSELS COPRODUCTION FORUM WILL BE HELD IN BRUSSELS DURING THE BE FILM FESTIVAL ON 21 AND 22TH DECEMBER 2016

The Be Film festival, in partnership with Screen Brussels, is launching a call for projects for its first co-production Forum. The co-production forum will take place the 21st and 22th of December 2016 in Brussels as part of the Be Film Festival in partnership with Bozar (centre for fine arts) and Brussels capital region.

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Wednesday 5 October, 2016

THE ANUAL MEETING OF GLOCAL CINEMA WAS HELD ON THE FRAME OF THE 64TH SAN SEBASTIAN FILM FESTIVAL

The participants worked on the idea of a new map of Europe.

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Wednesday 5 October, 2016

THE JÄTTEN / THE GIANT WINS THE EXAEQUO SPECIAL JURY AWARD

The Special Jury Prize was shared between the Argentinian-French coproduction The Winter, a contemporary western set in a remote area in Patagonia by first time director Emiliano Torres, and the Swedish-Danish debut The Giant by Johannes Nyholm.

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Tuesday 4 October, 2016

RED FJORDS CLOSES A DEAL WITH AN ICELANDIC PRODUCER

Under the umbrella of the 64 San Sebastian International Film Festival a co-production deal between the Icelandic producer, actor and director, Baltasar Kormákar CEO of RVK Studios, Eduardo Carneros CEO of Euskadi Movie AIE, and Javier Lopez Blanco, CEO of Tornasol Films, has been closed for the production of RED FJORDS, a feature film based on the greatest crime in the history of Iceland: the slaughter of 32 Basque whalers that took place in 1615.