The European Spiritual Film Festival showcases films (feature films and short films : fictions, documentaries and animation films) and screenplays that explore spiritual traditions from around the world and their different practices. By spirituality, we mean all things that touch upon the life of our minds.
The European Spiritual Film Festival encourages an emerging generation of filmmakers whose films...
FILM SELECTION 2011
FICTIONS
Europolis by Cornel Gheorghita (102m, Romania)
Soul Boy by Hawa Essuman Tom Tykwer - Supervising Director (60m, Germany/Kenya)
SHORT FILMS
Enfant de Yak by Christophe Boula (26m, France)
8 by Acim Vasic (10m, Switzerland, Serbia/Montenegro)
Spiral by Taichi Kimura (12m, United Kingdom)
Rita by Antonio Piazza, Fabio Grassadonia (19m, Italy)
Bird by Petr Stupin (30m, Russian Federation)
ANIMATION
Mei Ling by Francois Leroy, Stephanie Lansaque (...
AFRICAN DIASPORA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ADIFFAbila (14) lives in one of the most miserable slums in Africa. His girlfriend Shiku belongs to a different tribe, as the result of which he is not really allowed to fraternize with her. And then one drunken night his father gambles away his own soul. You could say that the location is the real protagonist of this film. All African cities have enormous and often depressing slums, but the Kibera district in Nairobi can hardly be called a district a...
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During Göteborg International Film Festival 2010 we will take a closer look at the African continent. Among the highlighted films is Soul Boy from Kenya, produced by Tom Tykwer.
- There are so many things going on in the countries on the African continent and it is important to find and screen films portraying it, created by the people who live and work there, says Marit Kapla, festival director at Göteborg International Film Festival.
Last winter a Swedish delegation with repr...
The Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has selected twenty-seven film projects that receive grants for script development, digital production, postproduction, distribution or workshops. In its Fall 2009 selection, the Fund gives 385 thousand Euro to projects from nineteen countries. The selection includes new films by acclaimed filmmakers such as Yeşim Ustaoğlu, Edwin and many first time filmmakers. (See full list below)
Six of the eight projects select...
