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  • FilmFestival Cottbus @ Kozzi Festival: Co-operation in Zielona Góra

    2025-04-11
    From 26 to 31 May, the Stuhr Pszoniak Kosłowski Kozzi Film and Theatre Festival once again invites you to Zielona Góra. The focus: current Polish cinema, action-packed genre films and tributes to the eponymous acting greats Jerzy Stuhr, Wojciech Pszoniak and Maciej Kozłowski. The latter, born in Kargowa near Zielona…
  • FFC Visiting the Kozzi Film Festival in Zielona Góra

    2025-04-04
    On April 10th at 5 p.m., we will be presenting the documentary SOWING THE SEEDS OF THE WILD (Poland 2024, dir: Dyba Lach, Adam Lach, 70 min.) as part of a special cooperation with the Kozzi Film Festival in Zielona Góra. Bernd Buder, Program Director of the FilmFestival Cottbus, will…
  • Call for Entries: Submissions Now Open

    2025-04-01
    The FilmFestival Cottbus is opening the submission phase for its 35th edition. From April 1st to July 15th, 2025, filmmakers are invited to submit their feature and short films from Eastern, Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe for the festival, which will take place from November 4 to 9, 2025.…
  • Bernd Buder: Report from the Sofia Film Festival

    2025-03-25
    With the Serbian CAT'S CRY and the Ukrainian HONEYMOON, two films that deal with the human condition in different ways won the main prizes in the international competition of the Sofia Film Festival on March 22. Sanja Zivkovic's film, which is based on a screenplay by Yugoslavian-Serbian cult director Goran…
  • FFC at the Meeting Point Vilnius

    2025-03-19
    From March 16 to 18, 2025, Meeting Point Vilnius took place as part of the Lithuanian film festival Kino Pavasaris - an important industry platform at which 21 works-in-progress and projects in development from the region as well as ten new Lithuanian films were presented. Bernd Buder, Program Director of…
Impressions from the 34th FFC

Impressions from the 34th FFC

Tuesday The blue-lit Staatstheater for the grand opening of the 34th FFC   Host Christian Matthée with Anja Matković, member of the International Festival Jury…
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Where to meet us

Where to meet us

Throughout the year, the team of the filmfestival cottbus are guests at numerous European film festivals.
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