After the festival is before the festival - the preparatory phase for the 34th FFC (5-10 November 2024) starts at the beginning of the year, and with it the scouting season.
Charlotte Kühn, curator of the youth film competition, will be at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival in Saarbrücken (20-28 January) to look for German entries for her section. The festival in Cottbus' twin city in south-west Germany is the most important festival for young German-language cinema. The FFC traditionally presents a film from the previous year's programme there, this time Albert Hospodářský's BRUTAL HEAT (Czech Republic, Slovakia), which screened in the FFC’s youth film competition in 2023.
Bernd Buder, Programme Director of the FFC, is looking for good films and interesting projects at the Trieste Film Festival and the associated co-production market When East Meets West (WEMW). The festival on the Italian-Slovenian border focuses on films from South East and Central Europe.
At WEMW, Buder is on the jury for the HAVC & MIDPOINT Development Award together with the Bosnian-Herzegovinian director Una Gunjak, whose film EXCURSION 2023 screened in the FFC Youth Film Competition, and the Romanian producer Anamaria Antoci. The award is a cash prize of 3000 EUR for the best project of MIDPOINT Shorts 2023-2024 program. The award aims to support emerging filmmakers with the financial support to further develop their creative vision and bring their short film project to life.
Here all information about Trieste Film Festival and here the associated co-production market When East Meets West. Clickhere to find out more about the Midpoint Institute.