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FFC on the road: Trieste Film Festival
2023-01-20Bernd Buder, Program Director of the Cottbus Film Festival and Jana Gebauer, Head of PR&Marketing were at the Film Festival in Trieste, Italy. It is the leading Italian festival of Central European cinema. Finding special films for the FFC in November was of course the focus. But beyond that, there… -
Ukrainian director Nadiia Parfan's movie to be presented on Berlinale
2023-01-19This year's BERLINALE SHORTS line-up also includes a film by Nadiia Parfan. The Cottbus Film Festival has also worked a lot with the Ukrainian director in the past. Director Nadia Parfan, together with her partner Ilia Gladshtein, launched the now defunct conceptual film art festival "'86' - Festival of Film… -
Guest program in Saarbrücken
2023-01-12At the Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis in Saarbrücken the FilmFestival Cottbus presents THE 9TH STEP Irma Pužauskaitė LT/PL, 2022, 93 min Stirring coming-of-age portrait of two teenagers, one of whom, Linas, is however already 40 and the father of the other. Linas is recovering from his alcoholism when his daughter… -
Cineuropa Award goes to FFC Film Snow and the Bear
2023-01-02Snow and the Bear, the first feature film by Turkish director Selcen Ergun, won the Cineuropa Award at the Brussels Mediterranean Film Festival. The film screened at FFC 2021 in the SPECTRUM section. Selcen Ergun DE/TR/RS, 2022, 93 min.In a small, remote village in the hinterland of the Black Sea… -
We wish you a Merry Christmas
2022-12-23We wish you a Merry Christmas ! In 2023 we start again into a wonderful festival year, hopefully together with you. We are looking forward to a new year with you and already to a great 33rd FilmFestival Cottbus. This is what the entire FFC team wishes you, only a…