International Film Festival of Bratislava

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Bratislava, Slovakia November 2013, TBA
Call for Entry Deadline: August 2013, TBA
Festival Data:
- Established: 1996
- Genre: General
- Attendance: 20000
- Media Attendance: 144
- Total Number of Films Screened: 175
- Accreditations: ECFF, FIPRESCI
- Competitive
- Has Panels
- Workshops
Festival Website:
www.iffbratislava.sk
Festival Description:

The International Film Festival Bratislava seeks to present the richness of contemporary European and world cinematography in an effort to bring to its audiences the whole spectrum of films that belong among the most remarkable cinematographical works of the year. In 2009 IFF Bratislava was visited by a record number of guests who came to introduce their films personally. These included director Juraj Herz, the French-Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass, Russian director, screenwriter, and director of Mosfilm Karen Shakhnazarov, American director Jonathan Nossiter, Felix van Groeningen, director of The Misfortunates, a Belgian Oscar candidate, Mehran Tamadon, and director Andrei Dascalescu who,with his film Constantin and Elena, won the main prize at the International Festival of Documentary Films in Amsterdam - and many other guests.

The program structure of International Film Festival Bratislava consists of ten sections which offer 175 full-length, medium-length and short films. Separate competitions of documentary and short films supplement the main Competition of the First and Second Feature Films, which is a dominant section of the festival`s program. Each of the three competitional sections has its own jury. The Competition of Feature Films is also assessed by FIPRESCI, Ecumenical and Student`s Juries. The program structure is also made up by sections Golden Panorama, Off the Mainstream, Panorama Special, This Is Brazil, A Matter of Taste, Profiles and Made in Slovakia. Program sections include annual as well as special non-competition showings and retrospectives. There is no genre, screening format and length restriction for the films presented in non-competition sections, films of all genres and length are considered for the selection. All films submitted for the Festival can be considered not only for the Competition, but for the non-competitive sections as well.

**THERE IS NO FEE TO SUBMIT TO THIS FESTIVAL**
Film Submissions:
- Accepts direct submissions
- Submission formats: 35mm
- Call for Entry: http:/ / www.iffbratislava.sk/ index.php?id=539&L=1

Email:	iffbratislava(at)ba.sunnet.sk
Phone:	(421) 2-5441 0673 , 5441 5310
Fax:	(421) 2-5441 0674
Mailing Address:	International Film Festival of Bratislava Lovinského 18 811 04 Bratislava Slovenská Republika

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DEC 12, 2007 03:14PM FFW Festival Editor writes:

2007 Award Winners for the International Film Festival of Bratislava

GRAND PRIX for the Best Film - "Blind Mountain" (Mang shan)
Directed by: Li Yang, (China, Hong Kong, Germany, 2007)
A masterful film on a topic not limited to the special story. Blind mountains exist in many disguises and concern the fate of women in large parts of the world.

Prize for the Best Director - "The Autumn Ball" (Sügisball)
Directed by: Veiko Ounpuu, (Estonia, 2007)
Its director successfully opens a window in a dysfunctional society.

Prize for the Best Actress - Julie Kolbeck for "The Art of Crying" (Kunsten at graede i kor)
Directed by: Peter Schonau Fog, (Denmark, 2006)
Despite of her young age she succeeds in portraying complicated levels of a daughter who has to cope with an impossible relationship to her father and family.

Prize for the Best Actor - Sam Riley for "Control"
Directed by: Anton Corbijn, (Great Britain, 2007)
For convincing portrait of a talented man who can't deliver yet what life demands of him.

Special Mention of the Jury - "Jellyfish" (Meduzot)
Directed by: Etgar Keret, Shira Geffen, (Israel, France, 2007)
There is great humanity in these short stories which are woven into a poetic image with questions and no answers.

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - "Jellyfish" (Meduzot)
Directed by: Etgar Keret, Shira Geffen, (Israel, France, 2007)
For the poetic and symbolic reconciliation with others and themselves of individuals facing existential torments.

Special Mention of the Ecumenical Jury - "Garage"
Directed by: Lenny Abrahamson, (Ireland, 2007)
Garage emphasises in a minimalist style the behaviour of a simple guy who offers and searches foe compassion, giving us a great lesson of human dignity.

Special Mention of the Ecumenical Jury - "Blind Mountain" (Mang shan)
Directed by: Li Yang, China, (Hong Kong, Germany, 2007)
Blind Mountain presents the tragic history of Chinese young girl sold and imprisoned, who with the only aid of a little boy tries to break the indifference and ignorance of a rural community.

Prize of the FIPRESCI - "Tricks" (Sztuczki)
Directed by: Andrzej Jakimowski, (Poland, 2007)

Student Jury Award - "California Dreamin' (Endless)" / California Dreamin' (Nesfarsit)
Directed by: Cristian Nemescu, Romania, 2006)
For an apt allegoric depiction of geopolitical situation not only in the Central Europe, but also in the rest of the world.

The Slovak television Award - "The Art of Crying" (Kunsten at graede i kor)
Directed by: Peter Schonau Fog, (Denmark, 2006)
For original, non-pathetic and impressive narration about tragic victims of perverted love between parents and their children.

Zlatý Bažant People's Choice Prize - "Halflife" (Polčas rozpadu)
Directed by: Vlado Fischer, (Slovak Republic, 2007)

The IFF Bratislava Award for Artistic Excellence in world cinematography Austrian director Ulrich Seidl
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