Sofia IFF with Slovak participation

The 15. edition of the Sofia IFF in Bulgaria, taking March 4 - 13, 2011, will present Slovak cinema in including two Slovak shorts to its programme and including a upcoming Slovak project to Sofia Meetings. The main aim of the festival is to bring significant and innovative films to the domestic audience and to bring local cinematography to an international audience, as well. It also tries to support co-operation between resident and international filmmakers.

Two Slovak films – Thanks, Fine (dir. Mátyás Priker, 2009) a Stones (dir. Katarína Kerekesová, 2010) are presented within the Festival Shorts section.

Sofia Meetings – an event offering promotion of new projects from young European filmmakers to European film festivals, sales agents and distributors, selected the Slovak project Running Head to the Second Film section. It will be introduced by the director of the film Patrik Lančarič and producer Peter Kelíšek (beetle).

The Czech project Echo has also got Slovak participation: it is the directorial debut of the cinematographer Igor Luther. It will be presented in the Projects in Bank section.

More information at:
http://www.siff.bg/
http://www.mphilms.sk/
http://www.foolmoonfilm.com/
http://www.beetleproduction.com/

Related AIC articles:
Cooking History awarded at Sofia IFF
Slovak films at Sofia IFF 2009

published: 08.03.2011
updated: 08.03.2011