The prestigious Cineasti del Presente Competition, dedicated to emerging directors and devoted to first and second features, will host world premiere of Tereza Nvotová’s second feature Nightsiren. An oppressive thriller tells a story of a young woman who returns to her native mountain village, searching for answers about her troubled childhood, but as she tries to uncover the truth, ancient le
Read MoreGerman or French at Arte on Wednesday, July 28, at 22:45, in August on ARTE.TV in whole Europe The ARTEKino Festival is an innovative online film festival presented by ARTE.tv and Festival Scope aimed at movie goers from all over Europe. The festival strives to celebrate and promote European films from new filmmakers to larger audiences in less accessible countries. This year the ARTEK
Read More17/12/2020 - A total of 21 projects make up the selection, with 15 of them by female directors, while the spotlight this year is on Israel and Italy. The 21 feature-length projects in development – 11 fiction films and 10 documentaries – came after 387 applications from 56 countries, an increased number of submissions that beats last year’s record. Among the selected projects are the upc
Read MoreSlovak documentarian Tereza Nvotova, who has confronted corruption and politics in past films such as 2017’s “The Lust for Power,” found herself beached in New York during the COVID-19 outbreak in the spring, unable to return legally to her home in the Czech Republic with her partner, American actor Jacob Pitts. Then she got an assignment from public broadcaster Czech TV to film the ci
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