STREAMING FESTIVAL is an art event for independent artists exhibiting unconventional audiovisual art from all over the world. This event takes place once a year. The Streaming Festival has been developed and organized by the Isfth foundation for audiovisual art, based in The Hague, The Netherlands.
The Hague, The Netherlands, December
http://www.streamingfestival.com
W ramach festiwalu organizowane są dwa konkursy: Konkurs Główny oraz niezależna sekcja konkursowa kilOFF
Ars Independent w tym roku pojawia się na festiwalowej mapie po raz pierwszy i już ma szansę stać się jednym z ważniejszych jej punktów. Katowicki MFF prezentuje obrazy obecne i nagradzane na najważniejszych europejskich festiwalach a także artystycznie niezależne obrazy młodych twórców.
Równie istotne jak przybliżenie polskiej publiczności kina spoza głównego nurtu jest tworzenie platformy umożliwiającej wzajemną współpracę pomiędzy festiwalami , organizacjami i instytucjami zajmującymi się kinem, która służyć ma m.in. ułatwieniu dystrybucji i przepływu najciekawszych zjawisk powstających poza głównym nurtem światowej kinematografii oraz umożliwić wzajemną integrację środowisk związanych ze sztuką filmową.
Zapowiedziane sekcje konkursowe to Panorama Kina Światowego, retrospektywa Lecha Majewskiego, retrospektywa Jafara Panahi, oraz Middle Eastern Spectrum.
Festiwal Filmów Niezależnych kilOFF, który w tym roku stanowi niezależną sekcję konkursową MFF Ars Independent, już od lat gości w Katowicach i na Górnym Śląsku. Trzon festiwalu stanowi konkurs skierowany do młodych twórców którzy nie są związani zawodowo z branżą filmową, jest więc nastawiony ściśle na produkcje niezależne, OFFowe. W tym roku organizowany poraz siódmy, dzięki współpracy z MFF Ars Independent kilOFF staje się częścią wydarzenia o znaczeniu międzynarodowym.
Polska, Katowice, 14-19 czerwca
Vilnius Film Shorts is the only international young filmmakers short film festival in Lithuania, bringing the freshest shorts and ideas from all around the world. The main prize, funded by Kodak, is a kilometer of 16mm film. The repertoire is always balanced - in theme and form, as well as in nationality - and there are thematic screenings outside competition.
Vilnus, Lithuania, October
INTERNATIONAL KANSK FESTIVAL is not a conventional film festival. It is an experiment in time and space. Its name is a joking reference to the famous Festival de Cannes - Kańsk, a small town in Siberia, is a phonetic echo of the French festival (just as KAN is in Polish). It unites makers of film, animation and videoart on the anti-Hollywood art-territory. Nadezda Bakuradze, the artistic director of the festival, was a member of the Foreign Film Competition Jury at KAN 2011.
Kańsk, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, 19-28 June, 2011
http://www.festival-cannes.ru/
KIN is devoted to gender issues and representing women in different social contexts. It's goal is to promote women's creativity and establish a network between women filmmakers from different parts of the world. The purpose of the festival is to address through films issues of violence, inequality, discrimination and other problems related to women's rights and gender problems.
Yerevan, Armenia, 5-10 December.
The Shoot Me Film Festival is the only film festival in the Dutch city of The Hague that brings independent film to a young and wide audience, and combines it with live music and special viewing locations. The international selection of documentaries, movies and experimental films is unique and hardly shown in regular cinemas. Shoot Me Film Festival wants to present its audience with an alternative view on the world and favors unusual perspectives on generally accepted truths.
Hague, Netherlands, October
VESAK 2010 INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST FILM FESTIVAL Vesak is the most important buddhist festival in Sri Lanka. It commemorates the birth, enlightenment (nirvana), and the passing (parinibbana) of Gautama Buddha. Organized in cooperation with the National Film Corporation from Sri Lanka, the festival is competitions, workshops, cultural shows, concerts, as well as tourist atractions.
Kolombo, Sri Lanka, May
http://www.buddhistfilmfestival.com/
KINOKI is the International College Film Festival, held every year in February and is organized by students from the Universidad Iberoamericana, through the Department of Communication and the Film Studies area. Inspired by the ideology of Dziga Vertov, a pillar of Soviet cinema and creator of the kino-glaz or cinema-eye, KINOKI seeks to express a deeper truth through cinema than that which the human eye perceives. KINOKI was born with the commitment to give voice to young filmmakers around the world, providing a space to promote new audiovisual proposals.
Mexico City, February
BUDAPEST SHORT FILM FESTIVAL BUSHO is a unique Hungarian film festival devoted to short forms. It was established in 2004 by a group of young Hungarian filmmakers in order to fill a gap in the category of short film, but during the years it became clear that it was about much more. Tamas Gábeli, the organizer of BuSho, was a member of the Foreign Film Competition Jury at KAN 2011.
Budapest, Hungary, August 30 - September 3.
MEDIAWAVE INTERNATIONAL FILM AND MUSIC FESTIVAL Many people – in the past as well as today – considered the festival, which is the foundation’s best-known program, too folksy while others considered it too urban. The organisers believe that this very point of view, the respect for both the traditions and the modern ways – clashing or paralleling them – is what gives a special flavour to the festival in the Hungarian and international art-transmitting community.
Szombathely, Hungary, 2-12 June
http://www.mediawavefestival.hu