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"The Zig Zag Kid" was voted best film and received EFA Young Audeience Award

For the firs time SOFIA participated in voting for the EFA Young Audience Award Partners of this event are European Parliament Information Office for Bulgaria and Goethe-Institut (Sofia)

THE AWARDS

17th SOFIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Jan Ole Gerster: Debut features win with their heart and soul

The 17-th Sofia Film Fest - the first days

Tony Palmer met with journalists and presented two of his films

"Nocturne" and "Leonard Cohen: Bird on a wire"

Youth Jury 2013

Tony Palmer is here! /Plus photo coverage/

Two hours ago we welcomed the famous director on Bulgarian ground.

PAOLO TAVIANI receives TONIGHT the Sofia Award for his contribution in cinema

Paolo Taviani - Special Guest at Sofia Film Fest

Sofia International Film Fest 2013 opening - photo coverage

Costa-Gavras received the Sofia Award for his contribution to cinematic art

3D FILMS IN THE 17TH SOFIA FILM FEST PROGRAM

For the first time in Bulgaria National Geographic Channel will present 3D documentaries

Bulgaria and Israel- special program at the 17th annual Sofia Film Festival

We are pleased to present to you: Focus on Israel

Тhe 17th International Film Festival SOFIA FILM FEST

The world known film director Costa Gavras, will receive the Prize of Sofia and so are Itzhak Finzi, Paolo Taviani and Jos Stelling

Balkan competition

Eleven films from the top regional productions are to become contenders at the Balkan ‘Domaine Boyar Award’ ceremony during the Sofia International Film Festival

"Tony Palmer Rock" and " Cinema Classics " present to you eight musical film masterpieces by the great British director Tony Palmer

Exposé for lovers of classical music and rock. "Nocturne" World Premiere, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Benjamin Britten

ULRICH SEIDL with three films at the 17th SIFF

Following the participation of the "Paradise: Hope" in the competition at Berlinale, the trilogy "Paradise: Love, Faith and Hope" makes its world premiere at the SIFF 2013

Sofia Film Fest won in Berlin!

“An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker” by Danis Tanovic and “Vic+Flo Saw a Bear” by Denis Cote – with Silver Bear from the Berlin Festival!

More Berlinale news

Sofia Meetings projects at the 63rd International Film Festival in Berlin

The New Bulgarian cinema at the 17th annual Sofia Film Festival

Tickets for the films of the 17th Sofia Film Festival are now available

Film with screenings in Hall 1 in the National Palace of Culture

The Highlights of the festival program Present-day Cinema - The Great names

17th Sofia International Film Festival

Taviani Brothers with Sofia award for lifetime achievement in cinema

Paolo Taviani will receive the prize in person in Sofia. The winner of the Golden Bear 2012 – “Caesar must die” – the Italian gala of this festival

Itzhak Finzi will receive the Prize of Sofia, awarded by Sofia Municipality for his contribution to the art of filmmaking

“Elegya” will be showed in his honor at the Sofia Film Fest

Jos Stelling with the Prize of Sofia

The President of the the 12th SFF Jury is coming back to the festival in 2013 with his new movie "The Girl and Death"

An extraordinary documentary will open The 17th SIFF

"Vitosha" by Lyubomir Mladenov is a film about the oasis mountain and “The Man of the Eagles 'Bridge'

Project Market Sofia of the Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung

Young filmmakers from the South Caucasus, the Black Sea region and Bulgaria meet with German producers and film experts.

European art works in the 17th SIFF program

‘Beyond the Hills”, “In the dark”, when “Babycall” was received…

Three catchy film debuts are going to be presented At The 17th SOFIA International FILM FESTIVAL

Festival Favourites in the SFF 2013 Programme

‘Pieta”of the cult South Korean Kim Ki-duk and the magnetic Mads Mikkelsen in “A Royal Affair” and “The Hunt”

Francois Ozon's In the House on SIFF 2013

The San Sebastian's 2012 favourite film is going to intrigue the Bulgarian audience for the first time

20 Bulgarian towns where SIFF has regional editions

Sofia International Film Festival has been traveling in Bulgaria for years now and has had editions in 20 towns so far.

20 selected international festivals

20 songs of the Festival band

Some history of the Festival band - an inseparable part of the festival

20 plants from my garden

The garden in the courtyard of the building where Kita lives is an oasis in the centre of Sofia.

Kita’s 20 European Places

I have started putting in a list (Kita’s Places) every restaurant or bar where I was impressed by the quality of its food and ambience.

20+2 Bulgarian Kita’s Places

While I travel throughout Bulgaria, I love to discover places, which I enlist in my blackberry as Kita’s Place. This is a list of 20 restaurants and several bars. I have also included places from the past, which are no longer the same, but are still part of my memories.

Kita's 20 favorite films

These are 20 of my favorite films by 20 of my favorite directors. I have at least 20 more favorite directors and many more favorite films.

20 selected Bulgarian directors

...whose star rised with a project during Sofia Meetings and/or debut feature at Sofia International Film Festival

20 produced movies

...still cannot be connected with the name of Stefan Kitanov and the crew of Art Fest / RFF International. Till this moment the films are 12 and it is expected the number 20 to be reached and exceeded in future 8 years. The completed productions till December 2012 are:

20 distributed films

ART FEST became a distribution company in 2003. By the end of 2012 the company presented in Sofia Film Festival's programme and distributed in Bulgaria over 40 features made by established European directors. Our selection here includes the following features distributed chronologically in Bulgarian cinemas:

20 selected Bulgarian Films

which Sofia International Film Festival put on the world film map

20 + 20 + 20 world cinema discoveries

It is just an impossible task to present only 20 young directors who were guests at Sofia International Film Festival. Especially after introducing the International competition for first and second feature film our festival started to draw attention as desirable destination for great number of first time directors and many of them became well known contemporary authors. And so that's why we choose 60:

20 + 20 world cinema masters

We wanted to name 20 world famous directors who attended Sofia International Film Festival throughout the years, but it turned out to be impossible to make such a short list, so that is why we chose 40.

20 of Kita's favorite songs

...outside The Festival's Band repertoire. "Music is not only recharging me and creating an atmosphere, but it also provides me with a rhythm, especially when I drive - I cannot sit even for a minute behind the wheel without turning on my favorite iPod. One of my favorite experiences with iPod was at the Valley of Death, California. We needed only Pink Floyd's music in this incredible moon-like place. Off course, we were thoughtful enough ti have brought it with us. Here are 20 songs 100% Kita."

20 selected events

...organized by Stefan Kitanov and the Cinema House's team in the 90s and by Kita and Art Fest's team from 2001 onwards

20 selected international films

Through the years, more than 3000 films were screened during Sofia International Film Festival. Some of them made a great impression on the audience...

Kita speaks about what is is to be a manager in front of FNE

You can watch the short interview Stefan Kitanov gave to Film New Europe during the conference, in which he talks about his work as a manager, what is the trick of finding an audience for art films and which are the greatest challenges in front of the Bulgarian film industry in the next several years.

Films from SIFF's selection awarded at Golden Rhyton

Nine from 2011 and 2012 issues of the festival won awards in Plovdiv

Stefan Kitanov receives Europa Cinemas Award for Entrepreneur of the Year 2012

This prize will be presented at the 17th Europa Cinemas Network Conference in Paris, at the Award Ceremony on Friday 23rd November at cinema l’Arlequin in Paris.

"The World Is Big" opens Calgary European Film Festival

The screening of the multiple awards winning film is on Friday, 16th November 2012.

"The Bengali Detective" with the Grierson award Most Entertaining Documentary

Director Phillip Cox' film was selected for the documentary competition of the 16th Sofia International Film Festival in March 2012.

An international conference "Why Festivals?" starts tomorrow

оn 2nd and 3rd November in the National Palace of Culture

Open Call for Submissions for SOFIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2013

Deadline for entries is December 1st, 2012.

The 19th Adana Film Festival spread 300,000 Euro awards for new Turkish films

The biggest award for best film was presented to "Voice of My Father" by Orhan Eskiköy and Zeynel Dogan

CentEast Warsaw – Moscow

The presentation of the Eastern European works-in-progress in Warsaw and in Moscow.

NEWS
SFF@08.05.13, 00:05: "The Zig Zag Kid" was voted best film and received EFA Young Audeience Award
SFF@17.03.13, 00:03: THE AWARDS
SFF@16.03.13, 00:03: Jan Ole Gerster: Debut features win with their heart and soul
SFF@16.03.13, 00:03: The 17-th Sofia Film Fest - the first days
krasitta@13.03.13, 16:03: Best of the fest в Cinema CIty
SFF@13.03.13, 00:03: Tony Palmer met with journalists and presented two of his films
SFF@10.03.13, 00:03: Youth Jury 2013
SFF@10.03.13, 00:03: Tony Palmer is here! /Plus photo coverage/
SFF@09.03.13, 00:03: PAOLO TAVIANI receives TONIGHT the Sofia Award for his contribution in cinema
SFF@08.03.13, 00:03: Costa-Gavras received the Sofia Award for his contribution to cinematic art

 
 
   
   
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