The films were chosen from 280 applications from 48 countries.
The competition will include seven Polish, seven German, four Estonian, two British, four Israeli, 15 Hungarian and six Spanish films. There will be ten feature films, 25 shorts, twelve animated films and 13 documentaries. The 5th CineFest will have a special section entitled Women in the Pictures that deals with the social status of women in film. Twenty-seven submissions have been made in the section, including seven that are also in the competition.
This year's festival, slated for September 14--21, will have a special topic each day. On Monday, September 15, a forum will be held where young filmmakers can meet producers and distributors. Tuesday will be dedicated to the legendary film schools of Central Europe, including FAMU in Prague and the film academies of Lodz, Bratislava and Budapest. Documentary filmmakers will be in the focus on Wednesday. Films about the post-communist transformation in the region will be shown and a discussion will be led by the director Péter Szalay. On Thursday, festival-goers may attend a workshop on ties between Central Europe and Hollywood. (Many of Hollywood's biggest names, including the founder of 20th Century Fox, William Fox, and Paramount Pictures founder Adolph Zukor, were born in the region around Miskolc.) Friday will be devoted to the Women in the Pictures section. Talks will be held on the changing image of women in the media over the past several decades.
For the first time, CineFest will grant a life achievement award this year. The award will go to the director Lívia Gyarmathy and a retrospective of her films will be shown during the festival.
The festival programme will also include concerts by the likes of the Péterfy Bori and Love Band, Barabás Lőrincz Eklektric and the Balanescu Quartet.
Source: Est.hu
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