The industry program plays in a digital format this year, starting on April 30 and running until May 31. The festival’s public screenings have been postponed and will be rescheduled for a later date.
The filmmakers of the 10 selected films have been invited to participate in the new digital industry program, including case studies and Distribution Rendezvous. In addition, directors and producers of films in the Changing Face of Europe section will be brought together with key distributors, buyers and festival programmers via virtual one-to-one meetings arranged by EFP.
EFP’s initiative is supported by Creative Europe – MEDIA Program of the European Union and the participating EFP member organizations. Ana Aleksovska’s debut film, “Consuming Contemporary” introduces us to several socially excluded seniors who are longing for togetherness and community and, to compensate for the lack of this, attend cultural events in Skopje – uninvited – which attracts the disapproval of the social elite.
The Icelandic director Yrsa Roca Fannberg made “The Last Autumn” as a long farewell to the rural life of a shepherd in Árneshreppur, a small community in the northwest of Iceland. For the last time, Ulfar and his wife will be herding their sheep from the hills down to the farm.