• Festivals - Module

    Participations November 2020 - January 2021

    Due to the risk of infection by the coronavirus, many film festivals have been cancelled or postponed, some are held online.

    WÜRZBURG

    47. Internationale(s) Filmwoche(nende)

    28.1. - 3.2.2021 (original dates 28.1. - 31.1.2021) Festival held online, duration extended from a weekend to a whole week
    The Most Beautiful Place On Earth by Elke Groen
    Fuchs im Bau by Arman T. Riahi

    TRIESTE

    32nd Trieste Film Festival

    21.1. - 28.1.2021 Festival taking place online
    Please Hold The Line by Pavel Cuzuioc

    LISBON

    18° KINO - Mostra de Cinema de Expressão Alemã

    21.1. - 27.1.2021 Festival taking place in a hybrid version
    Glück gehabt by Peter Payer
    Running on Empty by Lisa Weber

    BIARRITZ

    3rd FIPADOC - Festival International Documentaire

    original dates 18.1. - 24.1.2021 Festival postponed to a later date
    Please Hold The Line by Pavel Cuzuioc

    GLORY TO THE QUEEN

    Glory to the Queen by Tatia Skhirtladze, Anna Khazaradze
    Wood by Monica Lazurean Gorgan, Michaela Kirst, Ebba Sinzinger

    SAARBRÜCKEN

    42. Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis

    17.1. - 24.1.2021 Festival held entirely online
    Davos by Daniel Hoesl, Julia Niemann
    Fuchs im Bau by Arman T. Riahi

    OSTEND

    14th Film Festival

    original dates 15.1. - 23.1.2021 Festival taking place as FFO Nights throughout the year
    Ein bisschen bleiben wir noch by Arash T. Riahi
    The Trouble With Being Born by Sandra Wollner

    CAIRO

    13th Panorama of the European Film

    original dates 13.1. - 22.1.2021 Festival postponed to a later date
    Notes From The Underworld by Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel

    KOLKATA

    26th International Film Festival

    8.1. - 15.1.2021 (original dates 5.11. - 12.11.2020) Festival postponed from November 2020 to January 2021 and held primarily online
    Ein bisschen bleiben wir noch by Arash T. Riahi

    KRAGUJEVAC

    5th Sumadija International Film Festival

    18.12. - 20.12.2020 Festival held online
    Running on Empty by Lisa Weber

    GUANGZHOU

    18th International Documentary Film Festival GZDOC

    14.12. - 17.12.2020
    Robolove by Maria Arlamovsky

    LES ARCS

    12e Film Festival

    12.12. - 28.12.2020 (original dates 12.12. - 19.12.2020) Festival taking place online and in theatres throughout France (Industry Village postponed to January 2021)
    Wood by Monica Lazurean Gorgan, Michaela Kirst, Ebba Sinzinger

    JERUSALEM

    37th Film Festival

    10.12. - 20.12.2020 (original dates 16.7. - 26.7.2020) Festival postponed from July to December and held online
    The Trouble With Being Born by Sandra Wollner

    MEXICO CITY

    13th Mórbido Fest

    10.12. - 13.12.2020 Festival taking place in a hybrid version
    The Trouble With Being Born by Sandra Wollner

    NEW YORK, NY

    49th New Directors/New Films

    9.12. - 20.12.2020 (original dates 25.3. - 5.4.2020) Festival postponed from March/April to December and held virtually
    The Trouble With Being Born by Sandra Wollner

    PERTH

    23rd Revelation International Film Festival

    9.12. - 20.12.2020 (original dates 2.7. - 15.7.2020) Online Fest in July, physical festival postponed to December and held as a hybrid event
    The Trouble With Being Born by Sandra Wollner

    LÜNEN

    KinoFilmFest Lünen

    9.12. - 12.12.2020 (original dates 4.11. - 7.11.2020) Festival postponed from November to December and finally cancelled
    Once Were Rebels by Johanna Moder

    SANYA

    3rd Hainan Island International Film Festival

    5.12. - 12.12.2020
    Epicentro by Hubert Sauper (World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary)

    HAVANA

    42° Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano

    3.12. - 13.12.2020 Festival held in 2 parts: non-competitive program in December, competitions in March 2021
    Epicentro by Hubert Sauper (World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary)

    TEL AVIV

    Solidarity Human Rights Film Festival

    3.12. - 10.12.2020 Festival held online
    Weiyena – The Long March Home by Weina Zhao, Judith Benedikt

    TORONTO

    9th JAYU’s Human Rights Film Festival

    3.12. - 10.12.2020 Festival taking place virtually
    The Fever by Katharina Weingartner

    MONTREUIL

    5e Rencontres du Cinéma Documentaire

    3.12. - 6.12.2020 Festival taking place online
    Space Dogs by Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter

    WASHINGTON, DC

    33rd AFI European Union Film Showcase

    2.12. - 20.12.2020 Festival held online
    Wired for Music – Inside the Wiener Symphoniker by Iva Svarcová, Malte Ludin

    NUORO

    5. IsReal - Festival di Cinema del Reale

    2.12. - 6.12.2020 (original dates 6.5. - 10.5.2020) Festival postponed from May to December and held online
    Space Dogs by Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter

    NANJING

    2nd Blue Planet Science Fiction Film Festival

    1.12. - 6.12.2020 (original dates 15.11. - 22.11.2020)
    The Trouble With Being Born by Sandra Wollner

    POZNAN

    38th Ale Kino! International Young Audience Film Festival

    29.11. - 6.12.2020 Festival taking place online
    Ein bisschen bleiben wir noch by Arash T. Riahi

    PALERMO

    42. efebo d’oro premio internazionale di cinema e narrativa

    29.11. - 5.12.2020 Festival held on streaming platform
    The Trouble With Being Born by Sandra Wollner

    ZAGREB

    13th Subversive Film Festival -

    28.11. - 15.12.2020 Festival postponed from May to November/December and held as hybrid event
    Epicentro by Hubert Sauper (World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary)
    Space Dogs by Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter

    PYRGOS & AMALIADA

    23rd Olympia International Film Festival for Children & Young People

    28.11. - 5.12.2020
    Ein bisschen bleiben wir noch by Arash T. Riahi

    PARIS

    15e “L’Europe autour de l’Europe” - Festival de films européens

    18.11. - 29.11.2020 (original dates 12.3. - 29.3.2020) Festival postponed from March to November and held online
    Die Kinder der Toten by Kelly Copper, Pavol Liska
    Robolove by Maria Arlamovsky

    BUENOS AIRES, CORDOBA

    11° “Al Este del Plata” Festival de Cine de Europa Central y Oriental

    26.11. - 10.12.2020 Festival taking place online
    Epicentro by Hubert Sauper (World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary)
    The Trouble With Being Born by Sandra Wollner

    MONTEVIDEO

    38th International Film Festival of Uruguay

    21.11. - 5.12.2020
    Lillian by Andreas Horvath

    TURIN

    38th Torino Film Festival

    20.11. - 28.11.2020 Festival taking place online
    Hochwald by Evi Romen

    GIJON

    58° FICX - Festival Internacional de Cine

    20.11. - 28.11.2020 Festival taking place online
    Notes From The Underworld by Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel

    REGENSBURG

    12. Transit - Filmfest Regensburg - Cinema_Utopia

    19.11. - 22.11.2020 Festival held online
    Running on Empty by Lisa Weber
    The Trouble With Being Born by Sandra Wollner

    AMSTERDAM

    33rd International Documentary Film Festival - IDFA

    18.11. - 6.12.2020 (original dates 18.11. - 29.11.2020) Festival held as physical festival and online
    Notes From The Underworld by Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel
    Please Hold The Line by Pavel Cuzuioc
    Epicentro by Hubert Sauper (World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary)

    KASSEL

    37. Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest

    17.11. - 22.11.2020 Festival taking place on streaming platform
    Robolove by Maria Arlamovsky
    Weiyena – The Long March Home by Weina Zhao, Judith Benedikt

    SAN LUIS, AZ

    8th Film Festival

    17.11. - 20.11.2020 drive-in cinema
    Epicentro by Hubert Sauper (World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary)

    JAKARTA

    20th “Europe on Screen” European Film Festival

    16.11. - 30.11.2020 (original dates 9.4. - 19.4.2020) Festival postponed from April to November and held online
    Movements Of A Nearby Mountain by Sebastian Brameshuber
    Little Joe by Jessica Hausner

    BARCELONA

    27° “L’Alternativa” Festival de Cinema Independent

    16.11. - 29.11.2020 (original dates 16.11. - 22.11.2020) Festival held entirely online
    Epicentro by Hubert Sauper (World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary)

    FLORENCE

    61st Festival dei Popoli - International Documentary Film Festival

    15.11. - 22.11.2020 Festival taking place as virtual festival (reduced version)
    Notes From The Underworld by Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel (Retrospective postponed to 2021)

    SHARJAH

    3rd Film Platform SFP

    14.11. - 21.11.2020 Festival taking place in cinemas and online
    Epicentro by Hubert Sauper (World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary)

    NICARAGUA

    Muestra de Cine Europeo - Nicaragua

    13.11. - 31.12.2020 held online
    The Ground Beneath My Feet by Marie Kreutzer

    TALLINN, TARTU, NARVA, KOHTLA-JÄRVE

    24th Black Nights Film Festival

    13.11. - 29.11.2020
    Davos by Daniel Hoesl, Julia Niemann
    Ein bisschen bleiben wir noch by Arash T. Riahi
    Hochwald by Evi Romen

    JOHANNESBURG, CAPE TOWN, PRETORIA

    7th European Film Festival in South Africa

    12.11. - 22.11.2020 Festival held as virtual festival
    Narziss Und Goldmund by Stefan Ruzowitzky

    BUDAPEST, PÉCS, SZEGED

    17th Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

    10.11. - 22.11.2020 (original dates 10.11. - 15.11.2020) Festival taking place in an extended form - online
    Epicentro by Hubert Sauper (World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary)
    Robolove by Maria Arlamovsky
    Wood by Monica Lazurean Gorgan, Michaela Kirst, Ebba Sinzinger

    ZAGREB

    5th KinoKino - International Film Festival for Children

    9.11. - 15.11.2020 Festival held online
    Ein bisschen bleiben wir noch by Arash T. Riahi

    CORK

    65th International Film Festival

    8.11. - 15.11.2020 (original dates 4.11. - 15.11.2020) Festival taking place entirely online
    The Trouble With Being Born by Sandra Wollner

    PORTLAND, ME

    23rd Maine Jewish Film Festival

    7.11. - 22.11.2020 (original dates 28.3.2020 - 5.4.2020) Festival postponed from March/April to November and held as virtual festival
    The Tobacconist by Nikolaus Leytner

    CAMBRIDGE

    AMPLIFY! online film festival

    6.11. - 22.11.2020
    Robolove by Maria Arlamovsky

    GENEVA

    26th Geneva International Film Festival

    6.11. - 15.11.2020 Festival cancelled!
    The Trouble With Being Born by Sandra Wollner

    MINSK

    27th International Film Festival “Listapad”

    6.11. - 13.11.2020 Festival cancelled!
    Please Hold The Line by Pavel Cuzuioc
    Epicentro by Hubert Sauper (World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary)
    The Trouble With Being Born by Sandra Wollner

    MILAN

    8th Milano Design Film Festival

    6.11. - 8.11.2020 Festival held on streaming platform
    Bread by Harald Friedl

    THESSALONIKI

    61st International Film Festival

    5.11. - 15.11.2020 Festival taking place online
    The Trouble With Being Born by Sandra Wollner

    WROCLAW

    20th New Horizons International Film Festival

    5.11. - 15.11.2020 (original dates 23.7. - 2.8.2020) Festival postponed from July/August to November and held online
    The Trouble With Being Born by Sandra Wollner

    BRATISLAVA

    21st One World Slovakia - International Documentary Film Festival

    5.11. - 11.11.2020 Festival held online
    Earth by Nikolaus Geyrhalter

    BELGRADE, NOVI SAD, NIS

    16th Free Zone Film Festival

    5.11. - 10.11.2020 Festival held as hybrid edition
    But Beautiful by Erwin Wagenhofer
    Epicentro by Hubert Sauper

    GLORY TO THE QUEEN

    Glory to the Queen by Tatia Skhirtladze, Anna Khazaradze
    Wood by Monica Lazurean Gorgan, Michaela Kirst, Ebba Sinzinger

    VILNIUS, KAUNAS, KLAIPEDA, SIAULIAI

    18th Scanorama - European Film Forum

    4.11. - 22.11.2020 Festival started as a hybrid festival, had to move entirely online
    The Trouble With Being Born by Sandra Wollner

    STRASBOURG, MULHOUSE, BENFELD...

    16e Augenblick – festival du cinéma germanophone

    3.11. - 20.11.2020 Festival cancelled!
    Notes From The Underworld by Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel
    Ein bisschen bleiben wir noch by Arash T. Riahi
    Nobadi by Karl Markovics

    LEEDS

    34th International Film Festival

    3.11. - 19.11.2020 Festival held as hybrid edition
    DEMOCRACY LTD by Robert Schabus at CPH DOX

    BOZCAADA

    BIFED - International Festival of Ecological Documentary

    2.11. - 8.11.2020 Festival held as hybrid edition
    The Fever by Katharina Weingartner

    DUISBURG

    44. duisburger filmwoche

    2.11. - 8.11.2020 Festival taking place online
    Notes From The Underworld by Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel
    Running on Empty by Lisa Weber

    MILAN

    13° Piccolo Grande Cinema - Festival Internazionale delle Nuove Generazioni

    1.11. - 8.11.2020 Festival taking place entirely online
    Ein bisschen bleiben wir noch by Arash T. Riahi

    JYVÄSKYLÄ

    21st Arktisen Upeeta Film Festival

    1.11. - 7.11.2020 Festival taking place entirely online
    Space Dogs by Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter

    TOKYO

    33rd International Film Festival

    31.10. - 9.11.2020
    The Trouble With Being Born by Sandra Wollner

    BELGRADE

    9th GoetheFest

    29.10. - 4.11.2020 held online
    The Trouble With Being Born by Sandra Wollner

    TRIESTE

    20th Trieste Science+Fiction Festival

    29.10. - 3.11.2020 | Festival taking place in a hybrid version
    The Trouble With Being Born by Sandra Wollner

    BRUSSELS

    14th Filem’On International Film Festival for Young Audiences

    28.10. - 7.11.2020
    Ein bisschen bleiben wir noch by Arash T. Riahi

    TURIN

    20° TOHorror Fantastic Film Fest

    28.10. - 1.11.2020
    Robolove by Maria Arlamovsky

    JIHLAVA

    24th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

    27.10. - 8.11.2020 (original dates 27.10. - 1.11.2020) | Festival held entirely online
    Epicentro by Hubert Sauper (World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary)

    DENVER

    43rd Film Festival

    22.10. - 8.11.2020 Festival taking place on a virtual platform
    The Trouble With Being Born by Sandra Wollner

    SÃO PAULO

    44th International Film Festival

    22.10. - 4.11.2020 | Festival taking place online
    The Trouble With Being Born by Sandra Wollner

    PRAGUE, BRNO

    15. Das Filmfest - Festival deutschsprachiger Filme

    20.10. - 6.11.2020 Festival postponed to the beginning of 2021!
    Bread by Harald Friedl
    Davos by Daniel Hoesl, Julia Niemann
    The Diver Inside by Günter Schwaiger
    Ein bisschen bleiben wir noch by Arash T. Riahi
    Glück gehabt by Peter Payer
    Once Were Rebels by Johanna Moder

    VILNIUS

    14th International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival “Inconvenient Films”

    7.10. - 18.11.2020 (original dates 6.10. - 8.11.2020) | Festival held as virtual festival
    Wood by Monica Lazurean Gorgan, Michaela Kirst, Ebba Sinzinger

    WELLINGTON, AUCKLAND, DUNEDIN..

    German Film Festival

    23.9. - 4.10.2020 22.9. - 6.12.2020
    Narziss Und Goldmund by Stefan Ruzowitzky

    LEIPZIG

    16. globaLE - Globalisierungskritisches Filmfestival

    31.7. - 7.11.2020 |
    But Beautiful by Erwin Wagenhofer
    The Fever by Katharina Weingartner