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OPEN CALL FOR PROJECTS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS | 2025

21st Sofia Meetings Awards

21st Sofia Meetings Industry Events Programme

21st Sofia Meetings Works In Progress Selection

21st Sofia Meetings Selected Projects

OPEN CALL FOR PROJECTS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS

EXTENDED deadline for OPEN CALL for APPLICATIONS for the 20th SOFIA MEETINGS 2023

SUBMIT YOUR 1st, 2nd or 3rd FILM PROJECT and Works in Progress for 20th Sofia Meetings | The 20th Sofia Meetings will take place from 23rd till 26th March 2023 in the framework of the 27th Sofia International Film Festival (16th – 26th March 2023)

19th Sofia Meetings - AWARDS

Sofia Meetings' project "Woman on the Roof" will have its world premiere at Tribeca

Anna Jadowska’s film "Woman on the Roof" was presented at 16th Sofia Meetings 2019 and will have its world premiere at Tribeca

SOFIA MEETINGS' project «PAMFIR» was selected for «Directors’ Fortnight» programme at Cannes 2022

MIDPOINT Shorts – Deadline Postponed Apply until July 7!

18th SOFIA MEETING AWARDS

18th SOFIA MEETINGS JURY

COPRODUCING DOCUMENTARIES. SUCCESS STORIES

EASTERN LIGHTS of the 18th Sofia Meetings

SERIE SERIES INTERVIEW ON EASTERN EUROPEAN LANDSCAPE IN TV SERIES PRODUCTION

MIDPOINTS INTENSIVE SOFIA MEETINGS SELECTION

THE MYTH: CASTING DIRECTOR, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Casting but Were Afraid to Ask

MINORITY COPRODUCTION FUND WITH CATALONIA. PANEL AND CASE STUDIES.

COOPERATIVE, COLLABORATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY: VOD IN THE POST-COVID WORLD

SCRIPTWRITING: THE HIDDEN DANGERS by Steven Goldsmith

What AV Industry can learn from the Gaming

INDEPENDENT TRANSMEDIA: THE RISE OF STORY WORLDS, SHARED UNIVERSES & OPPORTUNITIES IN EUROPE

COCO CAFE

CASE STUDY: THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE

SUCCESS STORIES AND A LOOK TO THE NEW CREATIVE EUROPE – MEDIA PROGRAMME

HOW TO WRITE A PROJECT

Exceptional Works in Progress

CASE STUDY: MAKING CAREER IN CINEMA. A TALK WITH ZEYNEP ATAKAN

EUROPEAN TRAINING PROGRAMMES

INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING: PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF MEDIA-EXPERIENCE. A TALK WITH STEYE HALLEMA

INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING: FELT EXPERIENCES AND THE CROSSROADS OF HUMAN CREATIVITY. A TALK WITH DR. SANDRA RODRIGUEZ

Virtual Round Table: HERITAGE ONLINE - OPTIONS FOR EASTERN EUROPEAN CLASSIC FILMS DISTRIBUTION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LOCARNO PRO

Congratulations to Radu Jude for winning Golden Bear with his film "Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn"

18th Sofia Meetings line-up

Sofia Meetings reminiscences

18th Sofia Meetings (17.03 - 24.03) ONLINE

OPEN CALL for submissions MIDPOINT Intensive SOFIA MEETINGS training

"FEBRUARY", introduced as a project at Sofia Meetings, opens Sofia International Film Festival 2021

Extended submission deadline for Works in Progress > Sofia Meetings 2021

"Eggshells" by Slava Doytcheva awarded at Cottbus

The debut feature by Pavel G. Vesnakov "German Lessons", presented as Works in Progress at Sofia Meetings, won Best Actor award in Cairo

Started as project at Sofia Meetings, Pavel G. Vesnakov's first feature film "GERMAN LESSONS" premieres at Cairo 2020

Sofia Meetings PROJECT Selection at AGORA, CrossRoads Thessaloniki

17th Sofia Meetings' Works in Progress - ONLINE

17th Sofia Meetings' Works in Progress will be held online at Festival Scope from 27th May - 31st May. WORKS IN PROGRESS directed by promising European talents will be seen by festival programmers, sales, distributors and potential co-producers.

Anna Jadowska's MIRA reciеves support from Swedish Film Institute

Anna Jadowska's feature MIRA, pitched and awarded at Sofia Meetings 2019, recieves the support of Swedish TV and has just announced its support by the Swedish Film Institute. Great news and thumbs up for MIRA!

Next project of "Zagreb Capuccino"'s director Vanja Juranić - "Closed to the Public" received funding for production

The 24th Sofia International Film Festival and the 17th Sofia Meetings postponed

Cristi Puiu at Berlinale

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