Are Eastern European films under-represented at Western European film festivals? Concern that this might be the case prompted Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival to carry out research this yea…
Are Eastern European films under-represented at Western European film festivals?
For CPH:Dox in Copenhagen, the figure was 52% from Western Europe, 7% from Eastern Europe, and 20% from the U.S. in 2019. Among Eastern European festivals, meanwhile, the bias was toward programming Eastern European docs – although they featured a far greater proportion of docs from Western Europe than Eastern European docs in festivals in Western Europe.
He added: “Many Eastern European filmmakers want to have world premieres in the Western festivals. They feel they will be recognized and feel success mostly if they are reflected in Western Europe.” Quality, he said, was more important than quantity. Nikitin noted that the Berlinale Golden Bear was won in 2018 by Romanian director Adina Pintilie’s “Touch Me Not.” Ildikó Enyedi’s Hungarian drama “On Body and Soul” won the Golden Bear in 2017.
Ewa Szablowska, the programmer of Poland’s New Horizons festival, said that it would be better to compare representation of Eastern European films with similar-sized countries such as Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece rather than film “superpowers” such as France, Germany and the U.K. which produce a greater volume of content, and would therefore be likely to be dominate at festivals.
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