Beast International Film Festival 25 — 29.09.2024

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/ Visegrad / Film / Hub /

VISEGRAD FILM HUB, organized by BEAST International Film Festival with the support of International Visegrad Fund, provides support for the audiovisual works from the V4 region (Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) through activation of networks and educational events. This collaborative experience with relevant in- stitutions from the region will focus on presenting regular screening while access- ing new audiences on the Portugal territory. This is to be the 6th edition of VFH, a gathering of film enthusiasts, young professionals and a step further to building the identity of the New East.

Project partners: BRNO16 International Short Film Festival (CZ), Institute of Documentary Film (CZ), Short Waves Film Festival (PL), TRAKT (SK), Verzió International Film Festival (HU)

Polish Young Talents — Short Waves Film Festival

Under the name Polish Young Talents, we present a section of short films by young Polish directors. The selected titles were honoured at major Polish festivals, such as the Kraków Film Festival, the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, the Warsaw Film Festival, the ANIMATOR International Animated Film Festival or the Koszalin ‘The Youth and Film’ Film Debut Festival. The selected feature films, documentary and animation are a combination of awareness of beauty, sensitivity to another human being, together with in-depth directing skills of talented, native filmmakers.

The screening of Young Polish Talents was curated and developed in collaboration with Short Waves International Film Festival (Poland).

Cine-geografia: Blackness and Race in the PRL

Blackness and race in the PRL is a film programme focused on adaption of students from the global South in the postwar monoethnic white People’s Republic of Poland. The shorts were directed by the Lodz Film School students who attended it thanks to scholarship agreements between the Eastern Bloc countries and what were known as Third World Countries. The series consists of shorts created between 1966-1989 by stu- dents from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia with academic advisors recognized as the masters of Polish school of documentary.

The programme is a part of the wider project “Hope is of a different color” with the aim of introducing a broader audience to African, Middle Eastern and South American film pioneers educated in Poland.