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Беларуская незалежная кінаакадэмія абвяшчае збор праектаў для пітчынґу на Еўрапейскім кінарынку ў межах «Берлінале»
26 Nov 2023
Беларуская незалежная кінаакадэмія запрашае кінематаграфістаў дасылаць свае праекты на розных стадыях працы ў якасці заявак на ўдзел у пітчынґу. Падзея мае адбыцца ў межах Еўрапейскага кінарынку 74-га Берлінскага міжнароднага кінафестывалю ў лютым будучага года. З дасланых заявак да пітчынґу будуць адабраныя да сямі ўдзельнікаў.

Belarusian Independent Film Academy has been successfully launched at Berlinale European Film Market
2 Mar 2023
The successful launch of the Belarusian Independent Film Academy took place on February 17 at the Berlinale European Film Market. The room at the Martin Gropius Bau, at the heart of the EFM, was packed with attendees. The team of the Academy’s founders was supported by several prestige organizations and their representatives from the fields of culture and cinema.
Official rollout of BIFA planned at the Berlinale EFM
15 Feb 2023

On Friday, February 17, 2023, at 11:30 a.m., the founding members will introduce their plans for the Belarusian Independent Film Academy for the first time: They will outline their initiative as well as introducing first projects in the works. The presentation will take place at the Berlinale EFM, venue: Producers Hub (EFM, Martin Gropius Bau, 2nd floor).

In response to the constant threat of persecution, imprisonment and torture to independent artists living in Belarus, as well as a need to leave the country in order to continue working without state repression and in accordance with freedom of expression, a group of independent Belarusian filmmakers in exile are now uniting in an independent Belarusian Film Academy (BIFA) to give a voice to independent artists from Belarus who work in the film industry.

The event is held in close cooperation and partnership with the European Film Market and its director Dennis Ruh. It is endorsed by the European Film Academy, whose director Matthijs Wouter Knol will be present to voice the EFA's support. Also present will be Simone Baumann, Managing Director of German Films.