Festivals: call for entries

Alternativa invites: Impact Distribution Lab

 

Deadline: 30.09.2025

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Almaty Series Festival and Series Mania Open New Horizons

 

Almaty, Kazakhstan / September 22-26, 2025

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The upcoming Alternativa Film Festival will take place in Colombia in 2026, with Latin America as the focus region 

 

Guadalajara, Mexico, June 10, 2025 – Alternativa has announced that the 3rd edition of the Alternativa Film Festival will take place in Colombia in Q2 2026, with an expanded prize fund of120,000 USD (an increase of 20,000 USD from the previous edition) and a new award categoryfor a feature film from the focus region, bringing the total number of awards to seven. The opencall for submissions runs from June 10 to October 10, 2025. Feature-length films of all genresare accepted from Latin America and Asia, while the short film categories are reservedexclusively for Latin America.

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Thursday, 01 April 2021 00:00

Today in Kinokultura: Review about "2000 Songs of Farida"

 

Country: Uzbekistan

Year of production: 2020

Director: Yolqin Tu'ychiev

World premiere: Busan, October 2020

Awards: Grand-Prix at the IFF Moscow Premiere (October 2020); Snow Leopard Audience Award at the Asian World Film Festival (March 2021. Los Angeles)

 

This film is important in the art of Uzbekistan in 2020, because it represents a breakthrough in the history of Uzbek cinema. Festivals audience found this film, in short, worthy of its “artistic rendition of the theme of the collapse of old orders and the arrival of a new world”.

 

 

 

 

 

Please, read full text of the review here