Last week Leipzig allowed the world renowned DOK Leipzig – International Leipzig Festival For Documentary and Animated Film to claim its city. Based in Saxony, the festival presented a one week mammoth program: 360 films from 62 countries. For 55 years, the festival has dedicated itself to national and international documentary. What I seeked […]
Nadine Baethke
Nadine Baethke is the Festival Liaison Director and co-founder at FFL. Her film training is grounded in AV media Science at the Konrad Wolf Academy of Film and Television, Potsdam. Her editorial background includes positions as Sports Editor of RBB, Berlin, Editor at the Galileo TV science magazine Pro 7, Berlin and a degree from the Journalism School of Berlin. Reach her at nadine@filmfestivallife.com
DOK LEIPZIG – The Documentary and animation festival forum
[decoline]International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film: [details] [item title=”City”]Leipzig[/item] [item title=”Country”]Germany[/item] [item title=”Founded”]1955[/item] [item title=”Edition”]55th[/item] [item title=”Date”]10/29 – 11/04/2012 [/item] [item title=”URL”]DOK Leipzig[/item] [item title=”Entry fee”]none[/item] [/details] [decoline] As the oldest independent film festival in Germany, DOK Leipzig is a FFL Festival Member we have longed to speak with since the very beginning. […]
The ANIMATION Film Festival List
The genre animation films is a limitless field for experimental art of every color, exciting and often unconventional, bold and passionate, more inspiring than live action films. Film festivals also know this and that’s probably why there are so many festivals, in all kind of variations, dedicated to animated film. There are so many animation […]
The LGBT Film Festival List
It’s LGBT Film Festivals time at FilmFestivalLife! We have put those film festivals under the radar that make a major contribution in raising awareness about issues related to sexual orientation and gender. The various LGBT film festivals we have discovered all have one thing in common: to establish free open cultural spaces in which homosexual […]
The HORROR & FANTASY Film Festival List
It would be horrible not to know how to get an overview of the numerous horror and fantasy film festivals and where in the world they take place. To prevent this nightmare, we took charge of the situation and listed the most interesting festivals of these long-existing genres. Thrilled by the huge amount of horror […]
The Documentary Film Festival List
Documentary film festival: the genre in which authenticity and controversy play the main role. For FilmFestivalLife’s new list we tried to cover all continents and as many regions as possible. As usual, we have created handy shortlists for the must have festivals, the important ones and those you should keep on the radar In addition […]
The SHORTS Film Festival List
Looking for a shorts Film Festival and don’t know where to start? If you are you a short filmmaker brainstorming about your film festival career, desperate to know which festivals you can’t miss out on, here’s a list made for you! We have created a practical short list for those who want to get a […]