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The young international film festival network MOVING IMAGES - OPEN BORDERS (MIOB) offers a diverse program for the film industry and audience: topics of the future such as audience building, environmental and climate protection, gender and diversity programming and digital communication issues are tackled by seven member-festivals as well as supporting filmmakers through two specially created awards.
Languages: ENG & DE

Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson’s feature film Beautiful Beings won the MIOB New Vision Award at the 20th Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz. Supporting a new generation of filmmakers in Europe, the Moving Images – Open Borders (MIOB) network consists of 7 film festivals dedicated to European cinema – Trieste, Seville, Linz, Les Arcs, Cottbus, Palić and Scanorama in Vilnius. The winning coming-of-age drama from Iceland will be screened at all the network’s festivals, annually gathering over 250,000 viewers.
Languages: ENG & DE & LT

On Wednesday, July 20, as part of the European Film Festival Palić, on the Summer Stage, the MIOB New Vision Award was assigned to "Murina" by director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović. This award is aimed to European films by promising new directors, with an exceptional cinematographic approach and artistic handwriting that deserve wider international attention.

LANGUAGES: ENG & SER

The MIOB – Moving Images Opening Borders, a network of seven European film festivals with the support of the MEDIA program of Creative Europe, is further expanding its Green Charter for Film Festivals online platform. The latest presentation of the ongoing initiative inviting film festivals to reduce the consumption of energy and waste took place at the 29 European Film Festival Palić in Serbia.

Languages: EN

MIOB in Shorts Award 2022 was presented to Amygdala (2021) directed by Maria Hatzakou from Greece during the 32nd FilmFestival Cottbus. The MIOB in Shorts Award, first introduced by the network in 2021, aims to present a variety of selected short films to a wider European audience and encourage their active participation by allowing them to vote for their favorite film.

Languages: EN

MIOB Network launches the third edition of the LAB of Cultural, Creative and Festival Journalism, a workshop for young cultural and film journalists and critics. This year's participants are to gain new skills during the online training and on-site training at the network's festivals European Film Forum Scanorama (Lithuania), Les Arcs International Film Festival (France), Trieste Film Festival (Italy) and Seville European Film Festival (Spain).

Reviews from the MIOB's Third LAB of Cultural, Creative and Festival Journalism. The reviews and reports were conducted during the European Film Forum SCANORAMA, which took place on November 9-19, 2023 in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Reviews from the MIOB's Third LAB of Cultural, Creative and Festival Journalism conducted during the Les Arcs Film Festival, which took place on December 16-23, 2023 in France.

The European film industry may achieve gender parity in 2080 at this pace, the 2023 study by the French think tank Lab Femmes de Cinéma reveals. Films directed by women directors currently account for 23% European average, taking into account the number of feature films produced between 2018 and 2023. Results range from the leading 37% in Iceland to the lowest 14% in Bulgaria. MIOB film festivals network translated the extensive study into three more national languages, Italian, Serbian, and Lithuanian to promote gender parity in the film industry.

Languages: ENG & IT & LT & RS

Marija Kavtaradze’s directed feature film Slow won the MIOB New Vision Award at the 21st Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz. Supporting a new generation of filmmakers in Europe,
the Moving Images – Open Borders (MIOB) network consists of 7 film festivals dedicated to European cinema – Trieste, Les Arcs, Cottbus, Palić, Seville, Crossing Europe in Linz
and Scanorama in Vilnius. The winning romantic drama from Lithuania will be screened at the MIOB network’s festivals, annually gathering over 250,000 viewers. Leading Slow
actors Greta Grineviciute and Kestutis Cicenas were handed the award Saturday evening in Linz.