The Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus and the Rialto Theatre announce that Call for Entries for the 11th Cyprus Film Days – International Film Festival 2013, is now open. The festival, which is being held for the 11th time this year, will host for the 3rd consecutive year a separate international competition section entitled “Glocal Images”, in which filmmakers from around the globe and Cyprus are invited to submit their fiction films. This year’s festival will take place from the 19th to the 28th of April 2013 in Nicosia and in Limassol as in previous years.

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The 9th Cologne International Videoart Festival (CologneOFF IX) to be launched in September 2013 is looking for experimental film, videoart, experimental documentary, art & animation and 60 second videos from all countries on the globe. CologneOFF IX has no specific motto or topic, but refers to the general theme “Memory & Identity” and themes of previous festival editions like (art & the city). Like previous festival editions also the new one will become the basis for the nomadic festival project – CologneOFF 20XX videoart in a global context – aimed to travel 2013/2014 around the globe to the best venues presenting the diversity in the field of “art and moving images” transported via the medium of “video”.

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