September 2, 2010:
Grand Off 2010 (4th edition) will take place in Warsaw at the end of November as usually. Movies have been nominated by Irpen Film Festival this year are the following:
"One step" (Fariz Ahmedov & Nargiz Bagirzade, Azerbaijan)
"Loneliness" (Artak Paytyan, Armenia)
"Love Child" (Daniel Wirtberg, Sweden)
"Sad Colors" (Stanislav Leschenko, Ukraine)
"Uncomfortable" (David Salas, United Kingdom)
"Before War" (Jared Katsiane, USA)
"Untitled time travel film" (Paul Fuller, United Kingdom)
We wish all our nominees much luck and victories!
Also we have started new service for the visitors of IFF web-site: on-line Movie library. Realtime video is getting more and more popular, so we decided to offer two parallel ways of watching of movies. You can do it on-line or download films for your private collection. The first experiment is the movie of IFF organizers - "She?" (with english subtitles). Watch on-line..
August 29, 2010:
8th Irpen Film Festival awards by Spectators:
Professional:
1 place - "Love Child" (Daniel Wirtberg, Sweden)
2 place - "One step" (Fariz Ahmedov & Nargiz Bagirzade, Azerbaijan)
Student:
1 place - "Dream Man" (Alessandro Capitani & Alberto Mascia, Italy)
2 place - "The Boots" (Sergey Velikoredchanin, Russia)
Amateur:
1 place - "Chronicles of the Wolfperiod" (Vladimir Zarypov, Ukraine)
2 place - "Sad Colors" (Stanislav Leschenko, Ukraine)
Independent:
1 place - "Just for today" (Jan-Eje Ferling, Sweden)
2 place - "Uncomfortable" (David Salas, United Kingdom)
The best movie "Dream Man" by Alessandro Capitani & Alberto Mascia (Italy) was awarded by the main prize of the festival - "Golden Film".
Dear authors, thank you for the participation in the IFF and for your wonderful movies!
August 7, 2010:
Eighth Irpen film festival will take place in August, 28-29.
Day 1st: grand opening, program screenings, spectators voting and awards.
Day 2nd: short movie shooting featuring participants and spectators of the IFF.
June 20, 2010:
Electronic journal with complete description of all films is finalized.
Deep into detailes..
June 1, 2010:
The program of the Eighth Irpen film festival is selected.
32 movies from 18 countries will participate in the festival this year.
IFF-8 will take place at the end of August, 2010. Date and time will be determined later.
Check the program..
April 1, 2010:
Submitting to the IFF-8 is over. There is a new IFF-achievement had been reached: 322 movies from 56 countries.
If you missed the deadline for entries by any reason, there was opened an entry form to the IFF-9 for you! Fill the gap..
March 26, 2010:
The postmark deadline is shifted to April 11.
March 1, 2010:
Fiction movies from IFF-7 in the Movie library. Enjoy..
The only month left to submit an entry form to IFF-8. Welcome and don't be late! Join..
February 15, 2010:
6th retrospective programme of the IFF: "Cinema-utopia". Where and when..
December 18, 2009:
Experimental movies from IFF-7 in the Movie library. To watch..
December 1, 2009:
Irpen Film Festival calls for entries! Join the IFF-8 until 31st of March, 2010. We are waiting for your movies! Fill entry form..
Video about the IFF-7 is already on the web. This movie was done by one of IFF-7 participants, Pavel Lankin (Druzhkovka, Ukraine). It's based on the trip of participants from the South-East of Ukraine to the Irpen Film Festival. Download video..
September 20, 2009:
Two years have passed since Movie Library of the IFF has been started. Today you can find more than 70 movies in different genres from 18 countries. The latest update is Documentary nomination of the IFF-7. Welcome..
August 20, 2009:
New animation in the Movie library. Marked as bold..
July 23, 2009:
Grand Off 2009 will take place in Warsaw at the end of November. Movies nominated by Irpen Film Festival are the following:
"Be oneself" (Viacheslav Pereviazko, Ukraine)
"Free Flight" (Federico Martin, Germany)
"The attack of the robots from Nebula-5" (Chema Garcia Ibarra, Spain)
"Latent Beauty" (Mohsen Khodabandeh, Iran)
"Mobile Postcard" (Peter Vadocz, Italy)
"The pink cloud" (Masoud Ghodsieh, Iran)
"Hey" (Guy Ben Shetrit, Israel)
By the way, since this year Grand Off will be the World Off Awards. We wish good luck to our nominees and hope that they will win!
June 23, 2009:
New retrospective programmes. Your movies will live forever!
Support..
Winners of the IFF-7 are already in the Movie Library. At the foot of page..
June 14, 2009:
7th Irpen Film Festival awards by Spectators:
Animation:
1 place - "The painter of skies" (Jorge Morais Valle, Spain)
2 place - "The pink cloud" (Masoud Ghodsieh, Iran)
Documentary:
1 place - "Latent Beauty" (Mohsen Khodabandeh, Iran)
2 place - "A day in Bazaar" (Jalal Mehmannavaz, Iran)
Experimental:
1 place - "Mobile Postcard" (Peter Vadocz, Italy)
2 place - "Tehran 318" (Soran Mardookhi, Iran)
Fiction:
1 place - "Be oneself" (Viacheslav Pereviazko, Ukraine)
2 place - "Angels die in the soil" (Babak Amini, Iran - Iraq)
The best movie "Be oneself" by Viacheslav Pereviazko (Ukraine) was awarded by the main prize of the festival - "Golden Film".
Read..
June 1, 2009:
Electronic journal of the 7th Irpen film festival with complete description of all films and information about authors has been already published.
Go into details...
May 26, 2009:
Pre-selection finished, the program of the Seventh Irpen film festival has been completed.
«7x7» - it's not the only seven years of life and sevenfold growth of the festival.
«7x7» - it's also 77x7 minutes of screening of 7õ7 movies in 7 nominations.
So, here it is!
May 16, 2009:
7th Irpen film festival will start on 13th of June. The program will be completed and published at the end of May.
The conception of the IFF-7 is "7x7", so the quantity of nominations is expanded up to 7:
1. Documentary.
2. Animation.
3. Experimental.
4. Fiction.
5. Deep underground.
6. Pro.
7. Insiders of the IFF.
New documentary in the Movie library - chronicles of the IFF-6. Unfortunately it's in Russian only, but you can feel the main idea of the festival by watching the pictures too. You can download the film in cool (160Mb) or economical (25Mb) quality..
April 1, 2009:
1.
Deadline for entries on participation in the Seventh Irpen film festival has been passed. We received 275 entries from 45 countries, it's our new record! If you didn’t apply the entry form in time, don’t be upset, there are no restrictions on time of making of movies: we have got films created during last 20 years (since 1989 till 2009). If you made your movie even earlier, please send it to us!
If you have not sent us your DVD by post, you can do it during next week (up till 7th of April). Please check your name in the list of received films. If it’s missing, but you sent your movie two weeks ago or earlier, we recommend you to send it again. In case of any questions please don’t hesitate to contact organizers of the festival.
Check the name..
2.
Also we would like to announce some experimental films from non-competitive program of the IFF-6 in the Movie library:
58. "Motion" (Robin Whenary, United Kingdom, 2001)
59. "Blow" (Ulo Pikkov, Estonia, 2008)
60. "Juddha - 1970AC" (Kowalczyk Olivier & Morel Gregoire, Switzerland, 2007)
61. "Tokyo rock'n'roll" (John Canciani, Switzerland, 2007)
Enjoy!
3.
Attention! We would like to carry out a small poll of visitors and subscribers. Could you please answer some simple questions, it will help us to improve our approach to making of news:
- Do you usually read news of the Irpen film festival?
- Which news are you interested in?
- Do you prefer to receive short news often or larger news seldom?
- What can you offer to make our web-site and news better?
Thank you in advance for your answers!
Send answers..
February 1, 2009:
Winter holidays over, it's time to get back to work!
Today we announce new fiction films from "IFF-6" in our movie library. New films are on the bottom of the table. Counters have been updated, so if your movie is already in the library you can check the statistics of downloads. Check it..
December 31, 2008:
Happy New Year! We wish you much joy and inspiration in the filmmaking!
Bonus for our friends: IFF club on Facebook.com. Join it..
December 19, 2008:
Page of Seventh Irpen Film Festival has been opened. You can find an actual statistic of entries, geography of the festival and the list of received films, as a service for authors. This page will be kept updadated as soon as new entries and films will come, but not less than once a week. You can try to find your name..
The list of friends and partners of the IFF also will be published on the new page. Make sure..
There were found ten advantages of the IFF. Find out..
November 25, 2008:
Irpen Film Festival trip will start from Grand Off in Warsaw tomorrow and will finish at Another Territories in Donetsk, where the retrospective screening will take place in the beginning of December. You can follow us thanks to popular international service by LiveJournal. Join our community and come closer to IFF! Check it..
November 18, 2008:
Irpen Film Festival calls for entries! Join the IFF-7 until 31st of March, 2009. We are waiting for your movies! Fill entry form..
October 23, 2008:
New experimental movies from IFF-6 in the Movie Library. To have fun..
October 3, 2008:
As a partner of GRAND OFF - European Off Film Academy (Poland) Irpen film festival nominate following movies for the best off films in categories the best director, scriptwriter, cinematographer, editor, actor, actress, the best feature, animation and documentary film:
"Òhå Guides" (Konstantin Kolomiychenko, Ukraine)
"In scale" (Marina Moshkova, Russia)
"Picture" (Eugene Krasnov, Agrentina-Russia)
"Kite Rescue" (Rune Eriksson/Eriks Eriksson, Norway)
"A Trouble by the Lake" (Slava Feofilaktov, Ukraine)
"Farewell" (Irena Skoric, Croatia)
Good luck all the participants from Irpen film festival!
More about Grand Off..
June 23, 2008:
Some best photos from "IFF-6". To look..
June 8, 2008:
6th Irpen Film Festival awards by Spectators:
Animation:
1 place - Marina Moshkova "In scale" (Russia)
2 place - The tiny fish "Sergei Ryabov" (Russia)
Experimental:
1 place - Eugene Krasnov "Picture" (Argentina)
2 place - Liubou Zhuromskaya "Butterfly" (Belarus)
Documentary:
1 place - Slava Feofilaktov "Molfar Nechay" (Ukraine)
2 place - Ambrus Emese "Viva Constanta!" (Romania - Hungary)
Fiction:
1 place - Iryna Markova "Happy rain" (Belarus)
2 place - Andrey Zhuk & Evgeniy Bovsunovskiy "Barmaglot" (Ukraine)
3 place - Simon Buettner "HenriOrange" (France - Germany)
The best movie "In scale" by Marina Moshkova (Russia) was awarded by the main prize of the festival - "Golden Film".
Read..
May 29, 2008:
Electronic journal with the complete description of all films of the 6th Irpen Film Festival.
Read..
May 22, 2008:
"Generate a positive!" - the competitive program of the 6th Irpen Film Festival.
Read..
April 1, 2008:
Deadline for the entries on the 6th Irpen film festival passed.
The amount of entries is 168 films from 40 countries.
IFF-6 will take place in the beginning of June 2008.
The competitive program will be selected and published on the web-site of the festival after 27th of May.
February 4, 2008:
Irpen Film Festival calls for the entries! Join the IFF-6 up till 31st of March. We are waiting for your movies!
Fill entry form
December 21, 2007:
Attention! New documentary video about 5th Irpen Film Festival. Author's movie by Nikolay Bondarchuk (Kiev, Ukraine).
Free download (100 Mbytes)
November 26, 2007:
The third retrospective screening of movies from "IFF" will take place in Donetsk (Ukraine) on the 8th of December, 2007.
Programme..
November 16, 2007:
Extra-news!
The second retrospective screening of movies from "IFF" will take place in Vytegra (Russia) on the 17-18th of November, 2007.
Programme..
October 20, 2007:
22-28. October. Sweden. 26th Uppsala International Short Film Festival.
Irpen Film Festival will represent Ukraine on this traditional annual European holiday of cinema.
Seven days of short films, round tables, master classes, dialogues with filmmakers, organizers of festivals from different countries, professors of arts and fans of cinematograph.
26th Uppsala International Short Film Festival..
September 20, 2007:
For the time being we are starting the new non-commercial project called "Movie library of the Irpen Film Festival".
The purpose of this project is in creating of independent movies collection, which had taken part in competitive programs of the different
years Irpen Film Festival; for popularization of these movies, the festival and independent cinema in whole.
Films will be published on the official web-site of the festival for free download. By the author's wish the information about authors and their
films or links to their web-sites can be published too.
If you would like to become the participant of the project "Movie library of the IFF", please fill the application and send it on the festival post address.
Application form..
Movie library..
September 16, 2007:
Some best photos from "IFF-5". To look..
August 31, 2007:
Irpen film festival was invited to become an official partner of the GRAND OFF European Off Film Academy (Poland).
From 2007, every year members of the Academy will chose the best off films from the following categories:
the best director, scriptwriter, cinematographer, editor, actor, actress, the best feature, animation and documentary film.
In December 2007 in Warsaw on the official award ceremony 9 best off film realized in Europe in 2005 and 2006 will receive honorable statues.
Off films are independent films. By independent films Academy means european non-professional films realized by amateurs
or film students with maximum 2 years of film education not supported by the film school.
Of course, it's a lot of conditions, besides potential participants from IFF had to send the signed entry form with allowing
of noncommercial using of their films for promotion purposes.
Here is the programme of IFF for Grand Off:
"gizmo_girl2089" (Vincent Chabrillat, France, 2006)
"Growing through waiting" (Ingo Schiller, Germany, 2005)
"Lupe & Bruno" (Marc Riba & Anna Solanas, Spain, 2005)
"Shaking Life" (Peter Vadocz, Hungary, 2006)
"She?" (Sergey Twob, Ukraine, 2005)
"Sphere" (Dmytro Starusev, Ukraine, 2006)
"Striptease" (Natalya Belyaeva, Russia, 2006)
"The postman" (Nikolay Bondarchuk, Ukraine, 2006)
Good luck all the participants from Irpen film festival!
More about Grand Off..
June 24, 2007:
5th Irpen Film Festival awards by Spectators:
Animation:
1 place - Marc Riba & Anna Solanas "Lupe & Bruno" (Spain)
2 place - Mark Vetrov "Autumn" (Ukraine)
3 place - Olga Kazanova "Angel" (Russia)
Experimental:
1 place - Olga Kazanova "Êðåùåíèå" (Russia)
2 place - Jean-Gabriel Periot "200000 fantoms" (France)
3 place - Jam "Infected" (Ukraine)
3 place - Peter Vadocz "Colorful EU" (Hungary)
Fiction:
1 place - Mahmood Noori "Doit" (Iran)
2 place - Dimitry Gridin "Crisis" (Russia)
3 place - Natalya Belyaeva "Striptease" (Russia)
The best movie "Lupe & Bruno" by Marc Riba & Anna Solanas (Spain) was awarded by the main prize of the festival - "Golden Film".
Read..
June 10, 2007:
Electronic journal with the complete description of all films of the 5th Irpen Film Festival.
Read..
May 21, 2007:
The competitive programme of the 5th Irpen Film Festival was selected.
Read..
May 15, 2007:
"Irpen film festival" has created the Retrospective Programme, which will be shown in Ukraine and Russia.
Read..
April 1, 2007:
Deadline has passed for the entries on the 5th Irpen film festival.
The amount of entries is 122 films from 32 countries of the world.
IFF-5 will pass in the middle of June 2007.
The competitive program will be selected and published after May, 27.
Important information for those who hasn't sent films or filled entry form up till today:
The reception of entry forms for the participation in 6th Irpen film festival began.
We invite everybody to join the festival!
Fill the online entry form..
march 3, 2007:
Video called "Free current of events of the IFF-4". Edited by jahndra (Donetsk, Ukraine). Based on materials given by 2B and Mark.
Free download (25 Mbytes)
december 22, 2006:
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! get greeting card..
november 17, 2006:
Video chronicles of the 4th Irpen film festival (photography and editing by Mark Vetrov, Donetsk, Ukraine).
Free download (25 Mbytes)
august 31, 2006:
The reception of entry forms for the participation in 5th Irpen film festival began. IFF-5 will pass in the beginning of summer 2007. Deadline for Entries: March 31, 2007. We invite everybody to join the festival!
Fill the online entry form..
august 17, 2006:
Smiles of the 4th Irpen film festival:
short music video movie "Festival smiles", based on chronicles of the IFF-4.
Free download (19 Mbytes)
july 10, 2006:
4th Irpen Film Festival awards by Jury:
Anatoly Lavrenishin (Ukraine) is awarded for the win in the nomination "Animation" for the "Wandering between...".
Peter Vadocz (Hungary) is awarded for the win in the nomination "Experimental" for the "Shaking Life".
Cheung Kwok Man (Hong Kong) is awarded for the win in the nomination "Documentary" for the "Graffiti and Home Movies".
Emmanuel Marshall (Australia) is awarded for the win in the nomination "Fiction" for the "Brolly".
4th Irpen Film Festival award by Spectators (the main prize of the festival - "Golden Film"):
Ingo Schiller (Germany) for the "Growing through waiting".
more..
june 23, 2006:
Final competitive program of the 4th Irpen Film Festival. read..
june 1, 2006:
Deadline has passed for the entries on the 4th Irpen film festival.
The amount of entries is 108 films from 36 countries of the world.
The competitive program will be formed and published after June, 19.
may 18, 2006:
Full version of Competitive program of "IFF-4". read..
march 3, 2006:
Competitive program of "IFF-4". read..
september 8, 2005:
English version of the site of "Irpen Film Festival".
august 11, 2005:
Some best photos from "IFF-3". To look (~1 Mb)..
