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Shadows International Film Festivalsupport your local celebrations of cinema... * indicates festivals on the FIPRESCI circuit  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Reviews of narrative, documentary, animated and experimental shorts from festivals and elsewhere SHADOWS @ FIPRESCI  |  
   
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  82nd Venice*  Drama* (shorts) GREECE Open City Docs LONDON 
  50th Toronto*  Pacific Meridian* VLADIVOSTOK, RUSSIA El Gouna* EGYPT San Sebastian - Donostia* SPAIN Dinard FRANCE Athens* GREECE  | 
    O C T O B E R Busan* SOUTH KOREAMontreal* CANADA 
  
  69th London Schlingel* (children) CHEMNITZ, GERMANY Chicago ILLINOIS 
  Iris Prize Warsaw* POLAND Leipzig* (doc/animated) GERMANY London East Asia LONDON Cambridge ENGLAND Viennale* AUSTRIA Seminci* VALLADOLID, SPAIN AFI Fest LOS ANGELES 
   | J U L Y Jerusalem* ISRAELKarlovy Vary CZECH REPUBLIC Outfest LOS ANGELES Fantasia* MONTREAL Motovun* CROATIA Odessa* UKRAINE Palic* SERBIA Prishtina* KOSOVO, Golden Apricot* YEREVAN, ARMENIA 
    | A U G U S T Edinburgh SCOTLANDHaugesund* NORWAY Locarno* SWITZERLAND 
  FrightFest 
   | M A Y Indie Lisbon* PORTUGALOberhausen* (shorts) GERMANY 
  Cannes* Krakow* (shorts) POLAND Flying Broom* (womens) ANKARA, TURKEY Molodist* KIEV, UKRAINE 
    | J U N E 
  SXSW London Sydney AUSTRALIA Tribeca NEW YORK Annecy* (animated) FRANCE - TWO FILM REVIEWS > Frameline SAN FRANCISCO Transylvania* CLUJ-NAPOCA, ROMANIA Sheffield Doc/Fest YORKSHIRE 
  
  Raindance  Bifan BUCHEON, KOREA 
   | M A R C H Miami* FLORIDASofia* BULGARIA South by Southwest AUSTIN, TEXAS 
  BFI Flare Fribourg* SWITZERLAND Cinelatino* TOULOUSE, FRANCE Guadalajara* MEXICO 
    | A P R I L Buenos Aires* ARGENTINAHong Kong* CHINA London Independent ENGLAND Go East* WIESBADEN, GERMANY Queer East LONDON, UK San Francisco* CALFORNIA Hot Docs TORONTO Europeo* LECCE, ITALY 
   | J A N U A R Y Palm Springs* CALIFORNIADhaka* BANGLADESH Tromso* NORWAY 
  Sundance Santa Barbara CALIFORNIA 
    | F E B R U A R Y Gothenburg* SWEDEN
  Berlinale* Glasgow SCOTLAND Istanbul* TURKEY 
   | N O V E M B E R Tokyo JAPANMessage to Man* ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA Leeds YORKSHIRE Thessaloniki* GREECE Saint Louis MISSOURI, USA Geneva* SWITZERLAND Stockholm* SWEDEN Golden Horse* TAIPEI, TAIWAN Ljubljana* SLOVENIA Mannheim-Heidelberg* GERMANY Black Nights* TALLINN, ESTONIA Goa* INDIA Gijon* SPAIN Torino* ITALY Mar del Plata* ARGENTINA 
    | D E C E M B E R Oxford ENGLANDTbilisi* GEORGIA Cairo* EGYPT Havana* CUBA Cottbus* (Eastern European) GERMANY Rio de Janeiro* BRAZIL Kerala* INDIA 
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