International short film festival

About Filmini 2.0

FILMINI 2.0 is an International short film festival in Sofia, Bulgaria. It strives to expose fresh authors and new forms of cinematographic expression and thus become a center for both stylistic research and experience exchange, unearthing new perspectives on this seventh art.

FILMINI's primary goal is to expose our audience to new cinema through the work of international filmmakers. In addition, the Festival aims to become a platform for filmmakers and cinema fans. Finally, through its various events & workshops, FILMINI ISFF hopes to increase the awareness, knowledge and distribution of short films in Bulgaria, discover and support new Balkan voices and encourage the experimental, independent and innovative styles of today's cinema.

festival cinemas

Dom na kinoto

p. +359 (2) 980 78 38
37 Exarh Yosif str.
Sofia 1000
Bulgaria

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EUBCC

p. +359 (2) 980 41 61
е. euro_cinema@abv.bg
w. www.eubcc.bg
17 Alexander Stamboliiski blvd.
Sofia 1000
Bulgaria

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Photo gallery

Awards Ceremony

Jury Sessions

Animation workshop with Phill Mulloy

Premiere "Anything For You"

FILMINI 1.0

In the Press

The King of Animation Arrives in Sofia for Filmini Festival

For a second year in a row Sofia will show the best world short films, some of them Bulgarian-made.  Of all the 900 shorts, the jury of Filmini (Sevda Shishmanova, Rossitsa Valkanova and western cartoonists and directors) will select 23 titles to participate in the contest programme and more than 30 for the parallel programme of the festival that officially opens on October 26th. . The world famous British director Phil Mulloy will arrive especially for the festival. He will organize a four-day workshop for Bulgarian animators.

Standart News
23.10.2008

Filmini 2.0 short film festival opens doors on October 22

Filmini 2.0, a festival to showcase short films from around the world, takes place in Sofia at Dom na Kinoto and the Euro-Bulgarian Cultural Centre from October 22 to 26 2008. The event includes meetings with filmmakers and film buffs from many countries, workshops on the latest developments in filmmaking and a workshop on animation.

A special advance screening will take place on October 21 at The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate in Sofia. The venue has made its own selection of films from the festival to be projected — all with English subtitles. The show starts at 7.30pm.

On October 23, Spain enters the spotlight, with a roundtable discussion led by stop-motion animation specialist Tomás Conde Rodríguez at 6.30pm, held at the Instituto Cervantes (1 Suborna Str, Sofia), and a special eye at Spanish short films. Rodríguez is the head of the Galician production house Algarabía Animación and a contributing partner at the Consorcio Audiovisual de Galicia. Being shown that same day, at 9pm Dom na Kinoto, are La revuelta de los mouses (directed by David Gen, 2007, 20'), Darío y Verónica (Alberto Rodriguez de la Fuente, 2007, 17'), O Hospital (Ivan Seoane, 2007, 20') and Leo (Fernando Cortizo Rodriguez, 2007, 13').

British animator Phil Mulloy will also be present, holding, on invitation of the British Council, a four-day workshop on animation techniques.

This is the second time that Filmini is being held in Bulgaria. About 900 short films from South America, Brazil, Cuba, Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Spain, Western and Central Europe, the Caucasian region, the Middle East, including Iran, and the Balkan Peninsula were submitted for the festival, of which 70 were chosen for screening.

Filmini 2008 pays special attention to animation, with films that have received British Animation Awards also being presented. Many Bulgarian animators applied for this category. Experimental film will also be featured. The best Bulgarian film will receive the award of Kodak Cinelabs Bulgaria, comprised of a video camera, a film lens and laboratory services to the amount of 2000 euro.

Dom na Kinoto is at 37 Ekzarh Yosif Str in Sofia; the Euro-Bulgarian Cultural Centre is at 17 Alexander Stamboliiski Blvd in Sofia.

Sofia Echo
21.10.2008

More than 900 short films on FILMINI 2.0

More than 900 short films from around the world entered the second Filmini festival and 70 of them made it to the audiences in Sofia. The international competition features the latest shorts, a Balkan programme focuses on works from the region, and for the first time there are also animated and experimental shorts.

Vagabond Magazine
30.09.2008