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Eye to Eye, simultaneously in Spain, Croatia, United Kingdom, Ukraine and France

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- Wide will launch films on video on demand at the same time as their theatrical and festival screenings

Eye to Eye, simultaneously in Spain, Croatia, United Kingdom, Ukraine and France
From Caligari to Hitler by Rüdiger Suchsland

Within the frame of its Eye to Eye initiative supported by the Audience Development scheme of the Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme, Wide will launch films on video on demand at the same time as their theatrical and festival screenings in Spain, Croatia, the United Kingdom, Ukraine and France. Eye to Eye has a strong ambition to develop a business model encouraging bridges between VoD platforms, festivals and cinemas with the aim of attracting new audiences to independent cinema.

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In Spain, one film selected at Seville European Film Festival (From Caligari to Hitler by Rüdiger Suchsland) and two films selected at Gijon International Film Festival (Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents [+see also:
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 by Stina Werenfels and Cosmodrama [+see also:
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 by Philippe Fernandez) will be released on VoD on Filmin the day of their festival screening. In addition, Spanish Cinema on Demand service Screen.ly will actively promote the films on its platform in order to guarantee theatrical screenings during the weeks following the VoD releases.

In Croatia, Zagreb Film Festival will screen the film Supernova [+see also:
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 within the frame of its PLUS Programme dedicated to teenagers. Director Tamar Van Den Dop will participate in a Q&A and a masterclass about the process of making a film and debate with teenagers about what makes them go to cinema. Supernova will be proposed simultaneously than its screening at Zagreb Film Festival on MAXtv online platform.

In the United Kingdom, Silent Ones [+see also:
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 directed by Ricky Rijneke will be the last film of the Eye to Eye season to be screened at Somerset Film’s Engine Room on 26 November. Rijneke’s film will be available simultaneously on the VoD platform of FilmDoo. This screening ends a cycle composed of 6 European Films (including Peter Krüger’s N – The Madness of Reason [+see also:
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 and Ignas Jonynas’ The Gambler [+see also:
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) that were launched on VoD at the same moment as their screening at the cinema located in Bridgewater, Somerset.

In Ukraine, within the frame of the 45th edition of Molodist International Film Festival in Kiev, six European films from the Eye to Eye catalogue have been selected to be part of a tour in Ukraine. Under a special partnership with Molodist, the films Hide and Seek [+see also:
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 by Joanna Coates (UK), Happy [+see also:
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 by Jordan Goldnadel (France), The Man in the Orange Jacket [+see also:
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interview: Aik Karapetian
interview: Roberts Vinovskis
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 by Aik Karapetian (Latvia), The Maneater [+see also:
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 by Natalie Saracco (France), Panama [+see also:
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 by Pavle Vuckovic (Serbia) and 2 Nights till Morning [+see also:
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interview: Mikko Kuparinen
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 by Mikko Muparinen (Finland/Lithuania) will be presented to the Ukrainian audience in different cities through the country (Kiev, Odessa, Lviv, Vinnytsia and Kharki) from 12 to 18 November.

Lastly, in France, the 17th Rencontres des Cinémas d’Europe taking place in Aubenas, France, from the 15th to the 22nd of November, will present 3 Eye to Eye films in the European Panorama. Roseville [+see also:
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 by Martin Makariev and The Lesson [+see also:
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interview: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Val…
interview: Margita Gosheva
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 by Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov will represent Bulgaria while My Skinny Sister [+see also:
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interview: Sanna Lenken
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 by Sanna Lenken will be part of the German section. Roseville will also be available on VoD on the platform Eyeflick.net simultaneously as its screening within the frame of the festival. At this occasion, partnerships will be launched with French website specialized in genre films. They will publish articles about Roseville and and organize together with the festival online contests to make people win gift codes to watch the film for free on the Eyeflick.net VoD platform.

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