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 [+leggi anche:
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In Croatia, Zagreb Film Festival will screen the film Supernova [+leggi anche:
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In the United Kingdom, Silent Ones [+leggi anche:
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In Ukraine, within the frame of the 45^th 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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Aik Karapetian
intervista: Roberts Vinovskis
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intervista: Mikko Kuparinen
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Lastly, in France, the 17th Rencontres des Cinémas d’Europe taking place in Aubenas, France, from the 15^th to the 22^nd of November, will present 3 Eye to Eye films in the European Panorama. Roseville [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Margita Gosheva
scheda film] by Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov will represent Bulgaria while My Skinny Sister [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] 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.