The forthcoming 12th edition of Cinelibri International Book-to-Film Festival (Cinelibri IFF) is to be held in the fall of 2026 between October 15th and November 8th. This year Cinelibri expects inventive, powerful, both topical and universally resonant book-to-screen adaptations completed over the last year or two. Why should you apply? Proven to be the world’s first international book-to-film festival, Cinelibri is a prestigious annual forum, inspired by the fruitful interaction of arts – cinema and literature in particular. It is…

The European Parliament Bureau, together with the team of the CineLibri Book-to-Film Festival, is organizing free screenings of four of the five films nominated for the LUX Audience Award. The Bulgarian public will be able to watch them at Casa Libri in Sofia from December 2 to 5, 2025, and take part in choosing the winner. Five European films are competing for this year's prestigious film award: Sentimental Value, Love Me Tender, Christy, Deaf, and It Was Just an Accident.…

Agnieszka Holland and Toni Servillo took home awards from the ceremony at the National Palace of Culture. The biographical drama The Disappearance (2025) by director Kirill Serebrennikov won the 2025 CineLibri Award for Best Film in the feature film competition. The movie is an adaptation of the novel The Disappearance of Josef Mengele by French writer and journalist Olivier Guez, winner of the prestigious Renaudot literary prize. This is yet another award for masterful achievement in the field of adaptation…

Director Sergey Loznitsa and producer Aton Sоumache will judge the films in the Best Book-to-Film Adaptation Competition The eleventh edition of the Cinelibri International Book-to-Film Festival is on the horizon and will be held this fall under the motto “Froth on the Daydream: Projections of Reality” - inspired by the novel of the same name by Boris Vian. Froth on the Daydream is not just a dizzying word game, but a real explosion of fantasy, an apology for fiction, which,…