The forthcoming 11th edition of Cinelibri International Book-to-Film Festival (Cinelibri IFF) is to be held in the fall of 2025 between October 10th and November 2nd. As the venerators of this delightful and incomparable event already know, it is a showcase of the best book-to-screen adaptations completed during the last year or two. This year Cinelibri welcomes inventive, distinctive, topical, reflective and/or sharply critical of today's global reality book-to-screen adaptations in 3 main categories: full-length feature films, short films, documentaries…

Several films from the program of the tenth edition of Cinelibri IFF - the unique International film festival of literary adaptations - went into distribution after the end of the festival. Two of them had been released in movie theaters by the end of 2024, including PARTHENOPE, written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, and BEING MARIA directed by Jessica Palud. Famous for memorable film revelations such as The Great Beauty, Youth and The Hand of God, Paolo Sorrentino has tens…

The November issue of LIK magazine tells the story of the 10-year history of the Cinelibri International Book-to-Film Festival. The publication of the Bulgarian News Agency (literally Bulgarian Telegraph Agency or BTA) traces the development of the forum from its establishment in 2015 to its tenth anniversary edition, which took place this year. The publication will be presented on November 25 (Monday) at 5:00 p.m. simultaneously in BTA press clubs in the country and abroad. Among the participants of the…

First International Film Forum BOB (Based-on-Books) On October 26 and 27, the first BOB (Based-on-Books) film forum, organized by Cinelibri IFF, took place at the Grand Hotel Millennium Sofia. The event brought together local and foreign directors, producers, writers, screenwriters and actors, sales and literary agents, festival selectors, allowing them to exchange experience and ideas for future partnerships and collaborations. Statements and presentations of the panelists and participants were loaded with numerous examples from theory and practice. Each project was…