News – Cinelibri – Кино-литературен фестивал

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…

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Watch four of the films nominated for the LUX Audience Award

Cinelibri 2025

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.…

„Изчезването“ на Кирил Серебренников спечели наградата за майсторска екранизация на Синелибри 2025

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KIRILL SEREBRENNIKOV’S THE DISAPPEARANCE WINS THE AWARD FOR MASTERFUL SCREEN ADAPTATION AT CINELIBRI 2025

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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…

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CLAES BANG HEADS THE INTERNATIONAL JURY OF CINELIBRI 2025

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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,…

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Agnieszka Holland to Receive the CineLibri Lifetime Achievement Award and an Honorary Doctorate from NATFA

Cinelibri 2025

Agnieszka Holland will arrive in Bulgaria for the premiere of her film Franz in 2025. In October this year, renowned director Agnieszka Holland, one of the most prominent figures in contemporary European cinema, will be honored with the CineLibri Lifetime Achievement Award and the honorary title Doctor Honoris Causa from the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA). Holland is visiting Bulgaria at the invitation of the organizers of the 11th International CineLibri Book-to-Film Festival and the…

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SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN FOR THE NEW EDITION OF CINELIBRI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Cinelibri 2025

The festival also has an open call for their BOB (Based-on-book) industry days The forthcoming 11th edition of Cinelibri International Book-to-Film Festival (Cinelibri IFF) is to be held in the fall of 2025 between 10th to 28th of October. 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. This year Cinelibri welcomes inventive, distinctive, engaged, topical, sharply critical of today's reality book-to-screen adaptations, full-length…

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Cinelibri 2025 Awaits Film Submissions

Cinelibri 2025

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…

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Cinelibri: Films in Distribution 2024-2025

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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…

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The November issue of LIK magazine tells the story of the 10-year history of the Cinelibri IFF

Cinelibri 2024

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)

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Adapting Is Translating: You Need to Betray to Stay Faithful

Cinelibri 2024

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…