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News
17/02/2010 Prisoners of the Ground is selected for the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival.
21/12/2009 Double Take selected for screening at the Sundance film festival 2010!
27/11/2009 Prisoners of the Ground and Double Take at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 19 NOV - 29 NOV. Prisoners of the Ground also selected for industry screenings and Docs for Sale at IDFA.
27/11/2009 Double Take receives the Best New Director Award at the 2009 Middle Eastern Film Festival in Abu Dhabi.
27/11/2009 Radio interview VPRO De Avonden on two Volya Films productions with directors Stella van Voorst van Beest on Prisoners of the Ground and Sander Blom on Looking For Faces In The Clouds, listen here.
26/11/2009 40 Days of Silence officially supported by World Cinema Fund.
26/11/2009 Prisoners of the Ground in competition at TIRANA film festival 27 NOV - DEC 6.
19/10/2009 Prisoners of the Ground director Stella van Voorst van Beest talks about her most recent documentary with Matthijs van Nieuwkerk in De Nederlandse Film Festival talkshow on OCT 1st 2009. Watch the broadcast here.
16/09/2009 Prisoners of the Ground (Gevangenen van de Grond) CLOSING NIGHT FILM Netherlands Film Festival 2009 within the Competition for Best Long Documentary.
16/09/2009 Transit Dubai in Competition Best Long Documentary Netherlands Film Festival 2009.
16/09/2009 On looking for faces in the clouds in Competition Best Short Documentary Netherlands Film Festival 2009.
16/09/2009 Jack, the Balkans and I is selected for Netherlands Film Festival 2009.
08/06/2009 Transit Dubai will be premiering on TV in IKON's Holland Doc section, 2 July on Nederland 2 (Dutch public TV).
28/05/2009 Jack, the Balkans & I will be having its TV premiere in IKON's Holland Doc section, 9 July on Nederland 2 (Dutch public TV channel).
25/05/2009 Transit Dubai has screened at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival 2009 in Vancouver.
21/05/2009 Los viajes del viento (Wind Journeys) has premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2009.
18/05/2009 Independencia has premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2009.
27/04/2009 Transit Dubai has won the Public's Choice award at the Gdansk Doc Film Festival 2009 in Gdansk; the jury also gave an honorable mention to Jack, the Balkans & I.
26/04/2009 Border has won the Silver Remi award at the WorldFest Independent International Film Festival 2009 in Houston.
25/04/2009 Transit Dubai is screening in the competition program of the Gdansk Doc Film Festival 2009 in Gdansk.
23/04/2009 Los Viajes del Viento and Independencia have been selected for Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival 2009.
23/04/2009 Double Take is participating in the Marché du Film of the Cannes Film Festival 2009.
23/04/2009 40 Days of Silence is participating in the Atelier of the Cannes Cinéfondation 2009.
22/04/2009 Jack, the Balkans & I is screening in the competition program of Gdansk Doc Film Festival 2009 in Gdansk.
15/04/2009 Transit Dubai and Jack, the Balkans & I will both be showing in the competition program of the Gdansk Doc Film Festival 2009 in Gdansk.
12/04/2009 Transit Dubai has been selected for screening at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival 2009 in Vancouver.
30/03/2009 Reaching its fourth festival screening, Jack, the Balkans & I will screen in the competition program of Beldocs (International Feature Documentary Film Festival, Belgrade).
The two screenings are scheduled for:
April 11 at 16:00 in cinema Balkan
April 12 at 16:00 in the large screening hall at House of Culture
29/03/2009 Jack, the Balkans & I has been selected at the LOW Festival in Budapest. Screening dates are still to be determined, check back for updates.
06/02/2009 Double Take by Johan Grimonprez - produced by Zap-o-matik (B) /Emmy Oost/, co-produced by Nikovantastik (D) and Volya Films (NL) - premiered at the Berlinale (section Forum Expanded) in front of almost 800 visitors.
06/02/2009 Jack, the Balkans & I by Sergej Kreso has been selected for the 27th edition of Bergamo Film Meeting (7-15 March, 2009). The film will be in the "Close Up" section, devoted to international documentaries.
06/02/2009 PUMP UP THE VOLYA is the name of the article Nick Cunningham wrote for IFFR's e-paper the 'Daily Tiger' about Denis Vaslin and Volya Films. If you want to read the article, click here.
06/02/2009 On Looking for Faces in the Clouds by Sander Blom successfully premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2009.
The film was programmed in a combined programme 'What are we looking at?' and screened twice at Lantaren-Venster.
We would like to thank all of those who attended the one of the screenings at the festival. If you could not make it to the festival, please keep an eye on volyafilms.com for posts of screenings to come.
06/02/2009 Border by Harutyun Khachatryan also successfully premiered at the
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2009.
The film screened three times at Cinerama, each time in front of a full theater.
"Border" went on to screen at Cinema du Reel (Paris) beginning of March.
19/12/2008 The New Saint by Allard Detiger is selected for DocsBarcelona Forum
16/12/2008 Kurai, Kurai by Marjoleine Boonstra and Céline Linssen is selected for CineMart 2009
15/12/2008 Transit Dubai by Ineke Smits is selected for Tbilisi International Film Festival and FIPA (International Festival of Audiovisual Programs)