This evening marked the final screening of the month-long festival, concluding with a taste of Romanian cinema. The reason for selecting Romania as the final country/ ‘national’ cinema was primarily due to the country’s impact on an international scale and festival val...

First of all, a huge thanks to Simon Miller, filmmaker of Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle (2008), for providing a detailed introduction and an illuminating Q&A this evening.  Simon Miller is an award-winning filmmaker, whose films have been valorized at the Celtic fi...

As the Cinemas of Europe's Small Nations film event was under way at The Phoenix, Exeter, I was interviewed as part of a piece in D&C Film. The article deals with the film selection process for the short films and the feature films.

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After several months of submissions via Film Freeway, we have finally decided on the final selection of short premieres to be screened as part of the festival event. In line with the feature films from the four selected countries, Belgium, Wales, Scotland and Romania,...

The feature film programme is now ready to be released with tickets now on sale via the venue. We have a great list of feature films programmed with some fantastic speakers. 

Across four Wednesdays in November, Exeter Phoenix will be hosting the Cinema of Small Nations,...

The film festival is dedicated to and designed to begin to showcase the work of cinematically small nations. The film that you have submitted to the festival highlights some of the limitations of thinking in terms of nation, that is it is articulated in English, filmed...

Greetings All! This is our first update for the Cinemas of Europe's Small Nations Film Festival. 

We would like to show you our new promotional video for the event, outlining our aims and intentions for the festival, and to encourage further sponsorship. Click here to v...