Five newly designated Creative Cities of Film, Asaba, Kathmandu, Ouarzazate, Penedo and Vicente López, will join forces with existing member cities as part of the ever growing UNESCO Cities of Film Network. Together, Cities of Film work to strengthen resilience in the face of evolving threats such as climate change, rising inequality, as well as rapid urbanization, with 68% of … Read More
Female Landscape – a joint project of Potsdam and Lodz
The UNESCO Cities of Film Łódź and Potsdam are pleased to announce and invite you to a joint series of events entitled: Female Landscape. The flickering of the film projectors and the light of the spotlights on the stage will focus on women in the contemporary German and Polish film industry and their works. The film screenings will be … Read More
49 new cities join UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network
49 cities have joined the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) following their designation by UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay, in recognition of their commitment to placing culture and creativity at the heart of their development and to sharing knowledge and good practices. The Network now numbers 295 cities reaching 90 countries that invest in culture and creativity – crafts and folk art, … Read More
2021 Call for UNESCO Creative Cities now open!
Created in 2004, the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) fosters international cooperation within and across cities of the world that have invested in culture and creativity as an accelerator of various aspects of sustainable development. Together with its 246 member cities from over 80 Member States, the UCCN aims to fulfil the power of culture and creativity in building cities … Read More
Result Announcement – 2021 BIKY Poster Drawing Contest
We are pleased to announce the winners of 2021 BIKY Poster Drawing Contest🥳! This year, 4 City including UNESCO Creative City of Film joined the project. The winners of the contest are: <Girl in Nature> Ilhana Sabanovic (Sarajevo/ Bosnia Herzegovina) <Animal Carnival> Angelo CHAN (Hong Kong) <Jump Around> Uliana Chetverikova (Russia) *In case of entries from city which is not … Read More
Busan International Kids & Youth Film Festival Poster Drawing Contest
Busan International Kids&Youth Film Festival calls for applications for the 2021 Poster Drawing Contest! As the only international kids’ film festival in Korea, it provides not only pleasures but also a ground for visual arts education to the young generation. The festival screens a wide range of films which are for children or made by children, together with colorful events attracting … Read More
The 4th Busan Inter-city Film Festival
Busan City of Film is pleased to host the 4th edition of Busan Inter-city Film Festival with an aim to celebrate the designation of UNESCO Creative City of Film Busan and enforce creative cities’ network! Every year, Busan Inter-city Film Festival has been produced and showed collaborative works of the Film Production Residency Project by cooperating with other creative cities. … Read More
UNESCO Film Cities Film Education and Media Literacy Forum 2020
On Thursday 26 November 2020, UNESCO Cities of Film from around the world came together to deliver an online forum to discuss film education and media literacy. The event was an opportunity to share knowledge and good practice and help each other to use the power of the moving image as a key tool to inspire and empower young minds. Presentations … Read More
“Preventive Creativity”: 1st virtual meeting of artists and creators of the UNESCO Creative Cities in Spain
Under the title “Preventive Creativity”, the nine Spanish UNESCO Creative Cities gave voice to their artists, creators and intellectuals in a virtual meeting from Terrassa, the host of the event as part of the ‘3rd Film Week’. Important guests: Sixteen prominent professionals linked to different cities attended the roundtable’s streaming. The artists Conrad Roset and Anna Taratiel were the cultural … Read More
Friday 31st October 2020 marked World Cities Day
Friday 31st October 2020 marked World Cities Day – a number of events took place around the world to commemorate the role cities play in many aspects of life from sustainable development to responses to the current pandemic. The Theme for 2020 was World Cities Day: Value communities, today and for the future For World Cities Day 2020, held under the global … Read More