Call for entries 2019 August 20, 2018

Dear colleagues and friends! The film submissions for the 16th World Film Festival are open!

Submissions call for the 12th World Film Festival August 27, 2014

Dear colleagues and friends!

World Film Festival 2014 August 06, 2013

We are glad to announce the dates for World Film Festival at 2014!

World Film Festival in Heimtali Community Centre July 17, 2013

World Film festival, celebrating its 10th anniversary, has decided to go on a trip in Estonia.

World Film Festival goes to Schilling Music festival July 01, 2013

World Film festival, celebrating its 10th anniversary, has decided to go on a trip in Estonia. Every spring for the past 10 years filmmakers have come to Tartu from many different places and taken their audiences on a trip around the world through their films. This summer Worldfilm will start its own tour, and the first stop is Kilingi-Nõmme and the Schilling music festival.

Memory connects us April 10, 2013

Every story of misfortune of exile is unique. Unfortunately, they are not isolated instances.

Tea Skrinjaric (Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology Ljubljana) reflects on Branko Istvancic's “Album” and the special program “Memory and Trauma”

The 9th Worldfilm festival is showing the histories of men March 19, 2012

The Worldfilm festival held 19-25 March in Tartu is screening anthropological documentaries from all over the world. The main theme of the festival this year is life as a male. Also, the Estonian premiere of the Estonian-Swiss joint film Regilaul, Songs of the Ancient Sea (dir Ulrike Koch) will be in Tartu. The idea for the film was sparked a few years back when the director was participating at the Worldfilm festival.

Selected films 2011 January 01, 2011

 We are glad to bring you this years film selection for the festival's main program. 

Worldfilm 2011 submissions August 19, 2010

Call for entries is open!

Worldfilm in ETV March 24, 2010

On Tuesday, Estonian television made a video reportage about Worldfilm festival which you can see online here. 

Films selected December 29, 2009

Worldfilm 2010 selected films are now listed here

Worldfilm 2010 now awaiting for submissions! August 23, 2009

See Submissions and Regulations for more info

Two premieres March 25, 2009

Kihnu Wedding
25.03  6.30pm
If Vagina Had Teeth
26.03 6pm

Worldfilm begins with a workshop March 22, 2009

Ethnographic film as a method in the communication of research and development-cooperation
23.03 at ENM 12-16 curator Martin Gruber