CineLibri 2020, the world's first international book&movie festival was held in Sofia

Proven to be the world s first international book&movie festival, CineLibri is an extraordinary annual event, inspired by the fruitful interaction of arts – cinema and literature, in particular.

Release time : 2020-10-19 10:12:35

source : Sofia Tourism Board

"If literature is the bread, then cinema is the wine of imagination."

Sofia owes its reputation of a cosmopolitan and artistic European city to a great extent to the range of international and national forums - film, music, theatre, folk festivals and art salons.

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Proven to be the world's first international book&movie festival, CineLibri is an extraordinary annual event, inspired by the fruitful interaction of arts - cinema and literature, in particular. It is held in Sofia and other district centres in Bulgaria every autumn, and shows the best examples of film adaptations d on significant literary works, both contemporary and classic. The festival is an extremely important, independent showcase for high-quality European film productions and co-productions.

The International Book&Movie Festival CineLibri is a unique occasion/ceremony/event, which unites renowned creators from different fields of art and thousands of fans of cinema and literature. The festival's mission is to cast a light on the best examples of interaction between arts, showing the best movie adaptations of literary works, to promote the good taste and interest in high-grade works of European cinema and literature. At the invitation of the festival, during the years the spectators and readers met world-famous European creators such as Ian McEwan, Volker Schlöndorff, Jiří Menzel, David Grossman, Herman Koch, David Foenkinos, Sergio Castellito, Margaret Mazzantini, Benoît Jacquot, Frédéric Beigbeder, Bruno Coulais, Doriana Leondeff, Christopher Lambert, David Lagercrantz, Radu Mihaileanu, Arnon Grunberg, Kiera Chaplin and many others. The competition program of CineLibri includes feature films - successful cinematographic adaptations of literary works, both classic and contemporary, created over the past two years in Europe and beyond. The festival aims at distinguishing those film productions and