TVP has announced the inaugural edition of International TV Festival: Heart of Europe. The Festival aims to promote and activate CEE’s television creativity and popularize public media and strengthen their role in Europe's media landscape.

TVP invites broadcasters and authors from over a dozen countries in the region of Central and Eastern Europe to participate in the Heart of Europe festival. All these countries, although diverse and multicultural, share a common identity. It consists of similar historical experiences, similar sensitivity, courage and spirit − those features that are most clearly visible in art, especially in the field of film and television creativity.

CEETV will be covering the event from Warsaw.

“Our goal is for the Heart of Europe festival to help better define and strengthen the community of people in Central and Eastern Europe. The Heart of Europe festival is to become a forum for an artistic debate on the spirit of our region and space for joint activities that will help strengthen cooperation between the region's countries. This will help publicize the work of less known cinematography in Central and Eastern Europe, both in our region and around the world. It will be worthwhile for the original, characteristic voice of a dozen or so countries from the Heart of Europe to be finally noticed and fully resonate in the new space offered by the new TVP festival.”

The first edition of the International TV Festival Heart of Europe will be held in the hybrid model on November 3-30, 2021, in Warsaw and at https://en.heartofeurope.tvp.pl/.

Cinema and online screenings of the nominated programs and accompanying events will take place as part of the first edition festival.

The Heart of Europe is a festival of productions of various genres and formats. The international jury will gather to select the best of the nominated productions in six competition categories. In each of the categories, the five best titles will be recommended by the jury, and one winner will be selected from among them, and one work will receive a distinction.

The Competition categories include: Feature film; Feature series; Documentary; Entertainment; Children and youth and Digital

In total, almost 100 titles were submitted by broadcasters from 12 European countries. The full list of participants can be found here: https://en.heartofeurope.tvp.pl/56474550/repertoire