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FESTIVALS: Crystal Swan Wins 19th Tbilisi Film Festival

FNE Staff Georgia 2018-12-10

TBILISI: Crystal Swan, a coproduction between Belarus, USA, Germany and Russia directed by Darya Zhuk, was awarded the Golden Prometheus at the 19th Tbilisi Film Festival, running from 3 to…

FESTIVALS: III Wins Big at 15th Animateka International Animated Film Festival

FNE Staff Slovenia 2018-12-10

LJUBLJANA: Polish animated film III directed by Marta Pajek was awarded the Jury Grand Prix and the DSAF Audience Award at the 15th edition of Animateka International Animated Film Festival,…

FESTIVALS: Valletta Film Festival 2019 Announces Small Nations Competition

FNE Staff Malta 2018-12-10

VALLETTA: The Valletta Film Festival is launching a competition selection for productions originating from 34 small nations in Europe, Middle East and North Africa at its next edition, which will…

Film Grain Foundation Launches Valletta Film Lab

FNE Staff Malta 2018-12-10

VALLETTA: Film Grain Foundation is launching Valletta Film Lab, a training and development platform open to filmmakers from Malta and other European small nations.

FNE at Tallinn 2018: FNE TV: Rolandas Kvietkauskas

FNE Staff Estonia 2018-12-10

FNE asked Rolandas Kvietkauskas, Director of the Lithuanian Film Centre, about the effectiveness of the Lithuanian tax incentives and what will be new in 2019.

GRANTS: Bulgaria Announces Second Production Grants for 2018

Pavlina Jeleva Bulgaria 2018-12-07

SOFIA: The Bulgarian National Film Center distributed 1,804,860 EUR / 3,530,000 BGN to 10 feature films including two feature films with higher budgets, two feature films with lower budgets, two…

Barrandov Studio to Coproduce Four New Czech Films

Denisa Strbova Czech Republic 2018-12-07

PRAGUE: Barrandov Studio will coproduce new projects by Agnieszka Holland, Zdeněk Jiráský and David Ondříček, and also an animated film by Denisa Grimmová and Jan Bubeníček in 2019.

dok.incubator Calls for Applications

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2018-12-07

PRAGUE: Long documentaries in the rough-cut stage can apply for the dok.incubator workshop 2019 until 30 January 2019.

The Last Shift of Thomas Hisem by Jindřich Andrš

FNE IDF DocBloc: From Miner to Programmer: “I’ve Overcome My Own Prejudice,” Says Jindřich Andrš

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2018-12-07

Click HERE for the interview with Jindřich Andrš, the director of the documentary The Last Shift of Thomas Hisem, about the eponymous worker’s last day of work before a coal…

Moromete Family: On the Edge of Time by Stere Gulea

BOX OFFICE: Moromete Family: On the Edge of Time Most Popular Romanian Film of 2018

Iulia Blaga Romania 2018-12-06

BUCHAREST: Stere Gulea’s Moromete Family: On the Edge of Time / Moromeții 2 is about to become the most successful film of the year, with 154,137 admissions and 429,013 EUR…

AMP Filmworks Puts Cyprus on Film Map

Cathy Meils Cyprus 2018-12-06

NICOSIA: Cypriot production house AMP Filmworks had a big break-through when its feature film Smuggling Hendrix directed by the company’s founder Marios Piperides had its world premiere and won the…

FNE UNIC EU Policy Update 5.12.2018.

FNE Staff Region 2018-12-06

WARSAW: FNE has teamed up with the Brussels based team of the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC) to bring you regular updates on EU cinema policies that impact all industry…

PRODUCTION: Jonáš Karásek Wraps Shooting on Sophomore Feature

Tomáš Hudák Slovakia 2018-12-05

BRATISLAVA: Slovak director Jonáš Karásek wrapped shooting on his second feature film Amnesty / Amnestie focusing on the turbulent period around and right after the Velvet Revolution. This Slovak/Czech coproduction…

Films from CEE Countries Selected for Arte Kino Online Festival

FNE Staff Poland 2018-12-05

WARSAW: Mug by Poland's Małgorzata Szumowska and For Some Inexplicable Reason by Hungary's Gábor Reisz are among the ten films available online for free in 45 European countries within the…

MIDPOINT Shorts 2019 Selection Announced

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2018-12-05

PRAGUE: Four projects from the Czech Republic and Hungary have been selected for the MIDPOINT Shorts 2019 programme.

New Philip Noyce Project Among Six Projects to Benefit From New Romanian Cash Rebate Scheme

Iulia Blaga Romania 2018-12-04

BUCHAREST: Six projects have been approved for cash rebate in the scheme launched in Romania in October 2018. They include international and Romanian projects, including David Berman’s War by Philip…

FNE AV Innovation: Alexandru Berceanu: CINETic Hosts First Programme Dedicated to Game Design in Romania

Alexandru Berceanu Romania 2018-12-04

BUCHAREST: FNE invited Alexandru Berceanu, director of CINETic to tell us about the latest developments in the activity of this very ambitious center built up alongside the I.L. Caragiale Theatre…

GRANTS: Polish Film Institute Supports New Feature Films

Katarzyna Grynienko Poland 2018-12-04

WARSAW: The Polish Film Institute supported eight feature films with 2 m EUR / 8.9 m PLN during the third and the last session of financing in 2018.

FESTIVALS: Norway's Blind Spot Wins 20th Bratislava IFF

FNE Staff Slovakia 2018-12-04

BRATISLAVA: Norway’s Blind Spot directed by Tuva Novotny was awarded best film at the 20th Bratislava International Film Festival (29 November - 2 December 2018). The competition section showed first…

FNE at Black Nights FF and Baltic Event 2018: Awards Winners

Anna Franklin Estonia 2018-12-03

TALLINN: The 22nd Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, held from 16 November to 2 December 2018 in the Estonian capital of Tallinn, awarded its top prize to the Columbian/French coproduction…