WARSAW: European film industry professionals and organisations have voiced strong concerns about the strategy for the creation of a single digital market across the EU adopted on 6 May by the European Commission.
CANNES: Veteran Lithuanian director Sarunas Bartas has scored a slot in 47th annual Quinzaine des Réalisateurs programme at the Cannes Film Festival with his new feature, the Lithuanian/French/Russian coproduction, Peace to Us in Our Dreams. Poland weighs in as a coproducer of Swedish director Magnus von Horn’s Swedish/French/Polish coproduction The Here After.
CANNES: The Cannes Critics Week which runs from 14-22 May has announced its line-up with a strong emphasis on French and Latin American films.
FNE at IKSV 2015: Istanbul Film Festival Closes without Awards in Protest Over Government Censorship
Turkey 20-04-2015ISTANBUL: The 34th Istanbul Film Festival closed last night without any closing ceremony or awards as the festival and Turkish film industry professionals protested against government censorship. After the festival was forced to pull a controversial documentary from its programme, Turkish filmmakers have issued an open letter calling on the Turkish government to change government regulations that they see as a weapon that can be used by the authorities to censor films.
ISTANBUL: The Meetings on the Bridge has announced the winning projects for the 10th edition of the annual industry event which was held on 15-16 April 2015 within the scope of the Istanbul Film Festival.
PARIS: Films from Hungary, Romania and Croatia have all scored places in the Competition and Certain Regard official competition programmes in the 68th Cannes Film Festival running from 13 to 24 May.
SOFIA: Prizes of the 12th edition of Sofia Meetings, which took place from 12 to 15 March 2015, were handed out for projects from the UK, Turkey, Bulgaria, Georgia and Italy.
SOFIA: The big winner at the 19th Sofia International Film Festival held 5-15 March 2015 was the Bulgarian/Greek coproduction The Lesson directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, who won the top prize in the International Competition for First and Second Feature Films, the Best Bulgarian Feature Film Competition Award, the Audience Award and the FIPRESCI award.
BERLIN: Werner Herzog is in competition in Berlin with Queen of the Desert, his first fiction feature film in six years and it is not short on the trademark Herzog panoramic epic sweep of nature and man defining herself against its backdrop.
BERLIN: Russian director Alexei German Jr presents some vitally important universal messages that we need to hear in his Berlin competition entry Under Electric Clouds making it all the more a pity that the audience reach of the film will be reduced by its excessive length.
