Scriptwriters Nadejda Koseva of Bulgaria and Bojan Vuletić of Serbia compete for the Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award during the 2013 Cannes IFF with The Year of the Kuker, the story of two women connected by one baby and one accident.

VILNIUS: Escaping Sunshine, a Danish-Lithuanian coproduction, has been selected to lead off the new Nordic crowdfunding platform Manymade. The campaign was launched on 8 May 2013.

CEE documentary filmmakers can submit film projects to the 11th edition of the Ex Oriente workshop through 1 June 2013. Read the full story on Dokweb.

This year for the first time FNE will offer the ratings of features films in ALL sections of the official Cannes programme by international critics attending Cannes.

FNE together with Europa Cinemas continues its Cinema of the Month series. In recognition of the hard work and excellence of European cinema operators we choose a cinema from each country covered by FNE each month.

FNE together with Europa Cinemas continues its Cinema of the Month series. In recognition of the hard work and excellence of European cinema operators we choose a cinema from each country covered by FNE each month.

After celebrating, in the past two years, Israeli cinema and Romanians' century-long contribution to the glory of Hollywood, the third edition of MECEFF- THE CENTRAL EUOPEAN FILM FESTIVAL which will take place between June 25 and 29, has as special guest a country whose cinema history was always connected to the evolution of world cinema: Germany.

FNE spoke to of the Jerome Paillard Executive Director of the Marche Du Film about how the marketplace for films is changing in the new digital era and how smaller countries can avoid getting lost in the crowd in Cannes.

FNE asked Czech director Jiri Menzel about his new film Don Juan which has its premier at the end of may as well as about the state of European cinema today.  Menzel will have a retrospective of his films at Filmoteka in Warsaw in May 2013

WARSAW: Twelve film projects from eight CEE countries will vie for the Krzysztof Kieślowski ScripTeast Award for the Best Eastern European Script along with a prize of 10,000 EUR to be announced at the Cannes IFF on 22 May 2013.