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LET'S CEE Film Festival 2014: Two Oscars and one „Goldener Rathausmann“

The successful producer and Holocaust survivor Branko Lustig was rewarded with the „Goldener Rathausmann“ by the Mayor of the City of Vienna on October 7th.
10-10-2014

Black Nights sets focus on Poland

The 18th edition of Black Nights Film Festival will set focus on the Polish cinema from 14th to 30th November 2014. Nearly two dozens of films by Polish authors will be presented to film fans in Estonia, among them the opening film of the festival, “Warsaw 1944” by Jan Komasa.
09-10-2014

Maciej Pieprzyca’s Life Feels Good opens the CinEast festival tomorrow

Over 50 features and 40 short films from 18 post-communist countries as well as a variety of complementary events are on the programme of the 7th edition of CinEast (www.cineast.lu), the Central and Eastern European Film Festival in Luxembourg, which kicks off tomorrow, Thursday 9 October, at the Neimënster cultural…
08-10-2014

Sibiu, the beating heart of documentary cinema, from the 6th of October!

Starting with Monday, the 6th of October 2014, Sibiu becomes the heart of documentary film, at the most important festival of the genre in Romania and Central-East Europe - Astra Film Festival.
06-10-2014

A tribute to the cinematic genius Miklós Jancsó at Kaunas International Film Festival

In collaboration with the International Division of the Hungarian National Film Fund “Magyar Filmunió” Kaunas International Film Festival for the first time in Lithuania presents a selected retrospective of Hungarian film master Miklós Jancsó.
30-09-2014

Jihlava IDFF 2014 Industry News

Meet the Emerging Producers 2015 vol. 1
26-09-2014

Ciao Cottbus! - >globalEASTraces in Italy

The world tour continues: At the 24th edition of the FilmFestival Cottbus, the >globalEAST programme section ventures south and searches for Eastern European influences on our neihbours in Italy. With a total of seven productions, the series provides insights into the mutual cinematographic ties between both regions.
25-09-2014

30th Warsaw Film Festival Announces Line-up

This year’s 30th Warsaw Film Festival will take place on 10-19 October 2014. The programme will include 200 features and shorts from 59 countries, selected from thousands of submissions, which will be presented in five competitive and five non-competitive sections.
25-09-2014

7 films competing for the Grand Prix of CinEast film festival, Luxembourg

The complete programme as well as the films in competition at the 7th edition of CinEast - the Central and Eastern European Film Festival in Luxembourg – have been published today. Held from 9 to 26 October 2014 in a dozen venues in Luxembourg and other towns, the CinEast film…
25-09-2014

First Online World Film Retrospective of Helena Třeštíková

From September 22 to October 5, 2014, the DAFilms.com documentary portal presents the first world online retrospective of unique Czech director Helena Třeštíková under the telling title “A Long Journey”. The works by the popular documentarist who has won a whole range of international awards, including Europe’s highest film award…
23-09-2014

Documentary Competition at 30th Warsaw FF

15 titles will compete for The Best Documentary Award in this year's competition at 30th WFF. The Authors / Autorki, dir. Janusz Mrozowski (Poland 2014), 73 mins.A riveting documentary about female prisoners taking part in an unusual experiment. They write a play based on their own lives. The play is…
23-09-2014

Jubilee edition of REGIOFUN

The fifth edition of the festival is going to draw to Katowice the producers from all over the world. They will track new film industry tendencies, discuss regional film funds and explore locations of Silesia.
23-09-2014

Black Nights with International Competition announces accreditation!

The 18th edition of Black Nights Film Festival introducing an International Competition has opened accreditation for industry and press. The festival, now accredited by FIAPF as one of fifteen Non-Specialized Feature Film Competition Festivals, takes place from 14th to 30th November in the setting of winter wonderland of Tallinn, Estonia.
22-09-2014

Free Spirit Competition at 30th WFF

15 independent films from all over the world will compete for the Free Spirit Award at 30th Warsaw Film Festival:
22-09-2014

BIAFF 2014: Regional Film Fund – Perspectives in Ajara region

BIAFF 2014 organized Roundtable “Regional Film Fund – Perspectives in Ajara region”, which took place on September 19, in DIVAN SUITS Hotel in Batumi. The major goal of this meeting was to highlight the importance of regional film fund formation for Ajara region and to get feedback from cinema industry…
21-09-2014

Documentary Competition at 30th WFF

15 titles will compete for The Best Documentary Award in this year's competition at 30th WFF.
20-09-2014

Eastern Realities on Astra Film Festival

Astra Film Sibiu (the 6th-the 12th of October 2014), the oldest and the most important festival of documentary cinema in Central and Eastern Europe offers with each edition a perspective on the documentaries having been produced in the named region during the year. The Festival has focused on this since…
18-09-2014

East-West Co-productions Connecting again in Cottbus on November 6/7

13 projects from 12 countries to be pitched at the 2014 edition of connecting cottbus
18-09-2014

Film Festival Cottbus Programme Overview

From “queerEAST” via Ukraine to Italy – diversity is defining the programme of the 24th FilmFestival Cottbus
17-09-2014

Sofia IFF 2015 Call for Film Submissions Is Now Open!

The 19th edition of Sofia International Film Festival will take place between 5th and 22th of March 2015 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
16-09-2014