MIFF 2011: Moscow Business Square focuses on Baltics, Georgia and CIS countries

MOSCOW: MIFF's business platform Moscow Business Square (27-29 June 2011) chose to focus on the Baltics, Georgia and CIS countries in its third edition giving Russian producers and film professionals…
30-06-2011

FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: Sneakers

Sneakers, the Bulgarian debut film by co-directors Ivan Vladimirov and Valery Yordanov, screens in competition in Karlovy Vary's East of the West section, following a slot in the main competition…
29-06-2011

Croatian Film Grants Announced

ZAGREB: The Croatian Audiovisual Center (HAVC, www.havc.hr ) selected five feature films for co-funding at its 19th session on 27 June 2011. A total of HRK 2,200,000 was distributed.
29-06-2011

Magyar Filmunio Closes

BUDAPEST: Magyar Filmunio (www.magyarfilmunio.hu), the Hungarian film promotion organisation established in 1992 by the Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation (www.mmka.hu), will cease operations on 1 July 2011. The contract of Eva…
29-06-2011

Andrzej Muszyński to head ATM Grupa

WARSAW: One of Poland's largest production companies ATM Grupa S.A. selected Andrzej Muszyński as President of the Board at its General Meeting.
29-06-2011

FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: There Was Never a Better Brother

Murad Ibragimbekov's newest film There Was Never a Better Brother is the result of the director‘s latest artistic collaboration with Maksud Ibragimbekov, one of Azerbaijan's most established writers and Murad‘s…
29-06-2011

MIFF 2011: Russian programme director Irina Pavlova, New Directions of Russian Cinema

MOSCOW: MIFF`s Russian film programme will present over 150 films this year screening all the recent features, docs and animation as well as a selection of shorts. For most foreigners…
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PRODUCTION: Of Snails and Men to Shoot in August

BUCHAREST: Tudor Giurgiu's second feature, Of Snails and Men/Despre oameni şi melci, is inspired by true events, even if they may sound quite odd. In 2002, Reuters published an news…
28-06-2011

PRODUCTION: Of Snails and Men to Shoot in August

BUCHAREST: Tudor Giurgiu's second feature, Of Snails and Men/Despre oameni şi melci, is inspired by true events, even if they may sound quite odd. In 2002, Reuters published an news…
28-06-2011

FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: Visible World

BRATISLAVA: Visible World, an intimate psychological drama by Slovak writer and director Peter Krištúfek (Long Short Night; Snapshots), makes its world premiere in the 46th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival's…
28-06-2011

FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: Salt White

The Georgian director Ketevan Machavariani presents her debute feature film Salt White/ Marilivit tetri (www.saltwhite.ge) in its world premiere in the East of the West competition at the Karlovy Vary…
28-06-2011

FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: Punk's Not Dead

Punk's Not Dead /Pankot ne e mrtov by Vladimir Blaževski, which has its international premiere in the East of the West competition of the Karlovy Vary IFF, is a punchy…
28-06-2011

FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: Belvedere

Ahmed Imamović's second feature Belvedere, which has its European premiere in the East of the West competition of the Karlovy Vary IFF, is a drama about the survivors of the…
28-06-2011

MIFF 2011: Moscow’s Programme Director, Kirill Razlogov: Big Programme, Big Ambitions

MOSCOW: Moscow International Film Festival (http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/eng/) programme director Kirill Razalogov cannot be accused of lacking ambition. He presides this year over a programme that can only be described as vast…
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FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: Heart’s Boomerang

One of the most outstanding young Russian directors, Nikolay Khomeriki, is showing his latest feature, Heart's Boomerang in competition in the East of the West section of the Karlovy Vary…
28-06-2011

FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: Generation P

The Russian born American filmmaker Victor Ginzburg presents the international premiere of his Russian box-office hit, Generation P (www.generationp.ru), in the East of the West competition at Karlovy Vary IFF…
28-06-2011

TVP1 Picks up Polish Millionaires Series

The Polish public broadcaster TV Polska has commissioned the first season of a local series Residency that is being touted as the Polish Dynasty.
27-06-2011

Cyprus Short Film Fest Announces Call for Entries

The International Short Film Festival of Cyprus (ISFFC), which was recently upgraded from a national to an international event, is accepting entries for the 2011 festival until 20 July 2011.
27-06-2011

Moscow IFF Competition: I'll Die Without You

I'll Die Without You (Ushenod mgoni movkvdebi) is a crime melodrama of two young people living in Tbilisi, Georgia, that takes place in the course of one day.
27-06-2011

FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: Jeż Jerzy: The Movie

Jeż Jerzy: The Movie brings one of Poland's most popular comic book characters, a hedgehog, to life in a long-awaited film that employs the best tradition of the Polish school…
27-06-2011