FNE at Connecting Cottbus: Sugar Kid
COTTBUS: The first animated children’s film to be pitched at Connecting Cottbus is a coproduction from Macedonia, Serbia and Bulgaria.
FNE at Connecting Cottbus: 1985
COTTBUS: Romania in 1985 was in the grips of the worst of Ceausescu’s excesses, and ordinary Romanians paid the price. Director Bogdan Muresanu takes this emotionally laden era as the…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus: The Disciple
COTTBUS: Slovak director/producer Ivan Ostrochovsky tackles a new topic in Slovak film: the infiltration of the Catholic Church by the communist regime in his film The Disciple which was pitched…
HBO Europe Starts Production on Wasteland
PRAGUE: Principal photography has started on Pustina / Wasteland, an eight-part original drama series written for HBO Europe by Stepan Hulik, writer of the acclaimed HBO miniseries Burning Bush directed…
FNE at Cottbus Film Festival: The High Sun Shines at Cottbus
COTTBUS: In the heart of the only remaining Slavic region of Germany lies Cottbus, where for 25 years the Cottbus Film Festival has been keeping its Soviet-era ties alive, much…
PRODUCTION: Dalibor Matanić Preps Series Newspapers
ZAGREB: Dalibor Matanić (The High Sun) is in preparation with a 12-episode TV series entitled Newspapers / Novine and set to start shooting on 1 December 2015.
FNE at Cottbus Film Festival: Baku from Dawn Till Dusk
COTTBUS: Eighteen emerging documentary filmmakers create an omnibus film that presents a story of everyday life in Baku in Baku from Dawn Till Dusk, a coproduction from Azerbaijan and Poland…
FNE at Cottbus Film Festival: The Land of Oz
COTTBUS: After winning the film critics and the best script prizes at the Sochi Film Festival, Vasiliy Sigarev’s comedy The Land of Oz had its international premiere in the main…
CEE Light on Nominations for EFA Awards
SEVILLE: Only four films and filmmakers from CEE received nominations for the European Film Awards which will be announced on 12 December 2015 in Berlin.
Kino Polska TV signs with Disney
WARSAW: Kino Polska TV S.A. has signed a contract with The Walt Disney Company Ltd. that will allow the broadcaster to air the newest Disney programming in Poland, the Czech…
PRODUCTION: Radu Jude Shoots Scarred Hearts
BUCHAREST: Radu Jude started shooting Scarred Hearts / Inimi cicatrizate, an adaptation of the writings of Romanian-Jewish author Max Blecher including Scarred Hearts, on 2 November 2015. Ada Solomon is…
CEE Film Funds Announce Expansions at Connecting Cottbus Panel
COTTBUS: Robert Balinski of the Polish Film Institute and Oliver Oliver Rittweger MDM (Mitteldeutsch Medienforderung) used the Connecting Cottbus panel on film funding to announce the signing of the Polish…
Platige Image in Production with The Witcher
WARSAW: Polish studio Platige Image is working on a Polish/American live action coproduction based on Andrzej Sapkowski's bestselling saga about The Witcher. The premiere is planned for 2017.
FNE at Connecting Cottbus: The Son
COTTBUS: Bosnia and Herzegovina teams up with Croatia and funding from Macedonia for director Ines Tanovic’s contemporary Sarajevo tale The Son presented at Connecting Cottbus.
FNE at Connecting Cottbus: Menopause
COTTBUS: Cyprus arrives at Connecting Cottbus for the first time, pitching the black comedy/drama thriller Menopause from director/producer Tonia Mishiali.
FNE at Connecting Cottbus: Venice
COTTBUS: Georgian writer/director/producer Rusudan Chkonia’s lingering problems with purchasing a new flat inspire her black comedy Venice, which was pitched at Connecting Cottbus on 5 November 2015. The project won…
Ukrainian Tank Wins CoCo Pitching Prize 2015
COTTBUS: Tank, a dramatic thriller directed by Max Ksjonda and produced by the Ukrainian company Noosphere Films, won the Best Pitch award at Connecting Cottbus on 5 November 2015.
The Orchard Picks up Demon for North American Distribution
WARSAW: US distributor The Orchard plans to release the Polish horror film Demon directed by the late Marcin Wrona in 2016.
FESTIVALS: Documentary Triumphs at Latvian National Film Festival
RIGA: The documentary film Ruch and Norie won four awards at the 27th edition of Latvia’s The Great Christopher/Lielais Kristaps festival of national films.
Baltic Event Ready to Kick Off
TALLINN: The 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival will present eight projects in its inaugural International Works in Progress alongside 13 projects of the Baltic Event Co-production Market and 14…
