FESTIVALS: Nothing Bad Can Happen Scoops Top Awards at 5th Regiofun IFF
KATOWICE: Nothing Bad Can Happen, a German drama directed by Katrin Gebbe, dominated the 5th International Festival of Film Producers in Katowice (7 -12 October 2014) winning both the top…
FNE at Golden Rose FF 2014: Competition: The Sinking of Sozopol
VARNA: Kostadin Bonev’s third feature film, The Sinking of Sozopol (aka A Town Named Salvation), is “a nostalgic utopia on missing hope, in which a sea engulfs a city“, as…
FNE at Golden Rose FF 2014:Competition: The Petrov File
VARNA: The debut feature of the director/scriptwriter Gueorgui Balabanov was written in collaboration with Jean-Claude Carrière. The Petrov File, a Bulgarian-German coproduction, screens in the main competition of the Varna …
Off the Wall Launches European Screenings of Films from Post-Communist Countries
PARIS: The project Off the Wall has selected a group of recent films from post-communist countries that will tour seven European festivals starting with special screenings in Tarragona, Spain on…
FESTIVALS: Hungarian Film Week Returns
BUDAPEST: The Hungarian Film Week (HFW) returns after a two year absence as a newly minted event organised by the Hungarian National Film Fund, National Media and Info-communications Authority and…
FNE at Golden Rose FF 2014: Competition: Rat Poison
VARNA: Konstantin Burov’s debut feature is a Bulgarian-Romanian coproduction that also launches the careers of most of the actors in the film. Rat Poison will screen in the main competition…
CentEast Market Announces Programme
WARSAW: The 10th edition of CentEast Market Warsaw will present works-in-progress from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia as part of the 30th Warsaw Film Festival from 17…
FNE at LET'S CEE Film Festival 2014: Goldener Rathausmann for Branko Lustig
VIENNA: Famous Croatian producer and Holocaust survivor Branko Lustig received the Goldener Rathausmann from the Mayor of the City of Vienna on 7 October. Lustig is in Vienna as a…
FESTIVALS: Black Nights FF Focuses on Poland
TALLINN: The 18th edition of the Black Nights Film Festival will focus on Polish cinema. Nearly two dozen Polish films will be presented from 14 to 30 November 2014. The…
Eastern European Film Festival to be Launched in Argentina
Al Este del Plata will bring Eastern European cinema to Buenos Aires and Córdoba from 6 to 9 November 2014 and it will develop into a full-fledged film festival in…
FNE Doc Bloc: DOK.Leipzig features 15 Documentaries Supported by IDF
A total of 15 documentaries that will be presented within the official programme of the 57th DOK.Leipzig, the biggest documentary and animation event in Germany, were developed under or otherwise…
PRODUCTION: Adrian Sitaru Preps It’s Time!
BUCHAREST: Adrian Sitaru’s new feature is an independent production set to shoot from 12 to 26 October 2014.
FESTIVALS: Cyprus International Short Film Festival Lineup
LIMASSOL: Eight national and 64 international short films will be screened in the 4th edition of the International Short Film Festival of Cyprus (11-17 October).
FNE at Golden Rose FF 2014: Competition: One More Dream
VARNA: Nikolay Mutafchiev’s independent debut feature tells the story of four beautiful women who meet at a psychotherapy session and decide to rob a bank. One More Dream screens in…
FNE at Golden Rose FF 2014: Competition: Hombre
VARNA: Zahary Paunov‘s Hombre, a contemporary story about a journalist who gets involved in an unsuccessful drug deal and becomes a victim of the mafia, is one of eight debuts…
FNE Europa Distribution: Distributor of the Month: Tomas Tengmark, Lithuania
FNE together with Europa Distribution is launching a new chapter of the Distributor of the Month section. This time we focus on new strategies in film distribution and the importance…
World Screenwriters Sign Warsaw Resolution
WARSAW: Representatives of over 30 international screenwriting guilds have signed a resolution that calls for creative freedom and financial support for screenwriters. The Warsaw Resolution was signed at the Third…
Tax Rebate for Film Production in Hungary Increased
BUDAPEST: The Hungarian Parliament has approved the increase of the indirect film support ratio from 20 to 25% of eligible costs. The European Commission approved the increase earlier this year…
FNE at Golden Rose FF 2014:Competition: Rapid Response Corps 2: Nuclear Threat
VARNA: Action comedy Rapid Response Corps 2: Nuclear Threat is the only sequel in Bulgarian cinema in the last 25 years and a third part has already been announced. Stanislav…
IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund Expands Funding to Eastern Europe
ROTTERDAM: HBF+Europe will provide substantial financial support to European minority coproducers for feature films of filmmakers from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of the Eastern Europe.
