FNE TV: Pascal Diot, head of the Venice Film Market

FNE asked Pascal Diot what were the most important new initiatives at this year’s Venice Film Market and what opportunities are on offer for producers from central and eastern Europe.
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FESTIVALS: The Duke of Burgundy Wins Cinematik Film Festival

PIEŠTANY: The Duke of Burgundy by Peter Strickland won the Meeting Point Europe Award at the 10th Cinematik Film Festival running from 10 to 15 September 2015, while wave vs.…
16-09-2015

FESTIVALS: Zagreb Film Festival Announces Changes

ZAGREB: This year’s edition of Zagreb Film Festival will take place from 14 to 22 November. The central programme will focus on fiction films, while documentaries will screen only in…
16-09-2015

TNT to Be Launched in Romania

BUCHAREST: Turner Broadcasting System’s flagship entertainment brand TNT will be launched in Romania on 6 October 2015. The channel will broadcast in SD and HD.
16-09-2015

Tetraktys Catalogue Available on VOD

NICOSIA: The world sales, distribution and production company Tetraktys Films has put documentaries and short fiction films from its catalogue on the Vimeo VOD platform.
16-09-2015

Slovenia Selects The Tree as Its Oscar Bid

LJUBLJANA: Sonja Prosenc’s debut feature The Tree has been selected by the Association of Slovenian Filmmakers (DSFU) as the country's candidate for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy…
15-09-2015

Estonia Submits 1944 for the Oscars

TALLINN: Estonia selected Elmo Nüganen’s 1944 for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 88th Academy Awards. The film is an Estonian/Finnish coproduction.
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Obituary: Writer Rezo Cheishvili

TBILISI: Acclaimed Georgian writer and screenwriter Revaz (Rezo) Cheishvili passed away at 82. He wrote the script of Eldar Shengelaia's famous Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (1983, Kartuli Pilmi), an…
15-09-2015

Obituary: Actress Oana Ioachim

BUCHAREST: Theatre and film actress Oana Ioachim passed away on 11 September 2015 at the age of 48. She played in Amen by Costa-Gavras and more recently in Răzvan Săvescu's…
15-09-2015

Lithuanian and Polish Producers Sail towards the Baltics

VILNIUS / GDYNIA: Twelve film producers from Lithuania and Poland actively working in the area of international coproduction, embarked on one of the most beautiful sailing vessels Brabander on 12…
15-09-2015

FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Life Must Go On

GDYNIA: Maciej Migas’s debut feature Life Must Go On will compete in the main competition at the 40th Gdynia Film Festival (14-19 September 2015). The film starring the popular actor…
15-09-2015

FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: New World

GDYNIA: Young filmmakers Elżbieta Benkowska, Łukasz Ostalski and Michał Wawrzecki explore the reality of an immigrant’s life in New World, a drama selected for the main competition of the 40th…
15-09-2015

Submission Deadline Approaches for Digital Production Challenge II

VILNIUS: The 7th edition of Digital Production Challenge II, a European workshop on digital production, will take place in Vilnius from 4 to 7 November 2015 in close cooperation with…
15-09-2015

FNE at Venice 2015: Venice Film Festival Prize Winners

VENICE: The Golden Lion for Best Film at the 72 Venice International Film Festival (2-12 September) went to Venezuelan director Lorenzo Vigas’ From Afar a story set in the run-down…
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FNE FIPRESCI Critics at Venice 2015: See how the critics rated the films

VENICE: FNE together with FIPRESCI invited FIPRESCI critics in Venice to rate the films in all four of the official competition programmes of the festival giving the films 1,2,3,4 or…
14-09-2015

Anca Mitran Selected as the New General Director of the Romanian CNC

BUCHAREST: Anca Mitran has won the contest organised by the Ministry of Culture and will be appointed General Director at the National Film Center (CNC).
14-09-2015

Georgia and Lithuania Announce Their Oscar Bids

TBILISI/VILNIUS: Levan Tutberidze's Moira and Alanté Kavaïté’s The Summer of Sangaile have been selected by Georgia and Lithuania to compete in the 88th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language film.
14-09-2015

Commandant Cousteau Biopic Shooting in Croatia

ZAGREB: Jérôme Salle’s The Odyssey/ L'Odyssée, a big budget French film about the life of the explorer Jacques Cousteau is currently shooting on the island of Hvar. The film stars…
14-09-2015

FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: The Here After

GDYNIA: Magnus von Horn's debut feature The Here After will compete in the main competition of the 40th Gdynia Film Festival (14-19 September 2015). The Polish-Swedish-French coproduction had its world…
14-09-2015