FESTIVALS: The 5th MECEFF Will Focus on WWI

BUCHAREST: The 5th Mediaş Central European Film Festival 7+1 will focus on the WWI and its impact on the XX and XXI centuries. MECEFF will take place in Mediaş from…
10-08-2015

Anna Geislerová Set for Czech Horror Film

PRAGUE: Popular Czech actresses Anna Geislerová and Daniela Kolářová are set to star in Polednice /The Noon Witch, a horror film by creative partners Matěj Chlupáček and Michal Samir.
07-08-2015

PRODUCTION: Georgian French Doc Listen to Silence Ready for Postproduction

TBILISI: Mariam Chachia’s documentary Listen to Silence, a Georgian/French documentary focusing on a deaf-mute children’s school of Tbilisi, will go into postproduction in January 2016, after wrapping shooting in June…
07-08-2015

Romanian Oscar Entry Aferim! Sold in the US

BUCHAREST: Radu Jude's Aferim!,Romania's entry in the foreign-language Oscar, will be distributed by Big World Pictures in the US at the beginning of 2016.
07-08-2015

Obituary: Romanian Filmmaker Malvina Urşianu

BUCHAREST: Malvina Urşianu, one of Romania’s most important female directors, died at age 88 during the night of 5 to 6 August 2015.
07-08-2015

Gdynia Fest Hosts Common Baltic Short Film Contest

WARSAW: Filmmakers from the Baltic Sea region are eligible to submit films for the Common Baltic Short Film Contest, with awards for the best films to be presented at the…
07-08-2015

FNE Doc Bloc: KineDok Lauched in Romania

KineDok plans 200 screenings at alternative venues in Romania in 2015.
07-08-2015

Georgia Announces Call for International Coproduction Grants

TBILISI: The Georgian National Film Center (GNFC), has opened a grant call for international feature coproductions in the frame of the European Convention on Cinematographic Production.
06-08-2015

Applications Due for Polish-German Co-Development Fund

WARSAW: The Polish-German Co-Development Fund is accepting applications through 14 August 2015. Applications are open to film producers from Poland and Germany.
06-08-2015

FNE at Venice Biennale FF 2015: Poland’s Skolimowski Scores Slot in Competition

VENICE: Poland’s Jerzy Skolimowski has scored a slot in the competition line-up of the The 72nd Venice Biennale Film Festival (2-12 September 2015) with the Polish Irish coproduction 11 Minutes.
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PRODUCTION: She Is a Harbour Starts Shooting

BRATISLAVA: Iveta Grófová has begun filming her second feature, a Slovak/Czech/Hungarian coproduction entitled She Is a Harbour.
05-08-2015

Norwegian Miniseries Shooting in Prague

PRAGUE Nobel, a Norwegian public television (NRK) eight-part miniseries began shooting in the Czech Republic on 3 August 2015.
05-08-2015

FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project Announces Open Call

WARSAW: The 10th FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project is accepting applications for its training programme for young critics and film journalists from Central and Eastern Europe.
05-08-2015

FNE TV: MEP Bogdan Wenta, Member of the Culture Committee of the EU Parliament

FNE spoke to MEP Bogdan Wenta, Member of the Culture Committee of the EU Parliament about Copyright Reform and the Digital Single Market.
04-08-2015

FESTIVALS: Lucifer Wins in Wroclaw

WROCLAW: The Belgian film Lucifer directed by Gust Van den Berghe won the grand prize and a 20,000 EUR award at the 15th T-Mobile New Horizons Film Festival, which wrapped…
04-08-2015

FNE at T-Mobile New Horizons: Polish Days Works in Progress

WROCŁAW: Ten Polish projects currently in production were showcased during the last day of Polish Days, an industry event held at T-Mobile New Horizons IFF, including new films from Wojciech…
03-08-2015

Domestic Films Drive Increase in Romanian Box Office

BUCHAREST: Box office for Romanian films was up by approximately 19% in the first half of 2015. The total gross was also higher compared to the first half of 2014.
03-08-2015

Malta to Upgrade Cinemas

VALLETTA: Malta will see 500,000 EUR going into upgrading cinemas in six cinema complexes.
03-08-2015

FESTIVALS: Malek Honoured at Uherske Hradiste

UHERSKE HRADISTE, CZECH REPUBLIC: The Association of Czech Film Clubs handed out its annual awards at the 41st Uherske Hradiste Summer Film School.
03-08-2015

FESTIVALS: Ten Films Compete at Sarajevo

SARAJEVO: Two world premieres are among the ten films in the main competition of the Sarajevo Film Festival which runs 14-22 August 2015.
03-08-2015