FNE Country profile: Estonia

Estonia’s film year 2014 was highlighted by the opening of a significant number of new multi-screen and digital cinemas, growing admission figures, and the establishment of the second regional film…
16-12-2014

FNE Country Profile: Czech Republic

The State Cinematography Fund, Czech Republic has been the main tool for public support of cinematography in the Czech Republic since 1992. In 2013 it adopted a new Cinematography Act…
16-12-2014

FNE at EFA Awards 2014: Poland’s Ida Scoops Top European Awards

RIGA: Poland was celebrating the resounding win of Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida in Riga Saturday night as the hit film made a clean sweep of the awards for best European film,…
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Romania with No Minister of Culture Again

BUCHAREST: Romania is again without a minister of Culture since the party of Csilla Hegedus, the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (DAHR/UDMR), decided to step down from the government.
15-12-2014

Gods Tops 2 Million Mark on Its Way to the Top

WARSAW: The drama Gods by Łukasz Palkowski has become the most popular Polish film of the year, with 2.03m tickets sold to date.
15-12-2014

FNE Country Profile: Romania

After a gap in funding, production resumed in 2014, but the crisis was visible in the slow pace of foreign film productions shooting in Romania. New multiplexes opened and new…
15-12-2014

FNE Country Profile: Croatia

“To sum up, I would emphasize a few things: Ogden Svilicic's These Are the Rules (Maxima Film) awarded in Venice; two films with nice admissions in cinemas – Kristian Milić’s…
15-12-2014

FNE at Riga IFF 2014: Mother, I Love You Wins Top Latvian Award

RIGA: Mother, I Love You directed by Jānis Nords scooped the best Latvian feature film as well as the award for best director, best actress and the audience award at…
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Golden Globe Nods for Estonia and Poland

The Estonian/Georgian coproduction Tangerines and the Polish/Danish film Ida took two of the five slots in the 2014 Best Foreign Language Film category when the Golden Globe nominations were announced…
12-12-2014

Lithuania’s Aiste Dirziute Named EFP Shooting Star

Aiste Dirziute, star of The Summer of Sangaile directed by Alante Kavaite, has been selected as one of European Film Promotion’s 2015 Shooting Stars.
12-12-2014

FNE IDF Doc Bloc: IDF at IDFA

IDF recounts its successes at IDFA.
12-12-2014

CEE Films Head to Sundance

VILNIUS: Lithuanian and Croatian films will be represented at the 2015 edition of Sundance.
11-12-2014

PRODUCTION: Polish Wounded Beast in Development

TALLINN: Polish advertising and marketing company ADHD Warsaw continues its move into film production with The Wounded Beast directed by Piotr Trzaskalski.
11-12-2014

FNE Country Profile: Latvia

RIGA: The Latvian film industry has been developing progressively as well as successfully recovering from the hardships caused by the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009. State funding for local…
11-12-2014

FNE at Golden Rhyton 2014: The Last Black Sea Pirates Wins the Plovdiv Golden Rhyton

PLOVDIV: The jury of the 21st edition of the Bulgarian national film festival for documentary and animated films Golden Rhyton which ran through 6 December 2014 chose The Last Black…
10-12-2014

FNE Europa Cinema: Cinema of the Month: Obala Meeting Point

This month we speak with Amer Becirbegovic, the Head of Programming at Obala Meeting Point. Obala Meeting Point is a cult cinema in Sarajevo. It was built in 1997 as…
10-12-2014

FNE at Riga Meetings 2014: Latvian Industry Event Kicks Off

RIGA: The greatly expanded Riga Meetings kicks off today with four days of events, meetings and screenings for film professionals from around the world running 10-13 December in the Latvian…
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PRODUCTION: Puipa in Postproduction with The Garden of Eden

TALLINN: Algimants Puipa has completed filming on the Lithuanian drama The Garden of Eden.
10-12-2014

Zero.Point Tops Estonian Box Office in Opening Weekend

TALLINN: Zero.Point, the debut feature by Estonian director Mihkel Ulk, scored an impressive opening weekend with 9,581 viewers.
09-12-2014

PRODUCTION: Latvian Finnish Chronicles of Melanie in Production

TALLINN: Director Viestur Kairish takes on the topic of the deportation of 40,000 Baltic citizens to Siberia in 1941 in the drama Chronicles of Melanie, planned for completion in 2015.
09-12-2014