PRODUCTION: Michał Szczerbic Shooting New Polish Drama Fair

WARSAW: Accomplished Polish producer and screenwriter Michał Szczerbic makes his feature debut with a WWII drama Fair (Sprawiedliwy).
26-09-2014

Iron Sky Team Share the Script with Crowd Funding

HELSINKI: The makers of Iron Sky. The Coming Race, the sequel to 2012 film Iron Sky, also by Finnish director Timo Vuorensola, are sending the script for their new film…
26-09-2014

FNE IDF Doc Bloc: Jihlava IFF's Emerging Producers 2015

JIHLAVA: The Jihlava IFF, which takes place 23-28 October 2014, has announced the first participants for the Emerging Producers Workshop 2015.
26-09-2014

Hollywood Stars Shooting in Czech Locations

PRAGUE: Hollywood stars, Orlando Bloom and two-time Oscar winner Michael Douglas, will move to the Czech Republic for seven weeks to shoot high budget action thriller Unlocked directed by Michael…
25-09-2014

PRODUCTION: Hana Jusić Develops Quit Staring at My Plate

ZAGREB: Hana Jusić's debut feature, Quit Staring at My Plate/ Ne gledaj mi u pijat, is a Croatian, Danish and French coproduction set for shooting in May 2015.
25-09-2014

Kino Polska TV Invests in TV Shopping

WARSAW: Kino Polska TV has bought 80% of the shares in Polish TV shopping company TV Okazje.
25-09-2014

FESTIVALS: Eastern Promises Retrospective at the San Sebastian IFF

SAN SEBASTIAN: An impressive retrospective of 50 Eastern European films is being featured at this year’s 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival. The series, entitled Eastern Promises. Autobiography of Eastern Europe,…
25-09-2014

Warsaw 44 Opens at Number One in Poland

WARSAW: Following a good critical reception at the 39. Gdynia Film Festival, the WWII drama by Jan Komasa soared to the top of the Polish box office in its opening…
24-09-2014

America, Here We Come! Sets Opening Record for 2014

BUCHAREST: Răzvan Săvescu’s debut feature America, Here We Come!/America,venim! racked up 14,257 admissions in the first weekend, more than #Selfie, the biggest hit of 2014 so far, but it didn’t…
24-09-2014

FESTIVALS: Regiofun International Festival of Film Producers Jubilee

KATOWICE: The fifth IFFP, Regiofun, will take place from 7-12 October 2014. The only European festival dedicated exclusively to film producers, it draws producers from around the world.
24-09-2014

Slovak Doc 38 Tops Box Office in Record Opening

BRATISLAVA: Director Daniel Dangl's new doc 38 about the Slovak ice-hockey legend Pavol Demitra, has topped the Slovak box office reaching record numbers of spectators. With nearly 50,000 admissions in…
23-09-2014

PRODUCTION: People’s Hero Ljiljan Vidić Shooting

ZAGREB: Croatian director Ivan Goran Vitez (Forest Creatures) is shooting People’s Hero Ljiljan Vidić, a Croatian partisan-comedy set in 1944.
23-09-2014

FNE at Gdynia FF 2014: Winners of the 39th Gdynia Polish Film Festival

GDYNIA: The top prize of the 39. Gdynia Film Festival went to Gods directed by Łukasz Palkowski, a biopic about professor Zbigniew Religa, who performed the first successful heart transplant…
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Just the Two of Us Wins Aristoteles Worskhop

VAMA: Just the Two of Us, directed by Nina Blazin (Slovenia), shot by Erno-Aron Palfi-Horvath (Hungary, Romania) and edited by Raluca Petre (Romania) is the winner of the 9th edition…
22-09-2014

FNE at BIAFF 2014: Winners of the 9th Batumi International ArtHouse FF

BATUMI: The 9th Batumi International Art-house Film Festival (BIAFF) held in Batumi 14-21 September 2014 gave its Grand Prix to Lenny Abrahamson for his comedy Frank (UK/Ireland, 2014) that had…
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FESTIVALS: Eastern Realities at the Astra Film Festival in Sibiu

SIBIU: The Astra Film Festival, will take place from 6 - 12 October this year in Sibiu, Romania. A highlight of the festival is the Central and Eastern Europe Documentary…
22-09-2014

OBITUARY: Eminent Slovak journalist and Dissident Angesa Kalinova

BRATISLAVA: Journalist and writer Angesa Kalinova died at the age of 90 on the morning of 18 September 2014 after a long illness.
22-09-2014

Eight New Romanian Films Set for Theatrical Release this Autumn

BUCHAREST: Romanian films are starting to make major inroads into the domestic theatrical market with eight new features set for release in a crowded autumn schedule. Most of the productions…
19-09-2014

Jamie Campbell-Bower and Gerard Depardieu to star in It's Showtime Siberia!

BUDAPEST: Academy award nominated Robert Dornhelm is to direct historical drama It's Showtime Siberia!, with shooting starting in March 2015. The film is a coproduction betwen Germany, Austria, Hungary, Russia…
19-09-2014

FNE IDF DocBloc: Czech Docs 2014-2015 Event

The Institute of Documentary film and the Czech Film Center present the joint event Czech Docs 2014-2015 which opens 29 September 2014.
19-09-2014