FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Loving

GDYNIA: Sławomir Fabicki created an intimate, psychological drama about a marriage struggling trough an episode that changes a couple's lives forever.
09-09-2013

Malta Film Fund Sees Record Wave of Applications

VALLETTA: With double the number of projects applying for a development or production grant from the Malta Film Fund this year vs 2012, officials report that the 43 current hopefuls…
09-09-2013

FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Floating Skyscapers

GDYNIA: Tomasz Wasilewski has created an emotional image of a man struggling with his identity in Floating Skyscrapers, screening at the 38th Gdynia fest, which follows the life of a…
09-09-2013

FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Ida

GDYNIA: Paweł Pawlikowski explores the issues of family and identity in his new drama Ida, , screening at the 38th Gdynia fest, which recounts the story of Anna, a novice…
09-09-2013

FNE at Biennale 2013: Toscana Resort Castelfalfi - Venice Days: A Taste for Film

VENICE: One of the new partners of Venice Days this year at the Biennale Film Festival was Toscana Resort Castelfalfi.
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FNE at Venice Iff 2013: Sacro Gra (Competition) ITALY

VENICE: Documentaries have been turning up and winning prizes at major film festivals in Berlin and Cannes in increasing numbers in recent years and Gianfranco Rosi’s stunning Sacro Gra is…
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Screenplay on Husák’s Wife Wins Main Award in International MIDPOINT Programme

Prague: MIDPOINT, an international educational project aimed at supporting talent and development in European screenwriting, culminated at Prague's FAMU film school this weekend with honors for best projects.
06-09-2013

FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Traffic Department

GDYNIA: Wojciech Smarzowski explores the dark side of human nature in his box office hit drama based on the real workings of a traffic police officer.
06-09-2013

FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: The Girl from the Wardrobe

GDYNIA: Bodo Kox creates his own surreal outlook on what it means to be alone and enter relationships with The Girl from the Wardrobe, in which protagonist Jacek is taking…
06-09-2013

FNE - IDF DocBloc: Riding the Freeway Blues

Prague: Director Ivo Bystrican takes a creative view of the morass that is the system for getting around the Czech Republic in Under (the) Construction, a film examining the trauma…
06-09-2013

FNE Europa Distribution - Distributor of the Month: Antoine Bagnaninchi

FNE together with Europa Distribution continues its Distributor of the Month series in recognition of the hard work and excellence of European distributors and the common problems they face -…
06-09-2013

Czech Production Proposals Flood Cinematography Fund

PRAGUE: Applications for funding for more than 400 Czech film project proposals have poured into the online site of the Czech Cinematography Fund this week in the wake of the…
06-09-2013

PRODUCTION: Solomon and Jude Team Again on Blecher project

BUCHAREST: Producer Ada Solomon, following up her Golden Bear win for Călin Netzer’s Child’s Pose, is developing an adaptation of the writings of Romanian-Jewish author Max Blecher, including Scarred Hearts.…
05-09-2013

PRODUCTION: Nvota Comedy-Drama Hostage Shooting

BRATISLAVA: The retro family story Hostage is shooting its first segments following a year's delay in what was originally planned as a winter 2012 production. Location work runs through 7…
05-09-2013

FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Baby Blues

GDYNIA: Katarzyna Rosłaniec provokes with a surreal, eye-catching outlook on teenage pregnancy with Baby Blues, screening at the 38th Gdynia fest. The story centers on Natalia (Magdalena Berus), a 17-teen-year-old…
05-09-2013

Malta Reaches Out at MIPCOM 2013

MALTA: Continuing its push to build a growing slate of international productions, the Malta Film Commission www.mfc.com.mt will be talking up its status as a film-friendly Mediteranean location as the…
04-09-2013

Life Feels Good Scores Sales and Montreal Win

GDYNIA: Italy-based indie artfilm sales agent IntraMovies has picked up Polish drama Life Feels Good by Maciej Pieprzyca, which is celebrating victories at the 37th Montreal IFF. The film, also…
04-09-2013

FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: The Closed Circuit

GDYNIA: The Polish box office hit screening at the 38th Gdynia fest is a timely polemic that takes on questionable practices in Poland's legal system, where, according to the vision…
04-09-2013

Cinema City Boardmember Steps Down

WARSAW: The leading multiplex cinema operator in Central & Eastern Europe and in Israel has announced the resignation of Amos Weltsch, member of the board of managing directors, chief operating…
04-09-2013