FNE at TIFF 2013: Love Building
BUCHAREST: Iulia Rugină's first feature Love Building screens in Romanian Days, 6-8 June 2013, at the Transilvania IFF.
FNE at TIFF: The Bucuresti Experiment
CLUJ-NAPOCA: Bucharest-based British journalist Tom Wilson is presenting his first full-length documentary in Romanian Days at the 12th Transylvania International Film Festival, 6-8 June 2013.
FNE at Zlin IFF: Czechs Unveil Secret Amadeus Doc
ZLIN: A decade before the great glut of foreign productions descended on Prague in the 1990’s there was Amadeus. Now, 30 years after the making of the film, Czechs are…
FNE at TIFF 2013: A Farewell to Fools
CLUJ-NAPOCA: Bogdan Dreyer’s movie starring Gérard Depardieu and Harvey Keitel opened in 21 Romanian towns 15 March 2013, distributed by Family Film. The movie will be screened in the Romanian…
FNE at TIFF 2013: Domestic
BUCHAREST: Adrian Sitaru’s third film, Domestic, was launched simultaneously in Romanian cinemas and online for foreign viewers on 22 March 2013. The film, a realistic tragicomedy about people who eat…
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: Latvian Doc Sold to Canada
LONDON: London-based documentary sales agency Taskovski Films announced the sale of Documentarian to Canadian distributor Kinosmith.
Record Cinema Attendance in Estonia
TALLINN: Estonia reached a 20 year high in cinema attendance in 2011, with 2.5 m tickets sold at an average price of 4.1 EUR, an increase of 100,000 tickets over…
Cinenuovo Expands into Hungarian Distribution
BUDAPEST: Hungarian exhibitor Cineuova will launch distribution activities in July 2013, company CEO Dániel Maresch told FNE.
Poland Delivers Eagle to Polanski in Cannes
CANNES: Polish director Roman Polanski received a Best Director prize from his homeland in the form of the Polish Eagle, presented to him in Cannes by Dariusz Jablonski, President of…
Eight Films Receive Grants While Czech Producers Wait for Funding
PRAGUE: The Czech State Cinematography Fund has announced 23.5 m CZK in grants for eight films, all of which were approved in 2012 for funding that did not materialize.
South Korea Picks up Latvian Film
WARSAW: Polish based sales company New Europe Film Sales announced the sale of all rights for Latvian film Mother I Love You to South Korea.
International Productions Fill Prague
PRAGUE: Two major international productions are at the start of filming in Prague, with season three of the TV series Borgia beginning on 27 May 2013, and the US film…
Marin Martschewski: Executive Director of the Bulgarian National Film Center
FNE spoke to Marin Martschewski about the challenges facing the Bulgarian film industry as he takes up his new job as head of the Bulgarian National Film Center
FNE at Cannes FF 2013: Cannes Prize Winners
CANNES: Blue is the Warmest Colour directed by Abdellatif Kechiche walked away with the Palme D’Or at one of the coldest and wettest Cannes Festivals on record. The film also…
FNE at Cannes FF 2013: Cannes Critics Results
See how critics rated films in this year's Cannes program.: click HERE.
PRODUCTION: The Magic Mountain Starts Production
BUCHAREST: Romanian producer/writer/director Anca Damian has begun production on the animated documentary The Magic Mountain, the second part of her Death (and Life) Trilogy which started with the 2011 award…
FNE at Cannes FF 2013: Lithuanian Films Party
Photos from the Lithuanian party at Cannes IFF 2013 are available in our Who is partying at gallery.
FNE at Cannes FF 2013: Scripteast Awards
Bartosz Konopka and Przemyslaw Nowakowski from Poland received the Kieślowski Award for their script Mute developed during this years' edition of ScripTeast (read the full story). Photos from the ceremony…
FNE at Cannes FF 2013: Venus in Fur
CANNES: Polish born director Roman Polanski must have enjoyed his last venture into filming an adaptation of a hit stage play with his film of Carnage because he has followed…
EU parliament votes for resolution to exclude culture from US EU Trade Talks but the battle continues
CANNES: The European Parliament has voted in favour of a resolution calling for the exclusion of cultural and audiovisual services from the negotiating mandate for a free trade agreement between…
