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Shooting under way for new Slovenian film Transition

FNE Staff Slovenia 2008-02-12

Shooting is under way for the new Slovenian film Transition by director Boris Palčič. The screenplay is based on the novel by Vladimir Nardin with the same title.

Polsat Cyfrowy profits jump 125 percent

FNE Staff Poland 2008-02-12

Digital television operator Polsat Cyfrowy posted a net profit of 122.3 million zloties (€33.9 million) during the first three quarters of 2007, or 125% above the same nine-month period in…

Rising film attendance in new EU states offsets general decline

FNE Staff Region 2008-02-11

Although cinema attendance in the European Union declined 2.2% in 2007, rising attendance in the new EU member states helped save the market from a more serious decline, according to…

Slovenia screens two co-productions at Berlinale

FNE Staff Slovenia 2008-02-11

Two Slovenian co-productions are being screened in the "Panorama" section of the official Berlinale program. One is Love and Other Crimes by the Serbian director Stefan Arsenijević, a Serbian-German-Slovenian co-production…

Online cinema launches in Poland

Katarzyna Grynienko Poland 2008-02-11

Poland's first online cinema has become an instant success. The price of an online screening at Iplex (www.iplex.pl) is 8 zł (€1.50), half the price of a ticket in a…

Secrets leads Czech Lion nominations

Irena Zemanova Czech Republic 2008-02-10

The film Secrets by director Alice Nellis leads this year‘s nominations for the Czech Lion awards (www.ceskylev.cz ), the domestic equivalent of the Oscars organised by the Czech Film and…

New Greenhill Studios going up in Pecs

Laszlo Kirston Hungary 2008-02-10

Greenhill Zrt., a consortium of three private parties led by Hungarian film director-turned-cinematographer Tamás Sas, is to build a 2-billion-forint (Є7.9 million) state-of-the art studio complex and media center in…

Latvian films at the Berlinale (update)

Daria Abolina Latvia 2008-02-10

The New Species, the directorial film debut in animation by veteran Latvian cinematographer Ēvalds Lācis, has been selected for the children's competition section at this year's Berlinale. The film was…

Bulgaria back in Berlinale

FNE Staff Bulgaria 2008-02-08

Corridor #8 directed by Boris Despodov is the first Bulgarian film in six years to enter the official selection of the Berlin International Film Festival. The film will have its…

Latvian films at the Berlinale

FNE Staff Latvia 2008-02-08

A short animated Latvian film, The New Species, by well-known Film Studio Animacijas Brigade is in the competition at the Berlinale, while a second film by Latvian director Sigme Baumane…

Poland, Russia inaugurate script competition

FNE Staff Poland 2008-02-07

The Polish Film Institute and the legendary Russian studio Mosfilm have launched a script competition for the best work dealing with bilateral events after 1991. The winner will be awarded…

Polishfilmclub: Polish cinema screened in Ireland

FNE Staff Poland 2008-02-07

Activities to promote Polish films abroad continue to spread. The latest development is Polishfilmclub, which will be screening Polish cinema in various cities in Ireland such as Dublin, Cork, Cavan,…

Poland signs memorandum on film cooperation with Ukraine

FNE Staff Poland 2008-02-07

The Polish Film Institute (www.pisf.pl) has signed a memorandum with Ukraine to support mutual cooperation between their film industries. The first practical effect of the Feb. 5 agreement is a…

Two Polish films set for European Film Market premieres

FNE Staff Poland 2008-02-06

Two Polish films will have their international premieres during the European Film Market, which runs for nine days during the Berlinale. Distributor BooBoo films (www.booboofilms.pl) will be promoting the poetic…

Estonia presents four films at European Film Market

FNE Staff Estonia 2008-02-06

Estonia will be represented by four films at the European Film Market in Berlin which starts today in concurrence with the Berlin International Film Festival. The two newest films are…

Hungarian Film Week ends with victory for Mundruczo

Anna Franklin Hungary 2008-02-06

Kornél Mundruczó's Delta won the main prize for best feature film at Hungarian Film Week in a year that most critics said was dominated by Hungarian documentaries. In his acceptance…

Katyn heads for international premiere

Patricia Koza Poland 2008-02-05

Katyń, a personal odyssey for renowned Polish director Andrzej Wajda about the massacre of Poles during World War II, is heading for its international premiere at the Berlinale boosted by…

Hungarian Filmlab celebrates bumper year

Anna Franklin Hungary 2008-02-05

The Hungarian Filmlab is already celebrating its Oscar victory even though the awards ceremony has not taken place yet. Both Joseph Cedar's Beaufort (Israel) which was nominated for a foreign-language…

Baltic Film and Media School chosen for three MEDIA-funded projects

Martin Aadamsoo Estonia 2008-02-05

The Tallinn-based Baltic Film and Media School (BFM) was chosen for financing of three different projects out of only 10 for all of Europe by the EU MEDIA programme's first…

Estonian film financing grows by 12 percent

Martin Aadamsoo Estonia 2008-02-04

Estonia's public financing for film is budgeted to grow by 12% in 2008 from the previous year. The total state financing is expected to reach €6.75 million, an all-time high.…