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The Siege on Liperti Street by Stavros Paballis

Cypriot/Greek The Siege on Liperti Street Scores Multiple Wins in Thessaloniki

Antigoni Tasiou Cyprus 2019-11-19

NICOSIA: The Cypriot/Greek film The Siege on Liberty Street by Cypriot writer/director Stavros Pamballis took both the Audience Award and the FIPRESCI Prize at the recent 60th Thessaloniki IFF.

FESTIVALS: Ivana the Terrible Wins Zagreb Film Festival 2019

Milena Zajović Croatia 2019-11-18

ZAGREB: The jury of the 17th Zagreb Film Festival awarded the Golden Pram for Best Feature Film to the Romanian/Serbian fictional autobiography Ivana the Terrible directed by Ivana Mladenović. The…

Joaquin Phoenix in Joker by Todd Phillips

FESTIVALS: Joker Wins Main Prize at Camerimage 2019

Katarzyna Grynienko Poland 2019-11-18

TORUN: Joker DoP Lawrence Sher won the Golden Frog in the main competition of the 27th edition of Camerimage, a festival which celebrates the art of cinematography. The Bronze Frog…

A Treatise of the Human Animal no. 38: Heartache by Jacob Møller

FESTIVALS: Denmark Wins Scanorama New Baltic Cinema Short Film Competition

Aukse Kancereviciute Lithuania 2019-11-18

VILNIUS: This year the European Film Forum Scanorama, which took place in Vilnius 7 - 17 November 2019, extended its competition programme to cover the whole Baltic sea region. A…

Kids Kino.Lab Announces 2019/2020 Participants

FNE Staff Poland 2019-11-18

WARSAW: The 4th edition of the international script development programme Kids Kino.Lab, formerly known as Kids Film.Pro, has announced its tutors and participants in advance of its first session of…

NEM Zagreb Brings TV Industry to Croatia

FNE Staff Croatia 2019-11-18

ZAGREB: TV and film content creation is the subject of the first NEM Zagreb convention, which takes place 11 -13 December 2019. Top international TV industry professionals will participate in…

British TV Series Killing Eve Returns to Romania

Iulia Blaga Romania 2019-11-18

BUCHAREST: An episode of the third season of the Emmy award winning TV series Killing Eve was shot in Romania in October 2019. Alien Films Entertainment is again servicing and…

OBITUARY: Branko Lustig

FNE Staff Croatia 2019-11-15

ZAGREB: Two-time Oscar winner and Croatia’s most famous producer, Branko Lustig died on 14 November 2019 in Zagreb.

GRANTS: Poland Supports Five Minority Coproductions

Katarzyna Grynienko Poland 2019-11-15

WARSAW: The Polish Film Institute gave 2.7 m PLN / 630,014 EUR in minority international coproduction funding to five international projects.

Estonia Breaks Attendance Records Again in 2019

Aurelia Aasa Estonia 2019-11-15

TALLINN: Estonia’s 2019 domestic film admissions have already surpassed the 2018 record, with over 802,000 admissions and another seven weeks still to come. There are two animated features and one…

PRODUCTION: Kerekes in Postproduction with Slovak/Czech/Ukrainian Debut Fiction Film

Zuzana Točíková Vojteková Slovakia 2019-11-15

BRATISLAVA: The acclaimed Slovak documentary director Peter Kerekes is in postproduction with Censor / Cenzorka, a Slovak/Czech/Ukrainian coproduction, which is the first fiction film of the filmmaker known for his…

PRODUCTION: Igor Drljača’s Tabija in Postproduction

Tina Smalcelj Bosnia-Herzegovina 2019-11-15

SARAJEVO: Igor Drljača, whose previous feature film The Waiting Room (TimeLapse Pictures) premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, has started postproduction on his third feature film Tabija (working title). The…

PRODUCTION: Romanian Vlad Păunescu Wraps Shooting on The Ladder

Iulia Blaga Romania 2019-11-15

BUCHAREST: Director/producer and Castel Film Studios’s CEO Vlad Păunescu has completed filming on his sophomore feature The Ladder / Scara, which shot in September and October 2019. The account of…

The Wind. A Documentary Thriller by Michal Bielawski

FNE IDF DocBloc: Top Ten East Silver Market Films

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2019-11-15

JIHLAVA: Poland proved popular with viewers at the East Silver Market in Jihlava.

FNE at 2019 Latvian National Film Festival: Oleg Wins Three Top Awards

Zane Balčus Latvia 2019-11-14

RIGA: Oleg by Juris Kursietis was awarded the Lielais Kristaps best feature length fiction film prize at the 12 November 2019 closing ceremony of the Latvian National Film Festival, held…

PRODUCTION: Long-awaited Slovak/Czech/Macedonian Drama Piargy in Postproduction

Zuzana Točíková Vojteková Slovakia 2019-11-14

BRATISLAVA: The Slovak/Czech/Macedonian historical drama Piargy / Fašiangy, which started first shooting in May 2016, is in postproduction. The film, based on a short story by Slovak writer František Švantner,…

Stories from the Chestnut Woods by Gregor Božič

FNE at 2019 Ljubljana IFF: Stories from the Chestnut Woods Competes at LiFFE

Damijan Vinter Slovenia 2019-11-14

LJUBLJANA: Ten films from young filmmakers, presented in the Perspectives section, will compete for the Kingfisher Award at this year’s 30th edition of the Ljubljana IFF, running 13 – 24…

God Exists, Her Name is Petrunija by Teona Strugar Mitevska

North Macedonia, Slovenia, Belgium, Croatia and Poland Score With Awards at Etoiles et Toiles du Cinema Europeen

FNE Staff Region 2019-11-14

STRASBOURG: Two of the three awards distributed at the closing of Etoiles et Toiles du Cinema Europeen on 13 November 2019 went to films from CEE territories.

FNE Europa Cinemas: Cinema of the Month, Kino Metro 70, Prostějov, Czech Republic

Iulia Blaga Czech Republic 2019-11-13

This month we speak with Barbora Kucsa Prágerová, the manager and programmer of Kino Metro 70 in Prostějov, Czech Republic.

FNE at connecting cottbus 2019 WIP Projects: Between Two Dawns

Cathy Meils Region 2019-11-13

COTTBUS: Romanian producer Oana Giurgiu is coproducing Between Two Dawns, a contemporary drama set in Turkey, written and directed by Selman Nacar. The film was presented at the connecting cottbus…