MOSCOW: The Red Square Screenings (15-19 October 2012) brought many central European producers to Moscow for the first time as the event teams up with CentEast Moscow (www.centeast.eu).
MOSCOW: The fourth annual CentEast Moscow Market (www.centeast.eu) has found a slot in the new Red Square Screenings, (15-19 October 2012) a new initiative backed by the Russian Cinema Fund.
FNE exclusive: Court decision gives Hungarian Film Fund control of film studios: FNE asks Andy Vajna what’s next
Hungary 06-09-2012BUDAPEST: A Hungarian court decision has transferred the property of the former Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation (MMKA) to the Hungarian National Film Fund (www.filmalap.hu).
FNE at Venice IFF 2012: Czech coproduction starring Gerard Depardieu gets Venice slot
Czech Republic 21-08-2012PRAGUE: The Man Who Laughs which was shot entirely in the Czech Republic has nabbed a Venice IFF Out of Competition slot. Directed by Jena-Pierre Ameris and starring Gerard Depardieu and Emmanuelle Seigner the film is produced by In Incognita Films (France) and Okko Production (www.okko.cz).
CANNES: Director Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom opened the Cannes Film Festival with a strange genre of film that can only be described as a "Wes Anderson" film. It is a mark of the director's distinctive style that he creates his own universe which might seem slight on first encounter but upon experience leaves us with the impression of a serious work of cinema art.
CANNES: Ukrainian documentarist turned
feature director Sergei Loznitsa returns to Cannes with a war drama, In the Fog, after having taken home the
Best Director's prize two years ago for his debut feature, My Joy.
CANNES: Romania director Cristian Mungiu returns to Cannes with Beyond the Hills, his first feature since 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days which won the Palm d'Or in 2007 and the director has a tough act to follow after such a stunning success.
CANNES: The 75-year-old British director Ken Loach has been in competition in Cannes nine times and his films never fail to draw appreciation from Cannes critics and audiences. While he has taken home only one Palme d'Or in 2006 with his Wind that Shakes the Barley Cannes juries have awarded his films three other prizes over his 40 year career and he is unlikely to go home empty handed this year with The Angel's Share.
CANNES: Cannes Film Festival had to change the rules after Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher swept so many awards to prevent any film from dominating the festival to that extent in future. If not the festival might face the same dilemma again with Haneke's Amour, a film of such outstanding merit on all fronts it is hard to see anything else as being in the same league.
Film New Europe is happy to announce its partnership with Locarno Film Festival's Industry Days STEP IN initiative. STEP IN will provide insight and look for global and pan-European solutions into the major issues the AV industry in Central and Eastern Europe is facing in its inaugural session 5 August. Film New Europe applauds this initiative and will be a key partner with members of the five members of the FNE team present in Locarno. Watch FNE daily for our series of Country Reports to be published in the run-up to STEP IN.
