CANNES: Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev arrives in competition in Cannes with The Leviathan which might just be his most ambitious and most successful film to date. Zvyagintsev burst onto the international scene with his first film The Return which won the Golden Lion in Venice in 2003.
CANNES: Tommy Lee Jones made his directorial debut in the Cannes competition with his highly respected The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and now the director returns to the Cannes competition with another Western that should prove more accessible to audiences although the The Homesman cannot really be said to be a work of popular entertainment.
CANNES:Director Bennett Miller seems to draw on real life for his best work. He arrives in competition in Cannes with a stunning film based on the real life story of a murder committed in 1996 by John du Pont, a member of one of the US’s richest families.
MOSCOW: Polish director Krzysztof Skonieczny will debut his new film Hardcore Disco in the main competition of the 36. Moscow International Film Festival (19-28 June 2014).
KRAKOW: Domino Effect and its directors Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosołowski were the big winners at the 54th Krakow IFF which concluded on 31 May 2014.
CANNES: Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan swept to victory with his three hour plus Winter Sleep which won the Palme d’or at the 67 Cannes International Film Festival.
CANNES: One of the EU’s most successful script programmes ScripTeast has awarded its top prize for 2014 to ‘Merican Chick to by Czech scriptwriting team Evita Naušová and Viktor Tauš.
CANNES: Talent from the central and eastern European region will be in the spotlight with the special project Les Ponts De Sarajevo an omnibus film featuring 13 European directors who explore the theme of Sarajevo and what the city represents in European history over the past hundred years, and what Sarajevo incarnates today in Europe.
ISTANBUL: The top prize in the international competition at the 33 Istanbul Film Festival (5-20 April 2014) went to Blind directod by Eskil Vogt, a Norwegian film which has already won prizes in Sundance and Berlin earlier this year.
Film New Europe salutes the Polish Film Institute on its 10th anniversary with a series of articles this week looking back at the work of the institute over the past ten years.
