ZADAR: Avvantura Film-Forum in the beautiful Croatian city of Zadar is one of Europe’s newest film festivals but it is rapidly becoming one of the most important for the regional film industry with its unique focus on European Coproductions and European networking.
VENICE: Veteran Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda will receive the 2013 Persol Award at a special gala award ceremony at the Palazzo del Cinema in Venice on 5 September.
CANNES: Director François Ozon’s newest film, Young and Beautiful, introduces the public to 23 year old French actress Marine Vacth in a starring role that already has some critics comparing her to a young Catherine Deneuve.
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 it with another stage adaptation, Venus in Fur, from David Ives’s hit play of the same name.
CANNES: Directors Ethan and Joel Coen return to Cannes with a strong, if not their strongest film, with Inside Llewyn Davis. The film follows a week in the life of a young folk singer who is trying to make it in the Greenwich Village folk music scene of 1961.
CANNES: Director Steven Soderbergh has said that the Liberace bio-pic, Behind the Candelabra will be his last film and if there was ever a case of quitting while you are ahead this is it. One of Soderbergh’s finest efforts the film hits every note a film of its genre should hit.
CANNES: Rome, the eternal city, has inspired some of cinema’s greatest classics and Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty, follows in the tradition of Frederico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and Roberto Rossellini’s Roma the Open City.
VENICE: The 70 edition of the Venice International Film Festival has announced its programme lineup and Slovenia has scored two hits in the International Critics Week programme.
VENICE: Alienation a first film by Bulgarian director Milko Lazarov will screen in official selection in the Venice Days section at the 70th Biennale this year. A first film, it was the only film from Central and Eastern Europe to make the cut among the 12 films selected to screen in the Venice Days.
KARLOVY VARY: FNE TV has teamed up with Europa International the organisation of European sales agencies. Together we will be working to create a two-way dialogue between sales agents and film professionals in CEE/Baltics to find ways to bring films from the region to a wider audience.
