VENICE: Films from Croatia, Georgia, Romania and Poland have all scored slots in the official line-up of the 71st Venice International Film Festival 27 August-6 September 2014.
WROCLAW: The 14th edition of T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival kicked off last night opened by festival director Roman Gutek and the screening of Argentine director Damián Szifrón’s Wild Tales. The festival which running from 24 July to 3 August 2014
KARLOVY VARY: Films from Central and Eastern Europe swept most of the top awards at the 49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (4-12 July 2014) with the Georgian film Corn Island directed by George Ovashvili taking home the Crystal Globe the festival’s top prize.
KARLOVY VARY: Film New Europe will be hosting a Coproduction Meeting at the new Kino Cas Filmmakers Lounge this year in Karlovy Vary during the 49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF).
KARLOVY VARY: Film New Europe will be hosting a Coproduction Meeting at the new Kino Cas Filmmakers Lounge this year in Karlovy Vary during the 49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
MOSCOW: The 36th Moscow International Film Festival (19-28 June 2014) awarded a Ukrainian actress and a Polish doc Deep Love directed by Jan Matuszynski despite the international tensions between Russia and its neighbours.
MOSCOW: The Malta based U-Film head of production Marina Budykho is in Moscow for Moscow Business Square to speak with Russian producers after a busy start to the year for the studios that saw new deals inked and a further enhancement of its already formidable film production and under-water shooting capabilities.
CANNES: The principle “less is more” does not apply to Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Cannes competition contender Winter Sleep. Weighing in at nearly three and a half hours it is hard to find any fat on these bones that could be cut despite the rather lengthy dialogues that make up most of the “action” of this film.
CANNES: It has been a year when a lot of Cannes critics suffered from sore asses as film after film weighed in at well over two hours and most of the front runners from a critical point of view running to 135 or 140 minutes.
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.
