WARSAW: The second edition of the Heart of Europe International TV Festival organised by the Polish Television (TVP) is currently taking place in Warsaw 14 – 17 November 2022. This first festival dedicated to TV production from Central and Eastern Europe is launching the first edition of the Co-production Forum.
PRAGUE: The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is launching a special event in Prague with legendary films. The first edition of KVIFF Classics will be held in cinemas Světozor and Ponrepo from 1 to 3 December 2022 and it will open with a digitally restored version of Vera Chytilova’s Daisies.
BUCHAREST: The Turkish company Dogan Media International has received the green light from the National Audiovisual Council of Romania to take over the audiovisual licence of the Bucuresti TV channel and to rebrand it into Kanal D2.
BUDAPEST: Sony Pictures has confirmed on Twitter that the Gran Turismo film directed by Neill Blomkamp and starring Archie Madekwe, Djimon Hounsou, Geri Halliwell, David Harbour, Orlando Bloom and Darren Barnet, is currently shooting at the Hungaroring in Hungary.
COTTBUS: Juraj Lerotić’s debut feature Safe Place, a coproduction between Croatia and Slovenia, was awarded Best Film in the Feature Film Competition of the 32nd edition of FilmFestival Cottbus (8 – 13 November 2022).
COTTBUS: The winning cocoPITCH and cocoWIP projects of the 24th edition of connecting cottbus were announced during a ceremony on 10 November 2022.
While the 24th edition of connecting cottbus (9-11 Nov 2022), the East-West co-production market at FilmFestival Cottbus, is still underway, the award winners out of the 13 cocoPITCH and 6 cocoWIP projects were already announced during tonight’s ceremony:
We invite you to "Georgian Cinema Week" in the abandoned cinemas and culture houses. In the second week of November, in Gori, Kaspi, Ambrolauri, Bolnisi, and Tetritskaro cinema returns to the 5 screens that were shut down years ago.
FESTIVALS: European Film Forum Scanorama 2022 Kicks Of with New Competition Section
Lithuania 10-11-2022VILNIUS: Nine titles including seven feature films and two long documentaries have been selected for the new Main Competition of the 20th edition of the European Film Forum Scanorama, which will be held in the Lithuanian cities of Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda and Šiauliai from 10 to 20 November 2022.
BUCHAREST: LA-based Deaf Crocodile Films has licensed North American home video rights to Romanian animated sci-fi film The Son of the Stars / Fiul stelelor (1987) by Calin Cazan and Mircea Toia.
