CANNES: The Riga International Film Festival has responded to what they are calling “cultural colonisation” of film media during the Cannes Film Festival.
FNE at Sarajevo FF 2022: Festival Jury of 28th Sarajevo Film Festival Unveiled
Bosnia-Herzegovina 26-05-2022SARAJEVO: The 28th Sarajevo Film Festival, which takes place from 12 to 19 August 2022, has announced the jury for its main competition will be headed by Austrian director and scriptwriter Sebastian Meise.
THE KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI SCRIPTEAST AWARD 2022 FOR THE BEST SCRIPT FROM EASTERN EUROPE HAS BEEN PRESENTED AT THE 75th CANNES FILM FESTIVAL FOR THE SIXTEENTH TIME.
Press releases 25-05-2022OUR PLACE IS OUTER SPACE by Daniel Daoud and Simon Szabo from Hungary has won the Krzysztof Kieślowski ScripTeast Award 2022 for the Best Eastern European Script. Special Mention went to THE FERRYMAN by Jan Koos from Slovakia.
FNE has teamed up with FIPRESCI critics attending the Cannes Film Festival to rate the films in the Main Competition, Un Certain Regard, Directors' Fortnight and Critics Week, giving the films 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 stars. 5 is the best and 1 is the worst. The ratings give an overview of critics’ opinions from a large number of countries and provide insights into what critics in many different countries think about the programme. FNE will be publishing updates each day from today until the end of the festival.
Jury of the Competition Programme – Feature Film of the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival
Festivals 25-05-2022Director and screenwriter Sebastian Meise (President of the Jury), director, screenwriter and producer Lucile Hadžihalilović, writer-director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović, actor Milan Marić and producer and senior consultant for Int’l Co-Productions Katriel Schory will serve on the Jury of the Competition Programme - Feature Film of the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival.
CANNES: The Slovenian short film Love In Plane Sight by Slovenian art student Matej Rimanić, has won one of the two main prizes of the Tik Tok competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
FNE at Cannes 2022: Lithuanian Director Vytautas Katkus Receives Critics' Week's Next Step Award
Lithuania 25-05-2022CANNES: Lithuanian director Vytautas Katkus has received the Cannes Critics' Week's Next Step Award for his project The Visitor in what is being hailed by many as a “Lithuanian New Wave” with Lithuanian films seeing an increasingly high profile around the world.
FERA in #Cannes2022 STATEMENT - Constant Gardeners: The Realities of Today’s Film Sector in Europe
Press releases 24-05-2022Key players show their commitment to the art of cinema and its unique power and magic to move audiences, by stimulating their curiosity, by exploring other realities, emotions and concepts.
FNE has teamed up with FIPRESCI critics attending the Cannes Film Festival to rate the films in the Main Competition, Un Certain Regard, Directors' Fortnight and Critics Week, giving the films 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 stars. 5 is the best and 1 is the worst. The ratings give an overview of critics’ opinions from a large number of countries and provide insights into what critics in many different countries think about the programme. FNE will be publishing updates each day from today until the end of the festival.
Each May, we gather in Cannes to celebrate the scriptwriters who have participated in ScripTeast over the past year and award the best of their scripts the Krzysztof Kieślowski ScripTeast Award at a ceremony by the sea. Fully polished through hard work with the help of our distinguished advisors, we present to you here 10 of the best projects and their authors from Eastern Europe, amongst which we hope you might find the next great internationally acclaimed discovery. All writers are in Cannes so there is a chance to meet.
