Click HERE to see projects selected for the Doc Tank programme, set to take place within East Doc Platform in Prague, from 6 to 12 March 2017.
Wishing on a Star, an Italian, Austrian, Slovak documentary directed by Peter Kerekes, is the winner of the seventh edition of When East Meets West. The project tells the story of a peculiar astrologist who offers to her clients a simple, but effective way, to change their destiny by taking a trip, often to remote places, on the day of their birthday. Wishing on a star was honoured with the CNC Development Award (5.000 EUR cash prize) as the best of the 22 projects in competition by an international jury of experts consisting of Matthieu Darras (TorinoFilmLab), Marge Liiske (Industry@Tallinn/Baltic Event), Nikolaj Nikitin (SOFA – School of Film Agents), Kristina Trapp (EAVE) and Marie Pierre Valle (Wild Bunch).
Berlinale 2017 PANORAMA SPECIAL - REQUIEM FOR MRS J. / Rekvijem za gospodju J.
BERLIN: New films from CEE countries were announced to participate in Berlinale’s Panorama section on 25 February 2017. The 67th edition of Berlin International Film Festival will take place from 9 to 19 February 2017.
PARIS: Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation and Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann have been nominated for the César Film Awards in the foreign film category. The 42th edition of the César Film Awards will take place on 24 February 2017. Roman Polanski declined a controversial invitation to preside over the gala.
LOS ANGELES: Maren Ade's German/Austrian/Romanian coproduction Toni Erdmann has been nominated for the 89th Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category, while Blind Vaysha by Bulgarian Theodore Ushev was nominated in the Best Short Film, Animated section.
TRIESTE: Six projects were awarded 10,000 EUR each as co-development funding support during the second round of RE–ACT. The ceremony was held in the framework of the annual When East Meets West Co-production Forum in Trieste on 24 January 2017.
RE–ACT announces six selected projects in the second round of co-development funding
Press releases 24-01-2017During a brief ceremony held in the framework of the annual When East Meets West Co-production Forum in Trieste, the representatives of Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Friuli Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Fund and Slovenian Film Centre, the partner funds of the transregional audiovisual cooperation and training initiative RE–ACT set up in 2015, announced a selection of six projects, recipients of the second round of RE–ACT co-development funding support.
BFILM, moloko film and FAMU are happy to announce that Tereza Nvotová new film FILTHY will be premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam (25 JAN - 5 FEB 2017) in section Bright Future.
The upcoming 24th MFFK Febiofest Bratislava will host a second edition of Industry Days: a bright new event that is dedicated to promotion of local production as well as to meetings of film professionals.
