Interviewed by Auksė Kancerevičiūtė
VILNIUS: I, Olga Hepnarova, the debut feature by Petr Kazda and Tomáš Weinreb, and Thirst by Svetla Tsotsorkova, won Best Film ex-aequo in the New Europe – New Names Competition of the 21st Vilnius International Film Festival Kino Pavasaris, which wrapped on 14 April 2016.
Two films that were presented within the East European Forum will premiere within Visons du Réel, which starts on 15 April 2016: Wall of Death, and All That by Mladen Kovačević and The Dazzling Light of Sunset by the Georgian director Salome Jashi.
BUCHAREST: Graduation / Bacalaureat by Cristian Mungiu and Sieranevada by Cristi Puiu have been selected in the Official Competition of the 69th Cannes Film Festival while Dogs, the debut feature of another Romanian, Bogdan Mirică, was selected in Un Certain Regard.
Film New Europe and Independent Film Foundation are celebrating the 10th anniversary of ScripTeast with a series of weekly interviews with scriptwriters and key players involved in ScripTeast activity. This week we focus on Bulgaria and we speak with the director, producer and scriptwriter Stephan Komandarev from Argo Film, and also with the scriptwriter and director Iglika Triffonova, who won the Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award in 2011.
Film New Europe and Independent Film Foundation are celebrating the 10th anniversary of ScripTeast with a series of weekly interviews with scriptwriters and key players involved in ScripTeast activity. This week we focus on Bulgaria and we speak with the director, producer and scriptwriter Stephan Komandarev from Argo Film, and also with the scriptwriter and director Iglika Triffonova, who won the Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award in 2011.
Film New Europe and Independent Film Foundation are celebrating the 10th anniversary of ScripTeast with a series of weekly interviews with scriptwriters and key players involved in ScripTeast activity. This week we focus on Romania and we speak with the producer Tudor Giurgiu and with the scriptwriter Ioan Antoci.
The following grants were announced by the Film Fund Sarajevo in December 2015.
ZAGREB: The 3rd part of the Danish comedy Three Heists and a Hamster / Alle for Tre by Rasmus Heide began shooting in various locations in Istria on 11 April 2016.
ISTANBUL: The winners of the 11th edition of Meetings on the Bridge were announced on 13 April 2016. The workshop took place on 8-14 April 2016 within the 35th Istanbul Film Festival.
