LJUBLJANA: Jan Cvitkovic’s slacker comedy Siska Deluxe held strong at the Slovenian box office, landing in the top three for the second week-end in a row. The film took the Audience Award at the Cottbus Film Festival at the closing ceremony on 7 November 2015, cementing its appeal.
PARIS: The French distribution company WIDE has announced simultaneous festival and VoD releases of select films, including the Zagreb Film Festival which opens on 14 November 2015.
BRATISLAVA: Fresh off its best actor award at the Cottbus Film Festival, Olmo Omerzu’s Family Film will represent Slovakia at the 17th Bratislava IFF which runs 12-17 November 2015.
COTTBUS: The first animated children’s film to be pitched at Connecting Cottbus is a coproduction from Macedonia, Serbia and Bulgaria.
COTTBUS: Romania in 1985 was in the grips of the worst of Ceausescu’s excesses, and ordinary Romanians paid the price. Director Bogdan Muresanu takes this emotionally laden era as the title of his film, 1985, which was pitched at the recent Connecting Cottbus.
COTTBUS: Slovak director/producer Ivan Ostrochovsky tackles a new topic in Slovak film: the infiltration of the Catholic Church by the communist regime in his film The Disciple which was pitched at Connecting Cottbus.
PRAGUE: Principal photography has started on Pustina / Wasteland, an eight-part original drama series written for HBO Europe by Stepan Hulik, writer of the acclaimed HBO miniseries Burning Bush directed by Agnieszka Holland.
COTTBUS: After winning the film critics and the best script prizes at the Sochi Film Festival, Vasiliy Sigarev’s comedy The Land of Oz had its international premiere in the main competition of the Cottbus Film Festival.
SEVILLE: Only four films and filmmakers from CEE received nominations for the European Film Awards which will be announced on 12 December 2015 in Berlin.
COTTBUS: Tank, a dramatic thriller directed by Max Ksjonda and produced by the Ukrainian company Noosphere Films, won the Best Pitch award at Connecting Cottbus on 5 November 2015.
