PRAGUE: The Czech newswire CTK reports that the venerated Czech tradition of dubbing (which even has its own awards) is under fire.

WROCLAW: The 4th American Film Festival taking place in Wroclaw 22-27 October 2013 will open and close with two films from the Cannes festival: Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive, and Behind the Candelabra by Steven Soderbergh.

 

The fifth edition of CentEast WarsawMoscow taking place in Moscow on 20 October 2013 will include 10 Russian films in the Project for Tomorrow line-up.

The fifth CentEast Warsaw­Moscow film forum, presenting a selection of the most recent works­in­progress  from  the  Eastern  European  and Russian  filmmakers,  takes  place  in Moscow on 20 October 2013.

An extended  programme of ten Russian film projects ­ Project for Tomorrow ­ is also presented on the same day to the accredited participants of CentEast Warsaw­Moscow. The film projects are presented by their authors and producers, accompanied by the film trailers.  Among  the  participants  of  the  CentEast  Warsaw­Moscow  film  forum  are  the representatives of the international film festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Gothenburg), sales and distribution companies (Wild Bunch, Rezo Films, Alpha Violet, Amadeus Entertainment, Film Europe, 01 RAI Cinema, Latido Films), Russian distributors and producers.

New  projects  from  Poland,  Romania,  Czech  Republic, Bulgaria,  Hungary,  Ukraine  and Russia will be presented as part of CentEast Warsaw­Moscow, including:

­ BUCHAREST NONSTOP, dir. Dan Chisu, Romania

­ CHAGALL­MALEVICH, dir. Alexander Mitta, Russia

­ FOR SOME INEXPLICABLE REASON, dir. Gábor Reisz, Hungary

­ THE GUIDE, dir. Oles Sanin, Ukraine

­ THE ICING, dir. Jan Hrebejk, Czech Republic

­ I KNOW HOW TO KNIT, dir. Nadezhda Stepanova, Russia

­ SOUND HUNTERS, dir. Peter Odadjiev, Bulgaria

­ THE TRIBE, dir. Myroslav Slaboshpitskiy, Ukraine

­ WARSAW'44, dir. Jan Komasa, Poland

Project for Tomorrow programme includes a selection of the most recent film projects from Russia, currently in post­production stage:

­ BIRMINGHAM ORNAMENT. PART 2, dir. Yury Leiderman, Andrey Silvestrov

­ THE CH BROTHERS, dir. Mikhail Ugarov

­ CASE N, dir. Andrey Nikitinskikh

­ STAR, dir. Anna Melikyan

­ THE MARTIAN, dir. Alexander Kulikov, Mikhail Raskhodnikov

­ THE LOWER DEPTHS, dir. Vladimir Kott

­ A TOUCH OF WIND, dir. Olga Veremeeva

­ SON, dir. Vyacheslav Ross

­ REALITY. THE BEGINNING, dir. Antoine Cattin,  Dmitry Kubasov

­ ​MOSCOW NEVER SLEEPS, dir. Johnny O'Reilly

The films, previously presented at CentEast in Moscow in 2009­2012, have travelled to the major international and Russian film festivals and received international distribution. Among them are the Russian films «For Marx» (Berlin IFF), «The Geographer Drank His Globe Away» (Kinotavr festival in Russia, Odessa IFF), «The Intimate Parts» (Karlovy Vary IFF),  «The  Major»  (Cannes IFF, Shanghai IFF), «Shapito Show» (Moscow IFF), «Silent Souls» (Venice  FF),  «Gromozeka» (Rotterdam  IFF,  New  Directors/New  Films in NYC), «Another Sky» (Kinotavr festival in Russia, Karlovy Vary IFF) , «Generation P» (Karlovy Vary  IFF),  «The  Horde»,  «Delhi  Dance»;  Ukrainian «Green  Jacket»  («New  Directors» programme  at  San Sebastian  IFF), Polish  «All  that  I  Love» (Sundance IFF), Romanian «Outbound»  (Locarno  IFF),  «The  Unsaved»  (Karlovy  Vary  IFF)  and  Polish  «Traffic Department» (Edinburgh IFF).

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PRAGUE: The Czech Republic’s official entry for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, Burning Bush, has been disqualified by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

BUDAPEST: Hungarian video-on-demand company Fuso has signed a deal Miramax, the US company’s first SVoD deal in the territory.

FNE spoke with Edith Sepp who heads the new Estonian Film Institute that replaced the Estonian Film Foundation this year about the challenges ahead for Estonian film and why it was necessary to set up a new organisation to support and promote the audiovisual industry in Estonia.

This month we speak with Hrvoje Laurenta, the head of Cinema Europa/Kino Europa. Built in 1924/1925, Kino Europa was commissioned by the wealthy Zagreb-based Müller family and destined to become the most important movie theater in the region. 

This month we speak with Hrvoje Laurenta, the head of Cinema Europa/Kino Europa. Built in 1924/1925, Kino Europa was commissioned by the wealthy Zagreb-based Müller family and destined to become the most important movie theater in the region.

BUDAPEST: Postproduction house Hungarian FilmLab (Magyar Filmlabor), announced the purchase of MTI Film’s dailies processing division CORTEX:Dailies Ultimate Edition.