CANNES: Gyorgy Kristof's Out, a coproduction between Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Latvia, and Romanian director Ionut Piturescu's feature Borders, have both been selected for Cinefoundation's Atelier in 2015. The films are to be among 15 in-development projects that will try to secure funding at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
PRAGUE: British director Sean Ellis will shoot Anthropoid, a World War II thriller in the Czech Republic later this year. The film's name is a reference to the codename of a top-secret operation by Czechoslovakia to assassinate a key Nazi occupier in Prague in 1942.
A screening of brand new film Sugar Blues by Andrea Culkova will open a new project by IDF focused on alternative distribution of creative documentaries: KineDok Launch; March 6, 2015, La Fabrika - Slévárna.
For the first time Romania will participate at AFCI Locations Show this March with an industry-encompassing program called Location Guide Romania. As an initiative to support the national film industry, this latest project of the New Romanian Cinema Association promotes the country’s various shooting locations and production facilities.
Russian distributor Paradiz has picked up local film Under Electric Clouds/Pod electricheskimi oblakami, a coproduction between Russia, Ukraine and Poland. The film, directed by Alexey German Jr, won best camera award at the Berlinale and will be released by Paradiz on roughly 150 screens in mid-May.
PRAGUE: Febiofest will introduce a new section entitled Poland 44 on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in cooperation with the Polish Institute in Prague.
BRATISLAVA: The Visegrad Film Forum, which will run from 11 to 14 March 2015, is accepting applications for accreditation until 7 March 2015.
PRAGUE: This year the 22nd edition of Febio Fest will take place from 19 to 27 March. Kim Novak, star of Hitchcock's Vertigo, will be in attendence.
SOFIA: The two part 117 minutes historical saga Dyakon Levski, directed by actor Maxim Genchev and produced by Amrita Art, ranked third in the Bulgarian Top 10 this weekend with 18,195 admissions and nearly 87,000 EUR in the box office.
COTTBUS: Bernd Buder, currently the Programme Director of the Cottbus Film Festival, is being promoted to artistic director of the festival, a position he will hold for the next five years.
