Black Nights’ inaugural International competition brings record number of premieres to Tallinn
Festivals 04-11-2014The 18th Black Nights film festival beginning on the 14th November will present 18 worldwide entries in the main competition, among them a record-breaking number of International and European premieres. The competition programme presents a remarkable variety of film cultures.
The 20th Vilnius International Film Festival “Kino Pavasaris” officially started its promotional campaign by unveiling the first program of the jubilee festival – Leos Carax retrospective. His film “Holy Motors” was screened on the 1st of November at Vilnius cinema centre “Forum Cinemas Vingis”. The screening was followed by the Q&A with the director Leos Carax and Lithuanian philosopher and screenwriter Kristupas Sabolius.
VILNIUS: Three Lithuanian films will have their premieres at the Scanorama European Film Festival which kicks off its four city tour in Vilnius on 6 November 2014 and runs through 23 November.
TALLINN: Sixteen Estonian documentary projects have received funding for 2014.
VILNIUS: Young Lithuanian producer/director Romas Zabarauskas is turning to crowdfunding for his third film, You Can’t Escape Lithuania.
BRATISLAVA: Six Slovak films will screen in the Made in Slovakia section of the Bratislava IFF running 7-14 November 2014.
FNE spoke to Georgian producer Vladimer Katcharava who heads the Tbilisi based production outfit 20 Steps about shooting films in Georgia and his work as a coproducer on Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s new film The President which shot on location in Georgia with Georgian actors.
BRATISLAVA: A Czech film and a Slovak-Czech coproduction are among the films screening in the 16th Bratislava IFF competition of first and second films.
PRAGUE: Central European Media Enterprises reported another quarter of rising revenues, with 2014 quarter three net revenues up 7 percent over 2013, at 140m USD.
CEE documentary filmmakers screen their films at Leipzig's DOK.Incubator before their releases.
