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.
