IDF spoke with Polish director Jacob Dammas and German producer/director Helge Renner about the six year long process of creating their documentary Polish Illusions.
PRAGUE: Czechoslovak actor Radoslav Brzobohaty died 12 September 2012, just one day short of what would have been his 80th birthday.
WARSAW: The Wajda Studio (www.wajdastudio.com) has completed shooting on its second feature film, The Performer, the directing debut from Maciej Sobieszczanski and Łukasz Ronduda.
BATUMI: The Batumi International Art-house Film Festival (BIAFF, www.biaff.org) will host a documentary workshop in partnership with Postcode Films (www.postcodefilms.com).
MEDIAS: The second MECEFF (Mediaş Central European Film Festival, www.meceff.ro) gave its Best Film award to the Polish film Rosa (www.skorpionarte.pl) by Wojciech Smarzowski
ADANA: Fourteen Turkish films were selected from 42 applicants to screen in the 19th Golden Boll National Feature competition (17-23 September 2012, www.altinkozafestivali.org.tr), vying for 350,000 TL in prizes.
PIESTANY: Four long Slovak documentaries will screen in the Cinematik film festival (www.cinematik.sk) documentary competition, taking place 7-13 September 2012 in the Slovak spa resort of Piestany.
ADANA: The 19th Golden Boll Film Festival (17-23 September 2012, www.goldenbollfilmfestival.com) will launch the first Turkish film market, Bazaar Adana, in association with the Film Producers Association of Turkey, SE-YAP (www.se-yap.org.tr).
MEDIAS, ROMANIA: The second edition of the Medias Central European Film Festival (www.meceff.ro), running 2-8 September 2012, will screen seven films from seven Central European countries in its official competition.
ROTTERDAM: Cinema City International (cinemacity.nl), Central Europe’s largest multiplex operator, reported a 5.5 percent decline in revenues and 4.9 percent decline in ticket sales in the first half of 2012 in year-on-year comparisons in its six month financial report.
