BERLIN: FNE is proud to present the great line-up of films from our region that will be screening in Berlin over the next few days. Be prepared for some exciting discoveries. See below.
These grants were announced by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre on 13 February 2018.
MILAN: Central and Eastern Europe registered a 10.1 percent rise in cinema attendance in 2017 according to the newly released report by MEDIA Salles.
ZAGREB: HBO Europe has green-lit the six-part drama Success directed by Oscar-winner Danis Tanović. The Zagreb-set series is the first original series to come out of the Adria region. It was written by Marian Alčevski and was selected as one of the winning projects at HBO Adria's First Draft contest, launched in 2016 to find new writing talent from the region.
HAMILTON, Bermuda: Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. (CME) announced that net revenues rose nine percent in actual rates (six percent in constant rates) to USD 574.2 m in 2017.
BELGRADE: Popular Bosnian-born Serbian actor Nebojsa Glogovac, who recently starred in the awarded Constitution by Rajko Grlić, died in Belgrade at the age of 49 on 9 February 2018.
ZAGREB: The most important documentary film festival in Croatia, ZagrebDox will screen 21 titles in its international competition from 25 February to 4 March 2018.
Jiří Menzel will be awarded Berlinale Camera for his contribution to cinema
Press releases 08-02-2018
One week prior to the opening, Berlinale has announced that Jiří Menzel, renowned Czech film director and actor, will receive Berlinale Camera 2018 alongside Beki Probst and Katriel Schory. Jiří Menzel, whose artistic curriculum includes more than 20 feature films, is considered a legend of Czech cinema. Menzel’s world-celebrated film Larks on the String, had its premiere in 1990 at Berlinale, 21 years after it had been released and shortly after banned in communist Czechoslovakia.
Jiří Menzel will receive the award at the occasion of the world premiere of The Interpreter, a Slovak-Czech-Austrian co-production directed by Martin Šulík, where the Czech actor plays the main part together with his Austrian counterpart Peter Simonischek famous for Toni Erdman. Menzel will receive the award on February 23, on the day of his 80th birthday.
The Interpreter is one of the three films representing Czech cinema at the 68th Berlinale IFF. The Slovak-Czech-Austrian co-production is the work of prominent Slovak director Martin Šulík and the equally noted screenwriter Marek Leščák, who already have several successful films to their names, including The Garden (1995) and Orbis Pictus (1997).
A road-movie is a story of two men who have been brought together by an accidential mention on the WW2 events. 80-year-old Ali Ungár (Menzel) comes across a book by a former SS officer, describing his wartime activities in Slovakia. Ali realizes that one of the passages recounts the execution of his parents, and sets out to visit the former SS man, who now lives in Vienna. Instead of his parents’ murderer, though, Ali finds only his 70-year-old son. Georg Peis (Simonischek) is a former teacher who has distanced himself from his father’s past and is now struggling with alcoholism. The interpreter’s visit stirs his curiosity, so he decides to find out who exactly his father was before he dies. So it is that the two old men, the ascetic Ali and the bon vivant Georg, embark on a journey together to find the surviving witnesses of the wartime tragedy.
The Interpreter was filmed at various locations around Slovakia and in Vienna. In addition to Marek Leščák, the director brought in another long-time collaborator of his, cinematographer Martin Štrba. Alongside the lead duo, Zuzana Mauréry, Eva Kramerová, and Attila Mokos play supporting roles. The film was produced by the companies Titanic (Martin Šulík, Slovakia), IN Film Praha (Rudolf Biermann, Czech Republic), and COOP99 (Bruno Wagner, Austria). The coproducers are RTVS: Radio and Television of Slovakia and Czech Television. The project was supported by the Czech Film Fund and the Slovak Audiovisual Fund.
The trailer is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmdVZ-PiqhM
More information here: https://www.berlinale.de/en/das_festival/preise_und_juries/08_berlinalekamera/Berlinale_Kamera.html
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EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS and PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE Present 27 Films on Berlinale Screens 2018
Press releases 08-02-2018
EFP (European Film Promotion) and its member organisations are delighted to announce that 37 participants of our talent platforms EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS and PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE will be presenting 27 films at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival. The group of acting talents is led by this year's Shooting Star Franz Rogowski from Germany, who plays the lead in TRANSIT and IN THE AISLES - both in the Official Competition - and the 2018 Swedish Shooting Star Alba August, who is starring in BECOMING ASTRID which will have its world premiere in the Berlinale Special sidebar. Joining them are 13 former Shooting Stars, including Alba Rohrwacher, Daniel Brühl and Mateusz Kósciukiewicz, who will all appear in films screening in the Official Competition.
Quite a few of the former Producers on the Move have two productions in Berlin vying for the attention of juries and audiences alike: Undine Filter from Germany co-produced 3 DAYS IN QUIBERON and IN THE AISLES - both in the Official Competition. Meanwhile, Dan Wechsler from Switzerland was the associate producer on THE OMISSION (Panorama) and co-produced DAUGHTER OF MINE (Competition) with the Italian producer Marta Donzelli, who also produced the documentary LORELLO E BRUNELLO (Culinary Cinema). Rounding off the group with double duties is Ingmar Trost from Germany, who co-produced THE BED and THEATRE OF WAR, both world premieres in the Forum section.
New Section: goEast Bioskop // Specials: Guest Appearance by Wajda School & Studio // Photo Exhibition “Swimming Pool”
goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film continues to evolve in 2018 with a new section, goEast Bioskop: “With the new section, we intend to show great cinematic art without the pressure of having to secure national premieres, whether it be mainstream or auteur cinema – variety, diversity and originality are in the focus here,” as festival director Heleen Gerritsen explains. In the scope of the goEast Specials, the School Film Days and traditional Sunday Matinee promise compelling entertainment. In addition, the Wajda School & Studio from Warsaw will be making a guest appearance at the festival. This year goEast will once again feature an exhibition in its accompanying program: works by Slovak photographer Mária Švarbová will be on display during the festival in the AtriumGalerie of the SV SparkassenVersicherung in Wiesbaden.
Bioskop
Bioskop (from the Greek: bios = life, skopein = to see, to watch) is the name of the film projection device developed by the Berlin-born Skladanowsky brothers, which caused a stir back in 1895 and represents one of the milestones of nascent European film culture. The new goEast section of the same name is dedicated to seeking out new impulses in Eastern European cinema. Contemporary works from renowned filmmakers, festival highlights and genre films – from Slovak mafia saga to Kirghiz musical – will all be paying a visit to Wiesbaden. The goEast audience can look forward to entertaining, amusing, dark and quirky films that have till now remained undiscovered in the West, including the historical space travel film SALYUT 7 (RUS, 2017) by Klim Shipenko and the wild dashcam compilation DOROGA (THE ROAD MOVIE, BLR, 2016) by Dmitrii Kalashnikov. goEast is particularly proud of being able to show the latest work of animation legend Jan Švankmajer: HMYZ (INSECTS, CZK/SVK, 2018) will be celebrating its Germany premiere in Wiesbaden. The director insisted that his film is shown out of competition.
Specials
The goEast School Film Days will take place on 19 and 20 April at Wiesbaden’s CaligariFilmbühne cinema. Students from the surrounding area will get to know Central and Eastern European cinema and receive guidance in critical interaction with the medium of film. As in previous editions, they will be supported in this regard by experts from Medienzentrum Wiesbaden. This year’s program includes Iveta Grófová’s award-winning literary adaptation PIATA LOD (LITTLE HARBOUR, SVK/CZE/HUN, 2017). 11-year-old lead actress Vanessa Szamuhelová is expected to be on hand for a Q&A. In addition, the School Film Days will include a colourful short film program featuring inspiring stories, vivid characters and vibrant animation.
A special program by Warsaw’s Wajda School & Studio guarantees further highlights. goEast is presenting works by graduates of the master school – including Academy Award winner JOANNA (2013) by Aneta Kopacz and KOMUNIA (COMMUNION, 2016) by Anna Zamecka, which was honoured with the European Film Award in 2017.
Photo Exhibition “Swimming Pool”
This year’s goEast Visual combines Wiesbaden’s spa culture with young, hip Eastern Europe. The central theme is derived from a work by Slovak photographer Mária Švarbová from her series “Swimming Pool”. A partial selection of photographs from this series will be exhibited at the AtriumGalerie of the SV SparkassenVersicherung from 16 to 30 April. Švarbová was born in Slovakia in 1988; her works are notable for their juxtapositions of aesthetically well-composed opposites that combine to form dense atmospheres. Mária Švarbová drew inspiration for this series from the communist swimming pools of her childhood. Her photographs have already been featured in The Guardian, Vogue and Cosmopolitan and exhibited around the world – though not in Germany up until now.
Please find more fotos in our download section: http://www.filmfestival-goeast.de/en/press/downloads.php
The full program for the 18th edition of goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film will be announced in early April.
