COTTBUS: The 17th edition of the East-West coproduction market Connecting Cottbus cast a wide net in selecting its ten feature films pitches under new director Rebekka Garrido. Participants hail from territories as diverse as The Netherlands, this year’s guest country, to Israel and Cyprus. The forum, known as coco, takes place 5-6 November 2015.
JIHLAVA: The 19th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival will screen 233 films during the festival which runs 27 October – 1 November 2015.
WARSAW: US based Scripps Networks Interactive will invest USD 1 m in original web content for Polish private broadcaster TVN.
Ten film projects from ten countries vie for European co-producers at the East-West co-production market on November 5-6
The long-awaited film “Peace To us In Our Dreams” was finally screened to Lithuanian viewers, having already been recognised by audiences in France, Brazil, Israel, Georgia, Russia, and Poland.
More than 5000 Celebrities and Film Professionals Raise their Voices! For a Thousand Lives: Be Human
Press releases 12-10-2015Emmanuelle Béart, Marco Bellochio, Susanne Bier, Dany Boon, Laurent Cantet, Constantin Costa-Gavras, Daniel Craig, Alfonso Cuarón, Jean Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Bruno Ganz, Michael Haneke, Michel Hazanavicius, Agnieszka Holland, Isabelle Huppert, Aki Kaurismäki, Claude Lanzmann, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Sophie Marceau, JiříMenzel, Kornel Mundruczo, Cristian Mungiu, Joshua Oppenheimer, Pawel Pawlikowski, CorneliuPorumboiu, Jonathan Pryce, Isabella Rossellini, Marjane Satrapi, Lone Scherfig, Volker Schlöndorff, Barbet Schröder, Til Schweiger, Hanna Schygulla, Ulrich Seidl, Léa Seydoux, Danis Tanović, Bertrand Tavernier, Béla Tarr, Thomas Vinterberg, Peter Webber and many more…
VALLETTA: The Malta Minister of Tourism has said that an “expression of interest” in operating the Malta film studios will be published on Thursday, 15 October 2015.
European Oscar® Submissions for Russian Audiences
ST. PETERSBURG: The third edition of European Film Promotion’s European film showcase in Russia, Westwind, sees the event move from Moscow to St Petersburg. The programme of theatrical screenings, running 21-25 October 2015, will serve as the engine for EFP’s first VoD festival on Russia's most popular online platform, IVI .ru.
Warsaw, Moscow, Sarajevo - Urban Spheres of Eastern Europe in the >Focus<
