Tallinn – Northeastern Europe’s largest film celebration, the 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (BNFF) is proud to reveal four hot competition titles ahead of the rest of its selection - two in Main Competition and two in its inaugural First Features Competition, all world and international premieres.
The 13th ZFF takes place in November and lasts an extra day – which makes it nine days in total! ▪ Competition focuses on fiction, documentaries move to attractive off-programmes ▪ 10th anniversary of the Checkers section and 100th birthday of Orson Welles!
VILNIUS: The 7th edition of Digital Production Challenge II, a European workshop on digital production, will take place in Vilnius from 4 to 7 November 2015 in close cooperation with the European Film Festival Scanorama. Deadline for applications is 22 September 2015.
VILNIUS / GDYNIA: Twelve film producers from Lithuania and Poland actively working in the area of international coproduction, embarked on one of the most beautiful sailing vessels Brabander on 12 September 2015 for a voyage from the seaport of Klaipėda to Gdynia, just in time for the opening ceremony of the Gdynia Film Festival (14-19 September 2015).
TBILISI: Acclaimed Georgian writer and screenwriter Revaz (Rezo) Cheishvili passed away at 82. He wrote the script of Eldar Shengelaia's famous Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (1983, Kartuli Pilmi), an adaptation of his own story.
Who’s Partying at: FIPRESCI Venice Awards Ceremony and FNE FIPRESCI Critics With Slovak Film Institute Materials
Region 14-09-2015Click HERE to see the photos
VENICE: FNE together with FIPRESCI invited FIPRESCI critics in Venice to rate the films in all four of the official competition programmes of the festival giving the films 1,2,3,4 or 5 stars.
TBILISI/VILNIUS: Levan Tutberidze's Moira and Alanté Kavaïté’s The Summer of Sangaile have been selected by Georgia and Lithuania to compete in the 88th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language film.
ZAGREB: Jérôme Salle’s The Odyssey/ L'Odyssée, a big budget French film about the life of the explorer Jacques Cousteau is currently shooting on the island of Hvar. The film stars Lambert Wilson, Pierre Niney and Audrey Tautou.
The Zookeeper’s Wife Starring Jessica Chastain and Daniel Brühl to Shoot in Prague
Czech Republic 11-09-2015PRAGUE: Niki Caro's adaptation of Diane Ackerman’s novel The Zookeeper’s Wife, set against the backdrop of the holocaust during WWII, is shooting in Prague. The Czech capital will double for Warsaw where the story is set.
