From a young man on a vendetta in Warsaw to an old Hungarian tenement building and its quirky inhabitants, all the way to a trip of two adolescent siblings to the Kyrgyz steppe – the thematic and stylistic diversity of this year’s Feature Film and Short Film Competitions of the FilmFestival Cottbus is captivating. Twelve feature films from 17 production countries – all of them German premieres – will compete for the Main Prize endowed with 20,000 euro and the Lubina glass award statuette. In this year‘s Short Film Competition, nine contributions from seven countries made it to the final selection.

DOK.Incubator 2014’s six month workshop will wrap in DOK Leipzig which takes place 27 October-2 November 2014

Emerging Producers 2015 vol. 3

The EAVE 2014 Producers Workshop comes to a close with its third and last workshop in Cologne, Germany (October 27November 3), organized in partnership with Film- und Medienstiftung NRW.

Last Sunday the 10th CentEast Market in Warsaw has successfully ended. The event was attended by almost 280 participants, among which over 100 were international guests. Ten completed films and seventeen short excerpts of works-in-progress from Eastern Europe and China were presented ​in the span of the three Market days.

This year the FNE partners with the Jihlava International Documentary Festival who will be presenting its Emerging Producers project 22-26 October 2014 as a part of the event. The Jihlava Emerging Producers brings together talented documentary film producers from EU countries. FNE has spoken to all the young emerging producers from the CEE region and will be bringing you exclusive profiles of these new talents.

The following films won the Audience Poll at the 30th Warsaw Film Festival: