“To sum up, I would emphasize a few things: Ogden Svilicic's These Are the Rules (Maxima Film) awarded in Venice; two films with nice admissions in cinemas – Kristian Milić’s Number 55 (Croatian Television) and Daniel Kušan’s Love and Death (Kinorama); production support given to an impressive number of first-time directors and great results of the cash rebate scheme that keeps bringing foreign productions to Croatia.” Producer Ankica Juric Tilic named these as the highlights of the Croatian cinema in 2014. On the downside, the box office declined and the domestic hits didn’t match the results of the domestic hits in 2013.
Dear friends of documentary film, we would like to cordially invite you to attend East Doc Platform (March 2 - 8, 2015) - the most important industry event dedicated to documentary films from East and Central Europe, which takes placein Prague, Czech Republic.
Aiste Dirziute, star of The Summer of Sangaile directed by Alante Kavaite, has been selected as one of European Film Promotion’s 2015 Shooting Stars.
The Estonian/Georgian coproduction Tangerines and the Polish/Danish film Ida took two of the five slots in the 2014 Best Foreign Language Film category when the Golden Globe nominations were announced on 11 December.
IDF recounts its successes at IDFA.
Aistė Diržiūtė – the first Lithuanian actress selected for the European Shooting Stars
Press releases 11-12-2014Today the European Film Promotion (EFP) has announced that the 23-year-old Lithuanian actress Aistė Diržiūtė has been shortlisted among the ten talented newcomer actors selected for the European Shooting Stars 2015.
VILNIUS: Lithuanian and Croatian films will be represented at the 2015 edition of Sundance.
This month we speak with Amer Becirbegovic, the Head of Programming at Obala Meeting Point. Obala Meeting Point is a cult cinema in Sarajevo. It was built in 1997 as a single screen cinema with 191 comfortable seats and a cinema cafe. It hosts the Sarajevo Film Festival, the biggest and most important film event in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the larger region.
WARSAW: The Audiovisual and Media Education Programme of the University of Warsaw will hold its first symposium in Warsaw on 6-7 May 2015.
Only five more days before European filmmakers, EFA Members, guests, nominees and winners will gather to celebrate European cinema at its finest at the 27th European Film Awards in Riga, European Capital of Culture 2014.
