From “queerEAST” via Ukraine to Italy – diversity is defining the programme of the 24th FilmFestival Cottbus
Feature-length animation Rocks In my Pockets is Latvia’s entry for the Academy Awards
Press releases 17-09-2014Critics’ favorite Rocks In my Pockets by the New York-based Latvian animator Signe Baumane will represent Latvia in the run for the foreign language Oscars.
FNE TV spoke to the directors of the three films selected as finalists for the prestigious LUX Film Prize to ask them what is the importance of the LUX Prize for them personally. Click HERE for the interviews.
RIGA: The 27th European Film Awards will take place in this year's Capital of Culture, Latvia's capital Riga. The European Film Academy and EFA Productions announced the titles of the 50 selected films from 31 European countries with 13 of the films coming from Central and Eastern Europe.
On Monday, September 29 at 6:30 p.m. the annual Panel of Forthcoming Czech Documentaries will be held in Prague’s Cinema Světozor. The public will have a unique opportunity to get introduced to ten interesting documentary projects right from their creators as part of a series of short presentations. During the evening the new catalogue of forthcoming Czech documentaries, Czech Docs 2014 – 2015, will be presented. It will be concluded with the preview screening of Veronika Lišková’s feature-length documentary Daniel’s World, an unprejudiced look at the world of the Czech paedophile community.
FNE asked Fatih Akin about his international coproduction The Cut that screened in the main competition at the recent Venice Film Festival. The Cut was supported by the Polish Film Institute among other partners. The Polish Film Institute has increasingly become involved in high profile international projects. Click HERE for the interview.
RIGA: The producers of a doc about Latvian athlete Raymond Dombrovsky’s bid to cross North America on roller-skis have launched a kickstarter campaign to fund the film which has also received backing from the Latvian National Film Centre.
PIESTANY: Chosen by a panel of seventeen European critics, Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty won the Meeting Point Europe Award at the Cinematik IFF this year.
The 19th edition of Sofia International Film Festival will take place between 5th and 22th of March 2015 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Siniše Gačića's A Fight For Takes Main Prize at the Portoroz Festival of Slovenian Film
Slovenia 16-09-2014PORTOROZ: Director Siniše Gačića's A Fight For won the Vesna for both best feature film and the Teleking Award at the 17th Festival of Slovenian Film which ended on 14 September 2014 in the Slovenian resort town of Portoroz.
