This year for the first time FNE will offer the ratings of films in the official Cannes programme by international critics attending Cannes. If you are a member of FIPRESCI and are attending Cannes go to the Members Area of FNE and register.

WARSAW: Polish sales agent New Europe Film Sales announced it will add creative TV and feature-length documentaries to its library of films, with Polish producer Anna Wydra handling the documentary division.

TBILISI: The young Georgian director and producer Zaza Rusadze (born in 1977) has plenty of projects in the pipeline. 

Polish scriptwriters Bartosz Konopka and Przemysław Nowakowski compete for the Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award during the 2013 Cannes IFF with The Mute, a story set in theearly Middle Ages about two men arriving in a pagan land, one to bring Christianity and the other to find his way of living. 

Greek Producer on the Move Giorgios Karnavas has been working as a producer since 2010, establishing the company Heretic with Konstantinos Kontovrakis. He has already collaborated with some of the most talented Greek directors. 

Scriptwriters Nadejda Koseva of Bulgaria and Bojan Vuletić of Serbia compete for the Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award during the 2013 Cannes IFF with The Year of the Kuker, the story of two women connected by one baby and one accident.

VILNIUS: Escaping Sunshine, a Danish-Lithuanian coproduction, has been selected to lead off the new Nordic crowdfunding platform Manymade. The campaign was launched on 8 May 2013.

CEE documentary filmmakers can submit film projects to the 11th edition of the Ex Oriente workshop through 1 June 2013. Read the full story on Dokweb.

This year for the first time FNE will offer the ratings of features films in ALL sections of the official Cannes programme by international critics attending Cannes.