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Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: Zero

Zero is the feature film debut of Paweł Borkowski, a creative director in an advertising agency, known in Poland for his satirical drawings in the TV supplement of "Gazeta Wyborcza."
07-09-2009

Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: Piggies

Director Robert Gliński's dark tale of youth, Piggies, is based on a true story.
06-09-2009

13th International Documentary Film Festival Jihlava 2009

For the thirteenth time Jihlava IDFF brings to Vysočina region the most important points of the present and the past of documentary cinema. The festival competitions embody the decissive part of the Festival. Czech joy offers a journey through the Czech documentary landscape. Opus Bonum presents the most interesting documentaries…
04-09-2009

Festivals: First Polish online documentary festival

Users of iplex.pl, the first Polish online cinema, will be able to watch over 60 documentaries free during the online festival DocBoat, launching September 4.
03-09-2009

Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: Happy Aphonia

In his new film, Happy Aphonia Jan Jakub Kolski looks at the art of wrestling and goes back to begginings of cinema.
02-09-2009

Festivals: Hungarian films conquer Montreal

Four Hungarian feature films and three shorts are screening at the Montreal Film Festival.
01-09-2009

Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: All That I Love

Jacek Borcuch tackles one of the most important moments in Polish history with a moving coming of age story in his new drama All That I Love.
01-09-2009

Spotlight on Gdynia Polish Film Festival: Case Unknown

One of the most awaited titles this year in the Gdynia Polish Film Festival competition is Case Unknown, a new movie from the renowned Polish director Feliks Falk.
31-08-2009

DOCBOAT - Warsaw Nonfiction e-fest

On July 24 the submissions for the first edition of the Internet documentary festival DOCBOAT/WARSAW NONFICTION E-FEST were closed. The festival starts in September (www.iplex.pl). We received a lot of movies from around the world. They are very enjoyable to watch, but we must also prepare ourselves for the difficult…
25-08-2009

Festivals: Miskolc announces line-up

The Miskolc International Festival of Young Filmmakers (CineFest) (www.cinefest.hu) has announced its festival program.
18-08-2009

Festival: Krisztina Esztergályos wins Silver Leopard in Locarno

The Variations, a 28 minute diploma short from director Krisztina Esztergályos has won the Silver Leopard in Locarno.
17-08-2009

Romanian IFF announces new plans

The former Bucharest International Film Festival has changed its name to the Romania International Film Festival and will be held September 27-October 4 in Arad.
16-08-2009

Festivals: Gdynia announces line-up

The Polish Film Festival in Gdynia announced that Janosik by Agnieszska Holland and Kasia Adamik will be among the 22 films in competition, while Jasek Bromski offered to place his latest comedy, God's Little Village, in the panorama section.
12-08-2009

ERA signs agreement with Cottbus

ERA New Horizons and the Cottbus film festival have established an ongoing collaboration in preparation for a Polish focus at the 2009 Cottbus festival.
11-08-2009

FESTIVALS: Two Rivers Festival Brings Films to Cinema Hungary Audiences

The third edition of the Two Rivers Festival in the picturesque Polish village of Kazimierz brought a first class selection of Polish and international films to audiences who obviously have a thirst for cinema.
10-08-2009

FESTIVALS: Hunger wins ERA's top prize

Hunger, the multiple-award-winning film debut of the famous visual artist Steve McQueen, has won the Grand Prix with an award of €20,000 of the ERA New Horizons International Competition.
03-08-2009

Cottbus To Cooperate With Wroclaw

In the future, the FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema, will cooperate with the Film Festival Wroclaw, specifically in the mutual presentation of festival films.
30-07-2009

34th Polish Film Festival - Film music concerts

For many years Gdynia Festival has been accompanied by film music concerts. The exceptional connection of the oldest and the youngest Muse attracts both music and cinema lovers. On 17 September 2009 in Teatr Miejski in Gdynia we will have an opportunity to listen to a concert entitled "Four Tenors…
28-07-2009

ERA fest hosts Polish-Swedish Film Meetings

Eight film productions by Polish and Swedish producers are wrapping up three days of meetings at the ERA New Horizons film festival in Wroclav.
27-07-2009

FNE at Pula FF: Pula Film Festival Showcases Growing Croatian Film Production: Pula Festival Winners

The 56th edition of the Pula Film Festival in Croatia (18-25 July) presented a programme that highlighted the first crop of new films produced under the new funding scheme that also saw the creation of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC) (www.havc.hr).
27-07-2009