FESTIVALS: EFP Future Frames at Karlovy Vary

HAMBURG: European Film Promotion will put the spotlight on ten young directors in the fourth edition of Future Frames at Karlovy Vary IFF during a four-day event, which runs 1-4…
05-06-2018

FNE at Zlin IFF: Supa Modo Wins 58th Zlin Film Fest

ZLIN: A Kenyan/German coproduction for the youth audience, Supa Modo directed by Likarion Wainaina, won the Golden Slipper for the Best International Feature Film at the 57th Zlin IFF for…
04-06-2018

FNE at Zlin IFF: ČT Déčko Children's Channel Celebrates a Strong Five-year Run

ZLIN: Executive Director of the Czech Television Petr Koliha talked exclusively to FNE about the success and future or the Déčko children's channel.
04-06-2018

FESTIVALS: East of the West Competition Films

PRAGUE: Twelve films are competing in the East of the West competition at the 53rd Karlovy Vary IFF.
01-06-2018

FNE at Zlin IFF: Planet Nemo Animation Picks up Harvie and the Magic Museum

ZLIN: French sales agent Planet Nemo Animation picked up the animated Czech/Belgian/Russian coproduction Harvie and the Magic Museum directed by Martin Kotík and Inna Evlannikova.
01-06-2018

FNE IDF DocBloc: Pavel Koutecky Award Winner Announced

Petr Horky won the 2018 Pavel Kotecky Award.
01-06-2018

GRANTS: Nine Features Get Czech Film Fund Support

PRAGUE: The Czech Film Fund supported the production of nine feature films, totalling 65 m CZK / 2.509,168 EUR.
31-05-2018

FNE AT ZLIN IFF: Czech State Cinematography Fund Aims to Increase Youth Film Audiences

ZLIN: Building teen attendance in cinemas is one of the goals of the New Cinema 2018-2019 project, designed to educate cinema operators on improving youth film audience numbers, presented at…
31-05-2018

FNE at Zlin IFF: International Coproduction Winter Flies Wraps Post-production

ZLIN: Winter Flies, a new film from Olmo Omerzu, coproduced by the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, France and Poland, is being readied for a summer 2018 release.
31-05-2018

FNE at Zlin IFF: Michal Hogenauer in Postproduction with Certain Kind of Silence

ZLIN: Certain Kind of Silence, a coproduction between the Czech Republic, Latvia and The Netherlands, is being readied for a summer 2018 release.
30-05-2018

FNE at Zlin IFF: Slovak Music Film BACKSTAGE Set to Premiere in Czech Republic

ZLIN: BACKSTAGE, a music film coproducion between Slovakia and the Czech Republic, directed by Andrea Sedláčková, will open in Czech cinemas on 7 June 2018 distributed by Bontonfilm. The film…
30-05-2018

FESTIVALS: Karlovy Vary Announces Competition Films

PRAGUE: The Karlovy Vary IFF announced the 12 films that will screen in the main competition. Ten of the films will be world premieres. The festival will take place 29…
30-05-2018

FNE at Zlin IFF: Juraj Nvota Directs Czech/Slovak Kids Detective Series

ZLIN: The celebratory zero clapperboard at 58th Zlin IFF launched the production of Crime Story 5.C, an upcoming Czech/Slovak coproduction for children directed by Juraj Nvota.
29-05-2018

FNE IDF DocBloc: Ex Oriente Film Announces 2018/2019 projects

Twelve documentary film projects have been selected for the 16th Ex Oriente Film Workshop.
25-05-2018

FESTIVALS: Oscar Winner Barry Levinson to Receive Karlovy Vary’s Highest Honour

PRAGUE: Barry Levinson, who won an Oscar for his film Rain Man, will be at the 53rd Karlovy Vary IFF (29 June – 7 July 2018) to accept the Crystal…
24-05-2018

FNE at Zlin IFF 2018: Competition Films

ZLIN: The world’s oldest and largest children’s film festival, the 58th Zlin Film Festival (25 May – 2 June 2018), will screen eight films in its children’s competition and another…
22-05-2018

Jihlava IDFF Relocates Docu Talents to Sarajevo FF

PRAGUE: The showcase and forum of upcoming documentary films Docu Talents from the East, presented by Jihlava IDFF, is moving from Karlovy Vary IFF to the Sarajevo Film Festival.
18-05-2018

FESTIVALS: Czechs Launch Festival Honouring Doc Filmmaker Pavel Koutesky

PRAGUE: A new Czech-German film festival of documentary films, Elbe Dock, created in connection with the 12th edition of the Pavel Koutecky Award, is bringing contemporary Czech and German documentaries…
18-05-2018

FNE IDF DocBloc: East Silver Caravan at Krakow

Apolena Rychlíková's The Limits of Work will screen at the 58th Krakow Film Festival.
18-05-2018

FNE Europa Cinemas: Cinema of the Month: Bio Oko, Prague

This month we speak with David Beránek, the programme director of Bio Oko, an art house cinema which together with Světozor and Aero in Prague, Bio Central in Hradec Králové…
17-05-2018