FNE at Baltic Event 2013: CoProduction Market Awards Announced

TALLINN: The Baltic Event has announced the winning projects of its annual coproduction market (26-29 November) with the award for best project going to Romanian project Miracle in Cluj represented…
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FNE at Tallinn Black Nights FF 2013: Prize Winners

TALLINN: The Italian debut The Great Beauty directed by Paolo Sorrentino was awarded the main prize of the EurAsia international competition at the 17 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival held…
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FNE TV: Tiina Teras winner Europa Cinemas Best Programming Award 2013

FNE asked Tiina Teras, programmer of Kino Artis in Tallinn and winner of the Europa Cinemas Best Programming Award 2013 about how she programmes her cinema in Tallinn and the…
28-11-2013

Estonia and Korea Sign Film Memorandum

TALLINN: The Estonian Film Institute and the Korean Film Council have signed a memorandum of understanding to boost cooperation between the two countries’ film industries. The memorandum is the first…
28-11-2013

FNE at Tallin Black Nights 2013: Free Range

TALLINN: Free Range, third feature from Venice Horizons award-winning Estonian director Veiko Õunpuu was selected as Estonia’s entry for the 2013 foreign language Oscar nomination despite ciritical domestic response.
27-11-2013

FNE at Europa Cinemas Athens 2013: Estonian Kino Artis Wins Best Programming Award

ATHENS: Estonian cinema Kino Artis was awarded the prize for Best Programming of 2013 in the Europa Cinemas network at the 18th Europa Cinemas Conference in Athens held 21-24 November…
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FNE at Baltic Event 2013: Project Slate

TALLINN: The annual Baltic Event, kicks off on 27 November this week running for three days in Tallinn presenting slates of projects in four different sections:
25-11-2013

FNE at Tallinn Black Nights 2013: Kertu

TALLINN: Kertu by Estonian director Ilmar Raag (The Class, Une Estonienne a Paris) topped Estonian box office for domestic films in 2013 with over 38,000 viewers to date.
25-11-2013

FNE at Tallin Black Nights 2013: Tangerines

Tangerines, an Estonian/Georgian coproduction directed by Zaza Urushadze, pitched at Connecting Cottbus 2010, began shooting at the end of 2012 and opened in cinemas in Georgia and Estonia in October…
20-11-2013

FNE at Tallin Black Nights 2013 The Arbiter

TALLINN: Kadri Kõusaar’s second film The Arbiter, which had its international premiere in the East of the West competition at the Karlovy Vary IFF, is a morally challenging and difficult…
20-11-2013

FESTIVALS: Black Nights 2013 Competition Spans Europe and Asia

TALLINN: The EurAsia main competition of the 17th Black Nights Film Festival running 15 November – 1 December 2013 encompasses European Cannes competitors and debuting Asian directors when the main…
13-11-2013

FNE at Jihlava IDFF Emerging Producers 2013: Elina Litvinova

FNE interviews Estonian documentary producer Elina Litvinova, selected to participate in the 2013 Emerging Producers workshop at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival.
24-10-2013

Director of the Estonian Film Institute Edith Sepp

FNE spoke with Edith Sepp who heads the new Estonian Film Institute that replaced the Estonian Film Foundation this year about the challenges ahead for Estonian film and why it…
08-10-2013

War Documentary Underscores Estonian Sacrifices

TALLINN: Blood Type, a documentary on the lives of Estonian soldiers serving in Afghanistan, will be marking the final phase of the Baltic country's decade-long commitment when it's released to…
11-09-2013

PRODUCTION: Cherry Tobacco Shooting in Estonia

TALLINN: Katrin Maimik’s coming-of-age debut film Cherry Tobacco (Kirsitubakas), written by Andres Maimik, is shooting in Estonian locations through October. It builds on the latter's previous hit comedy Kormoranid. Tobacco…
28-08-2013

FNE TV: Riina Sildos, Managing Director, Baltic Event

The B’EST (Baltic Bridge East by West) has just announced its project slate for its second edition to be held in St Petersburg from 11-15 September. FNE asked Riina Sildos,…
20-08-2013

FNE at KVIFF East of the West 2013: The Arbiter

TALLINN: Kadri Kõusaar’s second film The Arbiter, making its international premiere in the East of the West competition at the Karlovy Vary IFF (www.kviff.com), is a morally challenging and difficult…
05-07-2013

Record Cinema Attendance in Estonia

TALLINN: Estonia reached a 20 year high in cinema attendance in 2011, with 2.5 m tickets sold at an average price of 4.1 EUR, an increase of 100,000 tickets over…
30-05-2013

EFP Producers on the Move 2013 Kiur Aarma

TALLINN: Kiur Aarma, Estonian film producer, screenwriter and musician had an international hit with the 2009 documentary Disco and Atomic War, which he produced and co-wrote (best documentary at Jihlava…
19-05-2013

ScripTeast 2013 at Cannes The Soldier

Estonian scriptwriter Mart Kivastik competes for the Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award during the 2013 Cannes IFF with The Soldier, a WWII story about a minor KGB officer who, for the…
18-05-2013