FESTIVALS: Krakow FF on the Oscar Documentary Feature Qualifying Festival List
KRAKOW: Krakow Film Festival has been included in the Documentary Feature Qualifying Festival List. The Golden Horn laureates will now be eligible to submit for Oscar consideration.
Cold War Racks up International Sales
WARSAW: Cold War directed by Paweł Pawlikowski has been sold to over 15 countries in North America, Europe and Australia. The film which won Best Director for Pawlikowski in Cannes…
FNE Europa Cinemas: Cinema of the Month: Kino Elektronik, Warsaw
This month we speak with Marlena Gabryszewska, the manager of Kino Elektronik. The cinema opened three years ago but it is already one of the most important cinemas in Warsaw.…
Open Call for New Technologies Film Workshop in Poland
KRAKOW: The Film Spring Open Foundation has announced an Open Call for the Film Spring Workshop 2018, organised with the support of the Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme as well…
PRODUCTION: Patryk Vega Shooting Crime Film Plagues of Breslau
WROCŁAW: Polish box office hit director Patryk Vega is working on his new crime thriller entitled Plagues of Breslau and has announced that he has purchased rights to the Pitbull…
FESTIVALS: Skolimowski to Receive Gdynia’s Honourary Award
GDYNIA: Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski will receive the Platinum Lion at the closing ceremony of the 43rd Gdynia Film Festival, which runs 17 -22 September 2018.
PRODUCTION: Jan Komasa Shoots Corpus Christi
WARSAW: Jan Komasa is working on his new drama Corpus Christi, a Script Pro winning project about a convict posing as a priest.
PRODUCTION: Sony Commissions Polish Crime Series
WARSAW: Sony Pictures Television Networks Central Europe has commissioned the first season of an original crime series entitled Signs from ATM Group. The show, directed by Jakub Miszczak and Marcin…
Warsaw Kids Opens Registration for Pitching Forum
WARSAW: Registration is open for the second edition of the international pitching forum for kids’ films and series, Warsaw Kids Film Forum. The forum will take place 26 – 28…
PRODUCTION: Platige Image and Allegro Coproduce Sci-fi Feature from Tomasz Bagiński
WARSAW: Tomasz Bagiński is in development with a new film Twardovsky 3.14, a full feature continuation of the short films series Polish Legends, that he created for Allegro.
FNE at KFF 2018: Prize Winners Krakow Film Festival
KRAKOW: The Polish film Over the Limit directed by Marta Prus was undoubtedly the overall champion of the festival sweeping more top prizes than any other film at the 58th…
Netflix Picks up Polish Crime Series Ultraviolet
WARSAW: Netflix bought the rights to stream the Polish crime series Ultraviolet directed by Jan Komasa and Sławomir Fabicki, and produced by Opus Film for AXN Crime.
PRODUCTION: Filip Bajon in Post-production with The Butler
WARSAW: Polish director Filip Bajon is putting the finishing touches on his major costume drama The Butler, set to premiere in September 2018.
New Europe Film Sales Picks up HBO Europe’s Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
WARSAW: Jan Naszewski’s sales outlet New Europe Film Sales has signed a world sales deal for the documentary Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk by Kuba Mikurda, which explores…
FNE at Cannes 2018: Review: Ayka
CANNES: Director Sergey Dvortsevoy arrives in the Cannes with Ayka a grim tale that follows the life of an unemployed woman from Kyrgyzstan who spends five desperate days on the…
GRANTS: Polish Film Institute Distributes First Production Grants for 2018
WARSAW: The Polish Film Institute supported 41 new productions with 6.9 m EUR / 29.9 m PLN in the first session of financing for 2018.
FNE at Cannes 2018: Bumper Year for Polish Film in Cannes
CANNES: The 71st Cannes Film Festival was a bumper year for Polish films in Cannes with seven Polish productions or coproductions being included in official selection in different sections of…
FNE at Cannes 2018: Review: Cold War
CANNES: Polish director Paweł Pawlikowski has pulled of a near impossible task of following his masterpiece Ida with a possibly even better film Cold War which screens in competition in…
Polish Films Find Box Office Success in Poland and UK
WARSAW: Pitbull. The Last Dog is closing in on 5 M EUR in its domestic release in Poland, after seven weeks. The film rose one place in the weekly rankings,…
Script East Unveils Cannes 2018 Script Workshop Participants
CANNES: Eleven scripts have been selected for the 2018 edition of ScripTeast, the script development and competition programme taking place 10 – 16 May 2018 in Cannes.
