FNE at Gdynia FF 2013: Prize Winners and Roman Polanski at Fest
GDYNIA: The biggest surprise of the 38 Gdynia Film Festival (9-14 September 2013) was undoubtedly the appearance of Polish director Roman Polanski at the closing ceremony to hand out the…
Digital Distrib for Poland's Lasting
WARSAW: Polish director Jacek Borcuch has announced he will be one of the country's pioneering adopters of iTunes as a distribution platform when his feature, Lasting (www.manana.pl) on a struggling…
FNE TV: EXCLUSIVE: Gala Premier of Walesa, Man of Hope at the Venice Film Festival
VENICE: The appearance of Andrzej Wajda and Lech Walesa for the international premier of Walesa, Man of Hope was one of the highlights of this year’s Venice Film Festival.
PRODUCTION: Katarzyna Rosłaniec in Development on Grown-up Drama
GDYNIA: Katarzyna Rosłaniec plans to leave the world of teenage girls in distress and is developing a drama inspired by her present life experiences.
Polish Film Institiute awards filmmakers
GDYNIA: Gdynia Film Festival focuses on showcasing Polish cinema, but the Polish Film Institute Awards remind the filmmakers and viewers how important it is to promote film and develop events…
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: One Way Ticket to the Moon
GDYNIA: Jacek Bromski goes back in time with his coming-of-age road movie set in 1969.
Lech Wałęsa present during the premiere of his biopic in Venice
VENICE: Lech Wałęsa attented world premiere of Andrzej Wajda's "Wałęsa. Man of Hope" world premiere in Venice, where the film received a standing ovation.
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Loving
GDYNIA: Sławomir Fabicki created an intimate, psychological drama about a marriage struggling trough an episode that changes a couple's lives forever.
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Floating Skyscapers
GDYNIA: Tomasz Wasilewski has created an emotional image of a man struggling with his identity in Floating Skyscrapers, screening at the 38th Gdynia fest, which follows the life of a…
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Ida
GDYNIA: Paweł Pawlikowski explores the issues of family and identity in his new drama Ida, , screening at the 38th Gdynia fest, which recounts the story of Anna, a novice…
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Traffic Department
GDYNIA: Wojciech Smarzowski explores the dark side of human nature in his box office hit drama based on the real workings of a traffic police officer.
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: The Girl from the Wardrobe
GDYNIA: Bodo Kox creates his own surreal outlook on what it means to be alone and enter relationships with The Girl from the Wardrobe, in which protagonist Jacek is taking…
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Baby Blues
GDYNIA: Katarzyna Rosłaniec provokes with a surreal, eye-catching outlook on teenage pregnancy with Baby Blues, screening at the 38th Gdynia fest. The story centers on Natalia (Magdalena Berus), a 17-teen-year-old…
Life Feels Good Scores Sales and Montreal Win
GDYNIA: Italy-based indie artfilm sales agent IntraMovies has picked up Polish drama Life Feels Good by Maciej Pieprzyca, which is celebrating victories at the 37th Montreal IFF. The film, also…
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: The Closed Circuit
GDYNIA: The Polish box office hit screening at the 38th Gdynia fest is a timely polemic that takes on questionable practices in Poland's legal system, where, according to the vision…
Cinema City Boardmember Steps Down
WARSAW: The leading multiplex cinema operator in Central & Eastern Europe and in Israel has announced the resignation of Amos Weltsch, member of the board of managing directors, chief operating…
FNE at Venice Iff 2013: Walesa, Man of Hope (Out of Competition) POLAND
VENICE: The ex-Polish president and leader of Solidarity, Lech Walesa, stole the show as he appeared on the red carpet in Venice for the world premier of Andrzej Wajda’s biopic,…
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Life Feels Good
GDYNIA: Maciej Pieprzyca recounts the true story of a man who battles a disability to retain his dignity and contact with the ones he loves in his moving feature inspired…
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Papusza
GDYNIA: Krzysztof Krauze and Joanna-Kos Krauze explore the fascinating story of a Roma poetess in their lush, fact-based monochrome award winner, shot over a year, screening at the 38th Gdynia…
FNE at SOFA: First look at Creative Europe
WROCLAW: First details of how the new EU programme will work were outlined to a panel of European film professionals by Susanne Ding, a European Commission offical for Creative Europe.
