The Cut in Main Competition at 71st Venice IFF
WARSAW: The Cut, an international co-production directed by Fatih Akin and co-financed by the Polish Film Institute, will screen in Main Competition at the 71st Venice International Film Festival, which…
Se-Ma-For in Production with Animated Historical Film
LODZ: Director Jarosław Konopka is working on his motion capture animated film Escape about the masscare in Volhynia of 1943 , produced by Se-Ma-For.
PRODUCTION: Bartosz Prokopowicz Shooting Chemo
WARSAW: Accomplished Polish DoP Bartosz Prokopowicz is making his feature directing debut with Chemo, a drama inspired by his wife's battle with cancer.
SOFA Second Edition Focuses on VoD Projects
WROCLAW: The second edition of the SOFA workshop was all about new distribution platforms and audience building projects. The workshop's initiator Nikolaj Nikitin talked to FNE about the new challenges…
Polish Film Karbala to Shoot in Kurdistan
Polish and Kurdish sources announced that the feature film Karbala is being shot in the Kurdistan region as well as in Poland.
Profits Rise at TVP
WARSAW: Polish public broadcaster TVP recorded a profit of 116 m PLN within the first six months of 2014, a stunning 107.4 m PLN more than for the same period…
TVP Sees More International Sales
WARSAW: Series and films produced by Poland’s public broadcaster TVP are being sold worldwide to territories including Estonia, Latvia, China and Korea.
Polish Oscar Candidate Ida Continues International Rollout
WARSAW: Pawel Pawlikowski’s recently announced Oscar contender Ida is set for premieres in Slovakia, Hungary, UK, Denmark and Sweden.
Creative Europe Desk Polska and KIPA Focus on Viewers
WARSAW: August 11, 2014 is the deadline for project submissions to the workshop that will take place during the 39th Gdynia Film Festival.
Lodz, FAMU Top Best Film Schools List
PRAGUE: Poland’s Lodz Film School and Prague’s FAMU film school rank high among the top fifteen international film schools in the Hollywood Reporter’s 2014 annual listings.
CentEast 2014 - submit your work-in-progress!
The call for works-in-progress from Eastern Europe to participate in CentEast Warsaw-Moscow is now open! The deadline for submissions is Friday, 5th of September 2014.
White Shadow Wins T-Mobile New Horizons
WROCLAW: White Shadow directed by Noaz Deshe won both the International Competition and the Audience Award Grand Prize at the 14 MFF T-Mobile New Horizons.
FNE at New Horizons Polish Days 2014: Jarzyna, Hasanović and Kolberger Pitch New Projects.
WROCLAW: A pitching session held during Polish Days the 14. IFF T-Mobile New Horizons included a Polish-Norwegian drama about the future of medicine entitled Nano and a Polish-Serbian-Croation coproduction under…
FNE at New Horizons Polish Days 2014: New Polish Projects Showcased
WROCLAW: A special industry event showcases nine up-coming Polish projects were showcased at the Polish Days during the 14 T-Mobile New Horizons Festival held 24 July-3 August 2014. New titles…
PRODUCTION: Bodo Kox Developing Children’s Film
WARSAW: Polish filmmaker Bodo Kox will make his first foray into youth oriented cinema with Three Cousins, an adaptation of the bestselling children’s novel Felix, Net, Nika And The Three…
FESTIVALS: T-Mobile New Horizons Kicks
WROCLAW: The 14th edition of T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival kicked off last night opened by festival director Roman Gutek and the screening of Argentine director Damián Szifrón’s Wild…
PRODUCTION: Love Express. The Strange Case of Walerian Borowczyk
KARLOVY VARY: Polish-French art house filmmaker and photographer Walerian Borowyczyk is the subject of a documentary directed by Kuba (Jakub) Mikurda for Colab Pictures.
FESTIVALS: Gdynia Film Festival announces Main Competition line-up
GDYNIA Thirteen Polish films including six premiers will screen in the main competition of the 39th IFF Gdynia, taking place 15-20 September 2014
FNE TV at KVIFF 2014: Jan Naszewski CEO New Europe Film Sales and Board Member Europa International
FNE spoke to Jan Naszewski about the challenges of today’s rapidly changing sales and distribution climate. New Europe Film Sales is one of the very few international sales companies located…
FESTIVALS: New Horizons 2014 International Competition
Three Polish films and one Estonian coproduction are among the 13 films vying in the international competition of the 14th T-Mobile New Horizons Film Festival, running 24 July to 3…
