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.
Main features of cinema-going in Poland presented during invitational training
WARSAW: The "DigiTraining Plus: New Technologies for the European Cinemas of theFuture" took place in Warsaw and Cracow 28 August - 1 September 2013.
PRODUCTION: Anna Wieczur-Bluszcz Developing Drama
WARSAW: The director of comedy Being Like Deyna is prepping her first feature drama, All the Animals with You, based on a book of the same title by a Serbian…
FNE at SOFA: Agent School Helps Structure Original European Projects
WROCLAW: A festival box office database, an interactive cinema programming system and a short film incubator are just a few of innovative projects developed at the first edition of the…
PRODUCTION: Polish-Norwegian Creative Documentary Looks at Absent Parents
WARSAW: Director Åse Svenheim Drivenes is shooting Around My Family Table, focused on the lives of children whose parents were forced to leave and work abroad.
FNE at Venice FF 2013: Andrzej Wajda’s Walesa, Man of Hope Premiers in Venice
VENICE: Veteran Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda will receive the 2013 Persol Award at a special gala award ceremony at the Palazzo del Cinema in Venice on 5 September.
PRODUCTION: Animated Diplodocus Wins Media Development Funding
WARSAW: Diplodocus, an animated film based on a legendary Polish comic, has won an 80,000 EUR development grant from Media.
PRODUCTION: Director of Manhunt Shooting New Tragicomedy
CRACOW: Marcin Krzyształowicz has launched the shoot for his new project, Kindergarten Lady (Pani z przedszkola), described as a Woody Allen-inspired tragicomedy about love and psychoanalysis with an intellectual tone.…
FNE at SOFA: Nikolaj Nikitin Tells of the Inspiration and Strategy Behind Innovative Film Biz Training
WROCLAW: Berlinale film delegate Nikolaj Nikitin just launched a new training program for young industry professionals from CEE along with Germany and the Caucasus, SOFA (School of Film Agents). The…
FNE TV: Jakub Duszynski Co-President of Europa Distribution and Artistic Director of Gutek Film
FNE asked Jakub Duszynski about the most important issues backing European sales agents and European distributors today and how the are working together to find new ways of reaching bigger…
Gdynia FF Screens Contenders with Broad Base
GDYNIA: The line-up for the main competition at 36th Gdynia fest features strong work, much of which has already won praises and prizes abroad. can serve as a comprehensive guide…
Poland's Rozbitek Institute Building Bridges for International Projects
Serving a growing role in the Poznan region's major annual film and music event, the Rozbitek Institute will soon be mentoring filmmakers, writers and composers, based on the US Sundance…
