Battle for Cultural Exception Goes On
WARSAW: European filmmakers have vowed to fight on after European Commission President José Manuel Barroso refused to respect the exclusion of culture from the EU-US Trade Talks due to start…
FNE TV: Watch today's cultural exceptionon debate live today on EPTV
Join European filmmakers for today's press conference on the Cultural Exception live today on EPTV from 17:00-17:30 CET. http://www.europarltv.europa.eu/en/home.aspx
European Filmmakers take fight for the Cultural Exception to Strasbourg
WARSAW: A delegation of creators, artists, performers and directors members of the coalition of the 6200 creators who have submitted a petition calling on the European Parliament to exclude culture…
EDITORIAL: Cultural Exception will determine the future for European Filmmakers
EDITORIAL: The EU-US trade talks will determine the future of our European film industry. European culture is not something to be bargained away and should not be included in these…
FNE at Cannes FF 2013: Cannes Prize Winners
CANNES: Blue is the Warmest Colour directed by Abdellatif Kechiche walked away with the Palme D’Or at one of the coldest and wettest Cannes Festivals on record. The film also…
FNE at Cannes FF 2013: Cannes Critics Results
See how critics rated films in this year's Cannes program.: click HERE.
FNE at Cannes FF 2013: Scripteast Awards
Bartosz Konopka and Przemyslaw Nowakowski from Poland received the Kieślowski Award for their script Mute developed during this years' edition of ScripTeast (read the full story). Photos from the ceremony…
FNE at Cannes FF 2013: Venus in Fur
CANNES: Polish born director Roman Polanski must have enjoyed his last venture into filming an adaptation of a hit stage play with his film of Carnage because he has followed…
EU parliament votes for resolution to exclude culture from US EU Trade Talks but the battle continues
CANNES: The European Parliament has voted in favour of a resolution calling for the exclusion of cultural and audiovisual services from the negotiating mandate for a free trade agreement between…
FNE Cannes Critics 2013: 25 May 2013
See how critics rate the programme so far: click HERE.
FNE at Cannes 2013: Behind the Candelabra
CANNES: Director Steven Soderbergh has said that the Liberace bio-pic, Behind the Candelabra will be his last film and if there was ever a case of quitting while you are…
FNE at Cannes FF 2013: The Great Beauty
CANNES: Rome, the eternal city, has inspired some of cinema’s greatest classics and Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty, follows in the tradition of Frederico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and Roberto…
European Film under threat in US EU Free Trade Talks warn film professionals
CANNES: Thousands of audiovisual industry professionals have called on the European Commission to take film funding off the table in EU US trade negotiation talks warning the measures threaten the…
Growth Spurs Cinema City Profits
CEE exhibitor Cinema City saw a 14.1 percent rise in revenues, to 71.3 m EUR, and 6.3 percent rise in ticket sales (9.1 m) in Q1 2013 over Q1 2012…
FNE at Cannes FF 2013: Inside Llewyn Davis
CANNES: Directors Ethan and Joel Coen return to Cannes with a strong, if not their strongest film, with Inside Llewyn Davis. The film follows a week in the life of…