FNE at TIFF: Romanian Days - A Dream's Merchant
CLUJ-NAPOCA: In his 173 min independent documentary A Dream's Merchant, Bogdan Ilie-Micu follows the young photographer Mihai Barbu as he travels by motorcycle from Romania to Mongolia, traversing 26,000 km…
FNE at Krakow FF 2012: Winners of the 52nd Krakow Film Festival
CRACOW: The 52 Krakow Film Festival (www.krakowfilmfestival.pl) held from 28 May to 3 June 2012 gave its highest honour this year in the Documentary section to Swedish director Peter Gerdehag…
FNE at TIFF: Romanian Days - Visiting Room
CLUJ-NAPOCA: After four feature films - Rage/Furia, The Paper Will Be Blue/Hârtia va fi albastră, Boogie and Tuesday, After Christmas/Marţi, după Crăciun - screenwriter/director Radu Muntean has directed Visiting Room,…
MTG Buys Latvia’s LNT
Modern Times Group (MTG, www.mtg.se) the international entertainment broadcasting group, completed the acquisition of 100% of the Latvian free commercial TV group AS Latvijas Neatkarīgā Televīzija (LNT, www.lnt.lv) for an…
New Horizons Pick up Cannes Films
WARSAW: New Horizons Association (www.nowehoryzonty.pl) has picked up the Polish rights for Cannes titles Holy Motors by Leos Carax, Post Tenebras Lux by Carlos Reygadas and După dealuri (Beyond the…
FNE at ZLIN: Superhero Conquers Zlin
ZLIN: The German/Irish coproduction Death of a Superhero was the big winner of the 52nd Zlin International Film festival for Children and Youth (www.zlinfest.cz), while local favorite Blue Tiger from…
Documentary Production: My Six Million Dollar Father
RIGA: Latvian director Ieva Ozolina is in production with the documentary film My Six Million Dollar Father for a March 2013 completion date.
FNE at TIFF: Romanian Days - Horses Are Green on the Walls
CLUJ-NAPOCA: The central character of Horses Are Green on the Walls/Şi caii sunt verzi pe pereţi is a storekeeper who loses his job when the warehouse where he works is…
FNE at TIFF: Romanian Days - Turn off the Lights
CLUJ-NAPOCA: The Bucharest-based young Serbian director Ivana Mladenovic investigates the life of four 19 years old boys after their release from penitentiary in her long documentary Turn off the Lights.
New Horizons to Open Poland’s First Arthouse Multiplex
{mosimage}As Wrocław gears up to be the European Capital of Culture in 2016, the New Horizons Association, in cooperation with the Helios cinema chain and support from the City of…
FNE at TIFF: Romanian Days - Best Intentions
{mosimage}CLUJ-NAPOCA: Awarded the FNE Visegrad Prix for best fiction coproduction at Jameson CineFest - Miskolc International Film Festival 2011 (www.cinefest.hu ), Adrian Sitaru's Best Intentions/Din dragoste, cu cele mai bune…
FNE at TIFF: Romanian Days - Digging for Life
{mosimage}BUCHAREST: In Doina groparilor/Digging for Life Pavel Cuzuioc describes the daily life of a group of gravediggers at the Doina cemetery near Chişinău, the capital city of the Republic of…
FNE at TIFF: Romanian Days- Everybody in Our Family
{mosimage}CLUJ-NAPOCA: Everybody in Our Family, Radu Jude's follow-up to the feature The Happiest Girl in the World/Cea mai fericită fată din lume and the mid-length Film for Friends/Film pentru prieteni,…
FNE at TIFF: Romanian Days - Crulic - The Path to Beyond
{mosimage}CLUJ-NAPOCA: Crulic - The Path to Beyond/Crulic - Drumul spre dincolo, one of Romania's best selling films, is a Romanian-Polish coproduction based on the tragic story of Claudiu Crulic, a…
PRODUCTION: American WER Wraps Shooting in Romania
BUCHAREST: After the box-office success with The Devil Inside, William Brent Bell filmed a horror with werewolves at MediaPro Studios (www.mediaprostudios.com) in Bucharest.
2011 Near Record Year for Estonia Box Office
TALLINN: Estonian box office rose to its best result in 19 years at just over 10 million euros.
FNE at TIFF: Romanian Days- Killing Time
{mosimage}CLUJ-NAPOCA: Writer/director Florin Piersic Jr. (Fix alert) is screening) his latest film Killing Time, a film noir comedy about two hit men waiting in an empty apartment for their next…
FNE at TIFF: Romanian Days - Of Snails and Men
{mosimage}CLUJ-NAPOCA: Tudor Giurgiu's second feature, Of Snails and Men/Despre oameni şi melci, is inspired by true events, even if they may sound odd. In 2002, Reuters published a news report…
FNE at TIFF: Romanian Days - Somewhere in Palilula
{mosimage}CLUJ-NAPOCA: Somewhere in Palilula/Undeva la Palilula, the first feature film by the internationally acclaimed Romanian stage director Silviu Purcărete, is a provocative and expensive project (a budget of 1.6 million…
FNE at Cannes IFF 2012: Cannes prize winners
CANNES: Director Michal Haneke's Amour won the top prize, the Palme d'Or, at this year 65th Cannes Film Festival making the Austrian director only the second director in history to…
