CEE Animation Forum 2022 Opens Call for Entries
PRAGUE: CEE Animation Forum, the leading animation pitching, financing, and coproduction event in Central Europe, is accepting applications from animated projects in five categories through 16 January 2022. The categories…
Slovak/Czech/Ukrainian 107 Mothers Wins Arab Critics Award
BRATISLAVA: Slovak director Peter Kerekes received the Arab Critics’ Award at the Cairo IFF for the Slovak/Czech/Ukrainian coproduction 107 Mothers. Kerekes received the award virtually at a gala ceremony on…
FNE Film Meets Games: Romanian Game Development Industry With Record Growth
UCHAREST: Romanian game developers have announced record growth in 2021, with 67% of companies doing game design noting an increase in revenues according to the Romanian Game Developers Association.
GRANTS: Film Center Serbia Announces Grants in Four Categories
BELGRADE: Film Center Serbia has announced this autumn’s batch of grants in four categories. They include a new category focusing solely on book/literary work adaptations. A total of 2,215,122 EUR…
North Macedonia Film Agency Launches Women in Film Initiative
SKOPJE: The North Macedonia Film Agency has started an initiative to single out the women who have excelled in the Macedonian film industry in 2021. Actresses Teuta Ajdini Jegeni, Sara…
SOFA Alumni Workshop Focuses on Women and Sustainability
WARSAW: The first SOFA (School of Film Advancement) Alumni Workshop, held in Warsaw 9 – 12 November 2021, concentrated on female leadership and sustainability.
FNE at Tbilisi IFF 2021: Father
TBILISI: Srđan Golubović's social drama Father / Otac / Oče screens in the main competition of the 21st edition of the Tbilisi International Film Festival, which opened in an online…
FNE Visegrad YR2021: Slovak Distribution Facing Challenges in Fight to Recover
BRATISLAVA: Slovak distributors recovered some momentum during the second half of 2021, releasing several long-awaited domestic titles, which had been waiting to premiere since the beginning of the pandemic, as…
FNE Podcast: Guram Ghonghadze: Programme Coordinator of Tbilisi IFF
FNE's Georgian correspondent and film critic Alexander Gabelia spoke to Guram Ghonghadze, programme coordinator of the Tbilisi International Film Festival, about the 22nd edition of the Tbilisi IFF in Georgia,…
Slovak Film Week 2021 Scales Back
BRATISLAVA: The 7th Slovak Film Week started on 29 November in a reduced online format due to the current pandemic situation and the curfew which recently went into effect. The…
FESTIVALS: Animateka 2021 Opens in Ljubljana
LJUBLJANA: The 18th edition of Slovenia’s festival of animated films, Animateka opened on 29 November 2021 and continues through 5 December. The festival will present 344 short films and seven…
Soul Food Acquires Serbian/Croatian Being Human Isn’t So Bad
BELGRADE: Belgrade-based Soul Food has acquired world sales rights for Dušan Kovačević’s latest feature Being Human Isn’t So Bad / Nije loše biti čovek ahead of its domestic premiere, scheduled…
FNE at Tallinn 2021: Dear Thomas Takes Grand Prix at Tallinn Black Nights
TALLINN: The German film Dear Thomas directed by Andreas Kleinert won the Grand Prix at the 25th anniversary edition of the Tallinn Black Nights FF, which concluded on 26 November…
FNE at Tallinn 2021: Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event Award Winners
TALLINN: Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event announced the prizes at awards ceremony held at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds on 26 November. The presenter of the awards was Marge Liiske head…
FNE Photo Gallery: Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event Awards Ceremony 2021
FNE was a sponsor of the Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event 2021 awards ceremony held at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds in Tallinn on 25 November.
Chris Hemsworth Films Extraction 2 in Prague
PRAGUE: Chris Hemsworth is currently in the Czech capital shooting the sequel to the Netflix hit Extraction. The shooting will last four months, from 29 November to 19 March 2022.
Nataša Bučar Re-Appointed Director of Slovenian Film Centre
LJUBLJANA: The Government of the Republic of Slovenia re-appointed Nataša Bučar for another five-year term in the position of the director of the Slovenian Film Centre (SFC) at its 104th…
FNE Interview with Christina Tynkevych, Director of How is Katia?
FNE spoke with Ukrainian director Christina Tynkevych, who makes her feature film debut with How is Katia?
Czech Private Television Institute to Open in Brno
PRAGUE: The first Czech private university focused solely on TV, The Television Institute, will open in Brno, the second-largest city in the Czech Republic. The goal of the Institute is…
FESTIVALS: Tbilisi Film Festival 2021 Announces Lineup
TBILISI: Nine titles have been selected for the Georgian Full-length Fictions Competition of the 22nd edition of the Tbilisi International Film Festival, which will take place in person 5 –…
