Croatian Film Grants Announced
ZAGREB: The Croatian Audiovisual Center (HAVC, www.havc.hr ) selected five feature films for co-funding at its 19th session on 27 June 2011. A total of HRK 2,200,000 was distributed.
Magyar Filmunio Closes
BUDAPEST: Magyar Filmunio (www.magyarfilmunio.hu), the Hungarian film promotion organisation established in 1992 by the Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation (www.mmka.hu), will cease operations on 1 July 2011. The contract of Eva…
Andrzej Muszyński to head ATM Grupa
WARSAW: One of Poland's largest production companies ATM Grupa S.A. selected Andrzej Muszyński as President of the Board at its General Meeting.
FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: There Was Never a Better Brother
Murad Ibragimbekov's newest film There Was Never a Better Brother is the result of the director‘s latest artistic collaboration with Maksud Ibragimbekov, one of Azerbaijan's most established writers and Murad‘s…
MIFF 2011: Russian programme director Irina Pavlova, New Directions of Russian Cinema
MOSCOW: MIFF`s Russian film programme will present over 150 films this year screening all the recent features, docs and animation as well as a selection of shorts. For most foreigners…
PRODUCTION: Of Snails and Men to Shoot in August
BUCHAREST: Tudor Giurgiu's second feature, Of Snails and Men/Despre oameni şi melci, is inspired by true events, even if they may sound quite odd. In 2002, Reuters published an news…
PRODUCTION: Of Snails and Men to Shoot in August
BUCHAREST: Tudor Giurgiu's second feature, Of Snails and Men/Despre oameni şi melci, is inspired by true events, even if they may sound quite odd. In 2002, Reuters published an news…
FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: Visible World
BRATISLAVA: Visible World, an intimate psychological drama by Slovak writer and director Peter Krištúfek (Long Short Night; Snapshots), makes its world premiere in the 46th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival's…
FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: Salt White
The Georgian director Ketevan Machavariani presents her debute feature film Salt White/ Marilivit tetri (www.saltwhite.ge) in its world premiere in the East of the West competition at the Karlovy Vary…
FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: Punk's Not Dead
Punk's Not Dead /Pankot ne e mrtov by Vladimir Blaževski, which has its international premiere in the East of the West competition of the Karlovy Vary IFF, is a punchy…
FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: Belvedere
Ahmed Imamović's second feature Belvedere, which has its European premiere in the East of the West competition of the Karlovy Vary IFF, is a drama about the survivors of the…
MIFF 2011: Moscow’s Programme Director, Kirill Razlogov: Big Programme, Big Ambitions
MOSCOW: Moscow International Film Festival (http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/eng/) programme director Kirill Razalogov cannot be accused of lacking ambition. He presides this year over a programme that can only be described as vast…
FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: Heart’s Boomerang
One of the most outstanding young Russian directors, Nikolay Khomeriki, is showing his latest feature, Heart's Boomerang in competition in the East of the West section of the Karlovy Vary…
FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: Generation P
The Russian born American filmmaker Victor Ginzburg presents the international premiere of his Russian box-office hit, Generation P (www.generationp.ru), in the East of the West competition at Karlovy Vary IFF…
TVP1 Picks up Polish Millionaires Series
The Polish public broadcaster TV Polska has commissioned the first season of a local series Residency that is being touted as the Polish Dynasty.
Cyprus Short Film Fest Announces Call for Entries
The International Short Film Festival of Cyprus (ISFFC), which was recently upgraded from a national to an international event, is accepting entries for the 2011 festival until 20 July 2011.
Moscow IFF Competition: I'll Die Without You
I'll Die Without You (Ushenod mgoni movkvdebi) is a crime melodrama of two young people living in Tbilisi, Georgia, that takes place in the course of one day.
FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: Jeż Jerzy: The Movie
Jeż Jerzy: The Movie brings one of Poland's most popular comic book characters, a hedgehog, to life in a long-awaited film that employs the best tradition of the Polish school…
CEE Films Shine at Art Film Fest
TRENCIANSKE TEPLICE, SLOVAKIA: There were more winners at Art Film Fest (www.artfilmfest.sk) than just those accepting prizes at the closing ceremony on 25 June 2011 in the mountainside spa resort…
Moscow IFF Competition: Postcard
Kaneto Shindô, age 99 and a Moscow IFF veteran, returns to the festival where he first presented his films 50 years ago, and where he received a Lifetime Achievement award…