FESTIVALS: Mikhail Gorobchuk’s Violet Country Wins 2024 Kustendorf Film & Music Festival
BELGRADE: The Golden Egg Award at the 17th Kustendorf Film & Music Festival in Serbia went to the Russian film Violet Country directed by Mikhail Gorobchuk. The Kustendorf Film &…
Two Projects from FNE Partner Countries Receive Support from New Pilot Programme for Series Co-production
STRASBOURG: Belgian/Slovenian Arcanes, and Greater Adria, a joint project between Croatia, Italy, Germany and Belgium, are among the seven projects receiving support under the Council of Europe’s new Pilot Programme…
BOX OFFICE: Outstanding Domestic Opening for Nemanja Ćeranić’s Biopic Sunday
BELGRADE: Serbia can boast about its yet another domestic blockbuster, as the biopic Sunday / Nedelja pulled 87,162 admissions during the course of its first cinema distribution weekend, grossing 419,482…
Soviet Jeans Leads Nominations for Latvian National Film Awards Lielais Kristaps
RIGA: Staņislavs Tokalovs’ and Juris Kursietis’ TV series Soviet Jeans received 12 nominations for the Latvian National Film Awards Lielais Kristaps, whose ceremony will be held on 4 February 2024.
PRODUCTION: Alexander Belinski and Agnė Dovydaitytė Shoot Lithuanian/German/Norwegian Doc Baltic UXO
VILNIUS: The Lithuanian directors Alexander Belinski and Agnė Dovydaitytė are currently in production with their documentary Baltic UXO. This Lithuanian/German/Norwegian coproduction is supported by the Lithuanian Film Centre.
Winners of When East Meets West 2024
TRIESTE: The Moldavian/Romanian feature film Lenin’s Pawn by Dragoș Turea and the documentary Strange Sea by Lala Aliyeva (Azerbaijan) received the top prizes, the Film Center Serbia Development Award and…
Katarína Krnáčová Elected President of Slovak Film and Television Academy
BRATISLAVA: Members of the Slovak Film and Television Academy SFTA elected film producer Katarína Krnáčová as the president of SFTA, succeeding Wanda Adamík Hrycová, who held the position since 2018.…
Last Call for Dot.on.the.Map Meeting Point 2024
LIMASSOL: Applications for the 5th edition of the Dot.on.the.Map Meeting Point Co-production Forum are welcome till 1 February 2024. Dot.on.the.Map Industry Days will be held in Limassol 18 - 20…
BOX OFFICE: Excellent Start of the Year for Romanian Films on Domestic Charts
BUCHAREST: The Romanian comedy Part-time Daddy / Tati part-time directed by Letiția Roșculeț, tops the general box office in Romania with 285,682 admissions and 1.57 m EUR / 7,856,321 RON…
Five Oscar Nods for Polish Minority Coproduction The Zone of Interest
LOS ANGELES: The Polish minority coproduction The Zone of Interest by Jonathan Glazer has received five nominations for the 96th Academy Awards. The film was nominated in the Best Picture,…
GRANTS: HAVC Funds Production of Six New Video Games
ZAGREB: The Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC) will fund the production of six new video games with the total amount of 75,000 EUR, and the development of further 18 projects with…
FNE at Berlinale 2024: Bulgarian Minority Coproduction Arcadia Selected for 2024 Berlinale’s Encounters
BERLIN: Arcadia, the second feature film by Greek director Yorgos Zois, will have its world premiere in the Encounters competition section of the 74th Berlin IFF (15 – 25 February…
FESTIVALS: The 10th BIDF Kicks Off in Budapest and Ten Cities across Hungary
BUDAPEST: The 10th edition of the popular Budapest International Documentary Festival (BIDF) is held in Hungary’s capital city as well as in 10 other towns from 27 January to 4…
PRODUCTION: Croatian/Slovenian/Serbian/Montenegrin Hybrid Doc Launches Crowdfunding Campaign
ZAGREB: The hybrid documentary Funk YU, directed by the main protagonist Franko Dujmić, has so far reached over 50 percent of the planned funding goal on a crowdfunding campaign launched…
Croatian/Estonian Short Animated Film Eeva Shortlisted for 96th Academy Awards
ZAGREB: Croatian/Estonian Eeva directed by Lucija Mrzljak and Morten Tšinakov has been shortlisted for the Animated Short Film category of the 96th Academy Awards. The screenwriter and composer of the…
FESTIVALS: Kustendorf Film & Music Festival 2024 Ready to Start
BELGRADE: Seventeen titles selected from among 536 submitted films will take part in the Competition programme of the 17th edition of the Kustendorf Film & Music Festival, which will be…
dok.incubator Opens Applications for Czech and Slovak Documentaries
PRAGUE: The intensive rough cut workshop dok.incubator has opened applications for Czech and Slovak filmmakers. The deadline is 14 February 2024.
FESTIVALS: Animafest Cyprus Views of the World 2024 Opens Call for Entries
NICOSIA: Countryside Animafest Cyprus Views of the World, one of the longest-running film festivals in Cyprus, has opened the call for film submissions for its 23rd edition, which will be…
Brothers Lead Czech Lions 2023 Nominations
PRAGUE: Tomáš Mašín’s cold war drama Brothers leads the Czech Lions 2023 nominations with 15 nods, followed by Matěj Chlupáček’s 1930’s drama We Have Never Been Modern with 12 nominations.
Estonian Short Animated Film Dog-Apartment by Priit Tender Shortlisted for 96th Academy Awards
TALLINN: Estonian Dog-Apartment / Koerkorter directed by Priit Tender has been shortlisted for the Animated Short Film category for 96th Academy Awards. The film is based on the poem To…
