FNE at Gdynia Polish FF 2020: Kill It and Leave This Town
GDYNIA: Kill It and Leave This Town, the animated feature film about dealing with trauma, directed by Mariusz Wilczyński, won the best film award in the main competition of the…
FNE at Gdynia Polish FF 2020: Far Away From Here
GDYNIA: Far Away From Here, the new drama by Piotr Domalewski, coproduced by Poland and Ireland, screened in the main competition of the Gdynia Polish Film Festival, which took place…
FNE at Gdynia Polish Film Festival 2020: Prize Winners
GDYNIA: The 45th Polish Film Festival Gdynia, which took place online 8-12 December 2020, awarded its top prize of Golden Lions for Best Film to the animated feature Kill It…
Romania and Poland Win EFA 2020 Prizes
BERLIN: Tomas Vinterberg’s Another Round won the European Film 2020 award at the European Film Awards, held on 12 December 2020. Alexander Nanau’s Romania/Luxembourg coproduction collective won the European Documentary…
GRANTS: Bulgaria Announces Second Round of Production Grants for 2020
SOFIA: The Bulgarian National Film Center gave 1,987,397 EUR / 3,877,000 BGN to nine films in production and nine films in development at its second session of grants for Bulgarian…
FESTIVALS: Podgorica Film Festival 2020 Opens Online
PODGORICA: The 5th edition of the Podgorica Film Festival will be held from 15 to 20 December 2020 on the first VoD platform in Montenegro. It will open with the…
FNE at Gdynia Polish FF 2020: How I Became a Gangster. True Story
GDYNIA: How I Became a Gangster. True Story, the feature debut from Maciej Kawulski, starring Marcin Kowalczyk, screens in the main competition of the Gdynia Polish Film Festival, that took…
Netflix Commissions Polish Original Animated Series
WARSAW: Netflix has announced its first commission of a Polish original animated series, Kajko and Kokosz, based on the cult comic book by Janusz Christa. The premiere is planned for…
The Piper Wraps Latvian Shoot
RIGA: Director Anthony Waller has completed shooting in Latvia on the US fantasy/horror film The Piper. The film’s service producer is the Latvian studio Tasse Film. The main shooting period…
FNE at Golden Rhyton 2020: Before the End and Santiago Win Bulgarian Golden Rhytons
SOFIA: The 25th edition of the national Golden Rhyton festival of animated and documentary films, held online 4-10 December 2020, gave the best documentary film award to Eldora Traykova’s Before…
OBITUARY: Aleksandre (Sasha) Rekhviashvili
TBILISI: Georgian classic film director, cinematographer and writer Aleksandre (Sasha) Rekhviahsvili died on 10 December 2020 at the age of 82. The premiere of his last film, the documentary Reviving…
FNE at Gdynia Polish FF 2020: Magnesia
GDYNIA: Maciej Bochniak’s Magnesia, which is a combination of detective story, comedy and western, screens in the main competition of the Gdynia Polish Film Festival, taking place online 8 –…
FNE IDF Podcast: True Story: Her Mothers: Asia Dér, Sara Haragonics
This week True Story, a collaborative project between the Institute of Documentary Film and Film New Europe, speaks to Hungarian documentary makers Asia Dér, Sara Haragonics, who speak about their…
GRANTS: Georgia Gives 12 Feature Film Development Grants
TBILISI: The Georgian National Film Center distributed 45,000 EUR / 180,000 GEL for the development of 12 full-length feature film films to be directed by Marine Gulbiani, Papuna Mosidze, Sandro…
Cinema Meeting Point on Demand Begins Distribution in Bosnia and Herzegovina
SARAJEVO: The Cinema Meeting Point on Demand platform, which bowed at the 2020 Sarajevo Film Festival, has been launched as an online distribution platform. The platform is a venture of…
Belgrade’s Firefly Announces Three International TV Coproductions
BELGRADE: Belgrade-based Firefly Productions has announced it is developing internationally coproduced TV productions.
PRODUCTION: Czech/Slovak/Polish Word in Production
BRATISLAVA: Word / Slovo, a Czech/Slovak/Polish drama set in the late 1960´s, is midway through production, which started in August 2020 and will finish in early 2021. The film is…
FNE at Gdynia Polish FF 2020: Sweat
GDYNIA: The new drama from Magnus von Horn, Sweat, a Polish/Swedish coproduction, screens in the main competition of the Gdynia Polish Film Festival, taking place online 8 – 12 December…
FNE at Gdynia Polish FF 2020: Amateurs
GDYNIA: Amateurs, the feature debut from Iwona Siekierzyńska, screens in the main competition of the Gdynia Polish Film Festival, taking place online 8 – 12 December 2020.
FNE at Gdynia Polish FF 2020: 25 Years of Innocence
WARSAW: Jan Holoubek's drama 25 Years of Innocence / 25 lat niewinności, following the real tragic story of Tomasz Komenda, a man who served 18 years in prison and was…
