CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator 2020 Announces Call for Applications
PODGORICA: CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator launches the call for its exclusive one-year training programme 2020. Ten female directors or producers with a strong creative documentary project in any stage of…
DAFilms Expands to Poland and Slovakia
WARSAW: The international streaming service DAFilms opened new domains in Poland dafilms.pl and Slovakia dafilms.sk starting 3 February 2020.
FNE Cinema of the Month: Edison Filmhub, Prague
This month we speak with Ivan Hronec, founder and CEO of Film Europe Media Company, about the Edison Filmhub, opened in the centre of Prague on 1 June 2019 as…
CAT&Docs Picks Up Ukrainian/Lithuanian Doc The Earth Is Blue As An Orange
VILNIUS: The documentary The Earth Is Blue as an Orange by Iryna Tsilyk, which received the Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, has been picked…
Serbian Director Ognjen Glavonić and Hungarian Animation Filmmaker Réka Bucsi in Berlinale Juries
BELGRADE: Serbian director and writer Ognjen Glavonić will be one of the three members of the GWFF Best First Feature Award Jury, while Hungarian animation filmmaker Réka Bucsi will sit…
FNE Market Analysis 2019: LITHUANIA
VILNIUS: It was another great year for Lithuanian cinema, which continued to garner international attention. World premieres of Lithuanian films took place at internationally acclaimed festivals, including Cannes, Busan, Hot…
PRODUCTION: Serbian Director Ivan Ikić In Postproduction With The Users
BELGRADE: Ivan Ikić is entering the final stages of postproduction with his sophomore feature The Users / Korisnici, a coproduction between Serbia, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and France.
PRODUCTION: Georgian Writer/Director Data Pirtskhalava Preps A Long Break
TBILISI: Georgian writer/director Data Pirtskhalava is currently in preproduction with his debut feature A Long Break. Pirtskhalava won the Best International Short Award at the Locarno International Film Festival with…
FNE Market Analysis 2019: GEORGIA
TBILISI: Georgia had a great year with more awards at international festivals and more attention given to Georgian films. Georgian cinema days were held in Brussels, Rome, Boston, Poland and…
FNE Market Analysis 2019: BULGARIA
SOFIA: Public support for film was finally unlocked in 2019 and the Bulgarian National Film Center resumed its regular activities. This became possible after the harmonisation of the Film Industry…
Romanian and Lithuanian Productions Awarded at Sundance
BUCHAREST: Radu Ciorniciuc’s debut documentary Acasă, My Home / Acasă was awarded the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography (Radu Ciorniciuc and Mircea Topoleanu) at the 42nd Sundance…
Czech/Slovak Old Timers Wins 2019 Czech Film Critics‘ Awards
PRAGUE: Old Timers / Staříci won the Czech Film Critics’ Award for Best Film while its directors, Ondřej Provazník and Martin Dušek, were awarded Best Director. The Best Screenplay Award…
BOX OFFICE: Four Estonian Films In Overall 2019 BO Top Ten
TALLINN: Year 2019 broke another record in Estonia as four domestic films made it to the overall top ten. Tanel Toom’s Truth and Justice / Tõde ja õigus became the…
BOX OFFICE: Bosnian and Herzegovinian BO Increases For Third Consecutive Year
SARAJEVO: Admissions and box office in Bosnia and Herzegovinia increased for the third year in a row with a 10.26% growth in admissions and 12.7% increase in gross in 2019,…
FNE UNIC EU Policy Update
WARSAW: FNE has teamed up with the Brussels based team of the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC) to bring you regular updates on EU cinema policies that impact all industry…
GRANTS: Georgia Launches Call For Feature Film Minority Coproduction Grants
TBILISI: The Georgian National Film Center has launched the 2020 competition for feature film minority coproductions. The deadline is 16 March 2020.
Croatian Minority Coproduction Chris the Swiss Hits Spanish Cinemas
ZAGREB: Croatian minority coproduction Chris the Swiss directed by Anja Kofmel will be released by DocsBarcelona Distribution in 70 Spanish cinemas on 6 February 2020.
Romanian Radu Jude’s Uppercase Print Picked Up By Belgian Best Friend Forever
BUCHAREST: Uppercase Print / Tipografic majuscul, one of the two films by Radu Jude selected for 2020 Berlinale’s Forum section, has been picked up by the Belgian sales company Best…
FNE Market Analysis 2019: NORTH MACEDONIA
SKOPJE: It was a truly exciting year for Macedonian cinematography with great box office results, international success for feature and documentary films, worldwide distribution for domestic titles and their participation…
FNE IDF DocBloc: KineDok Films at Screenshot
Alternative distribution platform KineDok and Prague screening room Screenshot have prepared a month long journey (2-27 February 2020) through European documentary films in 15 screenings.
