WEMW Announces Final Lineup for Side Sections
TRIESTE: Latvian, Romanian, Lithuanian, Czech, Slovenian, Polish and Croatian projects are among the 22 projects selected for Last Stop Trieste, This is IT and First Cut +, while a Serbian…
FESTIVALS: Trieste Film Festival 2020 Ready To Kick Off
TRIESTE: Eleven feature films will vie in the main competition of the 31st Trieste Film Festival, which will be held from 17 to 23 January 2020.
Another Record Year For Polish Cinema
WARSAW: Polish cinemas had 60.2 m admissions and racked up over 266 m EUR at the box office in 2019, breaking the 2018 record of 59.7 m total admissions. Lion…
OBITUARY: Czech Director Ivan Passer
PRAGUE: Acclaimed Czech director and screenwriter Ivan Passer has passed away at age 86. A leading figure of the Czech New Wave, he escaped from what was then Czechoslovakia to…
Dimitri Logothetis Preps New Action Film To Shoot in Cyprus Under Cash Rebate Scheme
NICOSIA: The Greek-American producer/director Dimitri Logothetis is in preparation with Man of War, for which he is in talks with a major action actor. The project is set to be…
Serbian My Morning Laughter at IFFR in Rotterdam
BELGRADE: Marko Đorđević’s debut feature My Morning Laughter will have its international premiere in the Bright Future main programme of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (22 January-2 February 2020). The…
Successful Year For Slovenian Films At Local Box Office
LJUBLJANA: The share of Slovenian films increased by more than 5% with the top domestic title Let Him Be a Basketball Player 2, directed by Boris Bezić and produced by…
dok.incubator Launches Call for Applications
PRAGUE: Filmmakers are welcome to apply to dok.incubator, the international workshop supporting directors, producers and editors with their late-stage documentary projects. The deadline for applications is 29 January 2020.
FNE IDF DocBloc: East Doc Platform 2020 Announces Selected Projects
Here are the projects selected for the 9th edition of East Doc Platform, the largest coproduction, funding and distribution market for Central and Eastern European documentaries, which will take place…
FNE at Venice 2019: Review: Marriage Story
VENICE: Director Noah Baumbach already has ten feature films to his credit so it is no surprise that this already accomplished and respected filmmaker has landed in the Venice competition…
More International Productions Expected to Shoot in Cyprus
NICOSIA: Dimitris Logothetis already has the green light for his next film Man of War to be filmed in Cyprus in 2020, after shooting Jiu-Jitsu with Nicolas Cage in 2019.…
FNE Introduces Its 2020 Agenda for Coproduction Markets, Pitchings and Works-in-Progress
WARSAW: Film New Europe is introducing its 2020 Agenda for Coproduction Markets, Pitchings and Works-in-Progress. The Agenda gives a chance to producers from Central and Eastern Europe to market their…
Talents From Poland, Georgia, Estonia and Bulgaria Among Shooting Stars 2020
BERLIN: Young actors from Poland, Georgia, Estonia and Bulgaria are among the ten Shooting Stars 2020 announced by the European Film Promotion (EFP) for its 23rd edition. All of them…
Major Gains at Slovak Box Office in 2019
BRATISLAVA: Admissions at the Slovak box office made major gains in 2019 over the previous year. Although official statistics are not available according to preliminary information 3,056,019 tickets were sold…
Reel Suspects Snaps Up Milcho Manchevski’s Willow
SKOPJE: Willow, the new feature film by the Academy award nominated Macedonian helmer Milcho Manchevski, has been acquired by the French sales agent Reel Suspects.
Serbian/Croatian/French Coproduction In Praise of Nothing Is Most Watched Doc on Mubi in 2019
BELGRADE: The documentary In Praise of Nothing (2017) by Serbian director Boris Mitić was the most watched documentary on MUBI in 2019, the platform announced as part of its first…
CineStar Opens Fifth Multiplex in Bosnia and Herzegovina
ZENICA: CineStar, the largest multiplex cinema chain in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region, has opened its fifth multiplex in the city of Zenica on 17 December 2019.
The Painted Bird Sold to Canada
PRAGUE: The Czech/Slovak/Ukrainian coproduction The Painted Bird by Václav Marhoul has been sold by Celluloid Dreams to the Canadian distributor Northern Banner Releasing. The Painted Bird is shortlisted by the…
Documentary Series to Promote Croatia In China
ZAGREB: American media mogul and founder of E! Larry Namer is currently in Zagreb, where an episode of the documentary series Explore the World has recently been filmed.
5GANG: Another Christmas Breaks Opening Record in Romania
BUCHAREST: Teen comedy 5GANG: Another Christmas, the debut feature by vlogger Matei Dima, tops the weekly Romanian box office with 146,784 admissions and 592,738 EUR / 2,831,396 RON gross. The…
