Slovenian Minister of Culture Resigns
LJUBLJANA: The Slovenian Minister of Culture Dejan Prešiček has resigned only four months after his appointment. During his mandate he promised a substantial funding increase for culture and film production…
GRANTS: Polish Film Institute Finances Micro-budget Films in New Category
WARSAW: The Polish Film Institute started financing micro-budget projects and distributed 970,634 EUR / 4,165,000 PLN to seven projects in the first grant session.
FNE at WEMW 2019: CEE Projects at WEMW Co-production Forum
TRIESTE: One of the key events of the 9th edition of When East Meets West was the Co-production Forum pitching session showcasing 22 upcoming projects, including 11 long documentaries and…
FNE Market Analysis 2018: ESTONIA
Estonian films had a breakthrough year in 2018. Domestic films had more than 647,600 admissions, which is an all-time record. In 2017 Estonian films had 282,421 admissions. The success of…
Another Record Year for Polish Cinema
WARSAW: Polish cinema had another record year, with 59.7 m total admissions and 263.9 m EUR total gross. Polish films had 19.8 m admissions, compared to 13.5 m in 2017.…
PRODUCTION: Ivona Juka Preps Sophomore Feature
ZAGREB: Ivona Juka will start shooting her sophomore feature in the autumn of 2019. Maslenica 93 will be the first Croatian feature to deal with the operation launched in January…
Smuggling Hendrix on In-flight Entertainment of Emirates
NICOSIA: The comedy Smuggling Hendrix by Marios Piperides is available on in-flight entertainment of Emirates. Since its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, this coproduction between Cyprus, Germany and…
FESTIVALS: The Delegation Wins 30th Trieste Film Festival
TRIESTE: Bujar Alimani’s The Delegation received the Trieste Award for Best Feature Film at the 30th Trieste Film Festival (18-25 January 2019). The film is a coproduction between Albania, France,…
FNE UNIC EU Policy Update 24.01.2019.
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…
The 9th When East Meets West Announces Winners
TRIESTE: The Czech project Brotherhood directed by Francesco Montagner and produced by Nutprodukce is the winner of the 9th edition of When East Meets West, the Italian coproduction forum, which…
Three dok.incubator Projects Selected for Sundance
PRAGUE: Three documentaries developed at the dok.incubator workshop have been selected for the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival 2019. Nine films made it to Sundance in…
FNE IDF DocBloc: Czech Docs at FIPADOC, DocPoint Helsinki & Tallinn
Upcoming DocPoint Helsinki (28 January – 3 February 2019) included Helena Třeštíková's retrospective and Jan Gebert's When the War Comes in its programme, while DocPoint Tallin (30 January - 3…
FNE Market Analysis 2018: POLAND
Polish cinema had a strong year in 2018, with record-breaking box office results, international success of feature films, worldwide distribution for domestic titles, as well as the introduction of long-awaited…
Cold War Nominated for César Awards
WARSAW: Cold War has been nominated for the Cesar Awards 2019 in the Best Foreign Film category. The prizes are awarded by France’s Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences. The…
RE-ACT Gives Co-Development Funding to Six Projects
TRIESTE: Representatives of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC), the Friuli Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Fund and the Slovenian Film Centre announced the recipients of the 4th RE–ACT co-development funding support during…
FNE Market Analysis 2018: SLOVAKIA
Year 2018 proved not to be as successful for the Slovak cinema as the extraordinary year of 2017, as it saw a decline in general box office as well as…
Three Academy Award Nominations for Cold War
WARSAW: Cold War by Paweł Pawlikowski got three nominations for the Academy Awards in the Best Directing, Best Cinematography (Łukasz Żal) and Best Foreign Language Film categories. The nominations were…
Strong Opening for Taxi Blues in Serbia
BELGRADE: The rom-com/road movie Taxi Blues topped the Serbian box office charts last weekend. The debut feature by Miroslav Stamatov racked 47,411 admissions and 158,534 EUR / 18,774,122 RSD gross…
Toman Tops Czech Lion Awards Nominations
PRAGUE: Toman by Ondřej Trojan tops the 26th edition of the Czech Lion awards with 13 nominations. The winners of the 26th Czech Lion awards, organised by the Czech Film…
Latvia Increases Budget for Incentives in 2019
RIGA: The National Film Centre of Latvia will allot less money for minority coproductions, but more for the incentives programme in 2019.
