FNE at Golden Boll Film Festival: New Demirkubuz film Inside

ADANA: Inside, which screens in the Turkish National Competition of the Golden Boll Film Festival, had its premiere at the 31st Istanbul Film Festival where it received five awards, including…
14-09-2012

FNE IDF Doc Bloc: Directors Dammas and Renner on Polish Illusions

IDF spoke with Polish director Jacob Dammas and German producer/director Helge Renner about the six year long process of creating their documentary Polish Illusions.
14-09-2012

Golden Boll Film Festival: The Stranger

ADANA: The Stranger will have its world premiere in the Turkish National Competition of the Golden Boll Film Festival. It will be released in Turkey on 21 December 2012.
13-09-2012

OBITUARY: Radoslav Brzobohaty

PRAGUE: Czechoslovak actor Radoslav Brzobohaty died 12 September 2012, just one day short of what would have been his 80th birthday.
13-09-2012

PRODUCTION: New Wajda Studio production The Performer Wraps Filming

WARSAW: The Wajda Studio (www.wajdastudio.com) has completed shooting on its second feature film, The Performer, the directing debut from Maciej Sobieszczanski and Łukasz Ronduda.
12-09-2012

PRODUCTION: New Croatian film All the Best in Development

ZAGREB: Director/screenwriter Snjezana Tribuson is developing All the Best, a romantic comedy set to shoot in autumn-winter 2013 for the Croatian company Kinorama (www.kinorama.hr).
12-09-2012

FNE at Golden Boll Film Festival: Winds

ADANA: Winds will have its world premiere in the Turkish National Competition of the 2012 Golden Boll Film Festival.
12-09-2012

Increase in multiplexes continues to spur Romanian box office growth in 2012

BUCHAREST: The Romanian box office rose by 4.1 percent in the first seven months of 2012, while admissions grew by 6.4 percent.
11-09-2012

FNE at Golden Boll Film Festival: Where is My Mother Tongue?

ADANA: Where is My Mother Tongue had its world premiere in the 2012 Istanbul Film Festival’s main competition.
11-09-2012

FESTIVALS: Batumi Launches Workshop

BATUMI: The Batumi International Art-house Film Festival (BIAFF, www.biaff.org) will host a documentary workshop in partnership with Postcode Films (www.postcodefilms.com).
11-09-2012

Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master provokes storm of controversy at prize ceremony

LONDON: American director Paul Thomas Anderson took home the runner-up Silver Lion Prix of the Venice Film Festival for The Master amid a storm of controversy after The Hollywood Reporter…
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FNE at Venice FF 2012: Venice Film Festival Prize Winners

VENICE: Korean director Kim Ki-duk collected the Golden Lion for Best film for his ultra violent Pieta in a year that saw Ulrich Seidl’s Paradies: Glaube as the only film…
10-09-2012

Romanian film lures audiences with unique promo campaign

BUCHAREST: Romanian producer/director Tudor Giurgiu is trying to lure Romanian audiences back to local films with a unique new promotional campaign for his second film, Of Snails and Men. Unprecedented…
10-09-2012

FESTIVALS: Rosa Wins MECEFF

MEDIAS: The second MECEFF (Mediaş Central European Film Festival, www.meceff.ro) gave its Best Film award to the Polish film Rosa (www.skorpionarte.pl) by Wojciech Smarzowski
10-09-2012

FNE at the Golden Boll Film Festival: The Circle

ADANA: The Circle is the latest film from Dervis Zaim, whose previous films, made over the last 20 years, include Waiting for Heaven, Dot and Somersault in a Coffin.
10-09-2012

FNE at the Golden Boll Film Festival: Saint Ayse

ADANA: Saint Ayse directed by Elfe Uluc will make its premiere in the Turkish National Competition of the Golden Boll Film Festival.
07-09-2012

FNE at Golden Boll Film Festival: Night of Silence

ADANA: Night of Silence, which screens in the Turkish National Competition of the Golden Boll Film Festival, had its world premiere at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival’s Generation section where…
07-09-2012

FNE exclusive: Court decision gives Hungarian Film Fund control of film studios: FNE asks Andy Vajna what’s next

BUDAPEST: A Hungarian court decision has transferred the property of the former Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation (MMKA) to the Hungarian National Film Fund (www.filmalap.hu).
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FNE at Venice FF 2012: Competition: Spring Breakers

VENICE: Oldies beware Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers might seem slight but the buzz from younger Euro-critics after its first screening in Venice was decidedly positive.
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FNE at the Golden Boll Film Festival: Know My Name

ADANA: Know My Name will have its world premiere in the Turkish National Competition of the Golden Boll film festival.
06-09-2012