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…
FNE at Gdynia Polish FF 2020: The Champion
GDYNIA: Maciej Barczewski's biopic The Champion / Mistrz, about Tadeusz „Teddy” Pietrzykowski, a boxer who won the title of the champion of the German concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, screens in the…
dok.incubator Calls for Applications
PRAGUE: Long documentaries in the rough-cut stage are eligible to apply for the dok.incubator workshop 2021 until 27 January 2021.
FESTIVALS: France Takes Top Prizes at Estonia’s Just Film Kids Fest
TALLINN: Two French films won the top awards at the 2020 Just Film festival of children's films, which was held under the banner of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.…
GRANTS: Poland Supports Eight Feature Films
WARSAW: The Polish Film Institute supported eight feature film productions with over 23.6 m PLN / 5.2 m EUR during the third and last session of funding in 2020.
GRANTS: BiH Republic of Srpska Announces Grants
BANJA LUKA: The Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Srpska has announced the recipients of its grants for film projects. Srpska is one of the two entities…
FNE at Golden Rhyton 2020: Bulgarian Doc and Animated Film Fest Goes Online
SOFIA: The 25th edition of the national film festival for documentaries and animated films Golden Rhyton, initially scheduled as a physical event (27 November - 3 December 2020) in the…
FESTIVALS: Serbia Takes Audience Award at Slovenia’s Animateka Fest 2020
LJUBLJANA: The Serbian short film Mud Chronicles by Vuk Palibrk won the ;DASF Audience Award and a prize of 1,000 EUR at the awards ceremony of the 17th edition of…
PRODUCTION: Ildikó Enyedi Completes Hungarian/Italian/French/Dutch The Story of My Wife
BUDAPEST: The Berlinale winning director Ildikó Enyedi is finishing post-production on her first English language feature, The Story of My Wife / A feleségem története, after delays caused by the…
FNE IDF Podcast: True Story: Wolves at the Borders: Martin Pav
This week True Story, a collaborative project between the Institute of Documentary Film and Film New Europe, speaks to Czech documentary maker Martin Pav, who speaks about his documentary Wolves…
FESTIVALS: Georgian Ia Wins TIFF 2020 Georgian-Baltic Bridge
TBILISI: The 21st edition of the Tbilisi International Film Festival, which opened in an online form on 30 November 2020 and runs through 20 December, awarded financial prizes to three…
FNE at Gdynia Polish FF 2020: The Hater
GDYNIA: The Hater by Polish director Jan Komasa, a cyber thriller and the follow up to his box office hit feature debut Suicide Room, screens in the main competition of…
