Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: The Offsiders

Kasia Adamik, daughter of Agnieszka Holland, makes her debut with The Offsiders, a story about a football team composed entirely of homeless people.
14-09-2008

SPI picks up The Wrestler

Independent distributor SPI International Central Europa has will distribute Venice film festival Golden Lion winner The Wrestler.
14-09-2008

Salome opens Arsenals

Riga's Arsenals film festival earns its reputation for unconventionality from betinning to end, opening this year on September 12 with the 1923 film based on the Oscar Wilde/Aubrey Beardsley sensation…
11-09-2008

Experimental Antigone in the works

Gabor Dettre, whose latest movie Tableau screened in the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, has completed principal photography with the cast on his experimental film based on Sophocles' Antigone.
11-09-2008

Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: 33 Scenes from Life

Malgorzata Szumowska's 33 Scenes from Life, winner of the Locarno Special Jury Award, depicts a 33-year-old artist who has come to a crossroads in her life.
11-09-2008

Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: Howling Wolf Ranch

A feature version of a Polish hit comedy series, Howling Wolf Ranch from director Wojciech Adamczyk brings local colour to the competition in Gdynia.
11-09-2008

Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: Splinters

Foundation for Promotion of Polish Film, the distributor of Splinters call the film a comedy-drama of three young people living in the region of Silesia and "the need for love…
11-09-2008

Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: Four Nights with Anna

The first film by Jerzy Skolimowski since the 30 Door Key made 17 years ago, Four Nights with Anna interweaves a story of fanatic love with the story of a…
10-09-2008

Gdynia Polish Film Festival Spotlight: The Brothers Karamazov

Czech Velvet Wave director Petr Zelenka's Polish-Czech co-production The Brothers Karamazov is a film adaptation of his stage success based on a rehearsal of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel staged in a…
10-09-2008

Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: Mr. Kuka's Advice

Dariusz Gajewski's Polish-Austrian co-production Mr. Kuka's Advice screens in the Gdynia main competition following a successful premier in Austria.
10-09-2008

Debra Winger plans project with Hungarian director Janos Szasz

Debra Winger confirmed that she has been in talks with Hungarian director, Janos Szasz to act in his upcoming film.
10-09-2008

Budapest preps for Hungarian Film Week

Walter Carvalho has finished the rough cut on Budapest, co-producer Peter Miskolczi told FNE.
10-09-2008

Hungarian crime comedy sets October release

Hungarian thriller comedy Para (www.szupermodern.hu/paraafilm) is in post production and will be released October 16, director Peter Fazakas told FNE.
09-09-2008

Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: Scratch

The main competition in Gdynia festival will be opened by Scratch directed by Michał Rosa, a controversial picture that received a positive reception during this year's Venice Days.
09-09-2008

Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition: Scratch

The main competition in Gdynia festival will be opened by Scratch directed by Michał Rosa, a controversial picture that received a positive reception during this year's Venice Days.
09-09-2008

Iszka’s Journey vies for Oscar spot

Csaba Bollok's Iszka's Journey will represent Hungary at the Oscar competition in the foreign language film category.
08-09-2008

Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: Ladies

Tomasz Konecki's Ladies emerges as a Polish response to modern women-oriented productions hits Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives.
08-09-2008

Buckley joins SPI

Rory Buckley, former Disney Senior Sales Manager for Central and Eastern Europe, has joined SPI as Sales Director.
08-09-2008

Gdynia festival opens September 15

The 33rd Polish Film Festival opens September 15 in Gdynia, with Robert Glinski chairing the main competition jury. Film New Europe will be profiling each of the competition films in…
07-09-2008

Estonia finances history documentary series

Three Estonian audiovisual agencies, the Estonian Broadcasting Corporation (ERR), the national film agency Estonian Film Foundation and the Estonian Cultural Endowment have signed a three-party agreement
07-09-2008