Hunger wins Black Nights festival in Tallin

The 12th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announced that the English-Irish prison drama Hunger has won the Grand Prix in the EurAsia competition.
10-12-2008

Anthony Dod Mantle wins Plus Camerimage top prize

The winners of Plus Camerimage 2008, which recognizes excellence in cinematography, were announced in Lodz.
10-12-2008

Restored Hyppolit, the Butler

The 1931 film Hyppolit the Butler, the first Hungarian "talkie," has been digitally restored.
10-12-2008

Polish new year kicks off with budget busting comedy

The Konecki & Saramonowicz duet is once again taking a comedy spin on the relations between the sexes.
09-12-2008

Lithuania plans new Film Centre

The Lithuanian government has approved a plan to create a National Film Centre, which set to open in 2009.
09-12-2008

Prague multiplex closes

Prague faced its first multiplex closure: Cinema City at Novodvorska Plaza shopping center was closed on December 3 because of low ticket sales.
09-12-2008

Crime that shook Poland on the big screen

Don't Turn Your Eyes, directed by Michal Rogalski and based on a true story, is preparing to shoot from March through May, 2009.
09-12-2008

New fund, new support, new films for Slovakia

The Slovak Film Institute unveiled 48 new Slovak films and co-productions at a presentation of upcoming feature, documentary and animated films held during the 10th Bratislava International Film Festival (www.iffbratislava.sk).
08-12-2008

Season of the Witch resumes shooting in Hungary

After three weeks on location in the Austrian Alps, Season of the Witch starring Nicolas Cage has relocated to Hungary where it will continue production until February.
08-12-2008

MEDIA doc seminars at Vilnius festival

The MEDIA Programme Division of the International Cultural Programme Centre is offering seminars and discussions for documentary filmmakers during the Vilnius Documentary Film Festival.
08-12-2008

The Forrest gets finishing touches

The Forest, a partially animated feature film from animator and director Piotr Dumala, is in post-production, with a May 2009 projected completion date.
08-12-2008

Chocolate's Day enters pre-production

Chocolate's Day, produced by Jacek Blawut Film Production, has entered the pre-production stage after a preparatory period that started in February 2008.
08-12-2008

Bratislava film festival announces awards

Mid-August Lunch directed by Gianni Di Gregorio (Italy) won the Grand Prix at the 10th Bratislava IFF 2008, which ended on December 5.
07-12-2008

The Lesser Evil hits screens in December

The Lesser Evil, the story of a young writer, who manages to develop a career in the communist Poland without writing a single book, opens in Poland on December 31.
07-12-2008

Six Lithuanian documentary premieres at Vilnius Documentary Film Festival

The fifth edition of the Vilnius Documentary Film Festival (December 5-14 2008) will host six Lithuanian documentary premieres.
07-12-2008

Polish thriller in the works

Marcin Wrona is in preparation to begin filming on Baptism in the first half of 2009.
07-12-2008

New funding decisions at Hungary's MPPFH

The Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary (www.mmka.hu) has announced its latest support for Hungarian film projects and coproductions.
07-12-2008

Herz co-production begins filming

Director Juraj Herz has started shooting on a Czech/Slovak/Polish co-production, The Dark, in Western Bohemia.
05-12-2008

Holland's Christine in pre-production

Agnieszka Holland is in preproduction with Christine, based on the life of Krystyna Skarbek, a Pole who Winston Churchill called most prominent female agent during World War II.
04-12-2008

Love on the Runway ushers in New Years Eve

Romantic comedy Love On The Runway, directed by Krzysztof Lang, gets a head start on next year's distribution race with a December 31 premiere in Poland.
04-12-2008