Screenplay on Husák’s Wife Wins Main Award in International MIDPOINT Programme
Prague: MIDPOINT, an international educational project aimed at supporting talent and development in European screenwriting, culminated at Prague's FAMU film school this weekend with honors for best projects.
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Traffic Department
GDYNIA: Wojciech Smarzowski explores the dark side of human nature in his box office hit drama based on the real workings of a traffic police officer.
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: The Girl from the Wardrobe
GDYNIA: Bodo Kox creates his own surreal outlook on what it means to be alone and enter relationships with The Girl from the Wardrobe, in which protagonist Jacek is taking…
FNE - IDF DocBloc: Riding the Freeway Blues
Prague: Director Ivo Bystrican takes a creative view of the morass that is the system for getting around the Czech Republic in Under (the) Construction, a film examining the trauma…
FNE Europa Distribution - Distributor of the Month: Antoine Bagnaninchi
FNE together with Europa Distribution continues its Distributor of the Month series in recognition of the hard work and excellence of European distributors and the common problems they face -…
Czech Production Proposals Flood Cinematography Fund
PRAGUE: Applications for funding for more than 400 Czech film project proposals have poured into the online site of the Czech Cinematography Fund this week in the wake of the…
PRODUCTION: Solomon and Jude Team Again on Blecher project
BUCHAREST: Producer Ada Solomon, following up her Golden Bear win for Călin Netzer’s Child’s Pose, is developing an adaptation of the writings of Romanian-Jewish author Max Blecher, including Scarred Hearts.…
PRODUCTION: Nvota Comedy-Drama Hostage Shooting
BRATISLAVA: The retro family story Hostage is shooting its first segments following a year's delay in what was originally planned as a winter 2012 production. Location work runs through 7…
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Baby Blues
GDYNIA: Katarzyna Rosłaniec provokes with a surreal, eye-catching outlook on teenage pregnancy with Baby Blues, screening at the 38th Gdynia fest. The story centers on Natalia (Magdalena Berus), a 17-teen-year-old…
Malta Reaches Out at MIPCOM 2013
MALTA: Continuing its push to build a growing slate of international productions, the Malta Film Commission www.mfc.com.mt will be talking up its status as a film-friendly Mediteranean location as the…
Life Feels Good Scores Sales and Montreal Win
GDYNIA: Italy-based indie artfilm sales agent IntraMovies has picked up Polish drama Life Feels Good by Maciej Pieprzyca, which is celebrating victories at the 37th Montreal IFF. The film, also…
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: The Closed Circuit
GDYNIA: The Polish box office hit screening at the 38th Gdynia fest is a timely polemic that takes on questionable practices in Poland's legal system, where, according to the vision…
Cinema City Boardmember Steps Down
WARSAW: The leading multiplex cinema operator in Central & Eastern Europe and in Israel has announced the resignation of Amos Weltsch, member of the board of managing directors, chief operating…
FNE at Venice IFF 2013: The Zero Theorem (Competition) (UK, France, Romania)
VENICE: The distinctive vision that Terry Gilliam brings to all his films is very much in evidence in The Zero Theorem although the chaotic world the director portrays does not…
FNE at Venice Iff 2013: Walesa, Man of Hope (Out of Competition) POLAND
VENICE: The ex-Polish president and leader of Solidarity, Lech Walesa, stole the show as he appeared on the red carpet in Venice for the world premier of Andrzej Wajda’s biopic,…
PRODUCTION: Korean TV Crews Wrap in Ostrava
PRAGUE: A 160 member film crew from South Korea's capital Soul has wrapped their 8-day shoot in Ostrava and Prague. The project, with working title International Market, is produced by…
FNE at Portoroz Slovenian FF 2013: Singing the Adria Blues
PORTOROZ: The story of a certain generation revolving around Toni Riff, the former Yugoslav rock star from the 80s who came to Slovenia during the Balkan war to marry his…
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Life Feels Good
GDYNIA: Maciej Pieprzyca recounts the true story of a man who battles a disability to retain his dignity and contact with the ones he loves in his moving feature inspired…
FNE at Portoroz Slovenian FF 2013: More Scouting Mischief Leads to Laughs
PORTOROZ: The most successful domestic film in the history of Slovenian cinema has finally had its highly anticipated sequel, screening at the 16th Portoroz fest, running 11-15 September. As implied…
