FNE Visegrad Special: 2011 Hungarian Film Industry Overview

BUDAPEST: Most of the Hungarian film professionals spent the last year waiting. The main supporter of the sector, the Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation (MMK) became insolvent in mid-2010, leaving production…
20-09-2011

New TV Launches in Romania Fill the Gap of Closing Stations

BUCHAREST:: At least five new Romanian TV channels launching in 2011 will fill the void left by the closure of three channels. The latest addition is Mezzo Live HD (www.mezzo.tv)…
20-09-2011

PRODUCTION: Life in Squares in Postproduction

BUCHAREST: The Bucharest-based young Serbian director Ivana Mladenovic is in the final stages of post-production (sound and colour correction) with an 84 minute documentary investigating the life of four 19…
19-09-2011

Adana Golden Boll FF: The Extremely Tragic Story of Celal Tan and His Family

The Extremely Tragic Story of Celal Tan and His Family directed by Onur Unlu makes its world premiere in the Turkish national competition section of the Adana Golden Boll Film…
19-09-2011

FNE Visegrad 2011 special: Polish Coproductions

WARSAW: Polish engagement in the international film industry becomes more prominent each year, with the results visible not only by the increase in Polish presence at major film events but…
19-09-2011

PRODUCTION: Feed Me with Your Words in Production

LJUBLJANA: Feed Me With Your Words, the debut feature film by director Martin Turk, is in the middle of shooting and is expected to be completed on 4 October 2011.…
19-09-2011

Bulgarian National Television Reopens Second Channel

SOFIA: The second channel of public broadcaster Bulgarian National Television (www.bnt.bg) launched in 1975 and cancelled in 2000 for financial reasons will restart on 3 October 2011. Previous known as…
19-09-2011

Sponsoring Gets International Distribution

WARSAW: After a successful screening at the Toronto IFF, the new drama from Małgorzata Szumowska Sponsoring was sold to over a dozen countries including UK, Spain, Brazil and Hongkong.
18-09-2011

Adana Golden Boll FF: Future Lasts Forever

The Future Lasts Forever directed by Ozcan Alper screens in the Turkish competition of the Adana Golden Boll Film Festival (17-25 September 2011, www.goldenbollfilmfestival.com), immediately following its world premiere at…
18-09-2011

Adana Golden Boll FF: September

September, which had its world premiere in the Montreal World Film Festival on 25 August 2011, screens in the Turkish national competition of the Adana Golden Bull Film Festival (17-25…
18-09-2011

Grand Cinema Multiplex Opens in Bucharest

BUCHAREST: Grand Cinema Digiplex (www.grandcinemadigiplex.ro), which opens 23 September 2011 in Băneasa Shopping City (www.baneasashoppingcity.ro) in Bucharest, will bring the widest flat screen in Romania (22m wide).
18-09-2011

FNE Visegrad 2011 Country Focus : Poland

WARSAW: Heading into the last quarter of 2011, Polish cinema is on track to repeat the steady growth that can be observed since 2005. Thanks to the activities of local…
18-09-2011

FNE at BIAFF 2011: Georgian fest launches industry meetings

BATUMI: The 6th edition of the Batumi International Art House Film Festival (http://biaff.org) (17-24 September 2011) kicks off today in the Black Sea resort city with Woody Allen’s Midnight in…
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Adana Golden Boll FF: Mar

Caner Erzincan's first film Mar will make its premiere in the Turkish national competition of the Adana Golden Bull Film Festival (17-25 September 2011, www.goldenbollfilmfestival.com).
15-09-2011

Adana Golden Boll FF: Loser's Club

Loser's Club, which was released on 25 March 2011 in Turkey, was the seventh spot most popular Turkish film in 2011. Attendance reached nearly 500,000, with 4.5 million Turkish Liras…
15-09-2011

FESTIVALS: 30th Bulgarian “Golden Rose” Festival Gets National Funding

SOFIA: The Bulgarian National Film Centre (www.nfc.bg) announced that despite the severe financial crisis it will organize the 30th edition of the Festival of Bulgarian Feature Film "Golden Rose" in…
15-09-2011

FESTIVALS: Batumi Fest Adds Industry Section

BATUMI, GEORGIA: The sixth Batumi International Art-house Film Festival (www.biaff.org) taking place from 17-24 September 2011, has selected 9 films for its international feature film competitions and ten films which…
15-09-2011

Czech blockbuster Saxana opens on a record 140 screens

PRAGUE: One of the biggest film openings in Central Europe takes place this week in the Czech and Slovak Republic. The object of all the attention is Saxana: The Little…
15-09-2011

Adana Golden Boll FF 2011: Country Problem

The Turkish national competition at the Adana Golden Boll film festival (15-25 September 2011, www.goldenbollfilmfestival.com) will screen Country Problem, a film that had little impact on the box office. It…
14-09-2011

Adana Golden Boll FF 2011: Body

Body, the feature film debut from Mustafa Nuri, competes in the Turkish national film competition of the Adana Golden Boll film festival (15-25 September 2011, www.goldenbollfilmfestival.com), after making its world…
14-09-2011