PRODUCTION: Slovak Director Mariana Čengel Solčanská Preps The Chambermaid
BRATISLAVA: Slovak director Mariana Čengel Solčanská starts preproduction on the Slovak/Czech historical drama The Chambermaid / Slúžka. The film is based on Hana Lasicová’s bestseller published in 2013 about lesbian…
Interview with Nino Kirtadze: Support From Eurimages Is Vital For Georgian Cinema
TBILISI: Film director, screenwriter, journalist and actress Nino Kirtadze, the new representative of Georgia in Eurimages, spoke with Film New Europe about the importance of Eurimages support for Georgian coproductions…
FNE AV Innovation: FanSifter Powers Events With Fan Data
FanSifter powers live events and festivals to utilize their fan data for smarter marketing and more personalized experiences for fans
Polish nc+ Takes Majority Stake in Kino Świat
WARSAW: Polish Pay TV platform nc+ will become the distributor of the catalogue of Kino Świat, by purchasing a 70% stake in the biggest film distributor in Poland.
FNE at CineLink Sarajevo 2019: Croatian Goran Kulenović Presents Mysterious Murder Story in Death of the Little Match Girl
SARAJEVO: Croatian writer/director Goran Kulenović will present the dark humour thriller Death of the Little Match Girl, based on Zoran Ferić’s novel, at the CineLink Co-Production Market (20-22 August 2019)…
Docu Talent Award Winners 2019 Announced
SARAJEVO: The projects Kix by Bálint Révész and Dávid Mikulán (Hungarian/German/Croatian coproduction) and Frem by Viera Čákányová (Czech Republic) are both winners of Docu Talent Awards 2019. The awards were…
Czech and Polish Films Among 2019 Student Academy Awards Finalists
PRAGUE: One Czech animated film and one Polish documentary are among the 2019 Student Academy Awards finalists. The winners of the student Oscars will be announced in Los Angeles on…
FNE at CineLink Sarajevo 2019: Serbian Mirjana Karanović Returns To CineLink With Mother Mara
SARAJEVO: Famous Serbian actress Mirjana Karanović, whose previous film Good Wife (This and That, 2016) won the CineLink Co-production Arte Prize, is back to CineLink (20-22 August 2019) with her…
Malta Launches Film Adaptation Fund
VALLETTA: The National Book Council of Malta has launched the first call for applications for the NBC Film Adaptation Fund, which addresses all stages of development and production of one…
FNE IDF DocBloc: Ex Oriente Film 2019-2020: Comfortable Century
Take a closer look at the documentary project Comfortable Century / Pohodlné století (Czech Republic) by Jaroslav Kratochvíl, which was selected for the 17th edition of Ex Oriente Film out…
PRODUCTION: French/Belgian/Macedonian Coproduction To Be Shot In North Macedonia
BITOLA: French/Belgian/Macedonian coproduction A Mermaid in Paris / Une sirène à Paris directed by Mathias Malzieu will start shooting in North Macedonia on 30 August 2019. This debut feature is…
FNE at CineLink Sarajevo 2019: Pavle Vučković Presents Frost, Contemporary Mythological Fairy Tale
SARAJEVO: Pavle Vučković, Serbian director whose debut film Panama (Plan 9, 2015) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, will present his new project Frost at the CineLink Co-Production Market (20-22…
FESTIVALS: Timișoara Central European FF Announces Lineup
TIMIȘOARA: Eight feature films were selected for the competition of the Timișoara Central European Film Festival, running from 28 August to 1 September 2019. The theme of the edition is…
FNE AV Innovation: Artinii - It’s All About Communities
A young Czech company, Artinii, has come up with a new technology that enables global film distribution. In this series we’ll explain how we do it. Today we’ll share more…
PRODUCTION: TV Series Based On Best Known Macedonian Kids Character In Production
SKOPJE: The production company Kino Oko is currently in production with Zoki Poki, a children’s TV series, which takes on the classic children’s book of the same title by Olivera…
FNE at CineLink Sarajevo 2019: Tiger Goes Roaming in Andrei Tănase’s Romanian/Czech Victus
SARAJEVO: Romanian writer/director Andrei Tănase is preparing his first feature film Victus, after the success of his short film First Night (2016), which premiered in Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti. The…
FNE at CineLink Sarajevo 2019: Ivan Marinović Returns to CineLink With Forever Hold Your Peace
SARAJEVO: Montenegrin director Ivan Marinović, whose previous film Black Pin (Adriatic Western, 2016) won the Living Pictures Award at CineLink in 2014, returns to CineLink Co-Production Market with his new…
BOX OFFICE: Strong Admissions for The General in Croatia
ZAGREB: War biopic The General directed by Antun Vrdoljak and produced by Kiklop film in coproduction with the Croatian Television had 28,383 admissions and 137,971 EUR gross in the first…
FNE at CineLink Sarajevo 2019: Shopping Excursion Turns into Nightmare in Sofia Georgovassili’s Debut Mignon
SARAJEVO: Greek director Sofia Georgovassili will present her coming-of-age debut Mignon at CineLink Co-Production Market (20-22 August 2019), organised in the framework of Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Industry Days. The…
FNE at CineLink Sarajevo 2019: Refugee Crisis Sets Tone for Family Drama in Turkish/Serbian Coproduction Like A Limbless Tree
SARAJEVO: Tunç Davut, whose debut feature Entanglement premiered at the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival, is returning to Sarajevo with his second film project Like A Limbless Tree, which has been…
