FESTIVALS: Miele Wins LIFFe Kingfisher Award
LJUBLJANA: Miele by Valeria Golino collected the main prize of the 24th Ljubljana Film Festival.
FNE at Tallin Black Nights 2013: Tangerines
Tangerines, an Estonian/Georgian coproduction directed by Zaza Urushadze, pitched at Connecting Cottbus 2010, began shooting at the end of 2012 and opened in cinemas in Georgia and Estonia in October…
FNE at Tallin Black Nights 2013 The Arbiter
TALLINN: Kadri Kõusaar’s second film The Arbiter, which had its international premiere in the East of the West competition at the Karlovy Vary IFF, is a morally challenging and difficult…
GRANTS: Holland, Rosa, Borcuch Receive Polish Film Grants
WARSAW: The Polish Film Institute distributed nearly 70 grants for production, development and scholarships in the final round of 2013.
PRODUCTION: The Last Incubus in Postproduction
BUCHAREST: Distributor InterComFilm Romania has already started a promotional campaign marketing Ovidiu Georgescu's The Last Incubus as the first Romanian magic realism film, well in advance of its 14 February…
Eurimages Awards Ada Solomon
Romanian producer Ada Solomon will receive the Co-production Award - Prix EURIMAGES at the 7 December 2013 European Film Awards Ceremony in Berlin.
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2013 Siska de Luxe
COTTBUS: Slovenian director Jan Cvitkovic returns to form with a bittersweet slacker comedy, Siska de Luxe produced by Alex Pavlin of Perfo.
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2013: Details of a Dream
COTTBUS: Perisan Film of Turkey is producing Detail of a Dream written and directed by Orhan Eskikoy.
Malta Plans Film Coproduction Funding
Malta Home Affairs Minister Manuel Mallia told the country’s parliament that government plans to introduce 1m EUR in funding for coproductions.
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2013: Blood Money
COTTBUS: A Kurdish construction worker in Istanbul fakes an accident resulting in his death in order to help his family obtain “blood money” from the company to secure a home…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2013: The Load
COTTBUS: A Serbian film project, The Load, a gripping story of a truck driver who learns that the cargo he’s been transporting from Kosova to Belgrade contains the bodies of…
FNE/IDF DocBloc: Olga 80 in Production
Miroslav Janek is in production with a documentary by the first wife of the late Czech President Vaclav Havel, Olga 80.
3DFM Lines up Participants
LIEGE: Fifteen filmmakers will present their projects at the third edition of the 3D Content Financing Market (3DFM) taking place 4 and 5 December 2013 in Liège, Belgium, during the…
Poland Hits Digitalization Goal
WARSAW: Poland has digitalized 99 local and art-house cinemas in 88 cities through the Polish Digital Cinemas Network programme, with more plans to convert more in 2014.
Alvernia Studios Introducing Foreign Film Incentive
WARSAW: Poland’s Alvernia Studios is teaming up with Holland’s Fu Works Productions on a financing incentive to bring international projects to Alvernia Studios.
Romania Triples Film Funding
BUCHAREST: The National Centre for Cinema will give out 6.7 m EUR/30m RON in the first session of the grants contest in 2013, which opened on 13 November, which is…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2013: City of Birds
COTTBUS: Russia writer/director Alena Alova pitched the tale of a young Russian émigré who falls in love with an Italian girl and ruins his family’s chance to immigrate, City of…
PRODUCTION: Warsaw by Night
WARSAW: Warsaw by Night produced and directed by Natalia Koryncka-Gruz completed filming in Warsaw on 12 November 2013.
Hungary Campaigns to Build Domestic Audiences
BUDAPEST: Nimrod Antal (Kontroll, Vacancy, Predators) has been lured back to Hungary ten years after making his 2003 international breakthrough (and debut) movie Kontroll to create a promotional film to…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2013: Silence of the Scream
COTTBUS: The winner of the 2012 Cottbus Film Festival, Zebra Film Studio of Poland, was back at Cottbus in the winner’s pitch slot of Connecting Cottbus with the project Silence…
