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…
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Papusza
GDYNIA: Krzysztof Krauze and Joanna-Kos Krauze explore the fascinating story of a Roma poetess in their lush, fact-based monochrome award winner, shot over a year, screening at the 38th Gdynia…
Bulgaria Delays Analogue TV Switch-off
SOFIA: The final analogue signal switch-off originally planned for 1 September will go off 1 November because of delays in getting out vouchers for free TV converters to low-income households.
FNE at Portoroz: Chefurs Explores Migrant Tensions
PORTOROZ: With a title using the pejorative term for inhabitants of Slovenia who are of Serbian, Bosnian or Croatian descent, Chefurs raus, screening at the Portoroz fest, was also a…
FNE at Portoroz: Class Enemy Builds Suspense
PORTOROZ: A debut feature by director Rok Biček, Class Enemy, screening at the Portoroz fest, is a youth drama revolving around the suicide of a young girl. Her classmates are…
FNE focus on European Sales: Wide Management and Eye on Films
VENICE: FNE spoke to Loic Magneron president of international film sales company Wide Management and founder of the unique project Eye on Films about his strategy to bring more films…
FNE at Venice IFF 2013: Philomena UK
VENICE: Few directors can match Stephen Frears when it comes to getting just the right mixture of laughter and tears from audience and still end up with a thought provoking…
FNE at Venice IFF 2013 : Night Moves (Competition) USA
VENICE: Director Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves is rather hard to swallow as the premise for the film rests on the idea of radical environments blowing up a hydroelectric dam –…
FNE at SOFA: First look at Creative Europe
WROCLAW: First details of how the new EU programme will work were outlined to a panel of European film professionals by Susanne Ding, a European Commission offical for Creative Europe.
FNE at Avvantura Festival Film-Forum 2013: Focus on European coproductions
ZADAR: Avvantura Film-Forum in the beautiful Croatian city of Zadar is one of Europe’s newest film festivals but it is rapidly becoming one of the most important for the regional…
Main features of cinema-going in Poland presented during invitational training
WARSAW: The "DigiTraining Plus: New Technologies for the European Cinemas of theFuture" took place in Warsaw and Cracow 28 August - 1 September 2013.
FNE at Venice IFF 2013: Joe (Competition) USA
VENICE: Sometime Hollywood action hero Nicholas Cage reminds us that he started out as a very fine actor in this outing directed by David Gordon Green.
FNE Europa Cinemas: Cinema of the Month - Arthouse Cinema Niagara, Tampere
TAMPERE: This month we speak with Juha Elomäki, theatre manager of Arthouse Cinema Niagara, Tampere. The theatre opened in 1985, but it is has been operating under its current name…
PRODUCTION: Anna Wieczur-Bluszcz Developing Drama
WARSAW: The director of comedy Being Like Deyna is prepping her first feature drama, All the Animals with You, based on a book of the same title by a Serbian…
Czech Parliament Puts Delayed Incentives Back on Track
The Czech government has ended months of delay in implementing this year's round of cash back film production incentives, a systemic snag caused by the collapse of the administration of…
