Blancanieves wins at B-EST IFF

BUCHAREST: Blancanieves by Pablo Berger received the trophy of the 9th edition of Bucharest International Film Festival on April 21. Amir Manor (Epilogue) was awarded Best director, while Sightseers by…
22-04-2013

PRODUCTION: Cannes Winner Developing About Oneself and the Others

BUCHAREST: Cannes prize-winning Romanian director Ionuţ Piţurescu is developing a character driven creative documentary exploring the culture and identity of the Aromanians, a Balkan-based Latin minority people also known as…
22-04-2013

PRODUCTION: Croatian Ministry of Love in Development

ZAGREB: Croatian director Pavo Marinković is writing and developing The Ministry of Love, a comedy with "modern absurd and classic Gogolian motifs" inspired by Croatian Family Law.
22-04-2013

FNE at Cannes FF 2013: Official Selection Announced

WARSAW: The Cannes Film Festival announced its official selection in Paris yesterday with films from Central and Eastern Europe scoring slots only in the Short Film and Cinefondation sections after…
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FNE IDF Doc Bloc: Jihlava Emerging Producers Applications Opens

The Jihlava IDFF is accepting applications for the second annual Emerging Producers workshop. Click HERE to ready full story.
19-04-2013

FESTIVALS: Author Rights Take Center Stage at Plus Camerimage

WARSAW: The Plus Camerimage Festival and BVK (German Society of Cinematographers) will hold a panel discussion about authors’ rights during the festival, which runs 16 – 23 November 2013 in…
19-04-2013

Traffic Police Tops One Million Mark in Poland

WARSAW: Wojciech Smarzowski’s drama Traffic Police is the first domestic film of 2013 to reach one million admissions in Poland.
18-04-2013

First Polish Film Competes for Short Film Palme d'Or

WARSAWA: Olena, a short feature directed by Elżbieta Benkowska, will compete in the main short film competition at the 2013 Cannes film festival.
18-04-2013

Romanian TV Debt to Film Fund Rises

BUCHAREST: Romanian public TV, SRTV increased its debt to the Romanian Film Fund to a historic high of 6,528,930 EUR/28,617,584 RON, as announced in its annual report for 2012.
18-04-2013

Closed Circuit Dominates Polish Box Office

WARSAW: The Polish drama The Closed Circuit has passed the 250,000 admissions mark since its 5 April 2013 opening, outperforming its Hollywood competition.
17-04-2013

FESTIVALS: Georgian Bloom Wins Record Setting goEast

WISEBADEN: In Bloom, a Georgian/German/French coproduction directed by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross, won the 10,000 EUR Best Film prize at 13th edition of goEast (10-16 April 2013), which attracted…
17-04-2013

Vanishing Waves Leads Lithuanian Silver Crane Nominations

VILNIUS: Aurora / Wanishing Waves directed by Kristina Buožytė and produced by Ieva Norvilienė for Tremora production company received nine nominations for Lithuania’s national Silver Crane awards, including Best Film.
16-04-2013

New Europe Film Sales Picks up Latvian Mother I Love You

WARSAW: Warsaw-based sales agent New Europe Film Sales has acquired worldwide rights to the Latvian coming-of-age drama Mother, I Love You (Mammu, es Tevi mīlu) by Jānis Nords.
16-04-2013

FNE at Istanbul FF 2013: Prize winners and Emek protests

ISTANBUL: The 32nd Istanbul Film Festival held from 30 March to 14 April 2013 finished last night after a tumultuous two weeks that saw protests over the closure of the…
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PRODUCTION: Fixeur in Development

BUCHAREST: Adrian Sitaru (Angling, Best Intentions, Domestic) is developing a feature inspired by true events involving the idea of personal ascent versus loss of innocence.
15-04-2013

PRODUCTION: Zanussi Begins Shooting The Foreign Body

WARSAW: Krzysztof Zanussi (Persona Non Grata, 2005) has started a 30 day filming schedule on The Foreign Body (Obce ciało), also known as Inner Voice (Głos wewnętrzny).
12-04-2013

PRODUCTION: Photoshop in Production

ZAGREB: Silvana Menđušić is shooting her first documentary, 65 min story about the death of a newspaper and the moral decay preceding cataclysm.
12-04-2013

m-appeal Buys Romanian Dog

The Berlin-based world sales company has picked up Japanese Dog, a Romanian debut film directed by Tudor Cristian Jurgiu and produced by Tudor Giurgiu’s Libra Film Productions.
12-04-2013

FNE - IDF DocBloc: goEast Gears Up for Lucky 13

The 13th edition of goEast brings Central and East European filmmakers together in Wiesbaden. Read the full story on Dokweb.
12-04-2013

PRODUCTION: Non Present Time in Postproduction

VILNIUS: The Lithuanian feature film Non Present Time (Nesamasis laikas) directed by Mykolas Vildžiūnas is now in postproduction.
11-04-2013