Obituary: Sergiu Nicolaescu

BUCHAREST: Romania’s most popular director Sergiu Nicolaescu died on 3 January 2013 at age 82.
09-01-2013

IFF Cyprus Announces Deadline

The 11th IFF Cyprus Film Days is accepting submissions for the international competition Glocal Images through 8 February 2013.
09-01-2013

Croatia Sets New Record Opening

ZAGREB: Vinko Bresan's comedy The Priest's Children set a domestic film record opening in Croatia since the country became independent. The film opened on 3 January 2013.
08-01-2013

Seven CEE Films Receive Eurimages Support

STRASBOURG: Coproductions from Croatia, Hungary, Latvia, Romania and Poland are among 17 films selected for Eurimages funding during the December 2012 meeting.
08-01-2013

In the Shadow, Four Suns Lead Czech Critics Nominations

PRAGUE: David Ondříček’s 1950’s drama Ve Stinu (In the Shadow) and Bohdan Sláma’s contemporary dark comedy Čtyři slunce (Four Suns) dominated the nominations for the Czech Film Critics Awards, which…
08-01-2013

New Chief for Bulgaria’s National Film Center

SOFIA: Documentary film director and academic Marin Martschewski has been selected as the new director of the Bulgarian National Film Center (www.nfc.bg). He was officially nominated to the post by…
08-01-2013

PRODUCTION: Radu Jude Developing Aferim

BUCHAREST: Director/screenwriter Radu Jude (The Happiest Girl in the World, Everybody in Our Family) is planning a spring 2014 shoot of his third film Aferim!, a Romanian-French-Italian coproduction set in…
08-01-2013

Georgia’s Fold in My Blanket Heads to Berlin

A Fold in My Blanket, the feature film debut of Georgian film director Zaza Rusadze, will have its world premiere at the 63rd Berlinale (7-17 February 2013) where it will…
07-01-2013

Lithuania Digitalises Cinemas

VILNIUS: Lithuania is expecting to see a burst of activity in the process of cinema digitalisation. “The comming year, 2013, probably will be a match point in digitalisation of cinemas,”…
07-01-2013

Bohrer Continues as EUFCN President

Arie Bohrer, Film Commissioner of Location Austria (www.locationaustria.at), has been re-elected President of the European Film Commissions Network (www.eufcn.org), a position he has held since the organization’s first general assembly…
07-01-2013

FNE wishes you a Happy and Successful New Year! See you again on 7 January 2013.

Film New Europe would like to thank all its sponsors, supporters and readers and to wish them a happy and prosperous New Year. Keep on Filming in 2013 !
14-12-2012 m

Czech Parliament Overrides Klaus Veto to Approve New Film Law

PRAGUE: The Czech film industry is celebrating as the long awaited new film law was passed this week by the Czech parliament.
14-12-2012

Croatian hit Sonja and the Bull best opening in 10 years

ZAGREB: Vlatka Vorkapic's debut feature Sonja and the Bull scored the best opening by box office for a Croatian film in 10 years.
14-12-2012

Controversial Slovak docmaker Zuzana Piussi hits back with new online doc release

BRATISLAVA: Controversial Slovak film director Zuzana Piussi has launched her new From Fico to Fico (Od Fica do Fica) online after Slovak mulplexes refused to screen the controversial doc which…
14-12-2012

Malta Film Commission in the spotlight

MALTA: The recent European Film Academy Awards have shown a spotlight on the Malta Film Commission (www.mfc.com.mt) and new developments in the film industry in Malta.
14-12-2012 m

Film Corporation bringing new productions to Malta

MALTA: Film Corporation (www.filmok.org) has become one of the leaders in European production services during its five short years of operation in Malta with over a dozen international productions serviced…
14-12-2012 m

Five Finnish Films in box office top 20

HELSINKI: Finnish films have scored an impressive five out of the Top 20 at the box office with the domestic thriller Nightmare/Painajainen merellä topping the fox office this week.
14-12-2012

Finnish Film Foundation announces production grants

HELSINKI: Three features are receiving 1,072,000 EUR from the Finnish Film Foundation (www.ses.fi) in December 2012 with Kaisu Isto as film commissioner.
14-12-2012

PRODUCTION: New Pasikowski project based on controversial Cold War spy Ryszard Kuklinski

WARSAW: Władysław Pasikowski is following his controversial Aftermath with a new drama Jack Strong, based on the life of colonel Ryszard Kukliński.
14-12-2012

FNE IDF Doc Bloc: Wajda School’s Ekran 2013 Training Call Open

The application deadline for Ekran, a training programme organized by Wajda Studio and Wajda School, is 21 January 2013. Participation is free.
14-12-2012