PRODUCTION: On the Sea with Badjao Unites Poles, Germans and Brits

WARSAW: Polish, German and English crews are in production On the Sea with Badjao, a documentary that shows an ironic clash of cultures that knows no winner.
29-11-2012

FNE at Baltic Event: Eastern Business in Development

BUCHAREST: Moldavian writer/director Igor Cobileanski is developing a road movie comedy involving two friends from the republic of Moldavia who get into laughable situations as they try to get money…
29-11-2012

FNE at Black Nights FF 2012: Awards announced in Tallinn

TALLINN: The grand prix of the 16th Black Nights Film Festival (www.poff.ee) was awarded to the Ukrainian film House with a Turret, the Tridens Herring competition prize was awarded to…
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PRODUCTION: Cieslar in Postproduction with English Lingo Colette

BRATISLAVA: Czech director Milan Cieslar is postproduction with the last work by Czech author Arnost Lustig, the screen adaptation of Lustig’s 1992 novel Colette. The film will be Cieslar’s first…
28-11-2012

Polish box office hit You Are God Dominates at Golden Duck Awards

WARSAW: Leszek Dawid's drama You Are A God won three Golden Duck awards, the oldest Polish cinema prize assigned by monthly magazine Film at a gala in Warsaw on 26…
28-11-2012

Discovery Channel Removal Prompts Change in Audiovisual Law

BUCHAREST: The move by TV and internet market leader RCS & RDS (www.rcs-rds.ro) to remove the Discovery Channel (www.dsc.discovery.com) from its offerings on 23 November 2012, without informing its audience,…
28-11-2012

Romania Announces Grants Contest

BUCHAREST: The Romanian National Center for Cinema (www.cncinema.abt.ro) will give 2,206,000 EUR (10m RON) in production and development grants in 2012. The deadline for applications is 31 January 2013.
27-11-2012

Banderas Shooting Automata in Bulgaria

SOFIA: Antonio Banderas has confirmed he will shoot the sci-fi film Automata in Bulgaria. The film is currently in pre-production.
27-11-2012

PRODUCTION: Rebellion in Postproduction in Poland

WARSAW: Director Małgorzata Kozera is in postproduction with the documentary Rebellion (Bunt) focused on the biggest anti-government riots in Eastern Europe in 1989, the year of the collapse of communism.…
27-11-2012

FNE EXCLUSIVE: Riina Sildos, Managing Director, Baltic Event

FNE asks Estonian producer and Baltic Event helmer, Riina Sildos about this year’s 11th edition of the event and about the reorganisation of the structures that underpin the Estonian film…
26-11-2012

Parliamentary Grant for Patriotic Film Stirs Controversy in Latvia

RIGA: Latvia’s National Film Center (www.nfc.lv) has expressed its concern over a special grant from the Latvian Parliament for a historical film, made by bypassing the project competition established in…
26-11-2012

Georgians in Bratislava

BRATISLAVA: Georgian cinema continues to reach beyond its borders with the first ever Days of Georgian Cinema, wrapping today in Bratislava after four days of screening seven Georgian films in…
26-11-2012

Stefan Kitanov receives Europa Cinemas Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 Award

PARIS: Sofia Film Festival helmer and Bulgarian producer, distributor and exhibitor Stefan Kitanov has been awarded this year’s Europa Cinemas Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Kitanov runs the Dom na…
26-11-2012

FNE at Europa Cinemas: Cinema of the Month print version

FNE at Europa Cinemas: FNE offers you its Cinema of the Month print version, published in honour of the Europa Cinemas conference which kicks of in Paris today, 23 November…
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Anna Karenina shooting in Lithuania

VILNIUS: Canadian director Christian Duguay is shooting the TV film Anna Karenina in Vilnius and surrounding locations. Principal photography started 25 October 2012 and will finish on 15 December.
23-11-2012

PRODUCTION: Hirte in Postproduction with In the Name of the Mayor

BUCHAREST: Romanian born Paris-based director Anca Hirte is in postproduction with a bittersweet observational documentary In the Name of the Mayor.
23-11-2012

FNE at Connecting Cottbus: Lenin?!

COTTBUS: A Russian outpost in northern Kyrgyzstan is the setting for a U.K. produced black comedy about three punks who, unwittingly steal a statue of a Russian icon, Lenin?!
23-11-2012

FNE at Connecting Cottbus: Motherland

COTTBUS: Turkish writer/director Senem Tüzen will make her feature film debut with Motherland, a struggle between a traditionalist mother and daughter, who moves to the city.
23-11-2012

FNE at Connecting Cottbus: A Good Wife

COTTBUS: Serbian star Mirjana Karanovic (When Father Was Away on Business, Grbavica) will make her writing and directing debut with a post-Yugoslav war film A Good Wife.
23-11-2012

FNE - IDF DocBloc: Docs Awarded as Sarajevo Fest

Films from Southeastern Europe were on view at the Human Rights film festival in Sarajevo.
23-11-2012