Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: Drowsiness

With her second feature, Drowsiness, Magdalena Piekorz once again explores the emotional dysfunction of the film's three leading characters.
15-09-2008

Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: Before Twilight

Another entry built on the theme of theatre productions, Before Twilight tells a story of elderly actors who stage Goethe's Faustus at a nursing home.
15-09-2008

Gdynia Polish Film Festival Cmpetition Spotlight: 0_1_0

0_1_0 competes in Gdynia after its dramatic premiere at the Era New Horizons Film Festival in Wroclaw, just one month after the sudden death of director Piotr Lazarkiewicz in June.
15-09-2008

No tax breaks for cinema tickets

The Estonian government last week dashed hopes of reducing the 18% VAT tax on cinema tickets to 5% in its efforts to put together a balanced state budget for the…
15-09-2008

Fluke in postproduction

Tamas Kemenyffy's directorial feature debut Fluke (http://mazli.film.hu/) is in postproduction, following a month-long shoot, and will be released in Hungary October 23, the director told FNE.
14-09-2008

Arsenals' other competition

The Arsenals film festival opened with a screening of the restored Norwegian silent film, The Bridal Party in Hardanger, along with the winner of a decidedly non-film competition, A newly-created…
14-09-2008

Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: A Warm Heart

A Warm Heart from Krzysztof Zanussi takes a dark comedy approach to the subject of heart transplants.
14-09-2008

Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: The Offsiders

Kasia Adamik, daughter of Agnieszka Holland, makes her debut with The Offsiders, a story about a football team composed entirely of homeless people.
14-09-2008

SPI picks up The Wrestler

Independent distributor SPI International Central Europa has will distribute Venice film festival Golden Lion winner The Wrestler.
14-09-2008

Salome opens Arsenals

Riga's Arsenals film festival earns its reputation for unconventionality from betinning to end, opening this year on September 12 with the 1923 film based on the Oscar Wilde/Aubrey Beardsley sensation…
11-09-2008

Experimental Antigone in the works

Gabor Dettre, whose latest movie Tableau screened in the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, has completed principal photography with the cast on his experimental film based on Sophocles' Antigone.
11-09-2008

Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: 33 Scenes from Life

Malgorzata Szumowska's 33 Scenes from Life, winner of the Locarno Special Jury Award, depicts a 33-year-old artist who has come to a crossroads in her life.
11-09-2008

Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: Howling Wolf Ranch

A feature version of a Polish hit comedy series, Howling Wolf Ranch from director Wojciech Adamczyk brings local colour to the competition in Gdynia.
11-09-2008

Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: Splinters

Foundation for Promotion of Polish Film, the distributor of Splinters call the film a comedy-drama of three young people living in the region of Silesia and "the need for love…
11-09-2008

Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: Four Nights with Anna

The first film by Jerzy Skolimowski since the 30 Door Key made 17 years ago, Four Nights with Anna interweaves a story of fanatic love with the story of a…
10-09-2008

Gdynia Polish Film Festival Spotlight: The Brothers Karamazov

Czech Velvet Wave director Petr Zelenka's Polish-Czech co-production The Brothers Karamazov is a film adaptation of his stage success based on a rehearsal of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel staged in a…
10-09-2008

Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: Mr. Kuka's Advice

Dariusz Gajewski's Polish-Austrian co-production Mr. Kuka's Advice screens in the Gdynia main competition following a successful premier in Austria.
10-09-2008

Debra Winger plans project with Hungarian director Janos Szasz

Debra Winger confirmed that she has been in talks with Hungarian director, Janos Szasz to act in his upcoming film.
10-09-2008

Budapest preps for Hungarian Film Week

Walter Carvalho has finished the rough cut on Budapest, co-producer Peter Miskolczi told FNE.
10-09-2008

Hungarian crime comedy sets October release

Hungarian thriller comedy Para (www.szupermodern.hu/paraafilm) is in post production and will be released October 16, director Peter Fazakas told FNE.
09-09-2008