FESTIVALS: Animateka 2021 Opens in Ljubljana
LJUBLJANA: The 18th edition of Slovenia’s festival of animated films, Animateka opened on 29 November 2021 and continues through 5 December. The festival will present 344 short films and seven…
Soul Food Acquires Serbian/Croatian Being Human Isn’t So Bad
BELGRADE: Belgrade-based Soul Food has acquired world sales rights for Dušan Kovačević’s latest feature Being Human Isn’t So Bad / Nije loše biti čovek ahead of its domestic premiere, scheduled…
FNE at Tallinn 2021: Dear Thomas Takes Grand Prix at Tallinn Black Nights
TALLINN: The German film Dear Thomas directed by Andreas Kleinert won the Grand Prix at the 25th anniversary edition of the Tallinn Black Nights FF, which concluded on 26 November…
FNE at Tallinn 2021: Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event Award Winners
TALLINN: Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event announced the prizes at awards ceremony held at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds on 26 November. The presenter of the awards was Marge Liiske head…
FNE Photo Gallery: Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event Awards Ceremony 2021
FNE was a sponsor of the Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event 2021 awards ceremony held at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds in Tallinn on 25 November.
Chris Hemsworth Films Extraction 2 in Prague
PRAGUE: Chris Hemsworth is currently in the Czech capital shooting the sequel to the Netflix hit Extraction. The shooting will last four months, from 29 November to 19 March 2022.
Nataša Bučar Re-Appointed Director of Slovenian Film Centre
LJUBLJANA: The Government of the Republic of Slovenia re-appointed Nataša Bučar for another five-year term in the position of the director of the Slovenian Film Centre (SFC) at its 104th…
FNE Interview with Christina Tynkevych, Director of How is Katia?
FNE spoke with Ukrainian director Christina Tynkevych, who makes her feature film debut with How is Katia?
Czech Private Television Institute to Open in Brno
PRAGUE: The first Czech private university focused solely on TV, The Television Institute, will open in Brno, the second-largest city in the Czech Republic. The goal of the Institute is…
FESTIVALS: Tbilisi Film Festival 2021 Announces Lineup
TBILISI: Nine titles have been selected for the Georgian Full-length Fictions Competition of the 22nd edition of the Tbilisi International Film Festival, which will take place in person 5 –…
PRODUCTION: Croatian Screenwriter and Director Arsen Oremović Films The Head of a Big Fish
ZAGREB: The shooting of the debut feature film The Head of a Big Fish by screenwriter and director Arsen Oremović, produced by Maja Vukić and her company Izazov 365, started…
FESTIVALS: Auteur Film Festival 2021 Opens in Belgrade
BELGRADE: The 27th edition of the Auteur Film Festival – Festival autorskog filma in Belgrade kicks off on 26 November and runs through 3 December 2021. This year, it will…
Lucian Romașcanu Re-Appointed as Minister of Culture in Romania
BUCHAREST: Lucian Romașcanu has been re-appointed as Minister of Culture by the new Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă, who is heading a coalition cabinet of the Social-Democratic Party (PSD) and…
Cinemas in Slovakia Close Due to Covid Curfew
BRATISLAVA: The Slovak government declared a state of emergency and a curfew on 24 November 2021 with effect from 25 November 2021, due to the rapidly deteriorating pandemic situation in…
FNE Podcast: Visegrad YR2021: Tamas Liszka: Budapest Cinemas Group
FNE’s Georgian correspondent Alexander Gabelia spoke to Hungarian Tamas Liszka who is head of the Budapest Cinemas Group, about the challenges he has faced as a cinema operator during the…
Tallifornia Launches First Private Film Fund in Estonia
TALLINN: The Estonia-based film development and production company Tallifornia has launched Tallifornia Film Fund, the first private film investment fund in Estonia, with an initial budget of 500,000 EUR in…
VOD Platform Gley.mk Launched in North Macedonia
SKOPJE: Macedonian company SVOD Master D.O.O has launched a new national VOD platform Gley.mk in North Macedonia. The platform offers a wide range of local, regional and international films, and…
PRODUCTION: Mariana Čengel Solčanská in Postproduction with Slovak/Czech The Chambermaid
BRATISLAVA: Slovak director Mariana Čengel Solčanská is moving into postproduction on the Slovak/Czech historical drama The Chambermaid / Slúžka. The film is based on Hana Lasicová’s bestseller published in 2013…
Two New VOD Platforms Launched in Croatia
ZAGREB: Croatia has seen the launch of two VOD platforms, one from Croatia and one from Russia. Croatian distribution company Discovery film has launched its new VOD platform MovieMix, offering…
FNE Visegrad YR2021: Q&A with Producer and PISF Expert Kamil Przełęcki
WARSAW: Polish film and television producer, and PISF expert Kamil Przełęcki, talks to FNE about the realities of the Polish film production market recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.
