FNE at Hungarian Film Week: The Days of Desire (A vágyakozás napjai)
The Days of Desire, a black and white film directed by József Pacskovszky, was originally intended as a television movie, before a decision was made to produce it as a feature film.
FNE at Hungarian Film Week: The Camera Murderer (Látogatók)
The Camera Murderer, a German language psycho-thriller from director Róbert Pejó (Dallas Pashamende) is a chamber film, taking place in a house over a lake.
FNE at Hungarian Film Week: The Bunkerman (A bunkerember)
The Bunkerman, The seventh feature of documentary filmmaker Dezső Zsigmod is based on a true story.
Fornay presents My Dog Killer at Berlin coproduction market
Slovak director Mira Fornay who premiere of her Irish-Slovak-Czech feature debut Foxes at Venice, will present her second film project Brat (My Dog Killer) at the Berlinale Co-production Market February 14-16.
FNE at Hungarian Film Week: Kolorádó Kid
The beginning of production on Kolorádó Kid the debut film of journalist András Vágvölgyi B. dates back to 2006.
FNE at Hungarian Film Week: Lull (Szélcsend)
Lull, the second feature in competition from director Tamás Sas, is a chamber drama, a triangle of three women on a boat.
PRODUCTION: Normalization goes into postproduction
After four year of gathering materials, Normalization, a full-length docu-tragedy by Slovak director Robert Kirchhoff, has gone into post-production.
PRODUCTION: The Ravishment plans Bulgarian release
Film director Plamen Masslarov (14 Kisses, 1997; Mayor, Mayor, 1990; The Judge, 1986) and head of the Bulgarian National Film Archive announced that his Bulgarian-Russian co-production The Ravishment will be released in cinemas on February 12.
FNE at Hungarian Film Week: Espresso 10 years (Presszó 10 év)
Director Tamás Sas revisits his 1998 film Espresso (Presszó) with his sequel Espresso 10 years ,
FNE at Hungarian Film Week: Chirribirri (Csiribiri)
Director JánosRózsa sculpts his film Chirribirri around what is a common experience for every Hungarian children: the songs of Judit Halász.
FNE at Hungarian Film Week: Out/In Tawaret (Ki/Be Tawaret)
Veteran director György Molnár collected the crazy adventures of contemporary extravagant female poet Orsolya Karafiáth to create the film Out/in Tawaret.
FNE at Hungarian Film Week: Deathwaltz (Halálkeringő)
The Deathwaltz from director Krisztián Károly Köves is billed as the first modern Hungarian thriller.
Streičs directs another hit film for Latvia
Latvian director Janis Streičs has revived interest in domestic film production with his latest feature Rudolf's Legacy (Rudolfa mantojums).
Production: The Mission of the Human Resource Manager moves into postproduction
Israeli filmmaker Eran Riklis (Lemon Tree, The Syrian Bride) completed a 20 days shoot of his new feature in Romania in late December, after shooting in Israel for 3 weeks during last November, and is now in postproduction.
Production: Tuesday after Christmas wraps postproduction
Radu Muntean's fourth feature after Rage, The Paper Will Be Blue and Boogie will complete postproduction by the end of January 2010.
FNE at Hungarian Film Week: The Gravedigger (A sírásó)
The Gravedigger is best characterized as an experimental film, as director-photographer Sándor Kardos creates a film interpretation of Rainer Maria Rilke's poem "The funeral of John Mortonson."