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Estonia to Increase Film Production Funding

Cathy Meils Estonia 2018-04-24

PLZEN: The Estonian government has decided to give more funds for filmmaking, following the success of it’s one-off “Estonia 100” project to celebrate the country’s centennial of independence in 2018.…

FESTIVALS: Faces, Places Wins MofA Film Festival's Top Award

Pavlina Jeleva Bulgaria 2018-04-24

SOFIA: Agnès Varda’s and JR’s Faces, Places, coproduced by France’s CineTamaris, JRSA and Rouge International, grabbed the Best Documentary Film Award of the Master of Art International Documentary Film Festival.…

Miloš Forman at the 44th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2009, Czech Republic

FESTIVALS: Karlovy Vary to Honour Milos Forman

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2018-04-24

PRAGUE: The 53rd Karlovy Vary IFF will honour the recently deceased Oscar-winning Czech director Milos Forman at its opening ceremony on 29 June 2018 with a screening of his 1966…

Croatian Cinema Wins ICTA Award

FNE Staff Croatia 2018-04-24

COLOGNE: The European branch of the International Cinema Technology Association (ICTA) will give its 2018 New Build Cinema of the Year award to the Cinestar 4DX, Mall of Split, Croatia.

FNE speaks to Jana Karaivanova the head of Bulgarian National Film Center

Anna Shevchenko Bulgaria 2018-04-23

Film Archives Congress Meets in Prague

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2018-04-23

PRAGUE: The 74th Congress of FIAF, the International Federation of Film Archives, is running from 22 to 27 April 2018 in Prague, hosted by the National Film Archives of the…

FESTIVALS: Janez Burger’s Ivan Wins LET’S CEE 2018

FNE Staff Region 2018-04-23

VIENNA: The Slovenian/Croatian film Ivan directed by Janez Burger won the Best Feature Film prize at the 6th LET’s CEE film festival, which closed on 22 April 2018.

Foreign Acquisitions Tighten at Slovenia’s Public Broadcaster

Cathy Meils Slovenia 2018-04-23

PLZEN: Shrinking budgets and time slots are reducing foreign programming and documentaries on Slovenia’s public broadcaster RTVS.

SOFA Hosts Second Georgian Workshop

FNE Staff Georgia 2018-04-23

TBILISI: SOFA – School of Film Agents is holding a workshop in Georgia for the second year.

Cannes Adds Three Films to Competition With Minority Coproducers from Poland, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

Anna Franklin Region 2018-04-20

WARSAW: The 71 Cannes Film Festival has just added three more films to its competition lineup, produced with minority coproduction partners from Poland, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

PRODUCTION: Romanian Minority Coproduction Donbass by Sergei Loznitsa in Postproduction

Iulia Blaga Romania 2018-04-20

BUCHAREST: The new feature film Donbass by Sergei Loznitsa, which will open Cannes’s Un Certain Regard on 9 May 2018, is currently in postproduction. The film is a German/ French/Ukrainian/Dutch/Romanian…

GRANTS: Czech Film Fund Supports 13 Czech Minority Coproductions

Denisa Strbova Czech Republic 2018-04-20

PRAGUE: The Czech Film Fund has announced grants for thirteen Czech minority coproduction projects of all genres in 2018, as a sign of the growing awareness by Czech filmmakers of…

Romanian Doc Opens in Fourth Spot

FNE Staff Romania 2018-04-20

BUCHAREST: A Romanian documentary, Untamed Romania / România Neîmblânzita, had a surprisingly strong opening in domestic release, debuting in the fourth place.

FESTIVALS: Abel Ferrara Masterclass at Cyprus Film Days

FNE Staff Cyprus 2018-04-20

NICOSIA: Abel Ferrara will hold a masterclass as part of the industry programme of the 16th Cyprus Film Days festival, which opens on 19 April 2018, running through 28 April.

Ex Oriente Deadline Next Week

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2018-04-20

PRAGUE: The Ex Oriente documentary development workshop is accepting applications for its 2018 programme through 24 April 2018.

The Ark of Lights and Shadows by Jan Svatoš

FNE IDF DocBloc: More Czech Docs Get Cinema Releases

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2018-04-20

A higher than normal number of Czech films have received cinema distribution recently.

GRANTS: Georgia Announces Feature Film Development Grants – April 2018

Alexander Gabelia Georgia 2018-04-19

TBILISI: The Georgian National Film Center has announced development grants for 12 feature film projects.

PRODUCTION: Krzysztof Zanussi in Postproduction with Ether

Katarzyna Grynienko Poland 2018-04-19

WARSAW: The acclaimed Polish film director Krzysztof Zanussi is finishing his new drama Ether, a coproduction between Poland, Ukraine, Hungary and Lithuania.

Dad’s Volha Hits 2 M USD Mark

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2018-04-19

PRAGUE: The Czech dramatic comedy/mother-and-daughter road movie Dad’s Volha / Tatova volha by Jiri Vejdelek has topped the 2 M USD mark after six weeks in distribution in the Czech…