WARSAW: New Europe Film Sales is joining Walk This Way in 2016 and will launch two films through the scheme. European distribution schemes Walk This Way and the TIDE Experiment received 1.15 m EUR funding boost from the EU in 2016.
Zaza Urushadze’s film "Tangerines" has been nominated for Gaudí Awards. "Tangerines” will compete with other best European films. Alongside with "Tangerines" three other European films have been nominated for the award.
BUDAPEST: Son of Saul, the debut feature of the Hungarian László Nemes, won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association on 11 January 2016.
WARSAW: Netflix announced its launch in more than 130 new countries including Central and Eastern Europe at the beginning of 2016 making the internet TV provider now available in more than 190 countries globally.
WARSAW: Oscar-winning writer/director Paweł Pawlikowski confirmed that he is currently developing a love story with the working title Cold War.
BUDAPEST: Hungarian-born cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond passed away at 85 on 1 January 2016.
PRAGUE: The Czech Republic takes over from Montenegro the Presidency of the Strasbourg-based European Audiovisual Observatory in 2016.
PRAGUE: Home Care, Lost in Munich and The Snake Brothers are the main candidates at the sixth edition of Czech Film Critics´ Awards. The ceremony will take place on 23 January 2016.
TALLINN: The Fencer, a Finnish/Estonia coproduction directed by Klaus Härö, has been short-listed for the upcoming Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
LUXEMBOURG: The EAVE Producers Workshop 2016 has selected 52 upcoming producers representing 36 countries, out of 143 applications from 44 countries.
