Lithuania to Open Vilnius Film Office

The mayor of Vilnius, Artūras Zuokas, met with the head of the Independent Producers Association (NPA) Rasa Miškinytė, the NPA and the representatives of the Lithuanian film industry to discus…
05-06-2011

FNE at TIFF Romanian Film Days: Outbound

Bogdan George Apetri's first feature Outbound, written by Tudor Voican and Bogdan George Apetri, is based on a story by Cristian Mungiu and Ioana Uricaru.
04-06-2011

FNE at TIFF Romanian Film Days: The Bear

The Bear, the second film from Dan Chişu (Websitestory, www.websitestory.ro), is a bittersweet comedy involving a bear from the Bucharest State Circus, his human colleagues and a German hunter against…
04-06-2011

FNE at TIFF Romanian Film Days: Morgen

Short film Palme d'Or winner Marian Crişan (Megatron, 2008) screens at the Transilvania IFF's Romanian Days with his feature debut, Morgen, the story of a Romanian whose passion for fishing…
03-06-2011

FNE at TIFF Romanian Film Days: Metrobranding

Ana Vlad and Adrian Voicu will screen their first long film, Metrobranding - A Love Story Between People and Objects/Metrobranding - O poveste de dragoste intre oameni si obiecte, a…
03-06-2011

FNE at TIFF Romanian Film Days: The Phantom Father

Lucian Georgescu comes to TIFF's Romanian Film Days with his feature film debut The Phantom Father.
03-06-2011

Hungarian Banks Threaten to Close Film Producers Accounts

BUDAPEST: The bank accounts of 19 production companies faced closure as of 1 June 2011, as loan agreements expired on 31 May. Andrew Vajna, Hungary's newly appointed film commissioner, is…
03-06-2011

FNE at DISCOP Budapest 2011: Hungary

BUDAPEST: When it comes to TV, Hungary prefers to go it alone. Without any natural linguistic partners and lacking the strong regional ties shared by Czechs and Slovaks, the Balkans,…
03-06-2011

FNE at Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition: Fear Of Falling

In Fear of Falling, his feature film directing debut. Bartosz Konopka creates an emotional drama about crossing the line between madness and sanity.
02-06-2011

FNE at TIFF Romanian Days: Loverboy

Loverboy, the second feature from Romanian director Cătălin Mitulescu tells the story of Luca, a 20 year old boy from a Romanian village who makes girls fall in love with…
02-06-2011

FNE at TIFF Romanian Days: Close to the Heavens

Close to the Heavens, a full-length documentary debut from Titus Faschina, explores Romania's traditional past by focusing on a family of herders whose old habits are challenged by EU regulations.
02-06-2011

FNE at TIFF Main Competition: Principles of Life

Constantin Popescu (Tales from the Golden Age) directed the Transilvania International Film Festival's Romanian competition entry, Principles of Life, with Vlad Ivanov (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) appearing…
02-06-2011

FNE at TIFF Romanian Days: Aldabert's Dream

BUCHAREST: Gabriel Achim's first feature, Adalbert's Dream, is a black comedy set on 8 May 1986, when Romania was having its annual celebration of the anniversary of the Communist Party,…
02-06-2011

FNE at TIFF Romanian Days: Bucharestless

Romanian director George Dorobanţu (Elevator) gets a spot in TIFF's Romanian Days with his second film, Bucharestless, a city-vérité conceptual movie shot in Bucharest.
02-06-2011

FNE-IDF DocBlock: Prix Europe 2011 Nominations

The European broadcasting festival Prix Europa 2011 announces this year’s nominees. The category of feature-length television documentary presents also two successful Czech documentaries Katka, made by Helena Třeštíková, and Coal…
02-06-2011

FNE at DISCOP Budapest 2011: Lithuania

VILNIUS: Lithuanian television survived the onslaught of foreign programming beginning in the 1990‘s and is pulling out of the financial crisis of 2009. The result is a return to domestic…
02-06-2011

Management Changes at HBO Central Europe

BUDAPEST: HBO announced the promotion of Ondrej Zach to Senior Vice President, Programming and Acquisitions, for HBO Central Europe. In addition, HBO has appointed Ivan Sevcik as HBO Czech Republic…
01-06-2011

Hungarian Film Funding Approved

BUDAPEST: The Hungarian government has approved a proposal to renew film funding. According to local news reports, the cabinet met on 31 May 2011 and approved the plan proposed by…
01-06-2011

FESTIVALS: Romanian TIFF Opens Friday

The 10th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (www.tiff.ro ) will open on Friday, 3 June 2011, in Cluj, with 12 films screening in the main competition. The festival…
01-06-2011

HBO GO Launches in Romania

BUCHAREST: HBO Central Europe launced the internet streaming service HBO GO in Romania on 1 June 2011.
01-06-2011