FNE at Finale Plzen 2014: Fine, Thanks
BRATISLAVA: Slovak director Matyas Prikler's neo-realistic debut drama feature Fine, Thanks investigates the way the financial crisis affects the intimate lives of the people, revealing a severe picture of their…
FNE at Finale Plzen 2014: Love Me or Leave Me
PLZEN: Slovak director Mariana Cengel Solcanska joins the ranks of Slovakia’s rising young female helmers with her second feature Love Me or Leave Me (Miluj ma alebo odid) screening in…
PRODUCTION: Nicolae Mărgineanu in Postproduction with Poarta Alba
BUCHAREST: Nicolae Mărgineanu continues the investigation of the communist era with Poarta Albă, a feature about the concentration camp of Poarta Albă and the construction of the Danube-Black Sea channel.
UCIN Announces Nominations for Romanian Awards
BUCHAREST: A total of 73 films applied for the nominations of the Romanian Filmmakers Union 2013 annual awards with the ceremony taking place on 5 May 2014.
FNE IDF DocBloc: Crowdfunded Polish Doc Coming to Czech Republic
Joanna, the first crowdfunded Polish documentary, will receive a cinema screening in Prague in May.
FNE at Finale Plzen 2014: Czech Industry Gathers in Plzen
PLZEN: Czech and international industry representatives filled the annual presentation of upcoming Czech films organized for the 11th time at the Finale Plzen film festival, taking place through 3 May…
Latvia Launches Debut Film Funding
RIGA: The Latvian Film Centre has initiated a new tender to support young filmmakers' debut projects.
EFP Producers on the Move 2014: Matyas Prikler
BRATISLAVA: Slovakia will be represented by the very dry Mátyás Prikler as one of European Film Promotion’s Producers on the Move.
PRODUCTION: The Wellness Process in Development
BUCHAREST: Marius Iacob’s documentary The Wellness Process, recently awarded with Robert Bosch Stiftung Prize for International Cooperation between Germany and Eastern Europe at goEast Wiesbaden, is set to start shooting…
FESTIVALS: Transilvania IFF Announces Line-up
BUCHAREST: Twelve films will compete for the Transilvania Trophy at the Transilvania IFF between 30 May and 8 June 2014, among them features from Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland and Romania.
FESTIVALS Lech Walesa to Attend KVIFF
PRAGUE: The Karlovy Vary IFF announced its first major guest for the 49th edition of the festival, 4-12 July 2014: Nobel Prize winner and former Polish president Lech Walesa who…
EFP Producers on the Move 2014: Eszter Gyárfás
BUDAPEST: Hungarian producer Eszter Gyárfás will bring Kornel Mundruczó's next feature Make A Wish to European Film Promotion’s 2014 edition of Producers on the Move at Cannes
EFP Producers on the Move 2014: Tinatin Kajrishvili
TBILISI: Georgian New Wave producer Tinatin Kajrishvili comes to European Film Promotion’s Producers on the Move networking platform with ten film projects to her credit, including the upcoming One Way…
EFP Producers on the Move 2014: Vanja Jambrović
ZAGREB: Vanja Jambrović, European Film Promotion’s Croatian Producer on the Move, began working as an independent producer within the company Restart in 2008, while still a student.
FNE at Sun in the Net 2014: Prize Winners
BRATISLAVA: Mira Fornay’s My Dog Killer took home the top prize for Best Film as well as scooping Best Director and Best Screen Play at the Sun in the Net…
FNE at Canness IFF 2014: CEE Talent Heads for Cannes
CANNES: Talent from the central and eastern European region will be in the spotlight with the special project Les Ponts De Sarajevo an omnibus film featuring 13 European directors who…
PRODUCTION: Full Contact Starts Shooting in Croatia
ZAGREB: After spending four years in development, the Dutch/Croatian thriller from acclaimed Dutch director David Verbeek began filming in Croatia on 24 April 2014.
FNE at Finale Plzen: Miracle
PLZEN: Miracle / Zázrak, a Slovak/Czech coproduction by Slovak director and co-writer Juraj Lehotský competes at Finale Plzen after an illustrious film festival roll-out.
FNE at Finale Plzen: Like Never Before
PLZEN: Like Never Before by Zdeněk Tyc returns to Finale Plzen in the main competition, after having been given a pre-premiere screening there one year ago.
Ida Gets Cinema Release in US and Canada
WARSAW: Ida, the award winning drama from Paweł Pawlikowski, will receive theatrical distribution in the US and Canada in May.
