FESTIVALS: The House Awarded at Palm Springs
{mosimage}BRATISLAVA: Slovakia noted its first festival win of the year with Zuzana Liova's debut film The House (www.fogndesirefilms.com), which won the New Voices / New Visions Award at the Palm…
Hungarian Film Week Revived with 43rd Edition
{mosimage}BUDAPEST: The 43 Hungarian Film Week will take place from 2-5 February 2012 in Budapest under the leadership of BélaTarr who is reviving the tradition of a pre-Berlin slot for…
Digital Screens Top 50 Percent in Europe
More than 52% of screens in Europe have been digitalized as of the end of 2011 according to a new report by the European Audiovisual Observatory (www.obs.coe.int) and Media Salles.
Istanbul, My Dream to be Released in Hungary
{mosimage}BUDAPEST: Ferenc Török's third feature film Istanbul, My Dream will hit Hungarian cinemas on 16 February 2012. The story written by Török follows a woman who finds herself in Istanbul…
Croatian box office success to open in Bosnia and Lithuania
{mosimage}ZAGREB: Croatian director Daniel Kušan's hit film for children Koko and the Ghosts and is hitting the cinemas in Bosnia in 19 January and in Lithuania in 27 January 2012.
Hungarian 2012 Grants Announced
BUDAPEST: Károly Ujj Mészáros's first feature, Liza, the Fox Fairy, János Szász's The Notebook and Gyula Nemes's Zero received a total amount of 400 M HUF as production grants from…
Wide Release for Czech Animated Film
{mosimage}PRAGUE: The Czech animated film Fimfarum Third Time Lucky (www.maurfilm.com) is being released on 50 prints in France by distribution company Cinema Public Films. The film is the latest in…
Holland Plans Film on Czech Martyr
{mosimage}PRAGUE: Polish director Agnieszka Holland is preparing to direct a film on Jan Palach, who died of self-immolation during the Czechoslovak protests of 1969. The news was made public as…
Turkish Series Conquers Hungary
{mosimage}BUDAPEST: The Turkish crime show Ezel has been breaking TV viewer records in Hungary since its debut in April 2011. According to Today's Zaman, Turkish programmes have become the most…
FNE at Berlinnale 2012: Romanian and Polish actors in EFP Shooting Stars lineup
{mosimage}WARSAW: Polish actor Jakub Gierszal and Romanian actress Ana Ularu will join the European Promotion (EFP, www.efp-online.com) Shooting Stars 2012 lineup at the Berlinnale this year.
PRODUCTION: International doc coproduction Gangster of Love shooting in Croatia
ZAGREB: Croatian director Nebojsa Slijepcevic is in production with a Croatian-Romanian-German documentary Gangsters of Love that follows a matchmaker that is helping a single mother to find a husband while…
EKRAN Training Programme Deadline - 31 January 2012
WARSAW: The Wajda Studio (www.wajdastudio.pl) has announced a 31 January 2012 deadline for the 2012 EKRAN Training Program for Film Professionals. Nine participant teams of three persons each will be…
The Trip Anticipates Strong Premiere in Slovenia
{mosimage}LJUBLJANA: Already a film festival hit, The Trip (Izlet), the first feature from Slovenian director Nejc Gazvoda, is expected to find domestic box office success when it premieres on 19…
French Release Set for Romanian Documentary
{mosimage}The Romanian/Irish feature documentary Off the Beaten Path, directed by Dieter Auner and produced by Cristian Mungiu (www.mobrafilm.ro), will have its theatrical release in France on 25 January 2011. Worldwide…
Noura Promoted at Finnish Film Foundation
HELSINKI: Kati Noura has been promoted to International information officer at the Finnish Film Foundation (www.ses.fi).
New project from US blockbuster trio due to shoot in Romania in spring
{mosimage}BUCHAREST: MediaPro Studios is expecting another production from US blockbuster The Devil Inside trio Paulson, Brent, Peterman to shoot in Romania in spring.
MTG Acquires Latvia’s LNT
WARSAW: The Swedish-based broadcasting company Modern Times Group (MTG, www.mtg.se) signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Latvian commercial TV operator AS Latvijas Neatkarīgā Televīzija (LNT, www.lnt.lv) in Latvia for…
Record 34 Domestic Films Released in Finland
HELSINKI: A record 34 local films were released in Finland in 2011, taking 17% of the box office share, or 1.2 million admissions.
Polish title Sponsoring headed for Berlinale
{mosimage}WARSAW: Polish title Sponsoring (Elles) directed by Malgorzata Szumowska will be the opening film of the Panorama section of the Berlinale 2012.
FNE Exclusive: Q & A with Hrvoje Hribar
1. What was the most important development in the your country's film industry over the past year? Amendments to the 2007 Film Act, which provided legal and institutional framework for…
