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Ukrainian Producer Andrey Yermak Tells FNE Why Poland is One of the Most Important Strategic Film Partners for Ukraine

Anna Shevchenko Region 2018-04-26

FNE spoke with Andrey Yermak, producer and CEO of Garnet International Media Group, about his successful film production company, the current situation in the Ukrainian film industry and about the…

Hristina Popovic and Petar Strugar in The Samurai in Autumn by Danilo Bećković

USA and China Distribution for Serbian Box Office Hit The Samurai in Autumn

Zoran Janković Serbia 2018-04-26

BELGRADE: France-based world sales company Wide Management has announced that the Serbian film The Samurai in Autumn / Jesen samuraja will be distributed in China as well as in the…

Chinese Romantic Comedy to Film in Croatia

FNE Staff Croatia 2018-04-26

ZAGREB: Chinese director Jiang Zhongyuan is scheduled to direct a romantic comedy in Croatia in 2019, titled Summer in Croatia, for release in China in 2020.

FESTIVALS: Twelve Films Selected for Beldocs Main Competition

FNE Staff Serbia 2018-04-26

BELGRADE: The 11th Beldocs International Documentary Film Festival, which runs 7 – 14 May 2018, will screen 12 films in its international competition and another nine films in the Serbian…

Latvian Films Take Unprecedented Market Share

Zane Peneze Latvia 2018-04-25

RIGA: Three of the top five films at the Latvian box office are domestic releases, accounting for 28 percent of the market share. The boom is led by Aigars Grauba’s…

FNE at Finale Plzen 2018: The Line Wins Best Film in Plzen

Cathy Meils Czech Republic 2018-04-25

PLZEN: The big winner of the 31st Finale Plzen film festival (running through 24 April 2018) was Slovak actor-turned-director/writer/producer Peter Bebjak. His film The Line won the Golden Kingfisher Award…

FESTIVALS: November Wins goEast

FNE Staff Region 2018-04-25

WIESBADEN: The Estonian/Dutch/Polish film November directed by Rainer Sarnet won the Golden Lily for Best Film at the 18th edition of goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film,…

EFP Announces 2018 Producers on the Move

FNE Staff Region 2018-04-25

HAMBURG: CEE producers are strongly represented among the 20 participants selected for the 19th edition of Producers on the Move by European Film Promotion (EFP).

FNE at Finale Plzen 2018: Plzen Industry Days Examines the Maturing State of Czech-French Coproductions

Cathy Meils Czech Republic 2018-04-25

PLZEN: Czech-French coproductions appear to be entering a mature stage, judging by the comments of participants discussing collaborations between the two countries. And in many cases, Czech producers are taking…

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…