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FESTIVALS: Ji Yong Kim Wins 26th Camerimage with The Fortress

FNE Staff Poland 2018-11-19

BYDGOSZCZ: Ji Yong Kim won the Golden Frog, the top prize of the 26th edition of the festival honouring cinematographers EnergaCAMERIMAGE, for the South Korean film The Fortress directed by…

Slovenia Calls for More Financial Support for Film

Damijan Vinter Slovenia 2018-11-16

LJUBLJANA: The Slovenian parliamentary Culture Committee has voted unanimously to call on the Culture Ministry to gradually increase the annual budget for film production from 4.5 m to 11 m…

Czech Bionaut Partners with Poland and Slovakia

Cathy Meils Czech Republic 2018-11-16

PRAGUE: The Czech production company Bionaut is collaborating with partners to set up companies in Poland and Slovakia to work on coproductions.

Polish 303 Squadron Opens in UK and Ireland

Katarzyna Grynienko Poland 2018-11-16

WARSAW: The Polish/British WWII drama about Polish fighter pilots, 303 Squadron directed by Denis Delić, opened in 16th place, and was the second strongest foreign film in the UK and…

Lithuanian Moonmakers with Two Films in Post-production

Cathy Meils Lithuania 2018-11-16

VILNIUM: Moonmakers producer/director Giedre Zickyte, who participated in Emerging Producers at the recent Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, is completing her film The Jump, a Lithuanian/Latvian/French/US coproduction, at the end…

FNE IDF DocBloc: IDF Films Head to IDFA

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2018-11-16

Docs from IDF's programmes are part of the line-up at IDFA in Amsterdam.

Mimi & Lisa: Christmas Lights Mystery by Ivana Šebestová

Slovak Mimi & Lisa: Christmas Lights Mystery to Premiere in France

FNE Staff Slovakia 2018-11-15

BRATISLAVA: The Slovak/Czech animated short film Mimi & Lisa: Christmas Lights Mystery will premiere on 21 November in France, a day later in Slovak cinemas, on 6 December in the…

CineStar Opens Miniplex in Pula

FNE Staff Croatia 2018-11-15

ZAGREB: The Croatian multiplex chain Blitz CineStar opened a three-screen miniplex in Pula, the first one in the city, on 7 November 2018.

FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2018: Barriers to Promoting CEE Films Disappear

Cathy Meils Region 2018-11-15

COTTBUS: The differences in marketing films from CEE territories versus Western Europe have largely disappeared.

Serbian Films Dominate Box Office

FNE Staff Serbia 2018-11-14

BELGRADE: In its second week in release Miloš Avramović’s feature South Wind / Južni vetar held on to the number one spot at the Serbian box office, taking in 964,000…

Bille Wins Best Film at Latvian National Film Awards

FNE Staff Latvia 2018-11-14

RIGA: Inara Kolmane’s family film Bille, a Latvian/Lithuanian/Czech coproduction, won the Best Film award at the 30th Lielais Kristaps Latvian national film awards on 12 November 2018.

Marju Lepajõe. Words of the Days by Vallo Toomla

PRODUCTION: Awarded Estonian Director Vallo Toomla Works on Portrait Documentary

Aurelia Aasa Estonia 2018-11-14

TALLINN: Estonian director Vallo Toomla is currently filming a portrait documentary under the working-title Marju Lepajõe. Words of the Days / Marju Lepajõe. Päevade sõnad, which will premiere in 2019.

Austria’s Cineplexx Enters Romania

FNE Staff Romania 2018-11-14

VIENNA: The Austrian cinema chain Cineplexx will build eight cinemas with 50 screening salles in Romania.

FNE Europa Cinemas: Cinema of the Month: ArtKino Metro, Trenčin

Iulia Blaga Slovakia 2018-11-14

This month we speak with Branislav Holly and Hana Kutlikova from ArtKino Metro in Trenčin, Slovakia. Branislav Holly is the manager and the main programmer of the cinema, while Hana…

PRODUCTION: Slovenian/Croatian Corporation Starts Filming in Slovenia

FNE Staff Slovenia 2018-11-13

LJUBLJANA: Corporation, the second feature film from director Matej Nahtigal, began filming on 9 November 2018. A 30-day shooting schedule is planned, ending on 23 December.

FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2018: Men of Deeds

Cathy Meils Region 2018-11-13

COTTBUS: Producers Anamaria Antoci and Ana-Maria Voicu of Tangaj Production and Papillon Film pitched the Romanian project Men of Deeds directed by Nicolae Constantin Tanase at the 20th edition of…

FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2018: Paralysis

Cathy Meils Region 2018-11-13

COTTBUS: Producer Marija Razgute of M-Films and director Andrius Blazevicius presented their second feature film together Paralysis, one of two Lithuanian films selected for the 20th edition of Connecting Cottbus,…

EFA 2018 Nominations for Poland, Georgia, Romania and Bulgaria

FNE Staff Region 2018-11-13

SEVILLE: Cold War by Pawel Pawlikowski received five nominations for the European Film Academy 2018 awards, in the categories for European Film, Director, Actor, Actress and Scriptwriter.

FNE at Cottbus 2018: Ayka Wins Best Film at 28th Cottbus Film Festival

Cathy Meils Region 2018-11-12

COTTBUS: The Russian/German/Polish/Kazakh/Chinese coproduction Ayka directed by Sergei Dvortsevoy won the main prize for best film at the 28th Cottbus Film Festival, which concluded on 11 November 2018. The award…

FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2018: The Ugly Mandarine

Cathy Meils Region 2018-11-12

COTTBUS: Producer Michal Kracmer of Analog Vision and director Piaayu Xie presented the Czech/Slovak project The Ugly Mandarine at the 20th edition of Connecting Cottbus, which took place 8-9 November…