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BIAFF Industry Platform Alternative Wave Announces Selected Projects For 2019 Edition

FNE Staff Georgia 2019-08-30

BATUMI: Eight projects have been selected for the industry platform Alternative Wave of the 2019 Batumi International Art house Film Festival (15-22 September 2019). The industry programme is set to…

FNE/IDF DocBloc: Ex Oriente Film 2019-2020: How I Became a Partisan

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2019-08-30

Take a closer look at the documentary project How I Became a Partisan / Ako som sa stala partizánkou by Vera Lacková, which was selected for the 17th edition of…

PRODUCTION: Patryk Vega In Postproduction With First Part of Politics Tetralogy

Katarzyna Grynienko Poland 2019-08-29

WARSAW: Patryk Vega is in postproduction with his new film Politics, the first of a four-part series of films about Polish political life. Politics was shot under radar in April…

FESTIVALS: Festival of Slovenian Film in Portorož Announces Lineup

Damijan Vinter Slovenia 2019-08-29

PORTOROŽ: Seven Slovenian feature films and four long documentaries will be screened in the competition of the 22nd Festival of Slovenian Film in Portorož, which will run from 17 to…

Beta Cinema Picks Up Iranian/Czech Coproduction Son-Mother

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2019-08-29

PRAGUE: German sales agent Beta Cinema has picked up Mahnaz Mohammadi’s debut feature Son Mother / Pesar-Madar. This Iranian/Czech coproduction will have its world premiere in the Discovery section of…

Cătălin Mitulescu Explores Human Relationships In Heidi

Iulia Blaga Romania 2019-08-29

BUCHAREST: Cătălin Mitulescu’s new feature film Heidi follows a police officer nearing retirement who is given the mission to find two prostitutes who are willing to testify in an organised…

Honeyland by Ljubo Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska

FNE Oscar Watch 2020: North Macedonia Selects Honeyland as Oscar Bid

FNE Staff North Macedonia 2019-08-29

SKOPJE: Honeyland / Medena zemja by Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska has been selected as North Macedonia’s candidate for the 92nd Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award in…

GRANTS: Poland Supports Ten New Feature Films

Katarzyna Grynienko Poland 2019-08-28

WARSAW: Polish Film Institute has granted 5.3 m EUR / 23.5 m PLN to ten feature film productions. The list includes new projects directed by Andrzej Jakimowski, Władysław Pasikowski and…

PRODUCTION: Slávek Horák Shooting Havel Biopic Big Budget Havel Biopic

Denisa Strbova Czech Republic 2019-08-28

PRAGUE: Czech director Slávek Horák has started shooting a biopic Havel about the prominent Czech playwright/dissident/president Václav Havel. The project received one of the biggest production grants from the Czech…

PRODUCTION: Netflix Original Series Young Wallander Filming in Lithuania

Aukse Kancereviciute Lithuania 2019-08-28

VILNIUS: Young Wallander, a new Netflix original series based on Henning Mankell's best-selling Kurt Wallander novels, is shooting in Vilnius from 24 August 2019. Lithuania‘s Ahil is providing services. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Explore New Programme of Warsaw Kids Film Forum

FNE Staff Poland 2019-08-28

WARSAW: After the successful previous editions, the 3rd edition of Warsaw Kids Film Forum has significantly extended its offer by expanding the programme and the list of attending guests. The…

Honeyland and Putin’s Witnesses In EFA Documentary Selection

FNE Staff Region 2019-08-28

BERLIN: Macedonian Honeyland by Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska, and the Latvian/Swiss/Czech coproduction Putin’s Witnesses by Vitaly Mansky are among the 12 titles from the EFA Documentary Selection.

Cinephil Picks Up Collective

Iulia Blaga Romania 2019-08-28

BUCHAREST: Tel Aviv-based sales agent Cinephil has acquired collective / colectiv, the new documentary by German-Romanian filmmaker Alexander Nanau, which will screen in the Official Selection – Out of Competition…

FNE AV Innovation: We Love Cinema at Usheru

Shauna Farrell Region 2019-08-27

New cinema releases, film festivals, online subscriptions, video on demand, DVD, BluRay, cinema re-releases, extended cuts, live cinema events... As a consumer, the list of options for how to view…

FNE Oscar Watch 2020: Romania Selects The Whistlers For Oscar Bid

FNE Staff Romania 2019-08-27

BUCHAREST: The Whistlers / La Gomera by Corneliu Porumboiu has been selected as Romania’s candidate for the 92nd Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award in the best international…

Cineplexx Builds Multiplex in Sarajevo

FNE Staff Bosnia-Herzegovina 2019-08-26

SARAJEVO: Cineplexx will build a multiplex with eight cinema halls totaling 1,400 seats in Sarajevo. Cineplexx Sarajevo will be opened in summer 2020 and will become one of the venues…

FNE at Venice 2019: Celluloid Dreams Picks Up The Painted Bird

FNE Staff Region 2019-08-26

VENICE: Venice competitor Czech / Ukrainian / Slovak coproduction The Painted Bird directed by Václav Marhoul has been acquired by French sales company Celluloid Dreams. The film is the first…

FESTIVALS: The 14th Cinematik IFF Announces Lineup

FNE Staff Slovakia 2019-08-26

PIEŠŤANY: Ten films have been selected for Meeting Point Europe, the main competition of the 14th Cinematik International Film Festival, which will take place in the spa city of Piešťany…

Black Nights FF Launches KinoFF in Eastern Estonia

FNE Staff Estonia 2019-08-26

TALLINN: Black Nights Film Festival is launching a new side-festival in Estonia, Kino FF, focusing on Russian cinema. The first edition will be held in two cities in the prominently…