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Book on Orson Welles Launched in Croatia

FNE Staff Croatia 2018-08-24

HVAR: The book Orson Welles in Hvar by Duško Kovačić and Daniel Rafaelić was launched during the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of organised tourism on Hvar.

FNE IDF DocBloc: God Overestimated Me

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2018-08-24

Youlian Tabakov is in development with the Bulgarian/Swedish coproduction God Overestimated Me, a documentary about an old and lonely woman, sitting in front of the enormous ocean of the past.

FNE Spoke to Anca Mitran, Head of Romanian Film Centre

Iulia Blaga Romania 2018-08-23

BUCHAREST: FNE spoke with Anca Mitran, Head of the Romanian Film Centre, about the biggest developments in Romanian cinema and also about what needs to be done.

FESTIVALS: Festival of Slovenian Film in Portorož 2018 Announces Lineup

Damijan Vinter Slovenia 2018-08-23

PORTOROŽ: Sixteen feature films including eight documentaries will be screened in the competition of the 21st Festival of Slovenian Film in Portorož, which will run from 10 to 15 September…

FESTIVALS: The 13th BIAFF Announces Lineup

FNE Staff Georgia 2018-08-23

BATUMI: Ten titles have been selected for the Feature Film Competition of the 13th Batumi International Arthouse Film Festival set to take place in Batumi from 16 to 23 September…

Lithuanian Classic The Beauty by Arūnas Žebriūnas in French Cinemas

FNE Staff Lithuania 2018-08-23

VILNIUS: A restored 1969 classic The Beauty by the Lithuanian director Arūnas Žebriūnas was released in French cinemas on 22 August 2018. This is the first time that a Lithuanian…

Zuzana Bieliková, Head of the Slovak Film Commission

FNE Spoke to Zuzana Bieliková, Head of Slovak Film Commission

FNE Staff Slovakia 2018-08-22

BRATISLAVA: Zuzana Bieliková was appointed Head of the newly established Slovak Film Commission (SFC) on 1 June 2018. She spoke to FNE about her goals and her short-term plans, as…

Eighteen Films from CEE in EFA Feature Film Selection

FNE Staff Region 2018-08-22

SEVILLE: Eighteen films from CEE are among the 49 films chosen for the EFA Feature Film Selection. The nominations for the 2018 EFA Awards will be announced at the Seville…

FESTIVALS: The 4th Seanema Film Festival Ready to Kick Off

FNE Staff Montenegro 2018-08-22

ULCINJ: The 4th edition of the Seanema Film Festival takes place in the town of Ulcinj, Montenegro from 23 to 26 August 2018 and is centered around the theme of…

PRODUCTION: Jacek Gwizdała Shoots Roman Kotlarz Biopic The Priest

Katarzyna Grynienko Poland 2018-08-21

RADOM: Polish director Jacek Gwizdała is working on a biopic project The Priest / Klecha, planned as a feature drama and a TVP three-part mini-series, and focusing on Roman Kotlarz,…

PRODUCTION: Serbian/Bosnian TV Drama Series Morning Changes Everything Wraps Shooting

Zoran Janković Serbia 2018-08-21

BELGRADE: A forty-episode TV series Morning Changes Everything is currently in production in Serbia. The first four episodes of this Serbian/Bosnian coproduction were screened within the Sarajevo Film Festival’s Avant…

Take It or Leave It by Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo

Estonia Selects Take It or Leave It as Oscar Bid

FNE Staff Estonia 2018-08-21

TALLINN: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo’s drama Take It or Leave It has been chosen by a committee appointed by the Estonian Film Institute as the official candidate from Estonia for an Academy…

Sarajevo FF and Directors' Fortnight in Cannes Team Up for Short Film Initiative

FNE Staff Bosnia-Herzegovina 2018-08-20

SARAJEVO: Six young filmmakers from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia and Serbia will co-write and co-direct a 10-minute film with a young director from outside the region. The…

FNE Speaks to SOFA Director Nikolaj Nikitin

FNE Staff Poland 2018-08-20

FNE spoke to SOFA founder and director Nikolaj Nikitin as the 6th edition of the annual event gets ready to kick off in Warsaw. SOFA will take place in Warsaw…

My Granny from Mars by Aleksandar Mihalkovich

Two Winners of Docu Talents From the East Award

FNE Staff Bosnia-Herzegovina 2018-08-20

SARAJEVO: The Ukrainian/Belarussian coproduction My Granny from Mars directed by Alexandar Mihalkovich and Birthday directed by Hilal Baydarov from Azerbaijan received the Docu Talents from the East Award ex-aequo during…

CinéDOC-Tbilisi Launches Doc Summer School

FNE Staff Georgia 2018-08-20

GORI: The first documentary film summer school organised by the CinéDOC-Tbilisi International Documentary Film Festival takes place in Gori, Georgia from 18 to 26 August 2018. Twelve filmmakers from Armenia,…

FNE at Sarajevo FF 2018: Bulgarian/German/French Coproduction Aga Wins Heart of Sarajevo

Tina Smalcelj Bosnia-Herzegovina 2018-08-17

SARAJEVO: Milko Lazarov’s Aga, a last look at the Inuit people living in the beautiful frozen landscape of the Russian republic of Sakha, was awarded Heart of Sarajevo for Best…

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians by Radu Jude

International Sales for Radu Jude's I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

Iulia Blaga Romania 2018-08-17

BUCHAREST: Radu Jude’s I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians has been sold by Beta Cinema to Poland, Hungary and ex-Yugoslavia. The film won the…

The White World According to Daliborek by Vít Klusák

FNE IDF DocBloc: Czech Dream – Klusák and Remunda Retrospective in Moscow

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2018-08-17

Three Moscow cinemas will screen eight films by Czech documentary filmmakers Vít Klusák and Filip Remunda from 19 to 23 September 2018, as part of the Czech Dream retrospective.

FNE at CineLink Sarajevo 2018: Winner of Heart of Sarajevo for Short Film Milica Tomović Presents First Feature Project

Tina Smalcelj Bosnia-Herzegovina 2018-08-16

SARAJEVO: Serbian writer/director Milica Tomović, who won the Heart of Sarajevo for her short film Tranzicija (EED Productions, 2016), is returning to the Sarajevo Film Festival with her debut feature…