KRAKOW: Domino Effect and its directors Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosołowski were the big winners at the 54th Krakow IFF which concluded on 31 May 2014.
CANNES: Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan swept to victory with his three hour plus Winter Sleep which won the Palme d’or at the 67 Cannes International Film Festival.
CANNES: One of the EU’s most successful script programmes ScripTeast has awarded its top prize for 2014 to ‘Merican Chick to by Czech scriptwriting team Evita Naušová and Viktor Tauš.
CANNES: Talent from the central and eastern European region will be in the spotlight with the special project Les Ponts De Sarajevo an omnibus film featuring 13 European directors who explore the theme of Sarajevo and what the city represents in European history over the past hundred years, and what Sarajevo incarnates today in Europe.
ISTANBUL: The top prize in the international competition at the 33 Istanbul Film Festival (5-20 April 2014) went to Blind directod by Eskil Vogt, a Norwegian film which has already won prizes in Sundance and Berlin earlier this year.
Film New Europe salutes the Polish Film Institute on its 10th anniversary with a series of articles this week looking back at the work of the institute over the past ten years.
Polish Film Institute Celebrates 10th Anniversary: Interview Agnieszka Odorowicz General Director
Poland 22-04-2014The Polish Film Institute celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. General Director Agnieszka Odorowicz has been at the helm of the Polish Film Institute since the beginning. FNE spoke to Ms Odorowicz about some of the major achievements of the past ten years at PISF.
VENICE: One of the new partners of Venice Days this year at the Biennale Film Festival was Toscana Resort Castelfalfi.
BERLIN: Levan Koguashvili made his feature debut with Street Days which was a hit on the festival circuit. With the accomplished Blind Dates he stakes his claim as perhaps the hottest of Georgia’s new generation of young directors.
BERLIN: Paris based director Rachid Bouchareb presents a remake of the 1973 thriller Duex homes dans la ville which was originally written and directed by novelist Jose Giovanni.
