The 20th anniversary edition of Astra Film Festival taking place 14-20 October 2013 in Sibiu, Romania, will screen 100 documentaries (50 of them in its five competition sections) out of 1,350 films submitted to the festival.
The Congress, a Polish coproduction from Opus Film, is one of the three films nominated for the European Film Awards’ European Animated Feature Film 2013.
PRAGUE: The minimalist Lithuanian documentary Conversations on Serious Topics directed by Giedre Beinoriute is the latest of the announced entries for the Oscar race for Best Foreign Language Film.
FNE together with Europa Distribution continues its Distributor of the Month series in recognition of the hard work and excellence of European distributors and the common problems they face - especially in the transition to digitalization. We choose a distributor from each country covered by FNE each month. We look at the challenges and the successes faced by those distributors who are members of Europa Distribution with a special series of interviews that offer insights that other distributors of European films can benefit from and a platform for the exchange of ideas.
WARSAW: FOCAL will hold workshop on digital production and post-production workflows (www.focal.ch/digiprodchallenge) in Warsaw, 28-30 November 2013. Registration deadline is 1 October.
WARSAW: Narcolepsy sufferers are caught in a landscape that melds reality and the world of their dreams in Agnieszka Woszczynska's Polish documentary Laugh if You Can.
PRAGUE: Twelve films representing Central and Eastern Europe are among the 46 films entered into competition for EFA’s European Film Awards.
WARSAW: Krzysztof Zanussi, Jan Hrebejk, Nae Caranfil and Wojciech Smarzowski are among the more than 20 directors whose films are part of the works-in-progress presentation at the CentEast Market.
WARSAW: Six CEE films, including the world premiere of Anca Damian’s A Very Unsettled Summer, are among the 15 international competition films selected for the 29th Warsaw Film Festival running 11-20 October 2013.
Over twenty brand new titles at CentEast, including works by Zanussi, Hrebejk, Smarzowski, and Caranfil
Festivals 25-09-2013It is our pleasure to announce the titles of films which will be part of CentEast Warsaw-Moscow as well as the ones presented
as a part of the China-Eastern Europe Film Promotion Project and the Warsaw Screenings.
A. CentEast Warsaw-Moscow
The presentations of selected works-in-progress will be the part of the CentEast Market for the Fifth time already. The
presentations will be held:
· 18 October 2013 in Warsaw, as a part of the 9th CentEast Market;
· 20 October 2013 in Moscow, as a part of the Project For Tomorrow;
· in April 2014 in Beijing, during the Beijing Film Market .
The following Eastern European works-in-progress have been selected:
- BUCHAREST NONSTOP, dir. Dan Chisu, Romania
- CHAGALL-MALEVICH, dir. Alexander Mitta, Russia
- FOR SOME INEXPLICABLE REASON, dir. Gábor Reisz, Hungary
- THE GUIDE, dir. Oles Sanin, Ukraine
- THE ICING, dir. Jan Hrebejk, Czech Republic
- I KNOW HOW TO KNIT, dir. Nadezhda Stepanova, Russia
- FOREIGN BODY, dir. Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland
- SOUND HUNTERS, dir. Peter Odadjiev, Bulgaria
- THE TRIBE, dir. Myroslav Slaboshpitskiy, Ukraine
Additionally, we will hold closed screenings of two almost completed films:
- CLOSER TO THE MOON, dir. Nae Caranfil, Romania
- THE MIGHTY ANGEL, dir. Wojciech Smarzowski, Poland.
B. China-Eastern Europe Film Promotion Project
On Saturday, October 19th in Warsaw, the representatives of Film Factory and Beijing Film Market will present a selection of
works-in-progress and completed films from China:
- A CHILLING COSPLAY, dir. Guangli WANG
- EINSTEIN AND EINSTEIN, dir. Baoping CAO
- FOUND AND LOST, dir. Xiaowei ZHU
- MY ELDER BROTHER IN TAIWAN, dir. Widing HO
- NATURAL CODE, dir. Ying CUI
- ROCK ON, 20.40.60, dir. Zuxin HOU
- STRIVING IN BEIJING WITH LOVE, dir. Bo KANG
- ZEN, dir. Chuan WANG
C. Warsaw Screeings
The Warsaw Screenings, held since 2000, present the selected, newest Polish films to the Market audience. In this year's
programme:
- HEAVY MENTAL, dir. Sebastian Buttny
- IDA, dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
- IN HIDING, dir. Jan Kidawa-Błoński
- LIFE FEELS GOOD, dir. Maciej Pieprzyca
- RETURNS OF AGNIESZKA H., dir. Krystyna Krauze, Jacek Petrycki
- TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT, dir. Wojciech Smarzowski
- WALESA. MAN OF HOPE, dir. Andrzej Wajda
Some films can still be added. A detailed programme of CentEast will be announced early October.
CentEast is supported by the MEDIA Mundus Programme of the European Community.
Contact: Anna Korcz, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Warsaw Film Foundation / 9th CentEast Market Warsaw - October 18-20, 2013
mailing address: WFF, P.O.Box 816, PL-00-950 Warsaw 1, Poland
office/courier's address: WFF, ul. Lwowska 11/11, 00-660 Warsaw, Poland
www.centeast.eu
