PRAGUE: Two-time Oscar-winning Czech director Milos Forman died on 13 April 2018 at age 86.
BRATISLAVA: The 7th Visegrad Film Forum for students and young filmmakers runs 17 – 21 April in Bratislava at the VSMU university.
VIENNA: Twelve films are competing in the Feature Film Competition of the 6th edition of LET’s CEE, that will take place in Vienna and also in Graz, Salzburg and Villach from 13 to 22 April 2018.
Already 162 films, mainly from Central and Eastern Europe including the Caucasus Region and Turkey, are shown at this year’s sixth edition of LET’S CEE in Vienna and meanwhile also in Graz, Salzburg and Villach. There will be 50 Austrian premieres in the four strong main competitions alone. All together the festival will present more than 140 Austrian premieres.
TBILISI: National Archives of Georgia has reopened its restored cinema theatre for the first time in over 25 years. This is the only cinema left in Georgia that can screen on film celluloid.
Applications for Ex Oriente Film Workshop 2018 are open until 24 April 2018. The first of the three sessions takes place in Trieste, Italy from 17 to 23 June 2018.
WARSAW: Paweł Pawlikowski’s British/Polish/French coproduction Cold War and French/Belgian/Georgian/Swiss coproduction Girls of the Sun directed by Eva Husson were selected for the Competition of the 71th Cannes Film Festival, set to take place from 8 to 19 May 2018. The film has been acquired by Amazon Studios.
Films from Poland and Romania Selected for Cannes Short Film Competition and Cinéfondation
Romania 13-04-2018BUCHAREST: Polish film III/animation movie by Marta Pajek was selected for the Cannes Short Film Competition, while Inny / The Other by Marta Magnuska (produced by PWSFTviT) and Albastru și roșu, în proporții egale / Equally Red and Blue by Georgiana Moldoveanu (UNATC I.L. Caragiale) were selected for the Cinéfondation section.
BELGRADE: Four projects have been selected for the first MIDPOINT Intensive Serbia workshop, aimed at Serbian film professionals. The projects will participate in a four-day workshop in Belgrade starting on 29 April 2018. Film Center Serbia is co-hosting the event.
The 7th Visegrad Film Forum (VFF) with a five-day programme full of master classes with renowned experts, runs from April 17 – 21 with the leading topic of film image.
Among the guests you find names such as Slawomir Idziak, Polish DoP who was nominated for an Academy Award as well as a BAFTA; French director and scriptwriterJoan Chemla; well-known production designer art director and special effect supervisorEggert Ketilsson; Marcel Łoziński, one of the internationally most acclaimed Polish documentary filmmakers and Mick Audsley, British film and television editor with more than fifty film credits including Interview with the Vampire (d. Neil Jordan, 1994), Twelve Monkeys (d. Terry Giliam, 1995) and more.
Get more information: https://www.visegradfilmforum.com/2018/
