For the first time Romania will participate at AFCI Locations Show this March with an industry-encompassing program called Location Guide Romania. As an initiative to support the national film industry, this latest project of the New Romanian Cinema Association promotes the country’s various shooting locations and production facilities.
Russian distributor Paradiz has picked up local film Under Electric Clouds/Pod electricheskimi oblakami, a coproduction between Russia, Ukraine and Poland. The film, directed by Alexey German Jr, won best camera award at the Berlinale and will be released by Paradiz on roughly 150 screens in mid-May.
PRAGUE: Febiofest will introduce a new section entitled Poland 44 on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in cooperation with the Polish Institute in Prague.
BRATISLAVA: The Visegrad Film Forum, which will run from 11 to 14 March 2015, is accepting applications for accreditation until 7 March 2015.
PRAGUE: This year the 22nd edition of Febio Fest will take place from 19 to 27 March. Kim Novak, star of Hitchcock's Vertigo, will be in attendence.
SOFIA: The two part 117 minutes historical saga Dyakon Levski, directed by actor Maxim Genchev and produced by Amrita Art, ranked third in the Bulgarian Top 10 this weekend with 18,195 admissions and nearly 87,000 EUR in the box office.
COTTBUS: Bernd Buder, currently the Programme Director of the Cottbus Film Festival, is being promoted to artistic director of the festival, a position he will hold for the next five years.
As every year, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is the home base for the first session of the EAVE Producers Workshop, organized in partnership with the Film Fund Luxembourg during March 9 – 16 at the Légère Premium Hotel Luxembourg.
A screening of a brand new film Sugar Blues by Andrea Culkova will open a new project by IDF focused on alternative distribution: KineDok Launch; March 6, 2015, La Fabrika - Slévárna
SOFIA: The festival programme for the 19th International Sofia Film Festival has been announced. This year Sofia is celebrating 100 years of Bulgarian Cinema. The film festival will gather films, guests, stars, journalists and cinema fans from 5-29 March 2015.
