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.
PRAGUE: On the occasion of the East Doc Platform in Prague, the KineDok project and its website will be officially launched on 6 March 2015.
At the opening ceremony of Febiofest, “Professor Snape” from Harry Potter, Alan Rickman will receive the Kristian award and introduce his new film, A Little Chaos, starring Kate Winslet
Festivals 02-03-2015At the opening ceremony of the International Film Festival Prague – Febiofest, the Kristian award for contribution to world cinema will not only be awarded to actress Kim Novak and Oscar-winning director Jean-Jacques Annaud, but also to one of today’s best British actors, Alan Rickman.
The Elmo Nüganen film “1944” hit Estonian cinema theaters on the 20th of February 2015. The films’ first week achieved 44 879 admissions, the highest admission record of any Estonian film ever premiered in Estonia.
