CANNES: Polish director Roman Polanski received a Best Director prize from his homeland in the form of the Polish Eagle, presented to him in Cannes by Dariusz Jablonski, President of the Polish Film Academy, and Polanski’s friend and coproducer Andrzej Serdiukow.

WARSAW: Polish based sales company New Europe Film Sales announced the sale of all rights for Latvian film Mother I Love You to South Korea. 

FNE spoke to Marin Martschewski about the challenges facing the Bulgarian film industry as he takes up his new job as head of the Bulgarian National Film Center

Bartosz Konopka and Przemyslaw Nowakowski from Poland received the Kieślowski Award for their script Mute developed during this years' edition of ScripTeast (read the full story). Photos from the ceremony are available in our Who is partying at gallery

Photos from the Lithuanian party at Cannes IFF 2013 are available in our Who is partying at gallery.