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Karlovy Vary East of the West: The Other Bank

The feature debut, Gagma Napiri/The Other Bank (www.theotherbank.info) from Georgian filmmaker George Ovashvili is the unsentimental yet metaphorical story of a young refugee from Abkhazia who takes a journey home to find that grass is no greener there.
06-07-2009

Karlovy Vary East of the West: Devil’s Town

Devil's Town is a creative, independent first feature film, described by scriptwriter and director Vladimir Paskaljević as "a black comedy of contemporary Belgrade."
05-07-2009

Karlovy Vary East of the West: The 40th Door

Elchin Musaoglu's East of the West competition film The 40th Door is already a prize-winner; it picked up a Golden Remi award for best foreign film at the WorldFest-Houston in April.
05-07-2009

Karlovy Vary East of the West: El Paso

El Paso (www.ceskatelevize.cz/specialy/elpaso), a social drama based on a true story from contemporary Czech Republic, places a strong emphasis on the Czech Romany (as the Gypsy population is called) problem.
04-07-2009

Karlovy Vary East of the West: Crayfish

Bulgarian director Ivan Cherkelov unexpectedly deviates from his usual intellectual themes, turning to the post-communist mafia world in his newest film, Crayfish.
03-07-2009

Karlovy Vary East of the West: Paper Soldier

A double award winner from the Venice film festival (Silver lion for best director and cinematography), Alexey German Jr.'s Paper Soldier screens at Karlovy Vary in the East of the West competition section.
03-07-2009

Slovak films in Karlovy Vary 2009

What's Slovak at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2009
03-07-2009

m-appeal picks up Small Crime

Berlin-based world sales company m-appeal has just added Christos Georgiou’s second feature film Small Crime to its line-up
03-07-2009

Karlovy Vary East of the West: Low Lights

Lithuanian director Ignas Miškinis' second feature film Low Lights (Artimos šviesos), makes its international premiere in the East of the West competition at the 44th International Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
02-07-2009

DocBoat Warsaw non-fiction e-fest

International Film Festival DocBoat / Warsaw NON-fiction e-fest kindly invites you to enter films to its first edition, to be held on September 2009 on the Polish Internet.
02-07-2009

Karlovy Vary East of the West: Alive!

One of the important directors and screenwriters of the Albanian cinema, Artan Minarolli devoted nearly five years of his life to the raising of the 950,000 Euro budget for Alive.
01-07-2009

Karlovy Vary East of the West: The Seventh Circle

Árpád Sopsits' The Seventh Circle -- the concluding film in the director's half-century trilogy -- takes its title and inspiration from Dante's Divine Comedy.
30-06-2009

Karlovy Vary East of the West: No One's Son

Arsen Anton Ostojic's No One's Son swept the Croatian awards last year: 6 Gold Arenas at the Pula Film Festival, Critics' Award for best film, state award for achievement in film in 2008, and Croatian candidate for the 2009 Academy Awards.
30-06-2009

Karlovy Vary East of the West: Lost Times

First feature film director Aron Matyassy burst onto the Hungarian film scene, winning the Golden Reel Main Prize of the 40th Hungarian Film Week in February with his movie Lost Times.
29-06-2009

"The Pig" wins MUNICH INTERNATIONAL short film festival 2010

The Danish competitor "The Pig" (Grisen) by Dorte W. Høgh receives the award of the 2009 MUNICH INTERNATIONAL short film festival, being granted Kodak film material for her next project.
29-06-2009

Karlovy Vary weathers financial crisis

Despite the financial crisis affecting budgets and advertising revenues across Europe, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (www.kviff.com) can count on sustaining its public and private support.
25-06-2009

Record 10 FILMS IN THE NATIONAL PROGRAMME

The National Programme of the 56th Pula Film Festival (www.pulafestival.hr) that will be held from 18 to 25 July, shall present a record ten films.
24-06-2009

Karlovy Vary lines up 14 competition films

European films dominate the 14-film strong selection of the 44th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (www.kviff.com), running July 3-11.
23-06-2009

WINNERS OF THE 49th KRAKOW FILM FESTIVAL

FEATURE-LENGHT DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
08-06-2009

Zlin awards Czech, Latvian, Slovak films

The 49th International Film Festival for Children and Youth held in Zlin, Czech Republic, awarded its Golden Slipper for best film for children to Mária Procházková's contemporary take on the Little Red Riding Hood story, Who is Afraid of the Wolf?
07-06-2009