PRODUCTION: Šarūnas Bartas Shoots In The Dusk
VILNIUS: The acclaimed Lithuanian director Šarūnas Bartas is currently shooting a new historical drama In The Dusk / Sutemose, focusing on the Lithuanian partisan war, which took place after WWII.…
Teona Strugar Mitevska and Agnieszka Holland in Berlinale’s Competition
SKOPJE: God Exists, Her Name is Petrunija by Teona Strugar Mitevska and Mr. Jones by Agnieszka Holland have been selected for the Competition of the 69th Berlin International Film Festival.…
Maltese, Bulgarian and Polish Films Nominated for National Film Awards UK 2019
VALLETTA: The Maltese film director Winston Azzopardi has been nominated with The Boat for the best director award at the UK National Film Awards 2019, while the Bulgarian film Revolution…
Bulgaria Celebrates National Cinema Day
SOFIA: Bulgaria’s National Film Center is organising the celebration of the National Cinema Day on 13 January 2019. The official event will be once again performed in close collaboration with…
FNE IDF DocBloc: Projects Selected for East Doc Platform 2019
Here are the projects selected for the 8th edition of East Doc Platform, the largest coproduction, funding and distribution platform tailor-made for Central and East European documentaries, which will take…
GRANTS: Film Center Serbia Supports Three New Feature Films
BELGRADE: Film Center Serbia distributed 810,950 EUR / 96 m RSD for the production of three feature films in the final round of grants for 2018.
Four BAFTA Nominations for Cold War
WARSAW: Cold War by Paweł Pawlikowski landed four nominations for the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) 2019. The nominations were announced on 9 January 2019.
Admissions and BO in Bosnia and Herzegovina Increase for Second Year in a Row
SARAJEVO: Total admissions increased by 7.85 percent and total box office increased by 7.07 percent in 2018, according to Sarajevo Film Festival’s Statistics and Analysis Department. Bosnia and Herzegovina also…
Domestic Hits Drive Increase in Serbian Admissions in 2018
BELGRADE: Total admissions in Serbia increased considerably, from 3,754,368 in 2017 to 4,193,755 in 2018, mostly due to the blockbusters South Wind / Južni vetar by Miloš Avramović, distributed by…
TVP to Buy Showmax
WARSAW: Polish public broadcaster TVP is negotiating the purchase of the Showmax VOD service from Naspers, following the owner's decision to leave the Polish market by the end of January…
OBITUARY: Croatian Actor Ivo Gregurević
ZAGREB: The acclaimed Croatian film and theatre actor Ivo Gregurević has died at age 66. In 1998 he received Croatia's highest cultural honour, the Vladimir Nazor Award for his contribution…
Jan Palach Tops Czech Critics‘ Awards Nods
PRAGUE: The Czech/Slovak drama Jan Palach directed by Robert Sedláček got six nominations for the Czech Film Critics‘Awards. The awards will be announced on 2 February 2019.
Admissions to Domestic Films in Estonia Doubled Due to Centennial Film Programme
TALLINN: Estonian films had more than 600,000 admissions in 2018. Over half of the films were produced within the Estonia 100 centennial film programme. Admissions to Estonian films increased from…
Montenegro Joins Eurimages and Film New Europe Association
PODGORICA: Film Centre of Montenegro joined two important European film industry institutions in 2018, marking the country’s growing integration into the European film community.
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Eurimages Supports Six Projects from CEE Countries
TBILISI: The Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund distributed 3,188,000 EUR to 11 fiction and one documentary film project, including six projects from CEE countries, at…
Cold War Shortlisted for Academy’s Foreign Language Film Award
WARSAW: Cold War by Paweł Pawlikowski is among the nine titles shortlisted for the Academy’s Foreign Language Film Award. The nominations for the 91st Oscars will be unveiled on 22…
Pawlikowski’s Cold War Sweeps Top Prizes at European Film Awards
SEVILLE: Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cold War won awards for best European film, director, scriptwriter, actress and editor at the 31st European Film Awards. The European animated feature film award went to…
Review: Vox Lux (USA)
American director Brady Corbet arrives in Venice in competition with his second film Vox Luxwhich is a more mature work in the same genre as his first film The Childhood…
PRODUCTION: Robert Kirchhoff in Production with Alexander Dubček Doc
BRATISLAVA: Experienced Slovak documentary filmmaker Robert Kirchhoff deals once again with the complicated political history of the region and in the Slovak/Czech coproduction All Men Become Brothers / Všetci ľudia…
