Ovashvili Going into Postproduction with Corn Island
TBILISI: The acclaimed Georgian filmmaker George Ovashvili plans an April 2014 completion date for Corn Island which is finishing a two-part shoot.
EFA Honoree Solomon Crafts Strong Film Slate
BUCHAREST: Romanian producer Ada Solomon, fresh from receiving the European Co-production Award - Prix Eurimages at the 26th European Academy Awards in Berlin, spoke with FNE about her upcoming film…
Bulgarian Cinemania Rises above Political Turmoil
SOFIA: The 27th edition of Cinemania went ahead despite political protests which rocked Bulgaria in November.
Warsaw AV Summit Countdown: Just two days left
Just two days left before the top Central European AV policy makers and film industry leaders gather on 11-12 December for the most important meeting of the year. FNE will…
Screen tourism in Croatia boosted by Game of Thrones
ZAGREB: Stimulated by the international productions shot in Croatia recently, especially the fourth season of HBO’s series Game of Thrones, screen tourism can be a strong alternative to regular tourism…
FNE at Tbilisi IFF: Disorder wins at Tbilisi
TBILISI: The 14th edition of Tbilisi IFF 2-8 December 2013 awarded its main prize to the Georgian film Disorder directed by Archil Kavtaradze, produced by Windmill Production. The jury of…
PRODUCTION: ScripTeast Winner Goes into Production
WARSAW: False Witness, the film written by Iglika Triffonova which won the Krzysztof Kieślowski Award at the fifth edition of ScripTeast, is now shooting.
FNE at EFA Awards: Holland Named EFA Chairman of the Board and Solomon Receive Awards
BERLIN: Ari Folman’s The Congress won the European Animated Feature Film Award and Romanian producer Ada Solomon receive the EFA European Co-production Award 2013 - Prix Eurimages at the 26th…
Bulgarian Romanian Coproduction Selected for Sundance
Viktoria, a debut feature film from Maya Vitkova, will be the first Bulgarian film screening in the World Competition of the Sundance film festival.
Joj TV Fined for Foreign Language Violation
BRATISLAVA: Slovak commercial station Joj TV has been fined 200 EUR for breaching the Slovak law limiting foreign language broadcasting on a Slovak station.
Malta Raises Fees for Film Classification
VALETTA: The government of Malta has increased the fee of age-classification to 100 EUR for a film from the former fee of 50 EUR.
Czech Christmas Wings Soar at Box Office
PRAGUE: A Czech holiday drama, Vanoce Kridla (Wings of Christmas), held the number one spot at the domestic box office in its third week of release, taking in some 19m…
FNE IDF DocBloc: In Prison with Mum
Czech TV is producing a documentary on the effects of being raised inside a prison by an incarcerated mother.
Alvernia Studios and Rat Entertainment Team up Magnitude 9
KRAKOW: Poland’s Alvernia Studios is partnering on the international coproduction Magnitude 9, a modern version of the Madame Butterfly story, which will be shot in Japan in 2014.
Lankosz Adapting Crime Thriller
WARSAW: Borys Lankosz, director of the box office hit Reverse, will bring Zygmunt Miłoszewski's novel A Grain of Truth to the screen, with the Polish Film Institute cofinancing 50% of…
FNE TV: Ivo Andrle, head of Kino Aero and Aerofilms Distribution
FNE asked Czech exhibitor and distributor Ivo Andrle how being both an exhibitor and a distributor can help bring more European films to the Czech audience and what are his…
Going My Way 2 Continues to Top Slovenian Box Office
LJUBLJANA: Going My Way 2, Miha Hocevar’s follow up to his 2011 box office hit, landed in the number one spot at the Slovenian box office for the third week…
PRODUCTION: Królikiewicz Returns with Neighbors
LODZ: After a long break, renowned Polish director Grzegorz Królikiewicz makes a comeback with Neighbors, a warm, absurd comedy about extraordinary people.
FNE TV: Vivre Indren Head of sector Development for Creative Europe-MEDIA sub-programme
FNE spoke to Vivre Indren about the first call for the new Creative Europe-MEDIA that will be published in December and what will be the biggest changes that MEDIA applicants…
Bulgaria’s Odeon Expands Activities with New Releases
SOFIA: The newly renovated and digitalised Odeon cinema, which since 1972 has primarily screened archive films, showed its first commercially distributed film, Woody Allen’s 2013 Blue Jasmine.
