VENICE: Austrian director Ulrich Seidl launched his three part trilogy Paradise in Cannes with Paradise: Love and he now arrives in Venice with part two, Paradise: Faith.
VENICE: Oldies beware Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers might seem slight but the buzz from younger Euro-critics after its first screening in Venice was decidedly positive.
FNE at Red Square Screenings 2012: Gulfstream success spawns new Russian Latvian coproduction
Region 18-10-2012MOSCOW: Horosho Productions is developing another Latvian production after its successful work on Gulfstream Under the Iceberg.
MOSCOW: The Red Square Screenings (15-19 October 2012) brought many central European producers to Moscow for the first time as the event teams up with CentEast Moscow (www.centeast.eu).
MOSCOW: The fourth annual CentEast Moscow Market (www.centeast.eu) has found a slot in the new Red Square Screenings, (15-19 October 2012) a new initiative backed by the Russian Cinema Fund.
FNE exclusive: Court decision gives Hungarian Film Fund control of film studios: FNE asks Andy Vajna what’s next
Hungary 06-09-2012BUDAPEST: A Hungarian court decision has transferred the property of the former Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation (MMKA) to the Hungarian National Film Fund (www.filmalap.hu).
FNE at Venice IFF 2012: Czech coproduction starring Gerard Depardieu gets Venice slot
Czech Republic 21-08-2012PRAGUE: The Man Who Laughs which was shot entirely in the Czech Republic has nabbed a Venice IFF Out of Competition slot. Directed by Jena-Pierre Ameris and starring Gerard Depardieu and Emmanuelle Seigner the film is produced by In Incognita Films (France) and Okko Production (www.okko.cz).
CANNES: Director Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom opened the Cannes Film Festival with a strange genre of film that can only be described as a "Wes Anderson" film. It is a mark of the director's distinctive style that he creates his own universe which might seem slight on first encounter but upon experience leaves us with the impression of a serious work of cinema art.
CANNES: Ukrainian documentarist turned
feature director Sergei Loznitsa returns to Cannes with a war drama, In the Fog, after having taken home the
Best Director's prize two years ago for his debut feature, My Joy.
CANNES: Romania director Cristian Mungiu returns to Cannes with Beyond the Hills, his first feature since 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days which won the Palm d'Or in 2007 and the director has a tough act to follow after such a stunning success.
