FNE and Europa International are launching a new chapter of interviews. Every two months we will talk to a European sales agent dealing with films from the FNE region countries.
ZAGREB: Life Is a Trumpet by Antonio Nuić and Ljiljan Vidić’s Baptism of Fire by Ivan Goran-Vitez will be released by Blitz film i video in December 2015. They will compete with The High Sun by Dalibor Matanić which had 42,815 admissions through October 2015.
BUCHAREST: Corneliu Porumboiu's The Treasure / Comoara has become the topselling Romanian feature of 2015. Sales agent Wild Bunch has sold the film in 24 territories including the US, Canada and South America.
BUCHAREST: A Norwegian Christmas Story / Snekker Andresen og Julenissen (working title) by Terje Ragnes shot ninety percent of the film with Bucharest-based Seven Film providing services. The premiere is set for Christmas 2016.
TBILISI: Mariam Khatchvani is in production with her debut feature, Dede. The first part of shooting took place in autumn 2015 and winter shooting is set for January 2016. The film is a Georgian/British/Croatian coproduction.
BUCHAREST: Cinema Studio is the first Romanian cinema which has suspended its work due to the new law prohibiting public activities in buildings with earthquake risk. Cinema Studio is also the home of the Romanian Filmmakers Union and a member of Europa Cinemas.
BUCHAREST: Ioana Mischie’s debut feature 237 Years, a bittersweet comedy in the vein of Kusturica's Underground, Wolfgang's Becker's Goodbye, Lenin and Cristian Mungiu’s Tales of the Golden Age (Mobra Films) is set for shooting in 2016.
ZAGREB: Acclaimed writer/director Branko Schmidt is currently in preproduction with Ivan’s Confirmation / Ivanova krizma, which will conclude his trilogy that opened with Metastases and Vegetarian Cannibal. Shooting is planned for September 2016.
BUCHAREST: Concerns over public safety has led to a petition launched by Asociația Culturală Metropolis and signed by leading Romanian film festivals and filmmakers aimed at convincing the authorities to take urgent measures to consolidate and build new art house cinemas in Bucharest.
BUCHAREST: Four main cinemas in Bucharest might be closed according to a law issued by the Romanian president Klaus Iohannis and stating that public activities are prohibited in buildings with earthquake risk.
