FNE at Finale Plzen: An Unlikely Romance
PLZEN: The feature film competition at the Finale Festival in Plzen, taking place 27 April – 3 May 2014, will include Ivan Vojnár’s hybrid film An Unlikely Romance, an intimate…
FNE at Finale Plzen: Wings of Christmas
PLZEN: Karin Babinská, whose popular and internationally acclaimed road-movie Dolls, won the 20th Finále Plzen, returns to Plzen to compete with the romantic film Wings of Christmas (Kridla Vanoc).
FNE at Finale Plzen: Uni
PLZEN: Directed, written and photographed by Tomáš Vorel, Uni continues in the aesthetics prompted by his earlier film, The Can.
FNE at Finale Plzen: Burning Bush
PLZEN: The most acclaimed Czech film of 2013, crowned with 11 Czech Lions and awarded as the Best film by Czech Critics, Burning Bush directed by Polish filmmaker Agniezska Holland…
FNE at Finale Plzen: Krasno
PLZEN: Krásno, the directorial debut of acclaimed Czech theatre actor Ondřej Sokol, will compete at the 27th Finale Plzen, running 27 April – 3 May 2014.
FNE at Finale Plzen: Revival
PLZEN: Director Alice Nellis scored a hit with the popular comedy Revival, winner of the Audience award at the 2013 Karlovy Vary IFF and one of the top Czech films…
FNE at Finale Plzen: Clownwise
PLZEN: The film Klauni (Clownwise), based on a script by Petr Jarchovský and directed by Viktor Tauš was nominated for the Czech Lion awards in eight categories and Jiri Labus…
FNE at Finale Plzen: To the Sea
PLZEN: Expect intense interest when leading young Czech and international actor Jiří Mádl (Borgia, Four Suns, Colette) makes his directorial and scriptwriting debut with To See a Sea (Pojedeme k…
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: Eight Projects Selected for DOK.Incubator
The Institute of Documentary Film introduces the projects which will participate in the 2014 edition of DOK.Incubator.
FNE at Finale Plzen: Honeymoon
PLZEN: Honeymoon (Libanky), nominated for the Czech Lion in five categories and the winner of the Best Director Award at Karlovy Vary IFF starts the competition roll-out at the 27th…
FNE at Finale Plzen: Colette
PLZEN: The first day of competition at the 27th Finale Plzen national festival of Czech and Slovak films offers up Milan Cieslar’s English-lingo Colette.
FNE Interviews ANOMALIA Founder David Tousek
FNE speaks with David Tousek, founder of the Czech animation workshop ANOMALIA which is accepting Applications for its summer workshop through 15 April 2014. Participants should have at least one…
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: East Silver Opens Applications
The East Silver documentary market is accepting applications through 30 June 2014.
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: Ex-Oriente Opens Applications
The year-long documentary workshop Ex-Oriente is now accepting submissions for the 2014 session.
FESTIVALS: Home Takes Febiofest Grand Prix
PRAGUE: The Swedish-Icelandic romantic tragicomedy Home (Hemma), the first film by director Maximilian Hult, won the main award and a prize of 5,000 EUR at Febiofest’s closing ceremony on 28…
FNE Europa Distribution - Distributor of the Month: Ivo Andrle
FNE together with Europa Distribution is launching a new chapter of the Distributor of the Month section. This time we focus on new strategies in film distribution and the importance…
FESTIVALS: Plzen Finale Announces Czech Slovak Competition
PLZEN: Fourteen Czech and Slovak films will compete for the main Golden Kingfisher at the Plzen Finale Festival, running 27 April – 3 May 2014.
Scandinavian Daughter Shoots in Czech Republic
PRAGUE: The Danish fantasy adventure film The Shamer’s Daughter directed by Kenneth Kainz and produced by Nina Lyng and Eva Juel Hammerich from Nepenthe Film and coproduced by Storm Films…
“First Lady of Czech Cinema,” Vera Chytilova, dies aged 85 in Prague.
PRAGUE: Vera Chytilova, one of the leading filmmakers of the Czech New Wave cinema died yesterday (12 March 2014) in Prague at the age of 85. Among Czech filmmakers she…
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: East Doc Launches 20 Doc Projects
The Institute of Documentary Film’s most important activity and the largest documentary industry event in the region, the East Doc Platform, drew over 300 film professionals to Prague to network,…
