FNE at Finale Plzen: Miracle

PLZEN: Miracle / Zázrak, a Slovak/Czech coproduction by Slovak director and co-writer Juraj Lehotský competes at Finale Plzen after an illustrious film festival roll-out.
28-04-2014

FNE at Finale Plzen: Like Never Before

PLZEN: Like Never Before by Zdeněk Tyc returns to Finale Plzen in the main competition, after having been given a pre-premiere screening there one year ago.
28-04-2014

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…
24-04-2014

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).
24-04-2014

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.
24-04-2014

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…
23-04-2014

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.
23-04-2014

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…
23-04-2014

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…
22-04-2014

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…
18-04-2014

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.
18-04-2014

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…
17-04-2014

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.
17-04-2014

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…
14-04-2014

FNE IDF Doc Bloc: East Silver Opens Applications

The East Silver documentary market is accepting applications through 30 June 2014.
11-04-2014

FNE IDF Doc Bloc: Ex-Oriente Opens Applications

The year-long documentary workshop Ex-Oriente is now accepting submissions for the 2014 session.
04-04-2014

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…
31-03-2014

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…
26-03-2014

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.
24-03-2014

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…
20-03-2014