FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Floating Skyscapers
GDYNIA: Tomasz Wasilewski has created an emotional image of a man struggling with his identity in Floating Skyscrapers, screening at the 38th Gdynia fest, which follows the life of a…
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Ida
GDYNIA: Paweł Pawlikowski explores the issues of family and identity in his new drama Ida, , screening at the 38th Gdynia fest, which recounts the story of Anna, a novice…
FNE at Biennale 2013: Toscana Resort Castelfalfi - Venice Days: A Taste for Film
VENICE: One of the new partners of Venice Days this year at the Biennale Film Festival was Toscana Resort Castelfalfi.
FNE at Venice Iff 2013: Sacro Gra (Competition) ITALY
VENICE: Documentaries have been turning up and winning prizes at major film festivals in Berlin and Cannes in increasing numbers in recent years and Gianfranco Rosi’s stunning Sacro Gra is…
Screenplay on Husák’s Wife Wins Main Award in International MIDPOINT Programme
Prague: MIDPOINT, an international educational project aimed at supporting talent and development in European screenwriting, culminated at Prague's FAMU film school this weekend with honors for best projects.
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Traffic Department
GDYNIA: Wojciech Smarzowski explores the dark side of human nature in his box office hit drama based on the real workings of a traffic police officer.
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: The Girl from the Wardrobe
GDYNIA: Bodo Kox creates his own surreal outlook on what it means to be alone and enter relationships with The Girl from the Wardrobe, in which protagonist Jacek is taking…
FNE - IDF DocBloc: Riding the Freeway Blues
Prague: Director Ivo Bystrican takes a creative view of the morass that is the system for getting around the Czech Republic in Under (the) Construction, a film examining the trauma…
FNE Europa Distribution - Distributor of the Month: Antoine Bagnaninchi
FNE together with Europa Distribution continues its Distributor of the Month series in recognition of the hard work and excellence of European distributors and the common problems they face -…
Czech Production Proposals Flood Cinematography Fund
PRAGUE: Applications for funding for more than 400 Czech film project proposals have poured into the online site of the Czech Cinematography Fund this week in the wake of the…
PRODUCTION: Solomon and Jude Team Again on Blecher project
BUCHAREST: Producer Ada Solomon, following up her Golden Bear win for Călin Netzer’s Child’s Pose, is developing an adaptation of the writings of Romanian-Jewish author Max Blecher, including Scarred Hearts.…
PRODUCTION: Nvota Comedy-Drama Hostage Shooting
BRATISLAVA: The retro family story Hostage is shooting its first segments following a year's delay in what was originally planned as a winter 2012 production. Location work runs through 7…
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Baby Blues
GDYNIA: Katarzyna Rosłaniec provokes with a surreal, eye-catching outlook on teenage pregnancy with Baby Blues, screening at the 38th Gdynia fest. The story centers on Natalia (Magdalena Berus), a 17-teen-year-old…
Malta Reaches Out at MIPCOM 2013
MALTA: Continuing its push to build a growing slate of international productions, the Malta Film Commission www.mfc.com.mt will be talking up its status as a film-friendly Mediteranean location as the…
Life Feels Good Scores Sales and Montreal Win
GDYNIA: Italy-based indie artfilm sales agent IntraMovies has picked up Polish drama Life Feels Good by Maciej Pieprzyca, which is celebrating victories at the 37th Montreal IFF. The film, also…
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: The Closed Circuit
GDYNIA: The Polish box office hit screening at the 38th Gdynia fest is a timely polemic that takes on questionable practices in Poland's legal system, where, according to the vision…
Cinema City Boardmember Steps Down
WARSAW: The leading multiplex cinema operator in Central & Eastern Europe and in Israel has announced the resignation of Amos Weltsch, member of the board of managing directors, chief operating…
FNE at Venice IFF 2013: The Zero Theorem (Competition) (UK, France, Romania)
VENICE: The distinctive vision that Terry Gilliam brings to all his films is very much in evidence in The Zero Theorem although the chaotic world the director portrays does not…
FNE at Venice Iff 2013: Walesa, Man of Hope (Out of Competition) POLAND
VENICE: The ex-Polish president and leader of Solidarity, Lech Walesa, stole the show as he appeared on the red carpet in Venice for the world premier of Andrzej Wajda’s biopic,…
