FNE at 2018 TIFF Romanian Days: Touch Me Not

CLUJ-NAPOCA: Adina Pintilie’s first film Touch Me Not was selected for the main competition and also for the Romanian Days competition of the 17th Transilvania IFF, running from 25 May…
01-06-2018

FNE at 2018 TIFF Romanian Days: Soldiers. A Story from Ferentari

CLUJ-NAPOCA: The first feature film by Ivana Mladenovic, Soldiers. A Story from Ferentari, will screen in the Romanian Days competition of the 17th Transilvania IFF, running from 25 May to…
01-06-2018

FESTIVALS: East of the West Competition Films

PRAGUE: Twelve films are competing in the East of the West competition at the 53rd Karlovy Vary IFF.
01-06-2018

FNE at Zlin IFF: Planet Nemo Animation Picks up Harvie and the Magic Museum

ZLIN: French sales agent Planet Nemo Animation picked up the animated Czech/Belgian/Russian coproduction Harvie and the Magic Museum directed by Martin Kotík and Inna Evlannikova.
01-06-2018

FNE IDF DocBloc: Pavel Koutecky Award Winner Announced

Petr Horky won the 2018 Pavel Kotecky Award.
01-06-2018

GRANTS: Nine Features Get Czech Film Fund Support

PRAGUE: The Czech Film Fund supported the production of nine feature films, totalling 65 m CZK / 2.509,168 EUR.
31-05-2018

FNE AT ZLIN IFF: Czech State Cinematography Fund Aims to Increase Youth Film Audiences

ZLIN: Building teen attendance in cinemas is one of the goals of the New Cinema 2018-2019 project, designed to educate cinema operators on improving youth film audience numbers, presented at…
31-05-2018

FNE at Zlin IFF: International Coproduction Winter Flies Wraps Post-production

ZLIN: Winter Flies, a new film from Olmo Omerzu, coproduced by the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, France and Poland, is being readied for a summer 2018 release.
31-05-2018

FNE at 2018 TIFF Romanian Days: The Secret of Happiness

CLUJ-NAPOCA: Romanian actor Vlad Zamfirescu's directing debut feature The Secret of Happiness will screen in the Romanian Days competition of the 17th Transilvania IFF, running from 25 May to 3…
31-05-2018

PRODUCTION: Italy Comes Onboard Dušan Milić’s Darkling

BELGRADE: The Italian fund Fondo Audiovisio FVG has announced a grant of 56,000 EUR for Darkling / Mrak by Serbian director Dušan Milić. The film, which will be Milić’s fourth…
30-05-2018

FNE at 2018 TIFF Romanian Days: Infinite Football

CLUJ-NAPOCA: Corneliu Porumboiu’s documentary Infinite Football will screen in the Romanian Days competition of the 17th Transilvania IFF, running from 25 May to 3 June 2018. The film had its…
30-05-2018

FNE at Zlin IFF: Michal Hogenauer in Postproduction with Certain Kind of Silence

ZLIN: Certain Kind of Silence, a coproduction between the Czech Republic, Latvia and The Netherlands, is being readied for a summer 2018 release.
30-05-2018

FNE at Zlin IFF: Slovak Music Film BACKSTAGE Set to Premiere in Czech Republic

ZLIN: BACKSTAGE, a music film coproducion between Slovakia and the Czech Republic, directed by Andrea Sedláčková, will open in Czech cinemas on 7 June 2018 distributed by Bontonfilm. The film…
30-05-2018

FESTIVALS: Karlovy Vary Announces Competition Films

PRAGUE: The Karlovy Vary IFF announced the 12 films that will screen in the main competition. Ten of the films will be world premieres. The festival will take place 29…
30-05-2018

FESTIVALS: Slovak Season at Art Film Fest

KOSICE: Eleven full-length films and four short films will screen in the packed Slovak Season section of the 26th Art Film Fest, which runs 15 – 23 June in the…
29-05-2018

FNE at Zlin IFF: Juraj Nvota Directs Czech/Slovak Kids Detective Series

ZLIN: The celebratory zero clapperboard at 58th Zlin IFF launched the production of Crime Story 5.C, an upcoming Czech/Slovak coproduction for children directed by Juraj Nvota.
29-05-2018

FNE at 2018 TIFF Romanian Days: Pororoca

CLUJ-NAPOCA: Constantin Popescu’s third feature film Pororoca will screen in the Romanian Days competition of the 17th Transilvania IFF, running from 25 May to 3 June 2018. This Romanian/French coproduction…
29-05-2018

PRODUCTION: Bosnian Animated Series in Production

BANJA LUKA: The boutique animation studio Aeon Production is producing The Adventures of Tubby and Stretch, a children’s animated TV series for the national TV station of Bosnia and Herzegovina…
28-05-2018

FNE at 2018 TIFF Romanian Days: Meda or The Not So Happy Side of Things

CLUJ-NAPOCA: Emanuel Pârvu’s debut feature Meda or the Not So Happy Side of Things will screen in the Romanian Days competition of the 17th Transilvania IFF, running from 25 May…
28-05-2018

FNE at 2018 TIFF Romanian Days: One Step Behind the Seraphim

CLUJ-NAPOCA: Daniel Sandu’s debut feature One Step Behind the Seraphim will be screened in the Romanian Days competition of the 17th Transilvania IFF, running from 25 May to 3 June…
28-05-2018