FNE at Cannes 2018: Review: Cold War
CANNES: Polish director Paweł Pawlikowski has pulled of a near impossible task of following his masterpiece Ida with a possibly even better film Cold War which screens in competition in…
How to Sell a War Completes Filming and Begins Pre-Sales
LONDON: How to Sell a War, the fiction feature film debut of documentary director Rudolph Herzog, has completed shooting. It was filmed on location in in Georgia and Dublin. Production…
MIDPOINT Opens Applications for 2019 Programmes
PRAGUE: The international script and development programme MIDPOINT has opened the call for applications to its 2019 Feature Launch and TV Launch workshops.
FNE IDF DocBloc: Interview with Kim Longinotto
Documentary director Kim Longinotto discusses her approach to filmmaking.
FNE at Cannes 2018: Review: Summer / Leto
CANNES: Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov has not arrived in Cannes with his Cannes competition film Summer because he is under house arrest in Moscow accused of embezzling state funds meant…
Polish Films Find Box Office Success in Poland and UK
WARSAW: Pitbull. The Last Dog is closing in on 5 M EUR in its domestic release in Poland, after seven weeks. The film rose one place in the weekly rankings,…
FNE at 6th CineDOC Tbilisi IDFF: Simon Lereng Wilmont's War Film Wins CineDOC Top Prize
TBILISI: Simon Lereng Wilmont's film The Distant Barking of Dogs won the main award of the international competition of the 6th edition of CinéDOC-Tbilisi, the first international documentary film festival…
FNE UNIC EU Policy Update 07.05.2018.
WARSAW: FNE has teamed up with the Brussels based team of the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC) to bring you regular updates on EU cinema policies that impact all industry…
FESTIVALS: Twelve Films Head to Transilvania IFF Competition
CLUJ-NAPOCA: Two films by Romanian directors are among the 12 films selected for the main competition at the 17th Transilvania IFF, taking place 25 May – 3 June 2018.
Script East Unveils Cannes 2018 Script Workshop Participants
CANNES: Eleven scripts have been selected for the 2018 edition of ScripTeast, the script development and competition programme taking place 10 – 16 May 2018 in Cannes.
EFP 2018 Producer on the Move: Veselka Kiryakova, Bulgaria
SOFIA: Veselka Kiryakova represents Bulgaria at the European Film Promotion’s 2018 Producers on the Move event taking place 10-14 May during the Cannes Film Festival.
EFP 2018 Producers on the Move Bring a Broad Range of Experience to Cannes
CANNES: European Film Promotion is gearing up to introduce 20 European producers at its 2018 edition of Producers on the Move, taking place 10-14 May at the Cannes Film Festival.
FNE at Cannes 2018: Bumper Year for CEE in Cannes Official Selection
CANNES: It looks like 2018 is going to be a bumper year for films from the central and eastern European region in Cannes. The Main Competition, Certain Regard, Quinzaine and…
EFP 2018 Producer on the Move: Biljana Tutorov, Serbia
SOFIA: Biljana Tutorov represents Serbia at the European Film Promotion’s 2018 Producers on the Move event taking place 10-14 May during the Cannes Film Festival.