Winning Czech Documentary Free on VOD
PRAGUE: David Čálek's Climbing Higher, the most attended documentary of 2015 in Czech cinemas and winner of best feature length film award at Canada’s Banff Mountain Film Competition in November…
Poland's Supreme Court Rejects Polański Extradition Request
WARSAW: Poland's Supreme Court has rejected a request by the country's justice minister to have Roman Polański extradited to the United States.
PRODUCTION: Srdan Golubović Preps New Project
BELGRADE: Serbian helmer Srdan Golubović is in preparation with Father / Otac, a feature film co-written together with the Croatian writer/director Ognjen Sviličić and based on true events. The film…
PRODUCTION: Waiting for Invasion Shooting
VILNIUS: Documentary Waiting for Invasion by Neringa Medutyte will wrap shooting in December 2016, with the premiere set for the first quarter of 2017. The film is a coming-of-age story…
GRANTS: Bosnia and Herzegovina Announces Grants, Žbanić, Tanović and Ceylan among Winners
SARAJEVO: Film Fund announced production and development grants for 2016. Over 650,000 EUR / 1,274,000 KM has been allotted to feature and short films, minority coproductions and for development. The…
PRODUCTION: Petr Vaclav in Final Development with Big Budget Biopic Il Boemo
PRAGUE: Petr Vaclav will start the casting for Il Boemo, the biopic of Mozart’s friend, Czech composer Josef Myslivecek, in January 2017. The project received the biggest grant ever from…
Pitbull. Dangerous Women Tops a Strong Polish Box Office
WARSAW: Patryk Vega’s action thriller Pitbull. Dangerous Women set a record with 2.1 m admissions during the first three weeks in cinemas, making it the most popular film in Polish…
FNE Europa Distribution: Distributor of the Month: Greta Akcijonaite, Kino Pasaka
FNE and Europa Distribution are launching a new chapter in our Distributor of the Month section focusing on new trends and challenges of film distribution. In the coming months we…
FESTIVALS: Soy Nero Wins 22nd Belgrade Auteur Film Festival
BELGRADE: Soy Nero by Rafi Pitts was awarded the Grand Prix “Aleksandar Saša Petrović” for Best Film at the 22nd Belgrade Auteur Film Festival – FAF (25 November – 3…
GRANTS: Bulgaria Announces Second Production Grants in 2016
SOFIA: Bulgarian National Film Center allotted slightly above 2m EUR / 4 m BGN at its second session on 2 December 2016. Six feature films and four short films received…
FNE Europa Cinemas: Cinema of the Month: Splendid Palace, Riga
This month we speak with Aiga Stengrevica, the manager of Splendid Palace, a splendid cinema located in the historical center of Riga, in a national architectural monument founded in 1923…
FESTIVALS: House of Others Wins the 17th Tbilisi IFF
TBILISI: House of Others by Rusudan Glurjidze was awarded Golden Prometheus for best film at the 17th Tbilisi International Film Festival (28 November - 4 December 2016) while Months, as…
Remake of Papillon Wraps Shooting in Malta
VALLETTA: Remake of Papillon directed by Michael Noer and starring Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek wrapped shooting in Malta.
First EAVE Puentes 2017 Workshop to Be Held during 64th Pula FF
PULA: The first EAVE Puentes - Europe/Latin America Co-Production Workshop 2017 will be held in Pula during the 64th Pula Film Festival in partnership with the RE-ACT transregional initiative.
GRANTS: Czech Film Fund Gives Production Grants to Six Films
PRAGUE: The Czech State Cinematography Fund distributed 60 m CZK / 2,217,000 EUR in the late November round of production grants for 2016. From the total of 21 applications in…
Croatia Tallies over 5 M EUR in MEDIA Funding
ZAGREB: Croatia has received 5.3 m EUR in grants from MEDIA since joining in 2008 as the first non-EU member country, bringing in at least four to five times as…
FNE at Cinemania 2016: Cinemania Celebrates 30th Anniversary
SOFIA: Bulgaria’s most important autumn film celebration Cinemania, which opened at the National Palace of Culture on 17 November 2016 with Peter Valchanov’s and Kristina Grozeva’s Glory coproduced by Bulgaria’s…
Georgia and Bulgaria Score Slots at Sundance
WARSAW: The Georgian film My Happy Family directed by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross and produced by Georgia’s Polare Film Llc has been selected for the World Cinema Dramatic Competition…
FNE/IDF DocBloc: IDFA Awards Ex Oriente Doc
The Estonian documentary Come Back Free won the Special Jury Prize in Amsterdam.
Romania Approves New Film Law
BUCHAREST: The Romanian government approved an emergency ordinance regarding the film industry shortly before the parliamentary elections set for 11 December 2016. Most of the articles of the draft proposed…
