Latvia to Launch Co-financing Fund
RIGA: National Film Centre of Latvia will grant 946,010 EUR in 2016 through the newly established Co-financing Fund, aiming to attract foreign financing for Latvian film industry and to promote…
Polish War Hero Jan Karski to Reach Big Screen
WARSAW: Producers Ole Wendorff-Østergaard from Sputnik Film and Anna Wydra from Otter Films will coproduce the adaption of the war hero Jan Karski's book Story of a Secret State as…
FESTIVALS: Vilnius IFF Announces Lineup
VILNIUS: Ten films will compete in the international competition New Europe – New Names of the 21th Vilnius International Film Festival which kicks off on 31 March 2016.
FNE at Berlinale 2016: See how the FIPRESCI critics rated the programme
FNE has teamed up with FIPRESCI critics attending the Berlinale to rate the films in the Main Competition, Panorama and Forum giving the films 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5…
FNE at Berlinale 2016: United States of Love
BERLIN: Polish director Tomasz Wasilewski arrives in Berlin with his Polish Swedish coproduction United States of Love and while early 1990s Poland might have been a rather chaste and Catholic…
US Cobbler Films in Lithuania
VILNIUS: The American film and TV production company Kaleidoscope Pictures is shooting the television film The Cobbler/Batsiuvys based on a story by Leo Tolstoy in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Planeta Singli Tops Polish Charts
WARSAW: The Polish romantic comedy Planeta Singli by Slovenian director Mitja Okorn rode to the top of the charts following its 5 February 2016 release.
FNE IDF DocBloc: Girl Power to the Cinemas
The Czech documentary Girl Power will be released in Czech cinemas on 27 February 2016.
FNE at Berlinale 2016: Cottbus Brunch Awards and Photos
BERLIN: FilmFestival Cottbus and Connecting Cottbus handed out two prizes during its annual Berlinale Brunch held at the Representation Building of the Federal State of Brandenburg in Berlin. Young film…
FNE at Berlinale 2016: Party and Screening Alert: Friday 19 February, Saturday 20 February and Sunday 21 February
Friday 19 February
FNE at Berlinale 2016: See how the FIPRESCI critics rate the programme so far
FNE has teamed up with FIPRESCI critics attending the Berlinale to rate the films in the Main Competition, Panorama and Forum giving the films 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5…
FNE at Berlinale 2016: Zero Days
BERLIN: Documentaries seems to be popping up ever more frequently in the main competitions of major A-list festivals and Berlin this year boasts two. Oscar-winning documentary maker Alex Gibney’s Zero…
Agnus Dei Sold to UK
WARSAW: The French/Polish coproduction Agnus Dei has sold UK distribution rights to Picturehouse.
Cinema City Romania Consolidates Position in Cineworld
BUCHAREST: Cinema City Romania will open four new multiplexes in four cities including Bucharest in 2016. In 2015 Cinema City Romania reached the third position in Cineworld after the UK…
Star Wars Sets Croatian Shoot
DUBROVNIK: The eighth film of the Star Wars franchise will film in Dubrovnik in March 2016.
OBITUARY: Andrzej Żuławski
WARSAW: Andrzej Żuławski, winner of the best director award at the 2015 Locarno Film Festival, died on 17 February 2016.
FNE at Berlinale 2016: Party and Screening Alert: Thursday 18 February and Friday 19 February
Thursday 18 February
FNE at Berlinale 2016: Genius
BERLIN: Successful London theatre director Michal Grandage makes an accomplished feature film debut with Genius a 1920s period piece set in the New York of the Roaring Twenties and boasting…
Ice Mother Acquired by Match Factory
PRAGUE: The Match Factory has acquired Bohdan Slama’s Ice Mother produced by Negativ , Artileria, Why Not Productions (FR) Czech Television, Barrandov Studio, RTVS.
Turkish Cypriot actor to star in Game of Thrones
NICOSIA: Turkish Cypriot actor Tamer Hassan will star in the sixth season of the American fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones, to be aired on 24 April 2016.
