Bulgaria Selects The Judgment as Oscar Entry
SOFIA: By secret ballot applied for the first time this year the National Film Council of the Bulgarian National Film Center selected Stephan Komandarev's The Judgment as the country's official…
White God Wins MECEFF
MEDIAŞ: Kornel Mundruczo’s White God was awarded Best Film at the 5th Mediaş Central European Film Festival (MECEFF) which took place in the Transylvanian town of Mediaş from 1 to…
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: The Eccentrics. The Sunny Side of the Street
GDYNIA: Janusz Majewski's spy drama The Eccentrics. The Sunny Side of the Street will have its premiere in the main competition at Gdynia Film Festival, 14-19 September.
FNE at Slovenian Film Festival in Portoroz: Idyll
PORTOROZ: Tomaž Gorkič’s debut feature Idyll premiered at the 11th Grossman film & wine Festival in August 2015 and will also compete at the Slovenian Film Festival in Portoroz (15…
Tallinn Black Night FF Opens New Competition and Expands Works in Progress Programme
TALLINN: The 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (13-29 November 2015) will run a new Tridens First Feature Competition and will expand the Works in Progress programme.The new Sales Agents…
FNE at Venice 2015: Equals COMPETITION
VENICE: We have seen the future and it is white and chic but not much fun. That seems to be the message in director Drake Doremus’s visually stunning but rather…
FNE at Venice 2015: The Danish Girl COMPETITION
VENICE: Tom Hooper who directed The King’s Speech arrives in Venice with another film based on real life characters this time the story of transgender pioneer, Lili Elbe, in The…
FNE at Venice FF 2015: Beasts of No Nation COMPETITION
VENICE: Director Cary Fukunaga’s unflinching Beasts of No Nation based on the novel by Nigerian author Uzodinma Iweala about the life of Agu, a child soldier torn from his family…
PRODUCTION: Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard Shoot Assassin’s Creed in Malta
VALLETTA: Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard are reuniting for the shooting of Justin Kurzel’s new project, Assassin’s Creed, which has just started filming in Malta and is benefitting from the…
Finland Selected Finnish, Estonian, German Coproduction The Fencer as Oscar Bid
HELSINKI: The Fencer by Klaus Härö has been selected as the official Finnish feature candidate for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2016 Oscar Awards. This…
12th Digitraining Plus Highlights New Challenge of Costly Upgrade for Europe’s Digital Cinemas
PRAGUE AND BRATISLAVA: European cinemas face a new challenge as cinemas that were digitalized in the early phase of the new technology are facing the need to invest in upgrades…
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Chemo
GDYNIA: Bartosz Prokopowicz's debut feature Chemo will have its premiere in the main competition at the 40th Gdynia Film Festival. The film will open in the Polish cinemas on 2…
FNE at Slovenian Film Festival in Portoroz: Partisan Priest
PORTOROZ: Bojan Labovic's documentary Partisan Priest will be screened in the official programme out of the competition at the Slovenian Film Festival in Portoroz. The 18th edition of the festival…
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: Political Docu-drama 1989 at Forum 2000
This year's edition of the Forum 2000 conference will host project KineDok within its programme, screening the documentary film 1989 at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Prague on 15 September…
FNE at Gdynia Polish Film Festival: Jacek Bromski’s Anatomy of Evil
GDYNIA: One of Poland’s most popular and successful directors, Jacek Bromski is back in Gdynia with the hotly anticipated crime thriller Anatomy of Evil which will premiere in the main…
Anim’est Announces Line up
BUCHAREST: Five awarded long animated films have been selected at the 10th edition of Anim’est International Film Festival (2-11 October 2015). In 10 years, Anim’est has established itself as one…
