FNE at Portoroz: Class Enemy Builds Suspense
PORTOROZ: A debut feature by director Rok Biček, Class Enemy, screening at the Portoroz fest, is a youth drama revolving around the suicide of a young girl. Her classmates are…
FNE focus on European Sales: Wide Management and Eye on Films
VENICE: FNE spoke to Loic Magneron president of international film sales company Wide Management and founder of the unique project Eye on Films about his strategy to bring more films…
FNE at Venice IFF 2013: Philomena UK
VENICE: Few directors can match Stephen Frears when it comes to getting just the right mixture of laughter and tears from audience and still end up with a thought provoking…
FNE at Venice IFF 2013 : Night Moves (Competition) USA
VENICE: Director Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves is rather hard to swallow as the premise for the film rests on the idea of radical environments blowing up a hydroelectric dam –…
FNE at SOFA: First look at Creative Europe
WROCLAW: First details of how the new EU programme will work were outlined to a panel of European film professionals by Susanne Ding, a European Commission offical for Creative Europe.
FNE at Avvantura Festival Film-Forum 2013: Focus on European coproductions
ZADAR: Avvantura Film-Forum in the beautiful Croatian city of Zadar is one of Europe’s newest film festivals but it is rapidly becoming one of the most important for the regional…
Main features of cinema-going in Poland presented during invitational training
WARSAW: The "DigiTraining Plus: New Technologies for the European Cinemas of theFuture" took place in Warsaw and Cracow 28 August - 1 September 2013.
FNE at Venice IFF 2013: Joe (Competition) USA
VENICE: Sometime Hollywood action hero Nicholas Cage reminds us that he started out as a very fine actor in this outing directed by David Gordon Green.
FNE Europa Cinemas: Cinema of the Month - Arthouse Cinema Niagara, Tampere
TAMPERE: This month we speak with Juha Elomäki, theatre manager of Arthouse Cinema Niagara, Tampere. The theatre opened in 1985, but it is has been operating under its current name…
PRODUCTION: Anna Wieczur-Bluszcz Developing Drama
WARSAW: The director of comedy Being Like Deyna is prepping her first feature drama, All the Animals with You, based on a book of the same title by a Serbian…
Czech Parliament Puts Delayed Incentives Back on Track
The Czech government has ended months of delay in implementing this year's round of cash back film production incentives, a systemic snag caused by the collapse of the administration of…
Czech Lions Founder Examining Cosmic Questions Via Documentary
PRAGUE: Petr Vachler, founder of the Czech Lions awards, has begun shooting his second film – feature length documentary The Meaning and Mystery of Life (Tajemství a smysl života), in…
FNE at Venice FF 2013: Special notice for film journalists coming to Venice
VENICE:This year for the first time Film New Europe together with FIPRESCI would like to hear from all journalists attending the Venice Film Festival. You also have a chance if…
FNE at SOFA: Agent School Helps Structure Original European Projects
WROCLAW: A festival box office database, an interactive cinema programming system and a short film incubator are just a few of innovative projects developed at the first edition of the…
FNE - IDF DocBloc: CEE Work Inspires French Fest
NANCY: France's Aye Aye fest, celebrating the best in documentary work with a strong focus on projects from CEE countries, kicks off today. East Silver titles including Sofia winner Sickfuckpeople…
Georgian Comedy Blind Dates Sold by Films Boutique
TBILISI: Levan Koguashvili's Blind Dates, which won the works-in-progress prize at Karlovy Vary this summer, is being repped by Germany's Films Boutique as it head to the Toronto IFF for…
PRODUCTION:Ujica Preps Tomorrow Never Knows aka The Beatles Project
BUCHAREST: Following up on the acclaimed The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, Andrei Ujica is working on a new non-fiction film, tentatively called Tomorrow Never Knows, exploring the weekend 13-15 August…
PRODUCTION: Polish-Norwegian Creative Documentary Looks at Absent Parents
WARSAW: Director Åse Svenheim Drivenes is shooting Around My Family Table, focused on the lives of children whose parents were forced to leave and work abroad.
FNE at Venice FF 2013: Andrzej Wajda’s Walesa, Man of Hope Premiers in Venice
VENICE: Veteran Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda will receive the 2013 Persol Award at a special gala award ceremony at the Palazzo del Cinema in Venice on 5 September.
PRODUCTION: Animated Diplodocus Wins Media Development Funding
WARSAW: Diplodocus, an animated film based on a legendary Polish comic, has won an 80,000 EUR development grant from Media.
