Slovenian Cinemas Hit With New COVID Restrictions
LJUBLJANA: Newly announced Covid prevention measures declared by the Slovenian Government will limit the activities in the field of cinema exhibition. The restrictions include upgrading acceptable mandated masks, presentation of…
PRODUCTION: Goran Kulenović Shoots The Death of the Little Match Girl
ZAGREB: Goran Kulenović has started filming his feature film The Death of the Little Match Girl on the Croatian island of Rab, after a year of COVID-related delays. The adaptation…
FESTIVALS: Cyprus IFF 2021 Opens in Nicosia and Lanarca
NICOSIA: The 16th edition of the Cyprus International Film Festival (CYIFF) opens 11 November 2021 in Nicosia before moving on to Lanarca and closing on 17 November.
FESTIVALS: Darko Sinko's Inventory Competes at Ljubljana IFF 2021
LJUBLJANA: Darko Sinko's debut film Inventory / Inventura screens in the competition of the 32nd Ljubljana IFF, taking place 10 – 21 November 2021.
East Doc Platform and CEE Animation Deadlines Approach
PRAGUE: CEE Animation Forum is accepting applications for its 2022 Workshop through 15 November 2021. The programme is now open to professionals from all EU member states.
PRODUCTION: Luka Marčetič Finishes Shooting Sequel to Slovenian Cult Hit At Hostar
LJUBLJANA: Luka Marčetič has finished shooting At Hostar 2 / Pr’Hostar 2 ‰, the Slovenian domestic hit that still holds the record for the most admissions since 1991. The shooting,…
Films From FNE Partner Countries Nominated for European Film Academy Awards
BERLIN: Quo Vadis, Aida? by Bosnian director Jasmila Žbanić has been nominated for four 2021 European Film Academy Awards, including European film and European director. Compartment No. 6, a Finnish/Russian/Estonian/German…
FNE Podcast: Visegrad YR 2021: Gábor Osváth: Producer Hungary
FNE’s Georgian correspondent Alexander Gabelia spoke to Gábor Osváth, emerging producer from Hungary, about the challenges he has faced as a producer during the pandemic, as well as about the…
FNE at Verzió Film Festival 2021: Hungarian Competition: Her Mothers
BUDAPEST: Her Mothers directed by Ásia Dér and Sári Haragonics screens in the Hungarian Competition of the 2021 Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, which screens in cinemas 9…
FESTIVALS: Lithuanian/Estonian Doc Gentle Warriors at 2021 Scanorama
VILNIUS: Gentle Warriors directed by Marija Stonyte screens in the New in Lithuanian Film programme at the 2021 edition of Scanorama, which runs 4 – 14 November 2021. The film…
Romanian Film Centre Makes Union Cinema Available for Domestic Short Films Premieres
BUCHAREST: The Romanian Film Centre (CNC) has announced that it will make available one of the two cinemas of the Romanian Film Archive in Bucharest, the Union Cinema, for the…
FNE Visegrad YR2021: Slovak Production: Post-Pandemic Boom
BRATISLAVA: Slovak film production in 2021 has restarted with unprecedented intensity, after a challenging year in 2020, when the film industry remained paralysed by the pandemic and filming was completely…
FESTIVALS: Bulgaria Postpones 2021 Golden Rhyton FF As COVID Worsens
SOFIA: Bulgaria’s NFC has announced the postponement of the 26th edition of the most important national non-fiction film festival Golden Rhyton, originally scheduled to take place in Plovdiv 3-9 December…
BOX OFFICE: South Wind 2 – Speed Up Tops Serbian Box Office By a Landslide
BELGRADE: Domestic films continues to be the major draw in the case of Serbian cinemas. The latest in a long series, the action thriller South Wind 2 – Speed Up…
PRODUCTION: Václav Marhoul Preps Czech/American Coproduction McCarthy
PRAGUE: Václav Marhoul is in preproduction with a biography of the disgraced American Senator Joseph McCarthy. The film under the working title McCarthy and slogan “The Godfather of Fear” is…
FESTIVALS: Tbilisi International Animation Festival 2021 Announces Winners
TBILISI: Mom by France-based director Kajika Aki Ferrazzini was awarded the Grand Prize at the 4th edition of the Tbilisi International Animation Festival, which was finally held in a hybrid…
FESTIVALS: Svaneti Residence Announces Participants
TBILISI: Six young Georgian directors are participating in the first edition of the Svaneti International Film Festival's script development residence, which will last for 20 days. The directors are working…
FESTIVALS: Runner by Andrius Blaževičius Screens at 2021 Scanorama
VILNIUS: Lithuanian director Andrius Blaževičius’s second feature film Runner, a Lithuanian/Czech coproduction, which was previously titled Paralysis, screens in Scanorama’s New in Lithuanian Film section at the festival which runs…
FESTIVALS: Peter Kerekes Takes Top Prize at 2021 FilmFestival Cottbus
COTTBUS: Peter Kerekes’s hybrid film 107 Mothers, which weaves documentary into fiction, won the Main Prize of the 31st Cottbus Film Festival, which concluded on 7 November 2021.
