Lithuanian Documentary Tops Local Charts
VILNIUS: Lithuania is the second Baltic country (alongside Estonia) to have a documentary leading the box office charts over the Easter season. Valstybes Paslaptis, a documentary about Lithuanian President Dalia…
Record Polish Admissions for First Quarter of 2019
WARSAW: Poland had 18,811,913 cinema admissions in the first quarter of 2019, the best result in the past two years. The three top box office films are domestic productions.
MIDPOINT Launches Writers’ Room
PRAGUE: The CEE based development programme MIDPOINT announced the launch of a new workshop, MIDPOINT Writers’ Room, a sidebar programme to its MIDPOINT TV Launch programme which began in 2015.
PRODUCTION: Mira Fornay to Complete Post-production on Long-Awaited Third Film
BRATISLAVA: The award-winning Slovak director Mira Fornay, whose second feature My Dog Killer / Môj pes Killer (CINEART TV Prague) won the Tiger award at the 42nd IFF Rotterdam, is…
EFP Announces 20th Producers on the Move Selection
HAMBURG: Producers from Slovenia, Serbia, Poland, Latvia and Croatia are among the 20 participants chosen for the prestigious Producers on the Move programme of European Film Promotion.
PRODUCTION: Dariusz Gajewski in Post-production with Legions
WARSAW: Dariusz Gajewski has finished shooting a major costume drama about the Polish Legions established by Józef Piłsudski, with a planned budget of 6.3 m EUR / 27 m PLN.
TVP to Launch Channel in Lithuania
WARSAW: Polish public broadcaster TVP will launch a TVP Vilnius channel in Lithuania in May 2019.
FNE UNIC EU Policy Update 23.04.2019.
WARSAW: FNE has teamed up with the Brussels based team of the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC) to bring you regular updates on EU cinema policies that impact all industry…
FNE at Cannes 2019: Films from CEE Countries in Cannes’ Cinéfondation and Sidebar Sections
CANNES: Films from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland were selected for Cannes’ Cinéfondation competition. Majority and minority coproductions from Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, the Czech Republic and Bosnia and…
Protests Greet Planned Closing of Zagreb’s Kino Europa
ZAGREB: Croatians and a large international cultural contingent are protesting the closing of Kino Europa by the City of Zagreb.
FESTIVALS: Smuggling Hendrix Wins Cyprus Film Days
LIMASSOL: Marios Piperides’ film Smuggling Hendrix is the unsurprising winner of both the national competition and the Audience Award at the 17th Cyprus Film Days International Festival, which concluded on…
FNE at Zlin IFF :The Question Thief Premieres at Zlin
ZLIN: Three Central European films have been selected for the main competitions of the 59th Zlin International Festival for Children and Youth, running 24 May – 1 June 2019, including…
FNE at CEE Animation Foum: Nine Animated Features Pitch in Trebon
PRAGUE: Nine animated feature film projects, ten TV projects and 13 short animated films in development will be presented at the 2019 edition of the CEE Animation Forum (formerly Visegrad…
FNE at Cannes 2019: Main Competition Announced: Porumboiu’s The Whistlers Scores Slot in Lineup
BUCHAREST: Romanian writer/director Corneliu Porumboiu enters Cannes’ competition for the first time with the Romanian/French/German coproduction The Whistlers/La Gomera starring Vlad Ivanov. La Gomera is the only film from CEE…
GRANTS: Georgia Supports Four International Coproductions
TBILISI: The Georgian National Film Center distributed 393,333 EUR / 1,180,000 GEL for the production of four international coproductions directed by Zaza Khalvashi, Giorgi Ovashvili, Rusudan Glurjidze and Aleksandre Koberidze.
Ji.hlava Film Fund and Docu Talents from the East Deadlines
PRAGUE: Documentary filmmakers have until 30 April 2019 to apply for the Ji.hlava Film Fund and Docu Talents from the East.
FNE IDF DocBloc: East Silver Caravan Film Wins at Moscow IDFF
The Moscow IDFF Best Film award went to Ksenia Elyan's How Big is the Galaxy.
PRODUCTION: Bodo Kox Shoots WWII Drama Series
WARSAW: Bodo Kox has started work on the historical series People and Gods. It is produced by TVP and based on authentic events from World War II, presenting the history…
First MIDPOINT Intensive Lithuania Selects Four Projects
VILNIUS: The MIDPOINT development programme continues to expand its reach with its first Lithuanian workshop, set for 5-8 May 2019. The organisers have announced the titles of the four projects…
FESTIVALS: Domestic Wins Finale Plzen Grand Prize
PLZEN: The Czech/Slovak coproduction Domestic directed by Adam Sedlak took home the Golden Kingfisher for best film at the 31st Finale Plzen national festival of Czech films, which ran 11-16…
