Bank Wins Estonia’s 100 TV Series Competition
TALLINN: Bank written by Eero Epner and Tarmo Jüristo has won the Estonian Republic 100 TV series competition held to mark Estonia’s 100th anniversary.
FNE at Scanorama 2016: Estonia Wins New Baltic Cinema Short Film Competition
VILNIUS: The Estonian short The Mousoleum by director Lauri Randla won the New Baltic Cinema competition of the European Film Forum Scanorama, with the winners announced on 13 November 2016.…
Loving Vincent Sold to over 100 Countries
WARSAW: Loving Vincent, a fully painted animation feature about Van Gogh, directed by Dorota Kobiela, has been sold to over 100 countries worldwide.
PRODUCTION: European Legend Veljko Bulajic Preps New Project at 88
ZAGREB: Acclaimed 88-year-old writer/director Veljko Bulajic is in preparation with Escape to the Sea, a coproduction between Croatia, Montenego, Macedonia, Slovenia and Germany.
FNE AV Innovation: Ten innovative ways indie cinemas are attracting new audiences
PARIS: Last year, we did a European Tour of Cinemas during 120 days visiting 100 cinemas looking for cinemas in reinvention. What we wanted was to find inspiration and advice…
FNE at connecting cottbus 2016: Macedonia, Ukraine Take coco Awards
COTTBUS: The Ukrainian/Swiss Wild East crime comedy Voroshilovgrad won the best pitch award at connecting cottbus on 10 November 2016 and the Macedonian drama Sister received the coco Post Pitch…
First ‘Festival-To-Date’ Distribution in Macedonia
SKOPJE: CutAway Films Distribution has launched “Festival-to-Date,” a new innovative distribution initiative, which will make films simultaneously available at festivals and online for the first time in the Balkans. The…
FNE at Cottbus Film Festival 2016: Triffonova Preps Pre-WWI Film as Prosecutor Eyes Foreign Sales
COTTBUS: Bulgarian director Iglika Triffonova, who attended the 26th Cottbus Film Festival, running through 13 November 2016, for the competition screening of her film The Prosecutor, the Defender, the Father…
HBO Europe Award Goes to German/Bulgarian Hausen
BRATISLAVA: The first HBO Europe Award for Best Television Project, which was given at MIDPOINT TV Launch in Banská Štiavnica in Slovakia on 9 November 2016, went to Hausen, written…
FNE at connecting cottbus 2016: Sister
COTTBUS: Macedonia arrived at connecting cottbus on 10 November with Sister, an intimate drama about testing the limits of friendship. The film is produced by List Production and directed by…
FNE at connecting cottbus 2016: Hornet in a Bottle
COTTBUS: Czech director Vit Zapletal and producer Mikulas Novotny of Background Films presented the 1970’s era drama Hornet in a Bottle at the 2016 edition of connecting cottbus on 10…
FNE at connecting cottbus 2016: Berliner
COTTBUS: Romanian dynamic production company Mandragora and rising director Marian Crisan pitched Crisan’s political black comedy Berliner at connecting cottbus on 10 November 2016.
FNE at connecting cottbus 2016: Heirs
COTTBUS: Cottbus has been working aggressively toward strengthening the German-Polish connection in the film industry. This year one example of that partnership is the connecting cottbus project Heirs.
FNE DocBloc: Reversing Oblivion
Reversing Oblivion, a documentary about an American who discovers and tries to rehabilitate an estate in Upper Silesia that once belonged to her grandparents, will have its world premiere in…
At Hostar Dominates Slovenian Box Office
LJUBLJANA: The indie Slovenian comedy At Hostar / Pr’ Hostar by Luka Marčetić continued to dominate the Slovenian box office and attendance for the second week with almost 90,000 admissions.…
RTS and Film Center Serbia Sign Collaboration Agreement
BELGRADE: The Serbian national broadcast company RTS and Film Center Serbia signed a collaboration agreement on 28 September 2016. The agreement comes after a series of successful joint projects between…
FNE at Cottbus Film Festival 2016: Opening Night Award for Kirsten Niehuus
COTTBUS: Kirsten Niehuus of Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg was the surprise winner of the Cottbus Film Festival’s Lubina award at the festival’s opening night, 8 November 2016.
PRODUCTION: Nevio Marasović Preps Comic Sans
ZAGREB: Acclaimed director/scriptwriter Nevio Marasović is in preparation with Comic Sans (working title), a feature film produced by Ankica Jurić Tilić through Kinorama.
UK Release for I, Olga Hepnarova
PRAGUE: I, Olga Hepnarova, a Czech/Slovak/Polish/French coproduction directed by Petr Kazda and Tomáš Weinreb, will be theatrically released in the UK on 18 November 2016, following its UK premiere on…
FNE UNIC EU Policy Update 08.11.2016
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…
