OBITUARY: Andrzej Wajda
WARSAW: Master of Polish cinema Andrzej Wajda died on 9 October 2016 at 90. He was one of the most prominent Polish filmmakers with a career spanning more than 65…
Graduation Released in 12 More Territories until the End of 2016
BUCHAREST: Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation will be released in 12 more territories until the end of 2016. The film started its international career after winning Best Director Award ex-aequo at the…
Strong Domestic Opening Week for Gdynia Film Festival Winner Last Family
WARSAW: Jan P. Matuszyński’s debut feature The Last Family had 210,000 admissions during the first week in Polish cinemas. The winner of Best Film Award at the 41st Gdynia Film…
Mustang Screened Simultaneously in 28 Countries in the EU
STRASBOURG: On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Lux Prize, the European Parliament organises a screening of Mustang by Deniz Gamze Ergüven at cinéma l'Odyssée in Strasbourg on…
FESTIVALS: Eleven Debut Features in the Competition of the 14th Tofifest
TORUŃ: Eleven debut features will vie for the Golden Angel Award in the On Air main competition of the 14th Tofifest IFF 2016. The festival will run in Toruń from…
CentEast Market Announces Programme
WARSAW: The 12th edition of CentEast Market Warsaw will present works-in-progress of documentary and fiction films from Slovakia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Poland, Latvia, Georgia and Estonia from 14 to…
Graduation and Toni Erdmann Nominated for the European University Film Award
WROCLAW: Cristian Mungiu's Graduation and Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann are among the five films nominated for the European University Film Award (EUFA), which will be announced during the week of…
The Third EAVE Producers Workshop Ready to Start in Prague
PRAGUE: A record number of 74 leading decision makers from all over the world, 31 fiction and documentary projects and 51 top producing talents from 37 countries will take part…
FNE IDF DocBloc: Salome Jashi Will Give a Masterclass on her Award-winning Film in Jihlava
Among the tutors of the second Ex Oriente Film workshop, organised by the Institute of Documentary Film within the Jihlava IDFF, there will be the award-winning Georgian director and producer…
GRANTS: Croatia Announces Feature and Experimental Film Production Grants
ZAGREB: The Croatian Audiovisual Centre allotted 1,436,403 EUR / 10,790,000 HRK for the production of three feature films, one debut feature and one experimental film on 4 September 2016.
FESTIVALS: Jay Rosenblatt to Receive Camerimage Award for Outstanding Achievements in Documentary Filmmaking
BYDGOSZCZ: Jay Rosenblatt will receive the Award for Outstanding Achievements in Documentary Filmmaking at the 24th International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Camerimage set to run in Bydgoszcz,…
Cinema City Opened Its Fourth Multiplex in Bucharest
BUCHAREST: Cinema City opened its fourth multiplex in Bucharest and the 24th in Romania. The biggest cinema operator in Romania invested 6 m EUR in the multiplex located in the…
Final Registration Days for the 8th Digital Production Challenge II
LISBON: Applications for the 8th edition of Digital Production Challenge II are welcome until 7 October 2016. The upcoming edition of this European workshop on digital production workflows takes place…
FESTIVALS: The First KineNova IFF Ready to Kick Off
SKOPJE: Nine films will vie in the international competition of the first edition of KineNova International Film Festival, which will take place in Skopje from 5 to 9 October 2016.
FESTIVALS: The Seventh Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest Ready to Kick Off
BUCHAREST: The 7th edition of Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest (14-23 October 2016), a festival initiated by director Cristian Mungiu, will expand this year to over 100 screenings and…
FESTIVALS: The Third Be2Can Ready to Start
PRAGUE/BRATISLAVA: The 3rd edition of Be2Can will show the best films screened at Berlinale, Venice and Cannes in the Czech towns of Prague, Brno, Zlín, Ostrava and Olomouc from 6…
FESTIVALS: Inconvenient Films Festival Ready to Kick Off
VILNIUS: Inconvenient Films International Human Rights Film Festival will celebrate its 10th edition with a competition programme almost entirely composed of debut documentaries by female filmmakers. The festival will run…
PRODUCTION: Indian Doc on Czech New Wave in Postproduction in Prague
PRAGUE: Indian documentary Czech Mate – In Search of Jiri Menzel (working title) by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur is currently being edited in the Prague studio MagicLab after six years of…
PRODUCTION: Independent Romanian Feature Film in Preproduction
BUCHAREST: Obscur, the debut feature of Romanian writer/director Andrei Stefanescu, is currently in the financing and preproduction stage. The film is an independent project set for shooting in November 2016.
Simshar Distributed in France
VALLETTA: Rebecca Cremona's debut feature Simshar has become the first Maltese film to be distributed in France after its domestic release in 2014. VisioSfeir is the French distributor.
