Estonia Selects Mother as Oscar Bid
TALLINN: Kadri Kõusaar’s Mother will be Estonia‘s entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards. The film was selected by a selection committee gathered by the Estonian…
FNE at the 2016 Golden Rose National Film Festival: Eighteen
VARNA: Atanas Hristoskov’s low-budget second feature film Eighteen will screen in the main competition of the 34th Golden Rose National Film Festival (19-25 September 2016).
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: The Red Spider
GDYNIA: Marcin Koszałka explores the mind of a serial killer in the Polish/Czech/Slovak coproduction The Red Spider, selected for the main competition of the 41st Gdynia Film Festival (19-24 September…
Serbia and Macedonia Join FNE Association
WARSAW: Serbia and Macedonia have become the newest members of the Film New Europe Association. Both countries have also recently joined the Creative Europe MEDIA programme.
PRODUCTION: Milan Karadzic Shoots Contemporary Rom Com
BELGRADE: Serbian director Milan Karadzic is in production with Biser Bojane, a contemporary romantic comedy. The film is a coproduction between Montenegro and Serbia and is set to open in…
Czech Republic Selects Lost in Munich as Oscar Bid
PRAGUE: Czech Film and Television Academy selected Lost in Munich by Petr Zelenka to be the country‘s entry to the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 89th Academy Awards.…
RE-ACT Co-Development Funding Opens Call for Applications
PORTOROŽ: The second round of RE-ACT Co-Development Funding opened call for applications, which was announced during the 19th Slovenian Film Festival in Portorož. The deadline for application is 15 November…
Rasist Threats Cancel Czech Doc Premiere
PRAGUE: The domestic premiere of the documentary FC Roma by Rozalie Kohoutova and Tomas Bojar, focusing on a football club with mainly Romani players, was cancelled due to threats by…
FNE at the Golden Rose National Film Festival: Inches above the Ground
VARNA: Maxim Genchev’s historical thriller Inches above the Ground will screen in the main competition of the 34th Golden Rose National Film Festival set to take place from 19 to…
FNE at 2016 Gdynia Film Festival: Forest, 4 am
WARSAW: Renowned Polish filmmaker Jan Jakub Kolski will present his new drama Forest, 4 am, starring Krzysztof Majchrzak and Olga Bołądź, in the main competition of the 41st Gdynia Film…
FNE IDF DocBloc: Blind Gulliver: How Observing Exotic Absurdities Can Help Us Observe Follies of Our Own
On 26 September 2016, in Prague's Světozor Cinema, the renowned documentary filmmaker Martin Ryšavý will have a pre-premiere screening of his latest film, Blind Gulliver.
FNE at Warsaw IFF 2016: 32nd Warsaw IFF Announces Lineup
WARSAW: Fifteen films will compete in the international competition of the 32nd Warsaw International Film Festival, which will take place from 7 to 16 October 2016.
Lithuania Selects Seneca‘s Day as Oscar Bid
VILNIUS: Lithuanian Oscar Committee has decided that Seneca‘s Day by Kristijonas Vildžiūnas will be the country‘s entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards. The third film…
Baltic Sea Docs Celebrates 20 Years
RIGA: Twenty five documentary producers pitched their projects at the 20th Baltic Sea Documentary Film Forum (Baltic Sea Docs), which took place from 7 to 11 September 2016. The annual…
FNE at the 2016 Golden Rose National Film Festival: Holiday Makers
VARNA: Ivaylo Penchev’s seaside comedy Holiday Makers will screen in the main competition of the 34th Golden Rose National Film Festival, set to take place from 19 to 25 September…
FNE at 2016 Gdynia Film Festival: The Last Family
GDYNIA: Jan P. Matuszyński’s debut feature The Last Family starring Andrzej Seweryn as the famous Polish painter Zdzisław Beksiński will have its Polish premiere in the main competition of the…
FNE at Slovenian Film Festival in Portorož: Life Is a Trumpet
PORTOROŽ: Croatian/Serbian/Slovenian/Montenegrian coproduction Life Is a Trumpet / Život je truba by Antonio Nuić will be screened in the competition of the 19th Slovenian Film Festival in Portorož (13-18 September…
FNE at Slovenian Film Festival in Portorož: Deckument
PORTOROŽ: Sport documentary Deckument / Deckument: Od rolke do skejta by Slovenian video artists Nina Vrhovec, Matej Lavka, Andro Kajzer and Miha Brodarič, will be screened in the competition of…
Swedish/Estonian Short Film Awarded in Venice to Compete for the European Film Awards
VENICE: The Swedish/Estonian coproduction Amalimbo directed by Juan Pablo Libossart has received the Venice Short Film Nomination Prix for the European Film Awards 2016. Its artist and lead animator is…
FNE TV: Mira Staleva and Stefan Kitanov
FNE TV asked Bulgarian producers and well known Sofia Film Festival helmers Mira Staleva and Stefan Kitanov about how a casual meeting in Venice four years ago developed into a…
