FESTIVALS: The Burning Bush Wins MECEFF 2014
MEDIAŞ: Agnieszka Holland's The Burning Bush received the Trophy of Mediaş Central European Film Festival (MECEFF) on 6 September 2014. Austria's Your Beauty Is Worth Nothing by Hüseyin Tabak won…
FNE at Gdynia 2014: Close Ups
WARSAW: Magdalena Piekorz explores the toxic nature of a mother-daughter relationship in Close Ups, a drama that will screen in the main competition of the Gdynia Film Festival running 15-20…
FNE at Potoroz 2014: Barbarians
LJUBLJANA: Barbarians is the first feature movie by Serbian director Ivan Ikić who graduated in Film and TV Directing as the best student of his generation.
OBITUARY: Oscar Winner Karel Cerny
PRAGUE: Czech production designer and art director Karel Cerny, who won an Oscar in 1985 for Amadeus, died 5 September 2014 at age 92.
FNE at Venice IFF 2014: Review: The Postman’s White Nights: Competition
VENICE: Russian master Andrei Konchalovsky is a Biennale veteran and The Postman’s White Nights is his fifth to screen in competition in Venice. Konchalovsky has used a group of non-professionals…
FNE at Venice IFF 2014: Review: Good Kill: Competition
VENICE: American director Andrew Niccol raises a number of important moral dilemmas in his latest film The Good Kill. He also raises awareness about a new kind of warfare that…
FNE FIPRESCI Venice Critics 2014; See how the critics rate the programme so far
FNE together with FIPRESCI have invited FIPRESCI critics in Venice to rate the feature films in the official programme of 71st Venice Film Festival (2014) giving the films 1,2,3,4 or…
FNE at Venice IFF 2014: Screening Alert Friday and Saturday
Friday 5 September - Parties and Events
FNE at Potoroz 2014: Inferno
LJUBLJANA: Inferno, the third feature film by Vinko Möderndorfer (Landscape No. 2, 2008; Suburbs, 2004), competes at the Slovenian Film Festival in Potoroz, 10-14 September 2014.
FNE at Potoroz 2014: The Tree
LJUBLJANA: Slovenian writer and director Sonja Prosenc presents her feature film debut The Tree in Potoroz at the national Slovenian Film Festival running 10-14 September 2014.
FNE IDF DocBloc: Interview with Yuri Rechinsky
The Institute of Documentary Film speaks with Czech director Yuri Rechinsky.
New Distribution Company Takes on Warner Bros in Romania
BUCHAREST: The team and the general manager of MediaPro Distribution who left the company this summer launched a new company, Freeman Entertainment on 1 September 2014.
FNE at Venice IFF 2014: Review: Sivas: Competition
VENICE: Turkish director Kaan Muideci’s debut feature Sivas might be a boy and a dog film but this definitely is not a Turkish Lassie. Set in an Anatolian village in…
PRODUCTION: Antonio Nuić in Postproduction with Life Is Like a Trumpet
ZAGREB: The award-winning Bosnian-Croatian film director Antonio Nuić is in postproduction with Life Is Like a Trumpet/Zivot je truba, a character-driven film where drama and comedy are intertwined offering a…
FNE at Portoroz Slovenian Film Festival 2014: Eight Feature Films in Competition
LJUBLJANA: Despite economic problems the 17th Slovenian Film Festival will take place in Portoroz 10-14 September 2014 with films on topics as diverse as family dilemmas, unemployment, tycoons, and more.
FNE at Venice IFF 2014: Screening Alert Thursday and Friday
Thursday 4 September - Screening Alert
Estonia submits Tangerines for Academy Award
TALLINN: Estonia will submit the Estonian Georgian coproduction Tangerines as its nominee for Best Foreign Language Film for the 87th Academy Awards.
FNE at Potoroz 2014: Driving School
LJUBLJANA: Janez Burger’s Driving School is among the eight Slovenian films that will compete at the 17th Slovenian Film Festival taking place in the coastal town of Potoroz 10-14 Septermber…
FNE at Gdynia 2014: The Citizen
WARSAW: Polish actor and director Jerzy Stuhr’s film The Citizen, a drama in which he stars along with his son, will compete at the 39th Gdynia Film Festival, running 15-20…
FNE at Gdynia 2014: Jack Strong
WARSAW: The hit spy thriller Jack Strong by Władysław Pasikowski will screen in the main competition of the Gdynia Film Festival running 15-20 September 2014.
