FESTIVALS: Great Freedom Wins Sarajevo Film Festival 2021
SARAJEVO: The Austrian/German coproduction Great Freedom / Grosse Freiheit by Sebastian Meise has received the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film at the 27th edition of the Sarajevo Film…
FESTIVALS: Astra Film Festival 2021 Announces Lineup
SIBIU: Eight long documentaries have been selected for the Emerging Voices of Documentary competition of the 28th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival - Astra Film Festival, which will…
FESTIVALS: Makedox 2021 Ready to Kick Off in Four Physical Locations
SKOPJE: More than 70 documentary films in five competition programmes will be screened at the 12th Festival for Creative Documentary Film MakeDox, which kicked off in Skopje on 16 August…
FESTIVALS: Central European Film Festival Timisoara 2021 Announces Lineup
TIMISOARA: The Competition programme is back in the selection of the 5th edition of the Central European Film Festival Timisoara, after a pause in 2020. Six feature films are competing…
PRODUCTION: Peter Bratuša Starts Shooting Sequel to Slovenian Hit Gaja’s World
LJUBLJANA: Peter Bratuša has started shooting Gaja’s World 2 / Gajin svet 2, the sequel to the well-received romantic teen adventure comedy and Slovenian 2018 box-office hit. The 27-days shooting…
FNE at CineLink Sarajevo 2021: Documentary Gems of CineLink Selection
SARAJEVO: Fourteen documentary projects from FNE partner countries were selected for three programmes within the CineLink Industry Days: CineLink Work in Progress, Docu Rough Cut Boutique and Docu Talents from…
Polish Days 2021 Announces Winners
WROCLAW: Polish Days, the most important industry event of the New Horizons IFF, which took place 15-17 August 2021, has announced its winners.
Film Spring Open Workshop 2021 Opens Submissions
KRAKOW: The Film Spring Open Workshop is launching the call for applications for its 16th edition. This practical audiovisual workshop based on new technologies and tools will take place in…
Sundance and Berlinale Will Select New Films at 2021 dok.incubator
OLOMOUC: Festival selectors from Sundance, Berlinale, Tribeca, IDFA and CPH:DOX will participate in the 10th edition of the dok.incubator workshop, set to take place 21-29 August 2021.
FIPRESCI Votes Nomadland Best Film of 2021
BERLIN: The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) has voted Chloé Zhao's Oscar winner Nomadland as the best film of 2021. The FIPRESCI Grand Prix will be handed out on…
BOX OFFICE: Three Czech Films Top Local BO Chart
PRAGUE: Five domestic films were in Czech Republic's top ten in the week 9-15 August 2021, of which three topped the chart. An unusual film jam awaited the reopened cinemas,…
FNE Innovation: Cabirya: First European Cinema Multi-Platform Search Engine
Film New Europe continues to invite leaders of innovative AV projects to share their projects directly with its readers. Today, our guests are Marco Moretti and Antonio Emmanouilidis, who write…
Beta Film Acquires Croatian Crime Series The Silence
DUBROVNIK: German Beta Film has picked up international distribution rights to the crime series The Silence directed by Dalibor Matanic and produced by the Croatian company Drugi Plan. The series…
FNE at CineLink Sarajevo 2021: Bojan Vuletić’s The Family Swoops Most Awards for TV Series
SARAJEVO: The Sarajevo Film Festival has awarded best regional TV series for the first time ever. Most of the awards went to the Serbian series The Family, created and directed…
FNE at CineLink Sarajevo 2021: CineLink Drama Showcases Hungarian Series The Grand Trial
SARAJEVO: Iván Szabó, the writer behind Land of Storms (2014), which premiered at the Berlinale and competed for the Heart of Sarajevo, returns to the Sarajevo Film Festival to present…
FNE Readers Survey 2021
We know you are a busy decision maker. That is why you read FNE. We kindly ask you to help us out by taking 2 minutes to answer the following…
Cultural Organisations Support Estonian Filmmakers’ Need for Future Film City
TALLINN: Numerous cultural organisations have joined the statement of the Estonian Filmmakers Association stressing the need for the Film City – Tallinn Film Wonderland, which has received a building permit,…
PRODUCTION: Slovak Director Jonáš Karásek Prepares to Start Shooting Action Comedy Invalid
BRATISLAVA: Slovak director Jonáš Karásek is finishing preproduction on Invalid, an action comedy supported by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund. The shooting is due to start on 10 September 2021.
Alief Picks Up Lithuanian/Czech Coproduction Runner
VILNIUS: The Lithuanian/Czech coproduction Runner by Andrius Blaževičius has been acquired by the London-based sales agent Alief. The sophomore feature by Blaževičius is running in the East of the West…
GRANTS: Georgia's GNFC Announces Short Fiction Film Production Grants
TBILISI: The Georgian National Film Center distributed 184,001 EUR / 683,604 GEL for the production of 10 short fiction films to be directed by Levan Nakashidze, Giorgi Tavartkiladze, Tedo Dolidze,…
