FNE at TIFF 2018 Romanian Days: Charleston
CLUJ-NAPOCA: Andrei Crețulescu's debut feature Charleston will screen in the Competition and also in the Romanian Days at the 17th edition of Transilvania IFF running from 25 May to 3…
FNE at 2018 TIFF Romanian Days: The Story of a Summer Lover
CLUJ-NAPOCA: Paul Negoescu’s third feature film The Story of a Summer Lover aka Never Let It Go will screen in the Romanian Days at the 17th edition of Transilvania IFF…
FNE at Zlin IFF 2018: Competition Films
ZLIN: The world’s oldest and largest children’s film festival, the 58th Zlin Film Festival (25 May – 2 June 2018), will screen eight films in its children’s competition and another…
FESTIVALS: Pula Announces 17 Competition Films
ZAGREB: The 65th Pula Film Festival, running 14-22 July 2018 in the Adriatic seaside town, will have 10 Croatian majority films and another seven Croatian minority films in the main…
New Europe Film Sales Picks up HBO Europe’s Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
WARSAW: Jan Naszewski’s sales outlet New Europe Film Sales has signed a world sales deal for the documentary Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk by Kuba Mikurda, which explores…
FNE at Cannes 2018: Cannes Prize Winners
CANNES: The 71st Cannes Film Festival held from 9 to 20 May awarded its top prize the Palme d’Or to the Japanese film Shoplifters directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. Poland scored…
FNE at Cannes 2018: See how the FIPRESCI critics rated the programme
FNE teamed up with FIPRESCI critics attending the Cannes Film Festival to rate the films in the Main Competition, Un Certain Regard, Directors' Fortnight and Critics Week, giving the films…
FNE TV: Jana Karaivanova Director of Bulgarian National Film Centre
CANNES: FNE asked Jana Karaivanova about her first Cannes as the director of the Bulgarian National Film Centre and why it is important for Bulgaria to be a coproducer of…
FNE at Cannes 2018: Review: The Wild Pear Tree
CANNES: Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan is back in competition in Cannes with The Wild Pear Tree four years after winning the Palme d’Or with his Winter Sleep. The film…
FNE at Cannes 2018: Review: Ayka
CANNES: Director Sergey Dvortsevoy arrives in the Cannes with Ayka a grim tale that follows the life of an unemployed woman from Kyrgyzstan who spends five desperate days on the…
GRANTS: Polish Film Institute Distributes First Production Grants for 2018
WARSAW: The Polish Film Institute supported 41 new productions with 6.9 m EUR / 29.9 m PLN in the first session of financing for 2018.
Jihlava IDFF Relocates Docu Talents to Sarajevo FF
PRAGUE: The showcase and forum of upcoming documentary films Docu Talents from the East, presented by Jihlava IDFF, is moving from Karlovy Vary IFF to the Sarajevo Film Festival.
FESTIVALS: Czechs Launch Festival Honouring Doc Filmmaker Pavel Koutesky
PRAGUE: A new Czech-German film festival of documentary films, Elbe Dock, created in connection with the 12th edition of the Pavel Koutecky Award, is bringing contemporary Czech and German documentaries…
FNE IDF DocBloc: East Silver Caravan at Krakow
Apolena Rychlíková's The Limits of Work will screen at the 58th Krakow Film Festival.
FNE at Cannes 2018: Bumper Year for Polish Film in Cannes
CANNES: The 71st Cannes Film Festival was a bumper year for Polish films in Cannes with seven Polish productions or coproductions being included in official selection in different sections of…
FNE at Cannes 2018: See how the FIPRESCI critics rate the programme
FNE has teamed up with FIPRESCI critics attending the Cannes Film Festival to rate the films in the Main Competition, Un Certain Regard, Directors' Fortnight and Critics Week, giving the…
OBITUARY: Romanian Film and Theatre Director Lucian Pintilie
BUCHAREST: Lucian Pintilie, the most important Romanian film director and the godfather of the New Romanian Cinema, died at age 84 on 16 May 2018.
FNE at Cannes 2018: Macedonian Film Agency Inks Bulgarian and Kosovo Coproduction Agreements
CANNES: The Macedonian Film Agency has signed coproduction agreements with both Bulgaria and Kosovo in Cannes this year. The agreement with the Bulgarian National Film Centre was signed just before…
FNE Europa Cinemas: Cinema of the Month: Bio Oko, Prague
This month we speak with David Beránek, the programme director of Bio Oko, an art house cinema which together with Světozor and Aero in Prague, Bio Central in Hradec Králové…
