PRODUCTION: The Final Barrier in Postproduction
SARAJEVO: The Final Barrier, a joint project involving artists from around the world and directed by Bosnian-Herzegovinian director Jasmin Duraković (Sevdah for Karim, 2010, Depo) is in the final stages…
PRODUCTION: Maria Veselinova Starts Filming Smart Christmas
SOFIA: Bulgarian actress Maria Veselinova will start shooting her debut feature Smart Christmas on 26 July 2016. The film is a fantastic fairy tale dedicated to the young audience.
Mobile Cinema Planned to Travel Across Cyprus
NICOSIA: Producer Stavros Papageorghiou and director Yeliz Shukri, who worked together on the documentary Missing Fetine (Tetraktys Films Ltd), plan to start a mobile cinema and have it travel across…
PRODUCTION: Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross in Production with My Happy Family
TBILISI: After the acclaimed In Bloom, Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross are currently shooting a new feature film, My Happy Family. It will be again a German/Georgian/French coproduction.
FNE TV: Future Frames
FNE TV: FNE has teamed up with European Film Promotion’s Future Frames in Karlovy Vary to ask ten European film school students and recent graduates to find out what they…
FNE TV: Czech MEP Michaela Šojdrová Vice-Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education
FNE TV spoke to Czech MEP Michaela Šojdrová Vice-Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education about the impact of Brexit on Creative Europe and why public funding for film…
Polish Film Institute Nominations Announced
WARSAW: Nominations for the 9th edition of Polish Film Institute (PISF) awards were announced on 11 July 2016. The gala will take place during the 41th Gdynia Film Festival (19-24…
PRODUCTION: Urszula Antoniak Preps Polish/Dutch Coproduction
WARSAW: Urszula Antoniak’s new drama Beyond Words will start shooting in Berlin on 18 July 2016. This Polish/Dutch coproduction stars Jakub Gierszał and Andrzej Chyra and touches on the difficult…
Netflix Buys the Rights to Ivona Juka’s You Carry Me
ZAGREB: Ivona Juka’s debut feature You Carry Me / Ti mene nosiš has been bought by Netflix. This Croatian/Slovenian/Serbian/Montenegrin coproduction is the first film from the region bought by the…
FESTIVALS: Pula IFF Kicks Off
PULA: Seven Croatian films and six minority coproductions are competing in the Croatian Programme of the 63rd Pula Film Festival taking place from 9 – 16 July 2016.
FNE at KVIFF 2016: Prize Winners
KARLOVY VARY: The 51st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, which was held from 1-9 July 2016, awarded its top prize the Crystal Globe to the Hungarian film It’s Not the…
FNE at KVIFF 2016: Czech Film Boom Inspires Barrandov Production
KARLOVY VARY: The introduction of Czech film incentives and subsequent increases are impacting film production at Prague’s iconic Barrandov film studios.
FNE at KVIFF 2016: Czech Films Struggle For Market Share In Crowded Domestic Market
KARLOVY VARY: Czech box office reached an all-time high in 2015, and attendance showed impressive growth, but Czech films registered their lowest market share since 2002.
FNE at KVIFF 2016: See How the FNE FIPRESCI Critics Rated the Films
KARLOVY VARY: FNE has teamed up with FIPRESCI to organise a group of 20 critics attending KVIFF to rate the films in the Main Competition and the East of the…
FNE TV: Czech MEP Martina Dlabajová
Vice-Chair of the Committee on Budgetary Control
FNE at KVIFF 2016: Czech Production Returning to All-Time High
KARLOVY VARY: Czech film production is rising across the board and coming close to returning to the highs of 2003 in total production amount and film services.
FNE TV: UK MEP Julie Ward On Creative Europe and Brexit
FNE TV spoke to UK MEP Julie Ward about Creative Europe and the implications of Brexit for cultural projects in the EU.
PRODUCTION: Ivaylo Penchev in Postproduction with Holiday Makers
SOFIA: Bulgarian director/producer Ivaylo Penchev is in postproduction with Holiday Makers, a seaside comedy intended for a wide audience.
PRODUCTION: Zaza Urushadze Starts Shooting The Monk
TBILISI: Acclaimed Georgian helmer Zaza Urushadze is in production with The Monk, a comedy-infused drama about a monk who falls for a mysterious woman in a remote village where he…
FNE at KVIFF 2016: Barrandov Returns to Original Production
KARLOVY VARY: Barrandov film studio will return to its roots as a producer of original production with a biopic on Milos Havel, the founder of Barrandov and the uncle of…
