FNE at Berlinale 2019: See how the FIPRESCI critics rated the programme
BERLIN: FNE has teamed up with FIPRESCI critics attending the Berlin Film Festival to rate the films in the Main Competition, Panorama and Forum giving the films 1, 2, 3,…
Domestic Comedy Dominates Polish Box Office
WARSAW: Miszmasz czyli Kogel Mogel 3 by Kordian Piwowarski, a revamped sequel of a popular comedy series of the 80s, is the most watched title in Poland with over 1.8…
Directors Temur and Gela Babluani to Launch Georgian-French Film School
TBILISI: The Georgian directors, father and son Temur and Gela Babluani plan to open by 2020 a Georgian-French cinema school in Georgia for approximately 300 international and local students.
Serbia Signs Cooperation Agreement with Iran
BELGRADE: The Head of Film Center Serbia Boban Jevtić and Deputy Head of Farabi Cinema Foundation for International Affairs Raed Faridzadeh signed an agreement to expand cooperation in film industry.
FNE IDF DocBloc: East Doc Interactive 2019 Programme Revealed
The upcoming East Doc Platform 2019 will offer not only the traditional documentary projects, but also those telling stories in a very innovative way. The East Doc Interactive workshop helps…
FNE at Berlinale 2019: Review: Synonyms/ Synonyme
BERLIN: Israeli director Nadav Lapid has scored a slot in the main competition at Berlinale with his third outing Synonyms/ Synonyme, a French, Israeli, German coproduction. The semi-autobiographical story has…
FNE at Berlinale 2019: See how the FIPRESCI critics rated the programme
BERLIN: FNE has teamed up with FIPRESCI critics attending the Berlin Film Festival to rate the films in the Main Competition, Panorama and Forum giving the films 1, 2, 3,…
Slovak Joj Group Acquires Czech TV Company Portfolio
BRATISLAVA: The Slovak commercial broadcaster Slovenská produkčná, which owns TV JOJ, has bought the Czech thematic channel company Ceskoslovenskou filmovou spolecnost, whose portfolio includes CS film, CS mini, Horror film,…
FNE at Berlin 2019: Review: I Was At Home But/ Ich war zuhause, aber
BERLIN:German director Angela Schanelec’s Berlin Golden Bear contender I Was At Home But/ Ich war zuhause, aber is a small scale domestic drama about a middle-class family in crisis. The…
Ashes in the Snow Is Highest Grossing Release of All Time in Lithuania
VILNIUS: Ashes in the Snow / Tarp pilkų debesų by Marius Markevičius became the highest grossing release of all time in Lithuania, with more than 265,000 admissions and more than…
Macedonian Doc Honeyland Lands US Distribution Deal
SKOPJE: The Macedonian documentary Honeyland directed by Ljubo Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska was sold by Submarine Entertainment to US distribution outfit Neon. No release date has been set yet.
PRODUCTION: Polish Minority Coproduction on Mostafa Derkaoui in Postproduction
WARSAW: The documentary Freely, Mostafa Derkaoui / Librement, Mostafa Derkaoui by Sophie Delvallée, a coproduction between France, Morocco and Poland, is in its final stage of postproduction.
FESTIVALS: The 15th ZagrebDox Announces Lineup
ZAGREB: Nineteen titles were selected for the International Competition of the 15th ZagrebDox International Documentary Film Festival, running from 24 February to 3 March 2019. Eighteen films vie in the…
FNE at Berlinale 2019: Review: Stitches / Šavovi (PANORAMA)
BERLIN: Serbian director Miroslav Terzić’s second film Stitches is a Serbian / Slovenian / Croatian / Bosnian and Herzegovinan coproduction with a polished and moving script by Elma Tataragic that…
FNE at Berlinale 2019: See how the FIPRESCI critics rated the programme
BERLIN: FNE has teamed up with FIPRESCI critics attending the Berlin Film Festival to rate the films in the Main Competition, Panorama and Forum giving the films 1, 2, 3,…
FNE AV INNOVATION: Creative Europe VALOR Platform for Cultural and AV Professionals
WARSAW: Creative Europe VALOR platform is one of the tools cultural and AV professionals should have on their list of favourite website links if they are looking for some interesting…
M-appeal Picks Up The Humorist
RIGA: The Berlin-based sales agent M-appeal picked up Michael Idov’s black comedy The Humorist. This Russian/Latvian/Czech coproduction was shot in Latvia and it is presented at Berlinale’s European Film Market.
