FNE at Gdynia 2014: Waterline
WARSAW: Writer/director Michał Otłowski competes at the Gdynia Film Festival with Waterline, a mysterious police drama
FNE at Gdynia 2014: Warsaw 44
WARSAW: Warsaw 44, an epic WWII drama from Jan Komasa will compete at the 39th Gdynia Film Festival running 15-20 September 2014.
FNE Doc Bloc: Jihlava Inspiration Forum
September 15 2014 is the deadline to register of Inspiration Forum at the Jihlava IDFF.
FNE TV: Pascal Diot, head of the Venice Film Market
Pascal Diot tells FNE how he is seeing a big shift in attitudes among producers from Italy and France who are increasingly eager to coproduce with new talents from Central…
FNE at Gdynia 2014: Kebab and Horoscope
WARSAW: Grzegorsz Jaroszuk explores the absurd and dark humour of everyday life in his film Kebab & Horoscope competing in the Main Competition at the 39th Gdynia Film Festival.
FNE at Gdynia 2014: The Photographer
WARSAW: Waldemar Krzystek returns with The Photographer, a crime thriller that will compete during the 39the Gdynia Film Festival running 15 - 20 September 2014.
FNE at Gdynia 2014: Hardkor Disko
WARSAW: The indie directing debut from Polish actor Krzysztof Skonieczny entitled Hardkor Disko will compete at a 39. Gdynia Film Festival Main Competition running 15 - 20 September 2014.
Let's CEE Film Festival Brings Central and Eastern European Films To Western Audiences
FNE spoke with the directors of the LET´S CEE Film Festival, taking place 2-11 October 2014 in Vienna, Magdalena Żelasko and Wolfgang P. Schwelle on the pleasures and difficulties of…
FNE at Potoroz 2014: Sailing to Paradise
LJUBLJANA: Sailing to Paradise is the first feature film by Blaž Završnik, a graduate in architecture, now finishing Film and TV Direction studies at the Ljubljana Academy of Theatre, Radio,…
FNE at Potoroz 2014: Dancing with Maria
LJUBLJANA: One of the three feature documentaries at the Slovenian Film Festival in Portoroz is Dancing with Maria by Italian director Ivan Gergolet which premiered at this year’s Venice Film…
FNE at Potoroz 2014: A Fight For
LJUBLJANA: Potoroz competition film A Fight For is a socially critical documentary film by journalist and film maker Siniša Gačić who is now completing a Master's Degree in TV Directing…
GRANTS: Croatia Announces 2014 Feature Grants
ZAGREB: The Croatian Audiovisual Centre has awarded 3,259,132 EUR/24,805,000 HRK in grants for feature and debut feature production, and for project and script development projects.
FNE Europa Distribution: Distributor of the Month: Ivan Hronec, Czech Republic
FNE together with Europa Distribution is launching a new chapter of the Distributor of the Month section. This time we focus on new strategies in film distribution and the importance…
FNE at Gdynia 2014: Gods
WARSAW: Gods, a biopic about a cardiologist who changed the face of Polish medicine, will compete at the 39th Gdynia Film Festival running 15 - 20 September 2014.
FNE at Venice IFF 2014: Awards Winners
VENICE: The top prize of the 71st Venice International Film Festival went A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting on Existence directed by Roy Andersson who picked up a Golden…
FNE FIPRESCI Venice Critics 2014; See how the critics rate the programme
FNE together with FIPRESCI 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 5…
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.