2011 Near Record Year for Estonia Box Office

TALLINN: Estonian box office rose to its best result in 19 years at just over 10 million euros.
29-05-2012

FNE at TIFF: Romanian Days- Killing Time

{mosimage}CLUJ-NAPOCA: Writer/director Florin Piersic Jr. (Fix alert) is screening) his latest film Killing Time, a film noir comedy about two hit men waiting in an empty apartment for their next…
28-05-2012

FNE at TIFF: Romanian Days - Of Snails and Men

{mosimage}CLUJ-NAPOCA: Tudor Giurgiu's second feature, Of Snails and Men/Despre oameni şi melci, is inspired by true events, even if they may sound odd. In 2002, Reuters published a news report…
28-05-2012

FNE at TIFF: Romanian Days - Somewhere in Palilula

{mosimage}CLUJ-NAPOCA: Somewhere in Palilula/Undeva la Palilula, the first feature film by the internationally acclaimed Romanian stage director Silviu Purcărete, is a provocative and expensive project (a budget of 1.6 million…
28-05-2012

FNE at Cannes IFF 2012: Cannes prize winners

CANNES: Director Michal Haneke's Amour won the top prize, the Palme d'Or, at this year 65th Cannes Film Festival making the Austrian director only the second director in history to…
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FNE at Transilvania IFF Romanian Days: Teodora Siner

{mosimage}CLUJ-NAPOCA: In the documentary Teodora Siner Christian Orthodox nuns in a Romanian monastery call each other "little mothers."
27-05-2012

Polish TV, BBC Sign Cooperation Agreement

Telewizja Polska SA (www.tvp.pl) and BBC Worldwide (www.bbcworld.com) signed an agreement for future collaboration on 25 May 2012.
27-05-2012

FNE at Cannes IFF 2012: Competition: In the Fog

CANNES: Ukrainian documentarist turned feature director Sergei Loznitsa returns to Cannes with a war drama, In the Fog, after having taken home the Best Director's prize two years ago for…
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FNE at Cannes IFF 2012: Cypriot production scores hit on international circuit

{mosimage}CANNES: Cypriot Greek coproduction Fish n' Chips is already a Cyprus success story. The film is set top open in Cyprus just after Cannes and has already opened theatrically in…
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FNE - IDF DocBloc: Ex-Oriente Selects 13 Workshop Projects

{mosimage}PRAGUE: Thirteen films representing twelve countries will participate in the first session of the Ex-Oriente documentary workshop, beginning on 18 June 2012.
25-05-2012

FNE IDF DocBloc: Ten Films Compete for Koutecky Award

{mosimage}PRAGUE: Ten Czech documentary films have been selected to compete for the 2012 Pavel Koutecky Award, named for the respected Czech documentary filmmaker who died in 2006 while working on…
25-05-2012

FESTIVALS: Nine Films at Krakow’s Docs to go!

{mosimage}KRAKOW: The Polish Film Institute (www.pisf.pl) and the Krakow Film Festival (www.kff.com.pl) will present nine upcoming Polish documentary films at Docs to go!, taking place at the festival on 30…
24-05-2012

FNE at Cannes IFF 2012: ScriptTeast Award Winners Announced in Cannes

{mosimage}CANNES: Latvian scriptwriter Martins Slisans won the Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award for the Best Eastern and Central European Script of this year's edition. The award includes a 10 000 EUR…
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Nine Projects Participate in EKRAN 2012

{mosimage}WARSAW: The Wajda School and Wajda Studio (www.wajdaschool.pl) EKRAN preproduction training project opened its first 2012 session, taking place through 24 May, with nine participating production teams representing Poland, Austria,…
23-05-2012

FNE at Cannes IFF 2012: Competition: The Angel’s Share

CANNES: The 75-year-old British director Ken Loach has been in competition in Cannes nine times and his films never fail to draw appreciation from Cannes critics and audiences. While he…
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FNE Exclusive: Q&A with Andy Vajna, Hungarian Film Commissioner

FNE at Cannes IFF 2012: FNE met up on the terrace of Carlton for an exclusive session with Hungarian Film Commissioner Andy Vajna together with Agnes Havas head of the…
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