FESTIVALS: One World Announces Competition Films
PRAGUE: Thirteen films will screen in the international competition of One World FF, which runs 5 – 14 March 2020 in Prague and travels to another 35 cities.
FESTIVALS: Zlin Film Festival 2020 Focuses on Science and Technology
ZLIN: The 60th anniversary edition of the Zlin Film Festival, the world’s oldest festival for children and youth, has announced this year’s theme of Back to the Future, with a…
Sarajevo FF and Documentary Campus Announce Partnership
SARAJEVO: Munich based Documentary Campus and the Sarajevo Film Festival are partnering to coproduce the CineLink Industry Days, the festival’s industry section, taking place 15-20 August 2020.
GRANTS: Czech Republic Announces Feature Film Production Grants
PRAGUE: The Czech Film Fund distributed 2,742,488 EUR / 68 m CZK as production grants for ten feature films. Four of them are debut features.
The Match Factory Picks Up Srdan Golubović’s Father, Selected for Berlinale’s Panorama
BELGRADE: The Match Factory has picked up Srdan Golubović’s Father / Otac, which will have its world premiere in the Panorama section of the 70th Berlinale (20 February-1 March 2020).…
Eyewell Picks Up Latvian BO Leader Blizzard of Souls
RIGA: Latvian coming-of-age war drama Blizzard of Souls / Dvēseļu putenis directed by Dzintars Dreibergs for Kultfilma and supported by the National Film Centre of Latvia, has been picked up…
Get Support From Ji.hlava Film Fund
JIHLAVA: Documentaries originating in Central and Eastern Europe can apply to the Ji.hlava Film Fund, which provides in-kind grants totaling 20,000 EUR until 15 March 2020.
FNE at Berlinale 2020: 14th ScripTeast Presents Participants of Berlinale Session
WARSAW: The 14th edition of ScripTeast, the project-based training and development programme for professional screenwriters from Central and Eastern Europe, will hold a stationary session of its 2019-2020 edition during…
FNE Readers Survey 2020
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The Whistlers Tops Romanian Gopo Awards Nominations
BUCHAREST: The Whistlers by Corneliu Porumboiu has got 13 nominations for the 14th Gopo Awards, followed by Heidi by Cătălin Mitulescu with 10 nominations, and Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not…
UNIC Provisional Update: Record 1.34 Billion Admissions In European Cinemas In 2019
BRUSSELS: European admissions increased by 4.5 per cent in 2019, with over 1.34 billion admissions, a record since the early 1990s. In the EU, admissions reached the 1 billion mark…
World Premiere of Oleg Sentsov's Numbers In Berlin
BERLIN: Numbers, a film that Oleg Sentsov directed from a gulag, will have its world premiere on 18 February 2020. The special screening will be a part of Berlinale's 70th…
FNE Market Analysis 2019: ESTONIA
TALLINN: The year 2019 turned out to be another record-breaking year for Estonian film industry. Domestic films had more than 847,000 admissions, which is an all-time record. The year’s record-breaker…
PRODUCTION: Serbian Director Slobodan Šijan Shoots Comeback Feature The Great Tram Robbery
ZAGREB: Serbian veteran filmmaker Slobodan Šijan is in production with his first film since 2007, The Great Tram Robbery / Bidi Bog s nama. The film is a coproduction between…
OBITUARY: Polish Director Jerzy Gruza
WARSAW: Polish theatre and television director Jerzy Gruza, creator of many programmes and series, including Forty-year-old / Czterdziestolatek and Civil War / Wojna domowa, died on 16 February 2020 at…
HAVC Celebrates Croatian Presidency of the EU Council
ZAGREB: The Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC) has planned a series of international events as Croatia holds the presidency of the Council of the European Union from January to June 2020,…
PRODUCTION: Lithuanian Director Romas Zabarauskas Completes The Lawyer
VILNIUS: Lithuanian director Romas Zabarauskas has completed postproduction on his third feature film, the gay romantic drama The Lawyer / Advokatas, which was shot on location in Vilnius and Belgrade.…
