FESTIVALS: Eastern Realities at the Astra Film Festival in Sibiu
SIBIU: The Astra Film Festival, will take place from 6 - 12 October this year in Sibiu, Romania. A highlight of the festival is the Central and Eastern Europe Documentary…
OBITUARY: Eminent Slovak journalist and Dissident Angesa Kalinova
BRATISLAVA: Journalist and writer Angesa Kalinova died at the age of 90 on the morning of 18 September 2014 after a long illness.
Eight New Romanian Films Set for Theatrical Release this Autumn
BUCHAREST: Romanian films are starting to make major inroads into the domestic theatrical market with eight new features set for release in a crowded autumn schedule. Most of the productions…
Jamie Campbell-Bower and Gerard Depardieu to star in It's Showtime Siberia!
BUDAPEST: Academy award nominated Robert Dornhelm is to direct historical drama It's Showtime Siberia!, with shooting starting in March 2015. The film is a coproduction betwen Germany, Austria, Hungary, Russia…
FNE IDF DocBloc: Czech Docs 2014-2015 Event
The Institute of Documentary film and the Czech Film Center present the joint event Czech Docs 2014-2015 which opens 29 September 2014.
Creative Europe's MEDIA moved to DG Connect
WARSAW: In a surprise move the European Commission has moved the management for the Creative Europe MEDIA programme to Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG Connect).
PRODUCTION: Romanian-Swiss Director Ruxandra Zenide Preps Romanian Swiss Coproduction The Miracle of Tekir
BUCHAREST: Romanian Director/screenwriter Ruxandra Zenide will start shooting her second feature, The Miracle of Tekir/Miracolul din Tekir on 20 October, a Swiss/Romanian coproduction planned for release in spring 2015.
Thirteen CEE Films Score Spot in European Film Awards 2014 Selection
RIGA: The 27th European Film Awards will take place in this year's Capital of Culture, Latvia's capital Riga. The European Film Academy and EFA Productions announced the titles of the…
More CEE Films Submitted for 2015 Foreign Oscar
WARSAW: Croatia, Estonia, Latvia and Georgia have announced their submissions for the Best Foreign-Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards.
FNE TV: LUX Film Prize Finalists
FNE TV spoke to the directors of the three films selected as finalists for the prestigious LUX Film Prize to ask them what is the importance of the LUX Prize…
FESTIVALS: Malta Short Film Festival 2014 Winners
VALLETTA: Luxembourg director Eric Lamhene has been awarded the top prize of the International Malta Short Film Festival which spans 10 weeks from July to September every year.
East-West Co-productions Connecting again in Cottbus on November 6/7
13 projects from 12 countries to be pitched at the 2014 edition of connecting cottbus
FNE at Gdynia FF 2014: Polish Film Institute Awards Winners
GDYNIA: The 7th PISF Awards gala took place on 16. September 2014 during the 39th Gdynia Film Festival.
FESTIVALS: Cinematik Film Festival 2014 Winners
PIESTANY: Chosen by a panel of seventeen European critics, Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty won the Meeting Point Europe Award at the Cinematik IFF this year.
LET'S CEE Film Festival 2014: the Programme Presentation
The third LET´S CEE Film Festival will take place in Vienna from October 2nd until October 11th, 2014.
FNE TV: Director Faith Akin and the Polish Film Institute
FNE asked Fatih Akin about his international coproduction The Cut that screened in the main competition at the recent Venice Film Festival. The Cut was supported by the Polish Film…
Kickstarter Campaign for Latvian Roller Skis Doc Launched
RIGA: The producers of a doc about Latvian athlete Raymond Dombrovsky’s bid to cross North America on roller-skis have launched a kickstarter campaign to fund the film which has also…
Siniše Gačića's A Fight For Takes Main Prize at the Portoroz Festival of Slovenian Film
PORTOROZ: Director Siniše Gačića's A Fight For won the Vesna for both best feature film and the Teleking Award at the 17th Festival of Slovenian Film which ended on 14…
FNE TV AVP Live ! RE-ACT: Debora Serracchiani, President of Region Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Hrvoje Hribar, head of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre
RE-ACT (Regional Audiovisual Cooperation and Training) is a new trans-regional initiative for co-developing audiovisual projects between Croatia, Slovenia and the Italian region of Friuli Venizia Guilia. FNE spoke to Debora…
FNE at Gdynia 2014: Neighbours
WARSAW: Grzegorz Królikiewicz returns to the 39th Gdynia Film Festival with his competition film Neighbors, a warm, absurd comedy.
