FNE at TIFF: Romanian Days - Crulic - The Path to Beyond
{mosimage}CLUJ-NAPOCA: Crulic - The Path to Beyond/Crulic - Drumul spre dincolo, one of Romania's best selling films, is a Romanian-Polish coproduction based on the tragic story of Claudiu Crulic, a…
PRODUCTION: American WER Wraps Shooting in Romania
BUCHAREST: After the box-office success with The Devil Inside, William Brent Bell filmed a horror with werewolves at MediaPro Studios (www.mediaprostudios.com) in Bucharest.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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."
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
