Launch of Film New Europe Visegrad Prix for Best Co-Production
WARSAW: Film New Europe together with the International Visegrad Fund has announced a new prize to for best feature and best documentary co-production from a Visegrad country. The prize is…
A record 4 Estonian films vie for Oscar shortlist
Estonia nominated a record-breaking three films for this year's Acadey Awards, plus a fourth one competing as this year's student film Oscar winner.
Czechs submit Kawasaki's Rose for Oscar bid
The Czech Film and Television Academy (www.cfta.cz) has chosen Kawasaki's Rose directed by Jan Hřebejk as its entry for the Oscar best foreign language film category. The film beat out…
The Blacks represents Croatia for Oscar bid
The Film Artists' Association of Croatia announced yesterday that the Croatian feature film The Blacks, a war drama directed by Zvonimir Jurić and Goran Dević, has been selected as Croatia's…
PRODUCTION: Lidice wraps shooting
Shooting of one of the most anticipated Czech movie of 2011, the big budget historical 1940´s war movie Lidice by director Petr Nikolaev and producer Adam Dvořák of production and…
Tuesday, After Christmas sold to the USA
Radu Muntean's forth feature Tuesday, After Christmas was acquired by Kino Lorber (www.kino.com ) and will be distributed in the United States after New York Film Forum (www.filmforum.org ) with…
FNE Georgian Cinema Focus: A Proud History Reborn
In recent years Georgian cinema has been witnessing a period of rebirth and revival. Yet another generation of filmmakers emerged, and the directors who stopped making films in the 1990s…
FNE Focus: Georgian Cinema Today
Georgian cinema has a long and distinguished history but it has also become in recent years a vital new source of young European filmmaking talent and an important partner for…
FNE at Adana Golden Boll Film Festival 2010 National Competition: A Step into Darkness
Atil Inac directed the award winning film A Step into Darkness, which screened in the national competition at Adana, following its premiere at the Montreal Film Festival and screenings at…
FNE at Adana Golden Boll Film Festival 2010 National Competition: Breath
Breath (Nefes) directed by Levent Semerci is the first war movie about Sirnak and terrorism on the south-eastern border of Turkey. The film, with a cast of first-time actors, was…
FNE at Adana Golden Boll Film Festival 2010 National Competition: Envy
Envy from director Zeki Demirkubuz is a story of lust, loyalty, passion and trust in 1930's Turkey. The film is adapted from an acclaimed novel by Nahid Sırri Orik.
FNE at Adana Golden Boll FF 2010: Glory of young Turkish cinema
The 17th Adana Golden Boll Film Festival (20-26 September) put on display the glorious talent of today's young Turkish cinema. The Golden Boll for Best Film went to this year's…
FNE at Adana Golden Boll Film Festival 2010 National Competition: The Voice
The Voice, about a girl who hears voices inside her head, is one of the several Turkish parapsychological horror films. The script was written by noted film critic Uygar Sirin…
FNE at Adana Golden Boll Film Festival 2010 National Competition: There
There, directed by Melik Saracoglu and Hakki Kurtulus, is a drama about a father and his two estranged sons who reunite following the death of their mother. The film was…
FNE at Adana Golden Boll Film Festival 2010: MEDITERRANEAN SHORT FILM COMPETITION
ADANA: The 17th Adana Golden Boll Film Festival (http://www.altinkoza.org/) has bounced back after its usual June slot was cancelled earlier this year and the event was transfered to September in…
New mobile provider could enter Hungarian market
The National Media and Telecommunications Authority (NMHH, www.nmhh.hu) plans to sell the 450 MHz band in Hungary in 2010. The deputy chief of the Authority, Gábor Mátrai, explained that the…
Bulgarian Hunting Down Small Predators starts digital distribution
The new teenage romance Hunting Down Small Predators (http://hdsp.bg/) shot in HD (2K) with a SI-2K camera and directly transferred to positive film stock using the Cinevator technology started a…
FNE at Adana Golden Boll Film Festival 2010 National Competition: Honey
Director/writer/producer Semih Kaplanoglu scored an international success with his film Honey, winner of the Golden Bear when it premiered at the 2010 Berlinale. It opened in Turkey on 9 April,…
FNE at Adana Golden Boll Film Festival 2010 National Film competition: Brought by the Sea
Brought by the Sea directed by Nesli Colgecen is a movie about the immigrant problem, centered on an African immigrant, a lonely man and a nurse's friendship. The film was…
