PRODUCTION: Balázs Lóth Preps Historical Adventure with Record High Production Grant
BUDAPEST: Balázs Lóth is currently in preproduction with the historical adventure film Now or Never! / Most vagy soha!, for which he received a record amount of funding of 12.2 m EUR / 4.5 billion HUF, highest since 1989, from the National Film Institute – Hungary in January 2022.
PRODUCTION: György Kristóf in Postproduction with Dystopian Dance Thriller
BRATISLAVA: Slovak director György Kristóf is currently in postproduction with his sophomore feature Bunker (working title). The film will use dance as cinematic language and it is a coproduction between Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic.
PRODUCTION: Serbian Director Luka Mihailović Wraps Shooting on Indigo Crystal
BELGRADE: Young Serbian film director Luka Mihailović has just wrapped up the shooting of his debut feature, the urban crime drama Indigo Crystal / Indigo Kristal, in his hometown of Šabac.
PRODUCTION: Polish Director Jan Holoubek Shoots Sophomore Feature Doppelgänger
GDAŃSK: Doppelgänger is currently shooting in Gdańsk with a star cast including Jakub Gierszał, Tomasz Schuchardt and Andrzej Seweryn. This is the second feature by Jan Holoubek after 25 Years of Innocence. The Case of Tomek Komenda (TVN), a sensational drama based on real events.
PRODUCTION: Patryk Vega in Postproduction with His Last Polish Language Film
WARSAW: The director of Polish box office hits Patryk Vega has revealed his secret project, Autobiography (working title), a very personal film intended to be his last project in Polish, as he plans to move to English-language projects.
PRODUCTION: Hungarian/Romanian Documentary Whose Dog Am I? in Postproduction
BUDAPEST: The docu-comedy essay Whose Dog Am I? / Ki kutyája vagyok én? / Al cui câine sunt? by Robert Lakatos is on the finishing line of postproduction. The film produced by Rita Balogh through Hungary’s OTHER Films in coproduction with Alexandru and Ada Solomon through Romania’s microFILM talks Big Politics through the politics of the dog world.
PRODUCTION: Sabin Dorohoi Shoots Romanian/German Coproduction Clara
BUCHAREST: Sabin Dorohoi is currently in production with his debut feature Clara, which he started shooting in Ulm, Germany, at the beginning of March 2022. This drama on the social phenomenon of migration of labour force is a Romanian/German coproduction.
PRODUCTION: Serbian Director Mladen Đorđević in Postroduction with Labour Day
BELGRADE: Serbian director Mladen Đorđević has entered postproduction with his feature film Labour Day / Prvi maj, which is a coproduction between Serbia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Montenegro and Romania.
PRODUCTION: Czech Star Aňa Geislerová to Play Ms. President in Czech Rom-Com
PRAGUE: Czech film star Aňa Geislerová has spent recent weeks as Ms. President on winter Prague locations. The fictional role of the first female president of the Czech Republic in history has been written for the popular actress by the Czech romantic comedies hitmaker Rudolf Havlík.
PRODUCTION: Serbian Director Maja Miloš In Production With Sophomore Feature Rift in the Ice
BELGRADE: Serbian director Maja Miloš has recently started the production of her sophomore feature titled Rift in the Ice / Pukotina u ledu, envisioned as a contemporary fairytale exploring women's integrity and sexuality in our harsh reality. The film is a Serbian/Slovenian/Croatian/Dutch/Italian/Montenegrin coproduction.
PRODUCTION: Polish/Hungarian Coproduction Saint Wraps Shooting
WARSAW: Principal photography for Sebastian Buttny's Polish/Hungarian film Saint / Święty wrapped on 11 February 2022. The film has been shot for thirty days in Poznań and Gniezno.
PRODUCTION: Castel Film Wraps Production on Christopher Landry’s Debut Short Document 56
BUCHAREST: Christopher Landry’s Document 56 has wrapped production in Romania. The Romanian/USA feature short tells the strange-but-true story of a covert Cold War alliance between the American CIA and the Romanian Securitate (secret police) to finance the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein.
PRODUCTION: Tudor Giurgiu to Start Shooting New Romanian/Hungarian Feature Film
BUCHAREST: Tudor Giurgiu is currently working on Sibiu ’89, a feature film set in the city of Sibiu in December 1989, during the fall of the Communism. The project is a Romanian/Hungarian coproduction between Giurgiu’s Libra Film Productions and Mythberg Films.
PRODUCTION: Czech/Slovak Documentary Jan Mancuska: You Will Never See It All Continues Production
BRATISLAVA: The Czech/Slovak documentary about an internationally recognised artist of Slovak origin Jan Mancuska: You Will Never See It All / Chýbanie directed by Štěpán Pech is currently in production. The film received the Eurimages grant in December 2021.
PRODUCTION: Kastriot Abdyli Wraps Shooting on Macedonian/Belgian/Bulgarian Perhaps
SKOPJE: Kastriot Abdyli has finished the shooting of his second feature Perhaps / Mozebi, produced by Dardania Film.
PRODUCTION: Italian/Romanian Documentary The Land You Belong Gets Eurimages Grant
BUCHAREST: Italian director/scriptwriter Elena Rebeca Carini is currently in production with her long documentary The Land You Belong, whose shooting started in November 2021. This Italian/Romanian coproduction received a grant of 65,000 EUR from Eurimages at its last call in December 2021.