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Friday 13 October, 2017

The latest production by Álex de la Iglesia and Carolina Bang, 'Errementari', world premiere at Sitges 2017

This coming October 5th, the 50th Sitges – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia will be kicking off with a schedule showing the best state-of-the-art genre films, all eagerly awaited by fans. Innovative and diverse fantasy will be coming together at the 50th anniversary, which has already announced its honorary awards going to Susan Sarandon and William Friedkin, plus a good part of its extensive lineup which will be joined by the latest production from Álex de la Iglesia and Carolina Bang, Errementari, which will have its world premiere in Sitges.

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Friday 11 August, 2017

Sarajevo extends its CineLink Talks

Expanding its TV Drama section, the leading Balkan festival is also due to focus on regional funding, virtual reality, marketing and the preservation of history

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Thursday 10 August, 2017

Glocal in Progress, the Festival´s new industry activity, opens with three films in Slovenian, Basque and Romanian

The event will run on September 25, 26 and 27, the same dates as Films in Progress 32 and the VI Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum.

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Monday 7 August, 2017

Slovak Films Set Box Office Records in Domestic Cinemas

Slovak films experienced a massive increase in admissions in the first half of 2017.

According to UFD (Union of Film Distributors of the Slovak Republic), total admissions for domestic films were over 3,5 m in the first half of 2017, representing a 33,51% increase compared to the same period in 2016. Peter Bebjak’s Slovak/Ukrainian coproduction The Line / Čiara, which was released on 3 August 2017, broke the record of first day release with 16,423 admissions.

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Wednesday 28 June, 2017

Eleven Central European Films Receive Eurimages Support

STRASBOURG: Eurimages selected 27 films to receive funding in its June 2017 round, including 11 projects from Central European countries. Eight of the selected films originate in Central European countries.

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Sunday 25 June, 2017

Slovak director/writer Marko Škop is in preproduction with the feature film Let There be Light / Nech je svetlo

The film tells the story of a guest-worker in Germany, who discovers that back home in Slovakia his teenage son has become involved with a nationalistic group, when he is accused of bullying and killing a classmate at his high school. The father starts searching for the truth about what happened.

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Wednesday 21 June, 2017

Dok.incubator brings key decision makers to Slovakia

Are you interested on how to distribute your documentary abroad? How to gain a revenue from the distribution? Take part in an open program of the dok.incubator workshop, meet top producers, sales agents and selectors of leading festivals; all this in the last week of June.

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Tuesday 13 June, 2017

Glocal in Progress has changed its Industry Award Rules

The Glocal in Progress Industry Award aims to contribute to the completion of a European feature produced in non-hegemonic language.

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Monday 5 June, 2017

Krakow Film Festival 2017: Prize Winners

The 57th edition of the Krakow Film Festival (28 May – 4 June 2017) wrapped with awards for the best documentary, short and animated films in one of Europe’s top showcases for non-fiction feature films.

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Monday 29 May, 2017

Poland and Lithuania sign a cooperation agreement

The Polish Film Institute and the Lithuanian Film Centre to strengthen the cooperation between the two countries.

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Monday 29 May, 2017

Cannes Prize Winners

The 70th Cannes Film Festival held from 17 to 28 May awarded its top prize the Palme d’Or to The Square, a Swedish, German, French, Danish and USA coproduction directed by Ruben Östlund. The jury headed by Pedro Almodóvar also made a surprise special award for the 70th anniversary of Cannes to Nicole Kidman, who appeared in two competition films The Killing of a Sacred Deer and The Beguiled and two films screening out of competition, the season two of Top of the Lake and special screening How to Talk to Girls at Parties.