Kinoblog

In what’s turning out to be a bumper month for Central and Eastern European film festivals in London, tomorrow sees the launch of the first Macedonian Film Festival, which will be based at the Prince Charles cinema off Leicester Square until May 5th.

Their website, with full programme details, is here, and the opening screening is Milcho Manchevski’s Shadows (Senki), at 8.30pm on Tuesday 29th April.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, a record 63 films are on the initial longlist for the Best Foreign Film Oscar. The full list is here, and these are the Central and Eastern European submissions:

• Azerbaijan: Caucasia (d. Farid Gumbatov)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: It’s Hard to Be Nice/Teško je biti fin (d. Srđan Vuletić) - IMDB/Variety
• Bulgaria: Warden of the Dead/Пазачът на мъртвите (d. Ilian Simeonov) - IMDB/Variety
• Croatia: Armin (d. Ognjen Sviličić) - IMDB/Website/Variety
• Czech Republic: I Served the King of England/Obsluhoval jsem Anglického krále (d.Jiří Menzel) - IMDB/Website/Variety
• Estonia: The Class/Klass (d. Ilmar Raag) - IMDB/Website/Variety
• Georgia: The Russian Triangle/Русский треугольник (d. Aleko Tsabadze) - IMDB/Website
• Hungary: Taxidermia (d. György Pálfi) - IMDB/Website/Trailer/Variety
• Macedonia: Shadows/Senki (d. Milcho Manchevski) - IMDB/Trailer/Variety
• Poland: Katyń (d. Andrzej Wajda) - IMDB/Website/Trailer
• Romania: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days/4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile (d. Cristian Mungiu) - IMDB/Website/Clip/Variety
• Russia, 12 (d. Nikita Mikhalkov) - IMDB/Variety
• Serbia: The Trap/Klopka (d. Srdan Golubović) - IMDB/Website/Variety
• Slovakia: Return of the Storks/Návrat bocianov (d. Martin Repka) - IMDB/Trailer
• Slovenia: Short Circuits/Kratki stiki (d. Janez Lapajne) - IMDB /Website/Variety