BUCHAREST: Paris-based sales agent Goodfellas has picked up the Romanian documentary Nasty, about the legendary Romanian tennis player Ilie Năstase. The film directed by Tudor Giurgiu, Cristian Pascariu and Tudor D. Popescu, which is a new addition to the Special Screenings section within the Official Selection of the 77th Cannes Film Festival (14 – 25 May 2024), tops the domestic weekly box office. It was released in Romania by Transilvania Film on 19 April 2023 ..read more

PARIS: Films by Lithuanian Eglė Razumaitė and Croatian Nebojša Slijepčević have been selected for the Short Film Competition of the 77th Cannes Film Festival, while a film from Czech student Pola Kazak will run in the La Cinef competition ..read more

BELGRADE: Nenad Pavlović’s sophomore feature Wanderlust / Izlet has started shooting. This black-and-white film is an adaptation of a book under the same-title written by the great Serbian painter, film director and writer Miodrag Mića Popović in 1957 ..read more

TALLINN: Rasmus Merivoo’s Alien 2 or The Return of Valdis in 17 Chapters / Tulnukas 2 ehk Valdise tagasitulek 17 osas, based on his cult classic short film, had over 68,000 admissions in Estonian cinemas in its first two weeks, which is the best start for a domestic production after COVID-19 ..read more

NICOSIA: 78 Days by Serbian director Emilija Gašić received the Glocal Images Best Film Award in the International Competition section of the 22nd Cyprus Film Days (12 – 20 April 2024). Embryo Larva Butterfly by Kyros Papavassiliou was awarded Best Cypriot film ..read more

ZAGREB: Four Daughters by Kaouther Ben Hania and KIX by Hungarian directors Dávid Mikulán and Bálint Révész won the International and the Regional Competition, respectively, at the ZagrebDox International Documentary Film Festival, which celebrated its 20th edition from 14 to 21 April 2024 ..read more

TALLINN: Anna Hints and Tushar Prakash's short documentary Sauna Day / Sannapäiv will have its world premiere in the Special Screenings – Short Films section of the 63rd Critics’ Week (Semaine de la Critique), which will be held 15 – 23 May 2024 within the Cannes Film Festival (14 – 25 May 2024 ..read more

TALLINN: Rainer Sarnet’s comedy The Invisible Fight and Smoke Sauna Sisterhood by Anna Hints won most of the film awards, with nine and four trophies respectively, at the Estonian Film and Television Awards, organised by the Estonian Film Institute ..read more

BUCHAREST: The Romanian Film Centre (CNC) has distributed 5.6 m EUR / 27.9 m RON for the production of feature, documentary and animated films, as well as minority coproductions and debut features in the second batch of grants for 2023 ..read more

BERLIN: Germany will take part in the Official Selection and the sidebar sections of the 77th Cannes Film Festival (14 - 25 May 2024) with 11 majority and minority coproductions ..read more