VALLETTA: In his annual budget speech to the Malta Parliament, Malta’s Finance Minister Edward Scicluna said that the film industry in Malta is on course to record a 500% increase.

The 18th Black Nights Film Festival opens tonight in Tallinn with “Warsaw 44” by Jan Komasa with the introduction by the director Komasa, actor Józef Pawłowski and producer Jan Kwiencinski. The Bruno Oýa Award for the young Estonian actor will be presented at the red carpet opening ceremony in the Nordea Concert Hall.

Nine films nominated or awarded at the European Film Academy Awards will be screened in Tallinn during the Black Nights, among them “Winter Sleep” by Nuri Bilge Ceylan that has collected three nominations.

Submissions for the 14th edition of Transilvania International Film Festival – TIFF, which will take place between May 29 – June 7, 2015 in Cluj-Napoca are now open.

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PRAGUE: Kids from the East by director Aramisova and producer Michal Kráčmer of cinédix won a postproduction prize and accreditation to the 2015 Producers Network in Cannes at the Crossroads Co-Production Forum awards in Thessaloniki.

The first teaser trailer for Iron Sky The Coming Race, sequel to the Nazis-On-The-Moon scifi comedy of 2012, is spreading like a wildfire on the Internet.

On Saturday evening the 24th FilmFestival Cottbus concluded with an awards ceremony in the Stadthalle Cottbus. In addition to the 72,750 Euros awarded to the winning filmmakers, the organizers were once again able to look back on a successful festival, which attracted over 20,000 viewers to Cottbus.