WARSAW: Two Polish documentaries are on the short list of eight films vying for an Oscar nomination in the Best Short Documentary category.

BRNO: Czech TV’s Brno studio walked away with the Best European TV Drama prize at the Prix Europa 2014 awards in Berlin on 24 October for the absurdist black comedy Eights (Osmy).

PRAGUE: Central European Media Enterprises, which is facing a continuing decline in its stock price, will unveil its third quarter results on 30 October 2014.

BRATISLAVA: The Slovak Film Instutute has organised a special panorama of Slovak film to be presented at the Molodist IFF (25 October-2 November 2014) in Kiev.

PRAGUE: Five Czech documentaries will be distributed in Czech cinemas following screenings at the Jihlava International Documentary Festival.

From a young man on a vendetta in Warsaw to an old Hungarian tenement building and its quirky inhabitants, all the way to a trip of two adolescent siblings to the Kyrgyz steppe – the thematic and stylistic diversity of this year’s Feature Film and Short Film Competitions of the FilmFestival Cottbus is captivating. Twelve feature films from 17 production countries – all of them German premieres – will compete for the Main Prize endowed with 20,000 euro and the Lubina glass award statuette. In this year‘s Short Film Competition, nine contributions from seven countries made it to the final selection.

DOK.Incubator 2014’s six month workshop will wrap in DOK Leipzig which takes place 27 October-2 November 2014

Emerging Producers 2015 vol. 3

The EAVE 2014 Producers Workshop comes to a close with its third and last workshop in Cologne, Germany (October 27November 3), organized in partnership with Film- und Medienstiftung NRW.

Last Sunday the 10th CentEast Market in Warsaw has successfully ended. The event was attended by almost 280 participants, among which over 100 were international guests. Ten completed films and seventeen short excerpts of works-in-progress from Eastern Europe and China were presented ​in the span of the three Market days.