This month we speak with Amer Becirbegovic, the Head of Programming at Obala Meeting Point. Obala Meeting Point is a cult cinema in Sarajevo. It was built in 1997 as a single screen cinema with 191 comfortable seats and a cinema cafe. It hosts the Sarajevo Film Festival, the biggest and most important film event in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the larger region.

Only five more days before European filmmakers, EFA Members, guests, nominees and winners will gather to celebrate European cinema at its finest at the 27th European Film Awards in Riga, European Capital of Culture 2014.

The 18th Black Nights Film Festival concluded on Sunday with more than 77 000 visits to cinemas and a record number of international guests. The festival presented about 700 films, 265 of which were full length, in 11 cinemas and 20 halls all over Estonia.

The 4th Visegrad Film Forum (11th – 14th March 2015) in Bratislava will host Christopher Newman, a renowned Hollywood sound mixer. The three time Academy Award Winner will give a lecture on sound in film. Students of film schools and film enthusiasts are encouraged to sign up at www.visegradfilmforum.com. The deadline for application is March 7th, 2015.

Europa Distribution is launching a new partnership with the Marrakech International Film Festival and is hosting a distribution workshop in the scope of the 14th edition of the festival. Independent distributors members of the network and coming from various countries, as well as local Moroccan distributors, will participate in this workshop on “Effective Communication in Professional Interactions and in the Negotiation Process”.

Having exciting filmographies with international co-productions, 30 players of the European film industry coming have been selected among the EAVE network to represent and promote EAVE in their respective countries.

“The Summer of Sangaile” by the Lithuanian director Alantė Kavaitė – together with another 11 films – was selected for the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition where it will have its world premiere and will be screened as the day one film.