Lithuanian director Alantė Kavaitė wins World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award at Sundance Film Festival for her film The Summer of Sangaile. The film had its World Premiere at Sundance and was screened as the day one film.

My Happy Family, a new project by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross produced by Georgia’s Polare Film is among 36 feature film projects from 28 countries selected for the 12th annual Berlinale Co-Production Market (8 – 10 February 2015) and will look for partners in a new section called Berlinale Directors

Two out of the three awards from the Europa Cinema Awards 2014 were granted to CEE countries.

ZAGREB: Croatian beneficiaries and audiovisual industry stakeholders have drawn 3.3 million Euro of non-returnable grants from 2008 to 2013. The MEDIA Sub-Programme gave 531,424 EUR to Croatian audiovisual projects in 2014.

East Doc Platform, the most important industry event dedicated to documentary films from East and Central Europe, organized by the Institute of Documentary Film, will take place in Prague from 2 to 8 March 2015.

NATIONAL COMPETITION AWARDS WILL BE SELECTED BY JURY CHAIRED BY ZEKİ DEMİRKUBUZ

We are approaching you with an opportunity to develop a feature documentary project in the rough-cut stage. DOK.Incubator, an international documentary rough-cut workshop for editors, directors and producers, calls for submissions.

Combatting prejudice, apathy and hearsay in Czech society is the goal of the 17th annual One World international human rights documentary film festival, whose motto is "Burst through your bubble!". The festival will take place in Prague from 2 to 11 March 2015 and subsequently in 33 other Czech cities.

RIGA: Five Latvian features, including Laila Pakalnina's Dawn, are expected to be released in 2015.

VALLETTA: Twenty projects were supported by Malta Film Fund in 2013 with a total amount of 230,000 EUR.