BRATISLAVA: Mira Fornay’s My Dog Killer took home the top prize for Best Film as well as scooping Best Director and Best Screen Play at the Sun in the Net awards which took place on Saturday 26 April at the old National Theatre in Bratislava.

In its 27TH edition, Finále Plzeň (April 27 – May 3, 2014, Pilsen, Czech Republic), traditional festival of Czech films, opens its gates also to Slovak films.Slovak films entered the competition for the main award – the Golden Kingfisher, in all three competition sections , as well as in the new competition of Czech and Slovak TV formats.
Overview of the festival juries is available here: 27th Finale Plzen Juries.

Slovak films will finish April with a significant festival presence - they will be available at the 21st Hot Docs in Toronto, 11th Crossing Europe in Linz and 6th PriFilmFest in Prishtina.

Be one of the first 5 to sign up for the FNE FIPRESCI Cannes Critics ratings and we will send you a beautiful box set of DVD classic Oscar candidate films!

The Wellness Project received the Robert Bosch Stiftung Prize at goEast.

We are pleased to announce that the Ukrainian film „The Tribe”, presented as a work-in-progress at the CentEast Market has been selected for Cannes 2014 Semaine de la Critique, www.semainedelacritique.com.

The 33rdIstanbul Film Festival,organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) and sponsored by AKBANK, concludedon Sunday, 20 April.

Good news for documentary filmmakers – two new competitions have been announced.

The Board of Directors of Global City Holdings N.V., a company duly organized and existing under the laws of the Netherlands, with its registered office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (the "Company"), hereby announces that on 16 April 2014, following purchase of 400,000 shares for the amount of GBP 1,191 thousand it crossed the threshold of 25% in Cineworld Plc.

Having exciting filmographies with international co-productions, 24 up-and-coming players of the European film industry have been selected to take part in European Film Promotion's (EFP) networking platform PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE.