A petty criminal from Sweden, Danish “gold digger”, British journalist and an ISIL fighter, Russian rockers and a Columbian hit man – they all belong to the whole panoply of characters you will meet on Motovun’s screens: in exactly three weeks, Motovun Film Festival’s projectors will be started and yet another trip around the world in more than 100 films and 65 screenings will begin.

This year's MIDPOINT Feature Launch program had its final showcase during the Karlovy Vary IFF, helping to launch the career of 9 promising projects and their talented participants. Here are the highlights of the third module, Works in Development – Feature Launch.

This year’s Sarajevo Film Festival, August 10th to 17th, will feature a number of Croatian films and minority co-productions in various competition and non-competition programmes. Some of the films will be having their world premieres in Sarajevo. Furthermore, Croatian filmmakers will be participating in the industrial segment of the festival.

The 12th annual Talents Sarajevo, to be held in parallel with the 24th Sarajevo Film Festival, will host 61 prospective actors, cinematographers, directors, editors, film critics, producers and screenwriters from South Eastern Europe and South Caucasus. Among them are four Croatian professionals: Hrvojka Begović (actress), Hani Domazet (director), Katarina Prpić (producer) and Daria Keršić (screenwriter).

The Vitaly Mansky's documentary 'Putin's Witnesses' that won the Documentary Films Competition at the 53rd edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will have its Baltic premiere at the Riga International Film Festival (RIGA IFF) on October 23, the closing day of the competition programme ARTDOCFEST/RIGA. Tickets are already available for purchase through the rigaiff.lv website.

The Czech Film Fund announced the following grants on 11 July 2018.

WROCLAW: Ten participants from Poland and ten from Romania, Denmark, Austria, the Ukraine and the UK, have been selected for the 9th edition of New Horizons Studio+, taking place from 27 to 30 July 2018 during the 18th New Horizons IFF.

ZAGREB: Factum, one of the most important Croatian documentary film production companies, has launched a new project, Factum Online, and its first stage is a VOD platform.

East Silver has long time partnerships with festivals all around the world. The new partnerships include the Slovak festival Cinematik Piešťany, Russian festivals Pacific Meridian and Saratov Sufferings IFFDD and also Italian SiciliAmbiente.

One of the most important Croatian documentary film production companies has launched a new project: Factum Online, bringing the broad spectrum of Factum’s documentaries to your home – from the recent ones to the rarely seen!