BUCHAREST: The 22th European Film Festival opens on 7 May 2018 in Bucharest. The festival will screen 64 films from 24 countries in eight cities across Romania, including Galați, Râmnicu Vâlcea, Tîrgu Mureș, Timișoara, Alba Iulia, Iași and Sibiu, closing on 3 June. The festival organised by the Romanian Cultural Institute is one of the oldest film festivals in Bucharest.

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and Industry@Tallinn representatives are attending the 71st Cannes Film Festival and the Marche du Film.

Croatian filmmakers are participating in five festival programmes at the 11th Beldocs International Documentary Film Festival, taking place from May 7th to 14th in Belgrade. A total of 98 films in 14 categories will be screened.

EAVE is happy to announce the selection of 24 films in the OFFICIAL & SIDEBAR SECTIONS OF THE FESTIVAL, 3 projects at CINÉFONDATION ATELIER, 2 CINÉFONDATION RESIDENCE, 3 at LA FABRIQUE CINÉMA, 2 at ACID, 9 out of 20 PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE and over 60 EAVE PRODUCERS at the PRODUCERS NETWORK!

Submissions for connecting cottbus East-West co-production market at the FilmFestival Cottbus are now open.

Jan Naszewski’s Warsaw-based sales outlet New Europe Film Sales announced that it has signed a world sales deal for Ognjen Glavonić debut film The Load, set to world premiere in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight.

Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival aka HÕFF, which ended this Sunday awarded Morgane Segaert’s short film Dark Room with the Silver Méliès award.

Three debut feature films that are at the stage of works-in-progress will participate in Vilnius Goes to Cannes market screening presented by Vilnius IFF Kino Pavasaris. The projects of only debuting filmmakers were selected and awarded by the international jury during Meeting Point – Vilnius, an industry event of VIFF.

ZILINA: Twelve Slovak films have been chosen for the competition of Slovak films at the 11th edition of Slovakia’s animation festival Fest Anca, running 28 June – 1 July in north-western Slovakia.

Two new films have been selected for East Silver Caravan.