PRAGUE/BRATISLAVA: The 3rd edition of Be2Can will show the best films screened at Berlinale, Venice and Cannes in the Czech towns of Prague, Brno, Zlín, Ostrava and Olomouc from 6 to 12 October 2016, and it will move to Slovakia from 24 to 30 October 2016.

BUCHAREST: The 7th edition of Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest (14-23 October 2016), a festival initiated by director Cristian Mungiu, will expand this year to over 100 screenings and beside the five locations in Bucharest, will also take place in Cluj-Napoca, Iasi and Timisoara.

LISBON: Applications for the 8th edition of Digital Production Challenge II are welcome until 7 October 2016. The upcoming edition of this European workshop on digital production workflows takes place in Lisbon, Portugal from 30 November to 3 December 2016.

VALLETTA: Rebecca Cremona's debut feature Simshar has become the first Maltese film to be distributed in France after its domestic release in 2014. VisioSfeir is the French distributor.

The European Film Academy and EFA Productions are proud to present this year's short film nominations. At each of the 15 participating film festivals, an independent jury presented one European short film in competition with a nomination in the short film category of the European Film Awards.

Exceptional creative documentaries from the second edition of project KineDok are screened in seven European countries already, and in the Czech Republic alone they can be seen at 42 alternative venues.

WROCŁAW: A Bulgarian majority coproduction and Estonian and Lithuanian minority coproductions are among the 15 titles nominated in the short film category of the European Film Awards.

BUCHAREST: Ionaș Dreams of Rain / Ionaș visează că plouă by Dragoș Hanciu won the Best Film Award at the 11th Aristoteles Workshop. This year's experts and tutors were Thierry Garrel, Nino Kirtadze, John Appel and Tania Rakhmanova.

WARSAW: A group of American location managers invited by Film Commission Poland visited Poland in September 2016. The aim of their visit was to familiarise American filmmakers with the potential of Polish locations and Polish film infrastructure.