PRAGUE: Czech Film and Television Academy selected Lost in Munich by Petr Zelenka to be the country‘s entry to the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 89th Academy Awards. The film was selected from among 49 feature films, documentaries and animated films.

PORTOROŽ: The second round of RE-ACT Co-Development Funding opened call for applications, which was announced during the 19th Slovenian Film Festival in Portorož. The deadline for application is 15 November 2016.

The call for applications to the 6th East Doc Platform | Prague | March 6– 12, 2017, organized by theInstitute of Documentary Film in association with One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, is now open.

PRAGUE: The domestic premiere of the documentary FC Roma by Rozalie Kohoutova and Tomas Bojar, focusing on a football club with mainly Romani players, was cancelled due to threats by football fans.

On 26 September 2016, in Prague's Světozor Cinema, the renowned documentary filmmaker Martin Ryšavý will have a pre-premiere screening of his latest film, Blind Gulliver.

22nd Vilnius International Film Festival “Kino pavasaris” is inviting Lithuanian and Lithuanian diaspora filmmakers around the world to submit their fiction, documentary, animation and experimental short and feature length films.

Problems concerning the middle class are at the centre of Andrius Blaževičius’s first feature film “The Saint”, which will compete in this year’s Warsaw and Busan film festivals before its Lithuanian premiere in 2017.

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VILNIUS: Lithuanian Oscar Committee has decided that Seneca‘s Day by Kristijonas Vildžiūnas will be the country‘s entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards. The third film by Kristijonas Vildžiūnas is a Lithuanian/Estonian/Latvian coproduction.

 The Lithuanian Oscar Committee has decided that the film Seneca‘s Day by Kristijonas Vildžiūnas is Lithuania’s official candidate for the Oscar-nominations as Best Foreign-Language Feature.