Polish MEP Bogdan Wenta tells FNE why film literacy is vital for the future of the European film industry and European audiences.

WARSAW: FNE has teamed up with the Brussels based team of the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC) to bring you regular updates on EU cinema policies that impact all industry professionals across Europe. Click here for FNE UNIC EU Cinema Policy Update.

VALLETTA: Malta Arts Council will allot more than 1 m EUR over the next three years to eleven artistic organisations and festivals including Kinemastic, Malta Short Film Festival and Valletta Film Festival.

PALIĆ: Fourteen films will compete for the Golden Tower for Best Film at the 23rd edition of the European Film Festival Palić (16-22 July 2016).

FNE TV: FNE has teamed up with European Film Promotion’s Future Frames in Karlovy Vary to ask ten European film school students and recent graduates to find out what they think about the future of European film.

FNE TV spoke to Czech MEP Michaela Šojdrová Vice-Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education about the impact of Brexit on Creative Europe and why public funding for film is so important in the smaller countries of the EU like the Czech Republic.

Click HERE for the video interview.

PULA: Seven Croatian films and six minority coproductions are competing in the Croatian Programme of the 63rd Pula Film Festival taking place from 9 – 16 July 2016.

ZAGREB: Ivona Juka’s debut feature You Carry Me / Ti mene nosiš has been bought by Netflix. This Croatian/Slovenian/Serbian/Montenegrin coproduction is the first film from the region bought by the world’s most famous VOD service.

Vice-Chair of the Committee on Budgetary Control

KARLOVY VARY: FNE has teamed up with FIPRESCI to organise a group of 20 critics attending KVIFF to rate the films in the Main Competition and the East of the West Competition giving the films 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 stars.