SOFIA: Cinema attendance, film production and the number of screens rose in Bulgaria in 2015, with 26 feature films produced and cinema attendance up 4.8 per cent.

KATOWICE: Look For Fund, a pitching forum that takes place during REGIOFUN, is accepting project proposals until 30 June 2016.

ZLIN: Eight films from Europe, the Middle East and Asia have been selected for the competition of films for children at the 56th Zlin International Festival of Films for Children and Youth, which takes place 27 May through 3 June 2016 in the central Moravian city of Zlin.

Twelve film projects have been selected for the 2016/2017 Ex Oriente workshop

ZLIN: A wide international selection of films will screen in the competition of feature films for youth at the 56th Zlin International Film Festival for Youth and Children, which runs 27 May to 3 June 2016.

The winner of the 10th anniversary edition of the Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award for the Best Script from Eastern Europe is When The Trees Fall by Marysia Nikitiuk from Ukraine.

BRATISLAVA: The Red Captain, a Slovak/Czech/Polish coproduction directed by Slovak producer/director Michal Kollár, stayed in the Slovak top 20 for its tenth week in distribution. The film has a cumulative box office of 452,000 EUR and 84,000 admissions.