WIESBADEN: The Polish/Czech/Slovak coproduction Red Spider directed by Marcin Koszałka won the Best Director award and Emilia Vasaryova received an Honourable Mention for her title performance in the Slovak/Czech film Eva Nova from director Marko Skop at the 16th goEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Films during the closing ceremony on 26 April 2016.

BUCHAREST: More than 80 films will screen in the 20th edition of the European Film Festival organised by the Romanian Cultural Institute and taking place in six Romanian cities from 5 to 29 May 2016.

BUZĂU: Six feature films from Austria, Russia, Bulgaria, Germany, Poland and Romania were selected for the competition of the first edition of BUZZ CEE, a new festival for CEE films which will run in Buzău 4-8 May 2016.

PLZEN: Olmo Omerzu’s Family Film won the Golden Kingfisher main prize at the 29th Finale Plzen film festival’s closing ceremony on 21 April 2016.

WIESBADEN: Feature films and documentaries are competing together in the Competition of the16th edition of goEast, which takes place in Wiesbaden on 20-26 April 2016.

PRAGUE: Central European Media Enterprises has completed a refinancing transaction to extend a credit facility agreement and a term loan, with the intention of decreasing the company’s financial leverage.

Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival announces that submissions to the Docu Talents from the East 2016, a presentation of the finest Central and Eastern European creative documentary projects in the stages of production or post-production, are now open.

CANNES: Eight of the 20 producers selected for the European Film Promotion's high-profile networking platform Producers on the Move at the Cannes Film Festival (11-22 May 2016) are from CEE countries.

CANNES: Valley of Peace by France Stiglic (Slovenia), Ikarie XB 1 by Jindřich Polák (Czech Republic) and Dekalog 5 and 6 by Krzysztof Kieślowski (Poland) will screen in Cannes Classics 2016. The announcement was made on 20 April 2016.