PRAGUE: Vojtech Jasny was given Prague’s Academy of Performing Arts Golden Medal, its highest honour, on 30 November 2015. Jasny was an early graduate of the academy’s film programme, FAMU.

FNE asked Mirsad Purivatra the winner of this year’s Europa Cinemas Entrepreneur of the Year Award about how festivals and cinemas can work together and what role innovation can play to bring European films to a wider audience.

WARSAW: Poland will not seek an appeal to a court ruling against the extradition of Roman Polanski, effectively clearing the way for Polanski to shoot his next film in Poland.

ZAGREB: The ZagrebDox Pro programme has extended its application deadline until 7 December 2015.

The 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival is announcing the following winners at its black carpet Awards Ceremony tonight at Nordea Concert Hall. The fest will run for two more days of screenings.

TBILISI: The 16th Tbilisi International Film Festival will open on 30 November 2015 with a premiere of the Georgian film by Levan Tutberidze Moira produced by Cinetech Film. The festival will close on 5 December.

PRAGUE: Czech powerhouse distribution company Cinemart scored its own diplomatic coup, bringing the son of Francis Gary Powers to a special pre-premiere screening of Bridge of Spies directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the junior Powers’ lone appearance at a film screening in the former Soviet Bloc.

The deadline to apply for East Doc Platform is 1 December 2015.

FNE asked Bogdan Wenta why the LUX Prix was important for the support of cultural diversity in Europe and how it contributes to our understanding of social problems and cultural differences in Europe.

FNE asked Tiina Lokk about how being an A category festival is changing the Black Nights Film Festival and why the European Commission chose Tallinn as the place to wind up its series of 2015 European Film Forums on the Digital Single Market.