PULA: The High Sunwon the best film award and the best director award for Dalibor Matanić at the 62nd Pula Film Festival which concluded on 25 July 2016.

Vitaly Mansky’s documentary Close Relations is set for a December 2015 release.

PRAGUE: The Czech Union of Film Distributors announced that box office for the first half of 2015 reached a 15-year high, rising by 19 percent compared with the same period in 2014. 

PRAGUE: The Czech drama Home Care (Domácí péče) landed in sixth place in the Czech box office on its opening week-end, one of three Czech films holding spots in the top ten for the week-end of 16-19 July 2015, and Helena Trestikova’s award-winning documentary Mallory made an impressive debut in 20th place. 

PRAGUE: The film score for the new Quentin Tarrantino film Hateful Eight has been recorded in Prague.

VILNIUS: The Lithuanian Film Centre has distributed 382 568 EUR to 14 projects in the film development grants session for 2015.

FNE spoke to Julie-Jeanne Regnault EFADs board member and responsible for EU Affairs at Centre National du Cinema about copyright reform and the Digital Single Market

GDYNIA: The 40th Gdynia Film Festival the annual showcase of new Polish film which takes place from 14-19 September 2015 has announced its official competition lineup for 2015. 

JIHLAVA: A promotional and educational project which brings together talented documentary film producers from EU countries, Emerging Producers will run from October 28 – November 1, 2015 at the Jihlava IFF.