COTTBUS: Bernd Buder, currently the Programme Director of the Cottbus Film Festival, is being promoted to artistic director of the festival, a position he will hold for the next five years.

As every year, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is the home base for the first session of the EAVE Producers Workshop, organized in partnership with the Film Fund Luxembourg during March 9 – 16 at the Légère Premium Hotel Luxembourg.

A screening of a brand new film Sugar Blues by Andrea Culkova will open a new project by IDF focused on alternative distribution: KineDok Launch; March 6, 2015, La Fabrika - Slévárna

SOFIA: The festival programme for the 19th International Sofia Film Festival has been announced. This year Sofia is celebrating 100 years of Bulgarian Cinema. The film festival will gather films, guests, stars, journalists and cinema fans from 5-29 March 2015.

PRAGUE: On the occasion of the East Doc Platform in Prague, the KineDok project and its website will be officially launched on 6 March 2015.

At the opening ceremony of the International Film Festival Prague – Febiofest, the Kristian award for contribution to world cinema will not only be awarded to actress Kim Novak and Oscar-winning director Jean-Jacques Annaud, but also to one of today’s best British actors, Alan Rickman.

The Elmo Nüganen film “1944” hit Estonian cinema theaters on the 20th of  February 2015. The films’ first week achieved 44 879 admissions, the highest admission record of any Estonian film ever premiered in Estonia.

ZAGREB: The ZagrebDox festival, which ran from 22 February to 1 March 2015, has announced its winners for this year.

Apply now for the sixth edition of TIES THAT BIND – Asia / Europe Co-Production Workshop before March 2, 2015!