The first regional film fund in Romania, Transilvania Film Fund (TFF), will be launched this spring in the city of Cluj. Created on the model of similar European funds, Transilvania Film Fund aims to transform Cluj in a major production centre in Eastern Europe, attracting foreign and Romanian producers and developing local resources and professionals.

Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida has once again stolen the show, winning the BAFTA for Film not in the English Language in 2015.

Now in its 10th year, Maia Workshops is an intensive European training programme for international fiction and documentary emerging producers. The deadline for applications is 27 February 2015.

FNE together with FIPRESCI have invited FIPRESCI critics in Berlin to rate the feature films in the official programme of the Berlinale giving the films 1,2,3,4 or 5 stars - 5 is the best and 1 is the worst. 

PRAGUE: This year, Prague's International Film Festival, Febiofest, will be offering a new experience for film lovers - a restaurant to accompany the festival's screenings.

A documentary about coping with pedophilia called Daniel's World by Veronika Lišková will, after a successful premiere at Jihlava IDFF, where it got the Audience Award, appear in the competition section Panorama at the prestigious Berlinale festival that begins this week.