Paweł Pawlikowski’s Ida has won the Grand Prix of the Plus Camerimage film festival and the Best Film of Spain’s Gijon film festival.

FNE asked Xavier Troussard what changes the Central and Eastern European film industry can expect to see under his leadership as the new head of Creative Europe-MEDIA programme at the European Commission and what challenges lie ahead for him personally in his new position. We also asked him about what he thinks should be on the agenda of the upcoming Warsaw AV Summit in December.

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ZAGREB: The Croatian audiovisual industry pays back 1.5 to 2.3 HRK into the state budget for every HRK that the government spends in subsidizing the AV sector, according to a recent government study.  

The government of Malta plans to distribute up to 500,000 EUR toward digitalisation of Malta’s cinemas.

TALLINN: The annual Baltic Event, kicks off on 27 November this week running for three days in Tallinn presenting slates of projects in four different sections:

Andrea Culkova takes a personal look at the addiction to sugar.

WARSAW: The European Parliament has adopted the new Creative Europe. The members of parliament voted 650 in favour, 32 against and there were 10 abstentions to approve the new programme which will be in effect from 2014-2020.

PRAGUE: The director of the Czech State Fund for Cinema Helena Fraňková is one of the front-running candidates for the post of Minister of Culture according to reports in the Czech press.