PRAGUE: Rise & Shine, the animation development & pitching lab for young talents and their short films, has announced the 11 projects selected for its 3rd edition that will take place within Animafest Zagreb from 5 – 8 June 2024 and Animateka from 4 – 8 December 2024.

FNE has teamed up with FIPRESCI critics attending the Cannes Film Festival to rate the films in the Main Competition, Un Certain Regard, Directors' Fortnight and Critics Week, giving the films 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 stars. 5 is the best and 1 is the worst. The ratings give an overview of critics’ opinions from a large number of countries and provide insights into what critics in many different countries think about the programme. FNE will be publishing updates each day from today until the end of the festival.

CLUJ-NAPOCA: Twelve first and sophomore features, including Where Elephants Go by Romanian directors Cătălin Rotaru and Gabi Virginia Șarga, have been selected for the Official Competition of the 23rd Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF), which will be held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania 14 – 24 June 2024.

CANNES: Creative Romanian Film Makers brings 13 dynamic Romanian companies to the Cannes’ Marche du Film, held 14 – 22 May 2024 within the 77th Festival de Cannes (14 - 25 May 2024). You can meet them at Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, 1st floor, stand 22.03.

POTSDAM: The Erich Pommer Institut (EPI) is inviting you to take part on 28 May 2024, 18:00 (CEST) in the online info session about its workshop Digital Distribution – Maximizing Reach and Revenues, which will be held in Copenhagen 27 – 29 June 2024.

11 exciting projects to participate in the two-part workshop

Info Session: May 28 | 18:00 CEST | Online | Free of charge with registration
Do you want to know how to dig into Digital Distribution and reach a wider audience with your film or series? Then take this opportunity and join in on our exciting workshop in Copenhagen.

The Shorts Industry Shortcut (SIS) is PÖFF Shorts’ new industry arm, a stimulating, thought-provoking and inspiring talent building and guidance platform for emerging filmmakers.

LIBEREC: Winter / Zima (Poland) by Tomek Popakul and Kasumi Ozeki received the award for Best Film in the International Competition for Short Films at the 23rd edition of the International Festival of Animated Films – Anifilm held in Liberec, Czech Republic from 7 to 12 May 2024.

BUDAPEST: Government Commissioner and head of the National Film Institute – Hungary (NFI) Csaba Káel, and Mao Yu, head of the China Film Administration, signed an agreement on wide-ranging cooperation with the aim of promoting the cooperation of Hungarian and Chinese professionals and launching joint film projects.

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