The Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC) unveiled new production grants on 11 and 12 December 2025.

The minority coproduction grants for 2025 were announced by the Cypriot Deputy Ministry of Culture in March and July 2025.

Ildikó Enyedi’s ‘Silent friend’ will close the festival

BIAFF Batumi Film Festival will present BIAFF Film Week from December 13-17, where a collection of both feature and short films will be screened.

Reality is rapidly changing before our eyes and over the past few years the global audiovisual industry has been experiencing a radical transformation with new market trends, consumption habits, digital tools, innovative technologies and unpredicted forms of intelligence. In these ever changing times WEMW 2026 wants to reflect on this (r)evolution and the possible sense of uncertainty that our industry is currently going through.

JURY GRAND PRIX

Awarded for films in the Main Competition. A monetary award in the amount of €1,000.

Includes new chair Ada Solomon and deputy chairs to be Leontine Petit and Matthieu Darras

The gripping drama Serafima by acclaimed director Veiko Õunpuu tells a story of moral choices and survival under authoritarianism in Soviet Estonia in the 1960s. It is a tale of love poisoned by fear, violence, and emotional trauma. The leading roles in the film – based on award winning writer Vahur Afanasjev’s novel Serafima and Bogdan – are played by Estonian actor Priit Võigemast and Georgian actress Tinatin Dalakishvili who is known to the wider public from the Netflix film Extraction 2.

From Indonesia to Bangladesh, from Kyrgyzstan to Uzbekistan, across Europe and to the United States, Canada and South America, on sunday the 10th European Arthouse Cinema Day united more than 600 movie theatres in 45 countries and more than 90.000 visitors for its most international edition to date. 130 years after the inception of cinema, the success of European Arthouse Cinema Day once again showcases the remarkable energy, reach, and collaborative spirit of the global arthouse movement. 

For the first time in the history of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, the winner of both the Grand Prix and the Audience Award is the same film – The Good Daughter, directed by Spanish filmmaker Júlia de Paz Solvas.