CANNES: One of the EU’s most successful script programmes ScripTeast has awarded its prestigious Krzysztof Kieślowski ScripTeast Award for the Best Eastern European Script to Nanook by Bulgarian scriptwriters Milko Lazarov and Simeon Ventsislavov. Special mention went to Polish scriptwriter Bodo Kox for his The Man with the Magic Box.

CANNES: the Europa Cinemas Network has unveiled new measures that will boost access to support for Europa Cinemas Network film theatres in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus, Malta, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

CANNES: Representatives of Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Friuli Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Fund and Slovenian Film Centre have announced the first participants of RE-ACT workshop that will take place in Motovun, Croatia from 21 to 24 July.

CANNES: Today and tomorrow FNE is proud to present the great line-up of films from our region that will be screening in Cannes over the next days. Be prepared for some exciting discoveries. See below.

WARSAW: European film industry professionals and organisations have voiced strong concerns about the strategy for the creation of a single digital market across the EU adopted on 6 May by the European Commission.

CANNES: Veteran Lithuanian director Sarunas Bartas has scored a slot in 47th annual Quinzaine des Réalisateurs programme at the Cannes Film Festival with his new feature, the Lithuanian/French/Russian coproduction, Peace to Us in Our Dreams. Poland weighs in as a coproducer of Swedish director Magnus von Horn’s Swedish/French/Polish coproduction The Here After.

CANNES: The Cannes Critics Week which runs from 14-22 May has announced its line-up with a strong emphasis on French and Latin American films.

ISTANBUL: The 34th Istanbul Film Festival closed last night without any closing ceremony or awards as the festival and Turkish film industry professionals protested against government censorship. After the festival was forced to pull a controversial documentary from its programme, Turkish filmmakers have issued an open letter calling on the Turkish government to change government regulations that they see as a weapon that can be used by the authorities to censor films.

ISTANBUL: The Meetings on the Bridge has announced the winning projects for the 10th edition of the annual industry event which was held on 15-16 April 2015 within the scope of the Istanbul Film Festival.

PARIS: Films from Hungary, Romania and Croatia have all scored places in the Competition and Certain Regard official competition programmes in the 68th Cannes Film Festival running from 13 to 24 May.