VALLETTA: The Malta Film Commission has announced the launch of a 2m EUR scholarship fund to develop and upgrade professional skills within the film industry. The Opportunity For All Scholarship Fund is being launched alongside the new Crew Standards Framework initiative intended to strengthen and develop the workforce across Malta’s film sector.

Another inspiring speech by Malta Film Commissioner Johann Grech at an event in the ancient medieval city of Mdina during the Mediterrane Film Festival. Malta is a small country with a film industry that dares to dream big. Johann Grech is truly an outstanding public speaker. It is rumoured he also wrote the speeches of some of the winning politicians in the recent Maltese elections. With yet another new and ostensibly lackluster UK Prime Minister about to take office at home one wonders why we do not seem to have anyone like the Malta Commissioner in the UK, surely being an outstanding public speaker should be a minimum requirement for the job of PM.

KARLOVY VARY: New films by Miroslav Terzić, Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, Tonia Mishiali, and Ivan Ostrochovský have been selected for the Crystal Globe Competition of the 60th anniversary edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF).

TBILISI: Georgia signed the Council of Europe Convention on the Co-Production of Audiovisual Works in the Form of Series, earlier this year in Lille, establishing a landmark legal framework to support independent TV and streaming producers.

CANNES: Films from FNE partner countries won top prizes at the Cannes Film Festival 2026, especially through the Romanian majority coproduction Fjord by Cristian Mungiu, winner of the Palme d’or, and also of the FIPRESCI Jury, Ecumenical Jury, François Chalais, and Citizenship Jury independent awards.

CANNES: A bilateral coproduction agreement between Latvia and France was signed during the Cannes Film Festival by the director of the National Film Centre of Latvia Dita Rietuma and the CNC director Gaëtan Bruel.

CANNES: Estonian director German Golub's At Your Service / Teie teenistuses has received one of the three Goes to Cannes awards at Marché du Film 2026.

CANNES: The Pop Up Film Residency has announced the participants for its residencies in the summer of 2026. Among them are two Slovenian projects, which are benefiting from the Residency’s partnership with the Slovenian Film Centre.

CANNES: The upcoming long creative documentary Green is the Fire's Tint is presented in the Docs-in-Progress Showcase of Docs by the Sea at Cannes Docs, within the Cannes Film Market 2026. The project directed by Romanian director Cristina Hanes, Italian director Isabella Rinaldi and Indian director Arya Rothe is a Romanian/Indian/Swiss coproduction backed by the Romanian Film Centre (CNC), among others.

CANNES: Oscar winning László Nemes’ Moulin, a French production shot in Hungary and postproduced by NFI Filmlab, will have its world premiere in the Official Competition of the 79th Cannes Festival on 17 May 2026. Outfit 193 is handling the sales.