KARLOVY VARY: New films by Bence Fliegauf, Vytautas Katkus, Miro Remo and Ondřej Provazník will compete in the Crystal Globe Competition of the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (4 – 12 July 2025).

VALLETTA: Over 40 films from more than 20 countries (including 10 films in the Competition, 12 films out of competition, and six films in the environment-themed Mare Nostrum section), will screen at the 3rd Mediterrane Film Festival. From 21 to 29 June 2025, the festival will also celebrate the centenary of filmmaking in Malta.

VALLETTA: The Malta film industry has had a major positive impact on the Malta economy over the past five years generating a billion Euros into the Maltese economy.

CANNES: The Competition Jury of the 78th Cannes Film Festival (13-24 May 2025), headed by French Actress Juliette Binoche, gave the Palm d'Or to Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident, a coproduction between France, Luxembourg and Iran.

CANNES: The Estonian/Armenian/French coproduction Winter in March directed by Natalia Mirzoyan received the 3rd Prize ex-aequo in la Cinef competition on 22 May 2025.

CANNES: The Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE) launched the 6th edition of A Season of Classic Films at the 78th Cannes Film Festival and announced the recipient of the 2025 Joint Restoration Grant of 70,000 EUR: Ivica Matić’s feature Woman with a Landscape (1976, Yugoslavia) and five of his experimental shorts.

CANNES: The first edition of the Adriatic Film and TV Awards will be held at the Porto Montenegro marina in the Montenegrin town of Tivat from 24 to 26 October 2025. The announcement was made at the 78th Cannes Film Festival (13 – 24 May 2025).

BERLIN: South Korean director Bong Joon Ho’s film Mickey 17 screened in a Special Gala at the Berlin Film Festival and at 137 minutes it was also one of the longest films in the programme.

BERLIN: First time director Alex Russell’s film Lurker screens in a Special Gala at the Berlin Film Festival this year after its premiere screening earlier this year at Sundance Film Festival. He also wrote the script.

BERLIN: Director Mary Bronstein’s second feature If I Had Legs I’d Kick You screens in the main competition at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. It’s a pleasant and surprising leap forward in the director’s development after her 2008 debut film Yeast ,which didn’t really garner much of a following. So she is back after a 17 year break between her first and second features.