PLZEN: Thirteen titles will be competing in the feature or animated films competition of the 29th Finale Plzen Film Festival set to take place from 15 to 21 April 2016. The festival showcasing Czech and Slovak productions steps into a new era with a new management and several changes.

Come to Pilsen for an opportunity to watch the complete Czech and Slovak cinema production of the past year. There are many new features to look forward to. The main guest of this year’s edition is Mike Reiss, a long-term writer of the Simpsons.

PRAGUE: An important amendment to the Czech audiovisual law has moved one step closer to approval after being approved by the lower house of the Czech parliament this week.

The Board of the European Film Academy (EFA) supports the Polish Directors’ Guild and over 90 Polish film journalists in their protest against the treatment of multiple EFA-winner IDA by Poland's public broadcaster TVP.

The Federation of European Film Directors has added its voice to that of the Polish Directors’ Guild in condemning the actions of Polish Television TVP in broadcasting a programme attacking Paweł Pawlikowski’s Oscar-winning film and European Parliament’s 2014 LUX Prize winner IDA.

WARSAW: The Here After by Magnus von Horn, a Polish/Swedish/French coproduction, which had its world premiere in the Director's Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival 2015, will be released theatrically in UK on 11 March 2016. 

More than 400 guests are expected at the fifth edition of East Doc Platform, introduced by The Institute of Documentary Film in Prague from 7 to 13 March 2016.

PRAGUE: Twelve titles have been selected in the New Europe Competition of the 23rd Febiofest Film Festival, which will take place in Prague from 17 to 23 March 2016.

Dear Sir, The Guild of Polish Directors wants to express outrage over the material broadcast as an introduction to the film Ida directed by Paweł Pawlikowski presented on TVP2 on 25 February 2016.