BERLIN: Five documentaries from FNE partner countries are among the 14 long documentaries picked by the European Film Academy for the Documentary Film Selection of the European Film Awards 2023.

WARSAW: The 15th edition of the Solanin Film Festival was dominated by Munk Studio's productions made as part of the First Documentary and Thirty Minutes programmes, addressed to young artists.

PRAGUE: Czech location managers Petr Růčka, Marek Řídel and Jan Ondrovčák from Film Makers s.r.o received the award for Outstanding Locations in a Period Feature Film for Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front at the 10th Location Managers Guild International awards. The event was held in Santa Monica, USA, on 26 August 2023.

SIBIU: Over 130 films from more than 40 countries have been selected for the 30th edition of Astra Film Festival, which will be held in Sibiu, Romania 15 – 22 October 2023. From these 130 films, 43 will screen in the four competition sections of the festival: New Voices of the Documentary, Central and Eastern Europe, Romania and DocSchool.

PRAGUE: The Czech comedy ONEMANSHOW – The Movie by Kamil Bartošek and Ondřej Pavliš had 291,761 admissions and 2.24 m EUR / 54,160,085 CZK gross in its opening weekend in domestic cinemas. The previous record from a Czech film was held by the Christmas comedy God´s Angel 2 / Anděl Páně 2 by Jiří Strach, produced by Marlene Film Production, which had over 188,000 admissions in December 2016.

TALLINN: The documentary Smoke Sauna Sisterhood by Anna Hints has been selected as Estonia’s candidate for the 96th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award in the Best International Feature Film category.

RIGA: Films by Viesturs Kairišs, Signe Baumane, Elza Gauja, Giedrius Tamoševičius & Vytautas V Landsbergis, and Ove Musting are currently being screened in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia within the 7th edition of the Baltic Film Days (22 – 24 August 2023).

VALLETTA: Paramount's Production Gladiator 2 directed by Ridley Scott will receive a record 46,653,961 EUR from the 40% cash rebate for its shoot in Malta. The Malta Film Commission said the shoot will give a major boost to the Maltese film industry.