BUCHAREST: The 5th Mediaş Central European Film Festival 7+1 will focus on the WWI and its impact on the XX and XXI centuries. MECEFF will take place in Mediaş from 1 to 5 September and in Bucharest from 24 to 27 September 2015. 

WARSAW: Filmmakers from the Baltic Sea region are eligible to submit films for the Common Baltic Short Film Contest, with awards for the best films to be presented at the Gdynia Film Festival.

KineDok plans 200 screenings at alternative venues in Romania in 2015. 

WARSAW: The Polish-German Co-Development Fund is accepting applications through 14 August 2015. Applications are open to film producers from Poland and Germany.

WARSAW: The 10th FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project is accepting applications for its training programme for young critics and film journalists from Central and Eastern Europe.

WROCLAW: The Belgian film Lucifer directed by Gust Van den Berghe won the grand prize and a 20,000 EUR award at the 15th T-Mobile New Horizons Film Festival, which wrapped last weekend.

FNE spoke to MEP Bogdan Wenta, Member of the Culture Committee of the EU Parliament about Copyright Reform and the Digital Single Market.

VALLETTA: Malta will see 500,000 EUR going into upgrading cinemas in six cinema complexes.

UHERSKE HRADISTE, CZECH REPUBLIC: The Association of Czech Film Clubs handed out its annual awards at the 41st Uherske Hradiste Summer Film School.

SARAJEVO: Two world premieres are among the ten films in the main competition of the Sarajevo Film Festival which runs 14-22 August 2015.