Vitaly Mansky’s documentary Close Relations is set for a December 2015 release.

PRAGUE: The Czech Union of Film Distributors announced that box office for the first half of 2015 reached a 15-year high, rising by 19 percent compared with the same period in 2014. 

PRAGUE: The Czech drama Home Care (Domácí péče) landed in sixth place in the Czech box office on its opening week-end, one of three Czech films holding spots in the top ten for the week-end of 16-19 July 2015, and Helena Trestikova’s award-winning documentary Mallory made an impressive debut in 20th place. 

PRAGUE: The film score for the new Quentin Tarrantino film Hateful Eight has been recorded in Prague.

VILNIUS: The Lithuanian Film Centre has distributed 382 568 EUR to 14 projects in the film development grants session for 2015.

FNE spoke to Julie-Jeanne Regnault EFADs board member and responsible for EU Affairs at Centre National du Cinema about copyright reform and the Digital Single Market

GDYNIA: The 40th Gdynia Film Festival the annual showcase of new Polish film which takes place from 14-19 September 2015 has announced its official competition lineup for 2015. 

JIHLAVA: A promotional and educational project which brings together talented documentary film producers from EU countries, Emerging Producers will run from October 28 – November 1, 2015 at the Jihlava IFF.

WARSAW: CentEast Warsaw is calling for works in progress from Eastern Europe. Submissions are already open and the deadline is 4 September 2015.