Alexander Kvatashidze's Georgian/French/Estonian/Netherlands war documentary See you in Chechnya (Lokokina Studio, Exitfilm, Estonia) has taken top honors in the Locarno IFF industry event Open Doors, winning its production award of 20,000 CHF (16,162 EUR).

The lyrical 1962 Czechoslovak love story The Sun in a Net (Slnko v sieti), directed by Stefan Uher will be lighting up British TV screens this week, following its release on subtitled disc by Second Run DVD. The ambitious indie distributor, specializing in  remastered classic European art films with newly translated subtitles, launched the release Monday.

PIESTANY: The eighth edition of the Cinematik fest honors top European films made in 2012 and 2013, chosen by the panel of 17 European critics in its main competitive section, Meeting Point Europe.

BUDAPEST: The second summer round of funding by the Hungarian Film Fund sees two new projects in production, both by directors with rising stars, László Nemes Jeles and Lili Horváth.

Serving a growing role in the Poznan region's major annual film and music event, the Rozbitek Institute will soon be mentoring filmmakers, writers and composers, based on the US Sundance Institute model, founder Jan AP Kaczmarek told FNE. 

PRAGUE: The disarming, award-winning Polish documentary Rabbit a la Berlin screens at Kino Světozor (www.kinosvetozor.cz/en/‎) in a celebration of the end of the Berlin Wall, which ironically gave the bunnies a safe haven for 28 years.

Miroslav Krobot's original script chronicling the pitfalls of love in a small Moravian town, Nowhere (Díra u Hanušovic), is filming in the Czech Republic's Jeseniky mountains, which form and shape the story, according to the director.

The head of Croatia's Nukleus Film, launched in 2009 and expanded into Slovenia three years later, will represent Eastern Europe at the European Film Promotion Producers Lab in Toronto September 4-7.