OPEN CALL for Submissions >> 30th Sofia International Film Festival, 12-22 March 2026
Festivals 12-09-2025In 2026, we will mark the 30th anniversary of the Sofia International Film Festival and we are dedicated to making this edition outstanding. The festival will take place from 12 to 22 March 2026 in Sofia, with additional programmе scheduled to run through the end of March in Sofia, Plovdiv, Burgas, and Varna.
TALLINN: The Estonian Film Institute has selected the long animated film Long Papers / Pikad paberid by Meel Paliale as Estonia’s candidate for the 98th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award in the Best International Feature Film category.
ZAGREB: The Croatian Society of Film Workers has selected the documentary Fiume o morte! by Igor Bezinović as Croatia’s candidate for the 98th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award in the Best International Feature Film category. The film is a coproduction between Croatia, Italy and Slovenia.
BUCHAREST: The Romanian Film Centre (CNC) has selected Traffic / Jaful secolului by Teodora Ana Mihai as Romania’s candidate for the 98th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award in the Best International Feature Film category.
Powerful human stories from the Baltic Sea region and world premieres of Latvian films – 9 contestants for RIGA IFF's main prize announced
Festivals 11-09-2025The epicenter of the Riga International Film Festival (RIGA IFF, 16–26 October) is the RIGA IFF Feature Film Competition, which this year will have 9 selected features from Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Ukraine, and Sweden competing for the festival’s main prize. Screenings at cinema Splendid Palace will welcome audiences to emotionally intense documentary and fiction films, exquisite examples of auteur cinema, and expressive human stories, representing different film movements, traditions, and screen languages. Tickets to the screenings are available on the festival website, rigaiff.lv or at Biļešu serviss sales points.
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Participants Announced for Lithuania’s First Training Program for Emerging Film Producers ‘UP!’
Press releases 11-09-2025This October, Vilnius will host the first season of ‘UP!’, Lithuania’s only training program designed for emerging film producers seeking to launch their international careers. Taking place on October 6–10, the initiative will bring together seven promising Lithuanian producers for intensive training and networking opportunities. “UP!” is a satellite initiative of the Baltic Pitching Forum, the largest short film industry event in the Baltic States.
RIGA: The Ukrainian/ Norwegian project Missing in Action directed by Kateryna Holovko and Marharyta Melnychuk received the Baltic Sea Docs Award at the 29th Baltic Sea Docs.
HAMBURG: A total of 27 projects have been selected from a record number of over 240 applications for the 8th edition of the industry event European Work in Progress (EWIP). The event will be held in Hamburg from 29 September to 1 October 2025. For the first time, EWIP will be held in Hamburg as part of the Filmfest Hamburg Industry Days in cooperation with Filmfest Hamburg and Moin Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein.
BUCHAREST: The 11th edition of the Pustnik International Screenwriting Residency started at Romania’s Port Cultural Cetate, on the Danube bank, on 9 September 2025.
