NICOSIA: HBO Max, the global streaming service from Warner Bros. Discovery, has expanded to 12 new countries including Cyprus, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Malta.
Unconventional Parisian scale over nearly a century – feast of the metropolis image on screen in RIGA IFF programme section ARCHITECT’S CUT
Festivals 31-07-2025This October, Riga International Film Festival’s (RIGA IFF, 16-26 October) programme section ARCHITECT’S CUT will be dedicated to the image and architecture of Paris on screen. On the first weekend of the festival, at the Ziedonis Hall of the National Library of Latvia, the audiences will have a chance to experience two special screenings – The Great Arch, the Cannes-screened biographical drama on the making of the Grande Arche of Paris, and in collaboration with the prestigious Cinémathèque française (French Cinematheque), a selection of shorts by francophone cinema masters, Paris, As Seen By… La Cinémathèque française. Tickets to ARCHITECT’S CUT screenings are available on the festival website, rigaiff.lv or at Biļešu serviss sales points. More information: rigaiff.lv/architectscut.
The following production grants were announced by the Arts Council Malta on 4 July 2025.
ZAGREB: Sore: Istri dari Masa Depan by Yandy Laurens had over 1.5 m admissions in Indonesia in its first ten days in cinemas. The film starring Indonesian and Croatian actors was shot in Croatia in 2024, within the Filming in Croatia programme.
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- Accreditations Are Open - Join As at Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event in November!
- Two Baltic Co-Production Market alumni projects will premiere at La Biennale di Venezia!
- The First Serial Bridges Baltics Calls for Applications!
- Call for BWiFM season #5 is Open
ZAGREB: Hlynur Palmason’s The Love That Remains received the Propeller Award at the 27th edition of Cinehill Festival, which wrapped up in Fužine, Croatia, on 27 July 2025.
PODGORICA: Public Media Service of Radio Television of Montenegro is now offering contemporary Montenegrin films on its OTT service, the MNE Play platform. This is the first initiative of this kind in Montenegro.
BUDAPEST: The National Film Institute - Hungary (NFI) has launched a grant programme for local film professionals who are already admitted in international training programmes or workshops.
BUCHAREST: The European public streaming platform ARTE.tv, which is based in Strasbourg, France, has added Romanian to its existing content languages (French, German, English, Spanish, Italian, Polish).
Romanian feature "Milk Teeth", directed by Mihai Mincan and produced by deFilm, premieres at the Venice International Film Festival, in the Orizzonti competition
Festivals 23-07-2025"Milk Teeth", the second fiction feature film written and directed by Mihai Mincan, will have its world premiere in the Orizzonti competitive section at The Venice International Film Festival (82nd edition), which will take place from 27 August to 6 September 2025.
