In mid-September, a week-long workshop dedicated to cinematic storytelling took place at Le Groupe Ouest, in Brittany, on the far western edge of Europe. The event brought together six writer-directors, and six film commissioners and producers from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. This workshop was part of LIM | Less is More, the European feature film development programme, in partnership with Lithuanian Film Centre, Estonian Film Institute and National Film Centre of Latvia.

Oct 15 | 17:00 (CEST) | Online | Free of charge with registration

Queen and Pink Floyd are subjects of some of the most anticipated screenings of the fall! The massive Cinema Dome, set up in Piața Mare, remains the central hub of futuristic cinema at this year’s edition, offering audiences a chance to literally step into the heart of the action. Astra Film Festival, the most important cultural event in Romania dedicated to documentary cinema, is once again the only festival in the country offering immersive full-dome film screenings, which feel as though they’re straight from the future. Find the New Media Dome program, tickets, and passes here: (https://www.astrafilm.ro/astra-film-new-media-dome).

During the award ceremony at the Young Horizons Industry, international co-production event in Warsaw, Poland, Zofia Horszczaruk, Head of Young Horizons Industry, and Maciej Jakubczyk, Head of Young Horizons, together with award partners: Magdalena Zimecka, Managing Director of ORKA Postproduction Studio, Magda Janowska, Postproduction Manager at FIXAFILM, Anna Szadkowska, Production Manager at Wroclaw Feature Film Studio, Adam Romanowski, CEO of No Problemo Music, Lennart Ström, Managing Director of m:brane, and Anna Głowik, representing CEE Animation Forum, handed over the awards for the best projects presented in the in-development and work-in-progress section.

The 28^th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival starts in two weeks. The programme will offer more than three hundred films and includes a revealing retrospective of Swiss filmmaker Anne Marie Miéville and a showcase of award-winning Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang. The festival will be attended by director Kirsten Johnson, the author of this year's Ji.hlava festival trailer, and directors Roberto Minervini, Albert Serra and Andrei Ujică. The 28th IDFF Ji.hlava will take place on October 25 – November 3, lasting for the first time ten days.