VILNIUS: The animated preschool TV series Stomp! Stomp! Rhinos! produced by Oak9 Entertainment is the first Lithuanian animated franchise acquired by a sales agent (Boat Rocker) for worldwide distribution.
BELGRADE: The Mexican short film Castaways directed by Andrea Saavedra de la Teja received the Golden Egg at the 18th edition of the Kustendorf Film and Music Festival, held in Mećavnik (Kustendorf) 22 - 25 January 2025.
BRUSSELS: Julie-Jeanne Régnault has announced her decision to step down as General Secretary of the European Film Agency Directors Association (EFAD). The decision will be effective starting March 2025.
BUCHAREST: The Romanian film with the best opening after 1990, Buzz House: The Movie by Florin Babei, lands third in the local box office 2024, while three other domestic films are the fifth, eight and tenth most watched films of the year.
BUDAPEST: The Romantic fantasy Wicker by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson will be shot in Hungary in the autumn of 2025 with Olivia Colman and Dev Patel in the main roles.
VALLETTA: Paramount's production Gladiator II directed by Ridley Scott and partially shot in Malta, was the most-watched film on the island in 2024, according to local distributor KRS Releasing.
TALLINN: Over 40 documentaries will be shown in the Estonian capital and also in Tartu at the 16th International Documentary Film Festival DocPoint Tallinn, taking place 4 – 9 February 2025.
LOS ANGELES: Gints Zilbalodis' Flow scooped two nominations at the Academy Awards 2025 in the categories of Best International Feature Film and Best Animated Feature Film. Croatian/Bulgarian/French/Slovenian The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent was nominated in the Live Action Short Film category.
RIGA: Gints Zilbalodis’s long animated film Flow, made as a coproduction between Latvia, Belgium and France, has had over 2 m admissions outside Latvia, according to the film's producer Matiss Kaza. It is also the first Latvian film to be nominated at the Oscars and to win a Golden Globe. The Golden Globe trophy is currently on display from 21 to 28 January 2025 at the Latvian National Museum of Art.
The feature film THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG by Mohammad Rasoulof has been nominated for an Oscar® in the Best International Feature Film category. This was announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) on Thursday, January 23, 2025. This is the third time in a row that the German entry has entered the race for the Foreign Oscar®.
