BERLIN: Young European viewers aged 12–19 will select the winner of the European Young Audience Award, which has partnered for the first time with the International Film Festival Glasgow (IFFG) to unveil this year's three nominated films counting Hold On to Me and I Matter among them.

ZAGREB: The sixth edition of Series Rough Pitch – The Balkan Way gave away eight awards after the pitch held online on 30 October 2026. The Best Pitch Award went to Where the Old Gods Sleep (Croatia) created by Mateja Božičević.

PtD hosts the next online session in the Ask About format. 

Thursday, 5 November 2026, 15.00 CET, online
registration link: https://forms.gle/id8YNhCXXcbKWsue8

HERCEG NOVI: The CIRCLE Training Initiative wrapped its third CIRCLE Fiction Orbit incubator in Herceg Novi, Montenegro, on 1 November 2026. The participants of the five selected projects, who took part in the seven-day retreat, come from countries including Montenegro and Georgia.

BUCHAREST: TETA has announced the projects selected for the 12th edition of Pustnik International Screenwriting Residency, which will take place 13 – 20 November 2026 at the Bethlen-Haller Castle in Cetatea de Baltă, Transylvania, with the support of Jidvei.

TBILISI: Levan Koguashvili’s Guria received the award for best film at the 19^th Asia Pacific Screen Awards, announced on 30 October 2026 in Queensland, Australia.

TALLINN: The 30^th edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF, 6 – 22 November 2026) will screen in Tallinn and Tartu 230 long films and 259 short films from 87 countries. Together with Just Film and short film festival PÖFF Shorts, the anniversary edition brings new discoveries, festival award winners and Oscar favourites, with 107 world premieres and 47 international premieres to explore.

BUCHAREST: Andra MacMasters’ first long film, the documentary Bright Future, received the Grand Prix and the UCIN Trophy at the Romanian Filmmakers Union (UCIN) Awards for 2025.

BUCHAREST: Turkey’s Doğan Holding has sold its Romanian business including TV channels Kanal D and Kanal D2, Radio Impuls and its digital operations to Romania’s Clever Media, which already runs Prima TV, Prima News and the Prima Sport channels.