VALLETTA: The Mediterrane Film Festival has announced the Official Selection for its 4th edition, set to take place in Malta’s capital city from 21 to 28 June 2026.

BUDAPEST: The Hungarian capital is Nazi-occupied Paris in the WWII drama The Nightingale directed by Michael Morris, which brings Elle Fanning and Dakota Fanning for the first time on screen.

The Malta Film Commission proudly announces the return of the Mediterrane Film Festival for its fourth edition, taking place between 21 and 28 June 2026 across Valletta and a number of Malta’s most iconic locations.

Big Screen Competition to include 2026’s buzziest world-class features from film directors including Steven Soderbergh, Alice Winocour, Gus Van Sant, Mark Jenkin, Karim Ainouz and Olivier Assayas, to star turns from Angelina Jolie, Charli XCX, George MacKay, Callum Turner, Elle Fanning, Pamela Anderson, Paul Dano, Alicia Vikander, Jude Law, Ian McKellen, Michaela Coel, Al Pacino, Bill Skarsgard, Colman Domingo and more.

FNE has teamed up with FIPRESCI critics attending the Cannes Film Festival to rate the films in the Main Competition, Un Certain Regard, Directors' Fortnight and Critics Week, giving the films 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 stars. 5 is the best and 1 is the worst. The ratings give an overview of critics’ opinions from a large number of countries and provide insights into what critics in many different countries think about the programme. FNE will be publishing updates each day from today until the end of the festival.

CLUJ-NAPOCA: Eleven feature films including one docu-fiction and one documentary, as well as 20 short films have been selected for the Romanian Days Competition at the 25th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF, 12 – 21 June 2026).

Macedonian director Andrey Volkashin is in the final stages of postproduction on his debut feature The Sweetness of Bitter Things (formerly The Sweet Bitterness of Ripe Pomegranates / Slatkata gorchina na zrelite kalinki), which is currently being completed in Amsterdam and is expected to be ready for premiere soon.

31 local productions are included in the Romanian Days competition — 11 feature films (most of them fiction debuts) and 20 short films competing for the section’s three major awards: Best Feature Film, Best Debut and Best Short Film. The feature films selected in the Romanian Days competition will also compete for the attention of the FIPRESCI jury, while the shorts are eligible for recognition from the Signis jury.

The following grants have been announced by the Slovenian Film Centre on 25April 2026.