Pustnik Co-founder Andreea Bortun and Project Manager Dan Angelescu talk about Pustnik, a residency for scriptwriters on the banks of the Danube in Romania. They talk about why they founded the programme, how the COVID crisis has changed things and how scriptwriters can apply.

CLUJ: The Transilvania IFF will take place 31 July – 9 August. The festival had been originally scheduled for June but was postponed by the COVID-19 crisis. The summer edition will feature many outdoor screenings and adapted programming, with a focus on the safety of the audience.

WARSAW: Films from Lithuania, Bulgaria and Georgia have been selected for the 73rd edition of the Cannes Film Festival. A total of 56 films have been chosen for the 2020 official selection.

Twelve projects have been selected for Ex Oriente 2020.

ZLIN: The delayed 60th Zlin Film Festival for Children and Youth, originally scheduled for the week of 29 May – 6 June 2020, has announced the selection of competition films for its rescheduled dates of 4 – 10 September.

WARSAW: Kids Kino Industry is accepting applications for its 4th annual pitching forum through 5 June 2020.

At its most recent 158th management board meeting which took place online the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund agreed to support the film “Sabattier Effect” by Macedonian director Eleonora Veninova in the amount of 88,000 euros.

It's a great pleasure to introduce the 9 selected projects for the 2020 edition of MIDPOINT TV Launch.

Thanks to the collaboration between the Polish Film Institute and the New Horizons Association, the New Horizons International Film Festival is one of the 4 international film festivals to present selected films in the prestigious The Goes to Cannes at the biggest film market, Marché du Film Online.

CmyThe Moths, dir. Piotr Stasik (phot. Łukasz Bąk)

Krakow Film Festival celebrates this year the 60th anniversary of its first edition. Due to the pandemic all film screenings, Q&As with directors and other events will take place online. The programme consists of over 200 films from all over the world, including numerous premiers, and over 60 meetings with filmmakers, film protagonists and jurors. The award ceremony will be hosted by Maciej Stuhr.