Cottbus looks for new feature and short films from Eastern, East Central and South Eastern Europe*

For its 2020 edition, the Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes’ XR program dedicated to virtual and augmented reality becomes CANNES XR VIRTUAL from June 24 to 26. This 3-day event will be entirely dedicated to players from the creative industries who use virtual and augmented reality technologies.

Film productions funded by the Mazovia Film Fund in 2020:

VALLETTA: Cinemas in the Maltese islands, the EU’s smallest member, with a population of 490,000 people, registered a total of 748,568 admissions in 2019, according to statistics released by the country’s National Statistics Office.

BERLIN: Applications for the 17th Art Cinema = Action + Management training programme will close on 15 June 2020. The programme will take place 31 August – 6 September.

FNE profiles the films selected for Ex Oriente Film 2020.

COTTBUS: The East-West coproduction market connecting cottbus is accepting applications for cocoPITCH through 15 July 2020 and for cocoWIP through 20 August.

Submissions for the 22nd edition of connecting cottbus, the East-West co-production market at the FilmFestival Cottbus on 4-6 November 2020, are now open.

MIDPOINT's series oriented program TV Launch brings together 20 participants with 9 projects of promising series. The first workshop of the more than six months long journey starts on June 10, 2020 and runs for the following 12 days online.

Zviad Eliziani shares with us the challenges the festival faces due to the COVID-19 pandemic and why he is determined the festival should go ahead as a live event. BIAFF is set to take place 15-22 September 2020.