BERLIN: Polish minority coproduction The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills and a Slovak/Czech coproduction Goat/Koza have been selected for the Forum section of the Berlin Film Festival running from 5 to 15 February 2015.

ZAGREB: Croatian Audiovisual Centre approved funding for projects of Miloš Radović, Runar Runarsson and Eva Cvijanović.

The following grants were announces by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre on 13 January 2015.

BUDAPEST: Ridley Scott is currently shooting The Martian in Hungary. The film stars Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Kate Mara, Jeff Daniels and Sean Bean.

New programme for film student directors at Karlovy Vary

WARSAW: Body by Malgorzata Szumowska, member of this year’s European Shooting Stars jury and director of In the Name of produced by MD4, has been selected for the Official Competition of the 65th Berlin Film Festival running from 5 to 15 February 2014.

PRAGUE: The Czech State Cinematography Fund has issued a call for submissions for its incentives scheme with a deadline on 30 January. The approximate budget is 17.6 m EUR /500 m CZK.

Of the 1,300 films submitted to FIPA this year, the final selection features 128 international works across all genres, from 27 countries, including 33 French films.

Don’t miss the deadline: The call for applications for the sixth edition of TIES THAT BIND – Asia / Europe Co-Production Workshop is now open until February 19, 2015.

ZAGREB: Vinko Brešan’s comedy The Priest’s Children sold almost 114,000 tickets worldwide in 2014 scoring especially highly in Germany and Brazil.