BUDAPEST: Pay-TV operator Canal+ has launched a branded streaming service in Hungary in partnership with Hungarian telco 4iG.

BUCHAREST: Domestic horror/comedy Buzz House: The Movie directed by Florin Babei is topping the box office in Romania with 499,846 admissions and 2.66 m EUR / 13,264,816 RON gross, followed by Inside Out 2, Dune: Part Two and Romanian comedy Part-time Daddy by Letiția Roșculeț, which scored 409,265 admissions and 2.18 m EUR / 10,892,992 RON gross.

TBILISI: The National Archive of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia will host the 3rd edition of the Tbilisi International Archival Film Festival from 17 to 20 September 2024.

PERAST: Kaymak directed by Macedonian director Milcho Manchevski won the award for best feature film at the 8th edition of Forteca International Film Festival held in the town of Perast, Montenegro, from 26 to 30 July 2024.

BUDAPEST: The limited series Amanda: A Coming of Age Horror Story starring Grace Van Patten will be shot in Hungary, Canada and Italy in 2024.

VALLETTA: Malta Arts Council has launched the first edition of the Screen Support Scheme, through which public funds amounting to 1 m EUR will be allotted for the production and dissemination of Maltese film.

LOS ANGELES: Titles from Bulgaria, Serbia, Czech Republic and Poland have been selected among the 62 titles that build up the 2024 Student Academy Awards Semifinalists.

TBILISI: The Georgian National Film Center has launched a new category of production grants and gave approximately 340,000 EUR / 1 m GEL for the production of a long animated film.

BUCHAREST: The two new films by the acclaimed Romanian helmer Radu Jude, Eight Postcards from Utopia (co-directed together with philosopher Christian Ferencz-Flatz) and Sleep #2, will have their world premiere under the title Paradise Dreams. 2 Found-footage Films in the Fuori Concorso section of the 77th Locarno Film Festival (7 – 17 August 2024). Eight Postcards from Utopia has already been picked up by Heretic.