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BUCHAREST: The Romanian Alliance of Film Producers (AFP), comprising most of Romanian production companies, has issued a new appeal to the authorities, hoping that they will finally restart the cash rebate scheme (which has been halted for 20 months) and will pay a debt of more than 35 m EUR to international productions shot in Romania since the scheme was launched in the autumn of 2018.

STRASBOURG: Alexander Nanau’s documentary collective has been voted by the European public and the members of the European Parliament as the winner of the first LUX Audience Award. The ceremony took place during a largely virtual plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 9 June 2021.

BELGRADE: Twelve participants from all over the world are taking part in the 4th edition of CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator, whose first module started online on 8 June and will wrap on 25 June 2021.

Twelve new participants and projects are announced!

BELGRADE: The Serbian capital city is currently hosting the ACE 30 Financing Strategies Workshop organised by the Amsterdam-based ACE Producers. The event is supported by Film Center Serbia and takes place 7-12 June 2021.

COTTBUS: connecting cottbus (coco) has opened the applications call for its 23rd hybrid edition set to take place 3-5 November 2021.

SARAJEVO: Ten feature films and six drama series from Southeast Europe have been selected for the 2021 CineLink Co-production Market and CineLink Drama, respectively. They will take part in a preparatory workshop from 7 to 25 June 2021 and will be showcased 14-19 August 2021.