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.

On Saturday, June 6, the first Polish online film festival ended with an awards gala, during which we met the winners of all festival competitions. The event was broadcast live on the Internet, hosted by Maciej Stuhr, and the large audience gathered in front of computer screens proved that a pandemic does not prevent true love of cinema and the festival!

The International Confederation of Arthouse Cinemas (CICAE), in collaboration with the German initiative, #ZurückInsKino, has started an international social media campaign under the name #BackToCinema.

PARIS: The International Confederation of Arthouse Cinemas (CICAE), in collaboration with Germany’s #ZurückInsKino, has launched a social media campaign #BackToCinema to bring film exhibitors together during the COVID-19 crisis.

Postponed by restrictive anti-pandemic measures adopted all over the world this spring, Transilvania International Film Festival announces new dates for its 19th edition: July 31-August 9 2020, in Cluj, Romania. Transilvania IFF returns with a summer edition featuring many outdoor screenings and an adapted programming, with a focus on the safety of the audience.

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