BYDGOSZCZ: Jay Rosenblatt will receive the Award for Outstanding Achievements in Documentary Filmmaking at the 24th International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Camerimage set to run in Bydgoszcz, Poland, from 12 to 19 November 2016.

VILNIUS: Inconvenient Films International Human Rights Film Festival will celebrate its 10th edition with a competition programme almost entirely composed of debut documentaries by female filmmakers. The festival will run in Vilnius and throughout Lithuania from 13 October to 8 November 2016.

PRAGUE/BRATISLAVA: The 3rd edition of Be2Can will show the best films screened at Berlinale, Venice and Cannes in the Czech towns of Prague, Brno, Zlín, Ostrava and Olomouc from 6 to 12 October 2016, and it will move to Slovakia from 24 to 30 October 2016.

BUCHAREST: The 7th edition of Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest (14-23 October 2016), a festival initiated by director Cristian Mungiu, will expand this year to over 100 screenings and beside the five locations in Bucharest, will also take place in Cluj-Napoca, Iasi and Timisoara.

LISBON: Applications for the 8th edition of Digital Production Challenge II are welcome until 7 October 2016. The upcoming edition of this European workshop on digital production workflows takes place in Lisbon, Portugal from 30 November to 3 December 2016.

VALLETTA: Rebecca Cremona's debut feature Simshar has become the first Maltese film to be distributed in France after its domestic release in 2014. VisioSfeir is the French distributor.

Exceptional creative documentaries from the second edition of project KineDok are screened in seven European countries already, and in the Czech Republic alone they can be seen at 42 alternative venues.