PRAGUE: Home Care, Lost in Munich and The Snake Brothers are the main candidates at the sixth edition of Czech Film Critics´ Awards.  The ceremony will take place on 23 January 2016.

TALLINN: The Fencer, a Finnish/Estonia coproduction directed by Klaus Härö, has been short-listed for the upcoming Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

LUXEMBOURG: The EAVE Producers Workshop 2016 has selected 52 upcoming producers representing 36 countries, out of 143 applications from 44 countries.

The Cyprus Film Days Festival 2016 currently has an open call for submissions for the international competition section entitled Glocal Images which will feature fiction feature films from Cyrus and abroad.

PRAGUE: Domestic films are holding strong in Lithuania, Czech Republic and Slovenia.

STRASBOURG: The 141st session of the European Co-Production Fund Eurimages, held from 8-11 December in Ljubljana, is providing support to a 24 European feature film coproductions, including 13 films from CEE territories.

HAMBURG: Croatian actress Tihana Lazović is one of the ten rising young European thespians selected for the European Shooting Stars of 2016.

The European Film Agency Directors has issued a statement expressing concern over the European Commission’s 9 December 2015 proposal for a regulation on portability. Click HERE to the EU Commission Proposal

STRASBOURG: The Karlovy Vary IFF is one of four festivals selected to participate in the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Lab Project Award.