The Arena chain of cinemas in Bulgaria plans to add 13-15 new cinemas in the next four years.
Krzysztof Zanussi's competition film, With a Warm Heart, earned the best actor prize for Bodhan Stupka at the awards ceremony of the Rome International Film Festival on October 31.
The 5th International Children's Film Festival of Cyprus opens November 15 in Nicosia, running through November 23.
Romanian films will be the focus of a week-end festival being held in Limassol, Cyprus, November 7-10.
Director Robert Crombie's Sappho took home the bulk of the awards at the closing ceremony of the 3rd Cyprus International Film Festival on October 25.
With the recent EFA Prix Arte documentary film award to Czech director Helena Trestikova's Rene, interest in the Jihlava doc fest, running October 24-29, is on the rise.
Cyprus will make the transfer to digital TV broadcasting in 2011, government officials announced.
The second edition of the Cyprus International Short Film Festival announced a January 16 deadline in its call for entries for the 2009 event.
Bulgaria's Diema channels were responsible for a 494,000 euro profit for British owner Apace Media in the first half of 2008.
