collage of films screening at festivals in BiH, Belgrade and Ljubljana, clockwise, scenes from: Murina, Tune Up, Heavens Above, Once We Were Good for You, A Blue Flower

This year’s 15th Mostar Film Festival, held 28th October – 1st November, to present eight Croatian titles. The Free Zone Film Festival taking place in Belgrade, 4th – 9th November, scheduled to screen five films and one episode of TV series Collages of Lies. Six Croatian features and shorts also to appear at the Ljubljana International Film Festival – LIFFE, running 10th – 21st November.   

Submissions for the 21st edition of Transilvania International Film Festival are now open! Mark your calendar and save the dates: June 17 - 26, 2022, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. 

The next edition brings an important change in our regulations: the What's Up, Doc? section becomes competitive! It is now open to international documentaries over 60 minutes, directed by filmmakers at their first or second documentary feature. Only national premieres are considered.

 - The Official Competition is dedicated to 1^st and 2^nd time feature directors
 - The What’s Up, Doc? competitive section is open to filmmakers at their first or second documentary
 - Release (world premiere) dates for films selected in the competitive programs of the festival must be after May 1, 2021
 - Foreign and Romanian entries in the Official Competition and What’s Up, Doc? must not have been screened in Romania 
 - National premieres have priority in all sections

This year, within  the 1st Svaneti International Film Festival, script development residence was founded, which will last 20 days. Young directors that are working on their first or second projects including feature films, animation or documentary projects (script development, montage).

12 films at Sundance, 29 at IDFA and even a nomination for Academy Awards! Over the past 10 years dok.incubator workshop has been working with outstanding documentaries, contributed to 150 films and led many of them to awards at the world's top festivals. This year's anniversary will be celebrated naturally with film, namely with dok.incubator’s own retrospective festival section at Ji.hlava IDFF.

The Riga International Film Festival (RIGA IFF) took place this year from 14 to 24 October, initially in person in Riga, Valmiera and Madona, and simultaneously online throughout Latvia. The festival now closes out its eighth edition by announcing this year’s winners! The winning films were selected from a broad lineup that included more than 100 films across ten sections and competitions.

The 21st Just Film festival, the biggest sub-festival of the Black Nights Film Festival, announces this year's programme, screening films that affect kids and youth from all around the world. For the first time ever, the festival offers the opportunity to watch films that are made by Estonian kids and youth with the help of Just Film's new initiative that awards young filmmakers with scholarships to make their own films.

Five Croatian films and two minority co-productions will appear in various programme sections at the 31st edition of the Cottbus Film Festival. In addition, two Croatian projects will be presented at the co-production market and networking platform, Connecting Cottbus.