WARSAW: The Warsaw Film Festival has announced that the Chinese film Wisdom Tooth directed by Ming Liang has been withdrawn from the festival’s International Competition. The screening would have been the world premiere of the film.
VILNIUS: Writer/director Karolis Kaupinis's first feature film Nova Lituania will screen in the Baltic Sea competition at the Riga IFF, which runs 17 – 27 October 2019.
KRAKOW: The Krakow Film Festival is accepting submissions for its 60th edition, which will run 31 May to 7 June 2020.
Slovenia's Let Him Be a Basketball Player 2 Opens in First Place at Domestic Box Office
Slovenia 01-10-2019LJUBLJANA: The sequel to Slovenia’s 2017 hit film, Let Him Be a Basketball Player 2 / Kosarkar naj bo 2, had an unsurprising first place opening in Slovenia for the week-end ending 29 September 2019.
TRIESTE: The fifth edition of RE-ACT (Regional Audiovisual Cooperation Training) is accepting applications for its 2020 programme from Croatian, Slovenian, Serbian and Italian filmmakers through 15 November 2019.
The following production grants were announced by the Romanian Film Centre on 27 September 2019
VALLETTA: The British adventure/comedy/drama The Obscure Life of the Duke of Corsica, written and directed by Daniel Graham and starring Timothy Spall and Peter Stormare, is currently shooting on locations in the Maltese islands. The project is benefiting from the incentives from the Malta Film Commission.
PODGORICA: Film Centre of Montenegro has distributed 730,000 EUR to the production of four feature films, three long documentaries and one short fiction film.
These are the production grants announced by Film Centre of Montenegro in 2019.
PRAGUE: The Painted Bird directed by Václav Marhoul has been sold by CAA Media Finance and Celluloid Dreams to IFC Films in the USA.
