PRAGUE: A record number of 74 leading decision makers from all over the world, 31 fiction and documentary projects and 51 top producing talents from 37 countries will take part in EAVE 2016 Producers Workshop’s third and last workshop in Prague from 10 to 17 October 2016.

Among the tutors of the second Ex Oriente Film workshop, organised by the Institute of Documentary Film within the Jihlava IDFF, there will be the award-winning Georgian director and producer Salomé Jashi, who will speak about her experience with directing and producing her latest film, The Dazzling Light of Sunset, which was awarded the Best First (debut) Award at Visions du Reel IFF.

WROCLAW: Cristian Mungiu's Graduation and Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann are among the five films nominated for the European University Film Award (EUFA), which will be announced during the week of the European Film Awards set to take place in Wroclaw, Poland, European Capital of Culture 2016 on 10 December 2016.

BUCHAREST: Cinema City opened its fourth multiplex in Bucharest and the 24th in Romania. The biggest cinema operator in Romania invested 6 m EUR in the multiplex located in the newly opened ParkLake Shopping Center.

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.