BERLIN: FilmFestival Cottbus Programme Director Bernd Buder handed out a scholarship to the value of 4,500 EUR to Radka Babincová, a 23 year old Slovak who is currently a student of production at the Academy of Performing Arts (VŠMU) in Bratislava, during the annual Film Festival Cottbus brunch in Berlin.

This Wednesday the FilmFestival Cottbus and the East-West co-production market connecting cottbus (coco) celebrated the onset of the new year at the traditional East European Brunch, held to coincide with the Berlinale, within the framework of which two awards were conferred.

LJUBLJANA: The Slovenian comedy At Hostar / Pr’Hostar directed by Luka Marcetic has earned 1.06 m EUR at the domestic box office and is poised to surpass 200,000 admissions.

LIMASSOL: The International Short Film Festival of Cyprus is accepting films for the festival, which will take place 14 – 21 October 2017.

The documentary workshop Ex Oriente Film announced it is accepting submissions for the 2017 programme.

TALLINN: Domestic crowd-pleasers are helping to boost local box office in Estonia, with national productions taking a double-digit share for the second consecutive year.

TALLINN: Director Jaak Kilmi’s fast-paced action comedy The Dissidents opens in Estonian cinemas on 17 February. Kilmi is an awarded documentary director making a rare foray into fiction filmmaking.

Macedonian Film Agency announced the following production grants for feature, short, animation films and documentaries on 1 February 2017.