TALLINN:  The 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (13-29 November 2015) will run a new Tridens First Feature Competition and will expand the Works in Progress programme.The new Sales Agents and Distributors Meeting Point will also showcase competition films to help them find partners for sales and distribution

VENICE: FNE together with FIPRESCI have invited FIPRESCI critics in Venice to rate the films in all four of the official competition programmes of the festival giving the films 1,2,3,4 or 5 stars.   

VALLETTA: Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard are reuniting for the shooting of Justin Kurzel’s new project, Assassin’s Creed, which has just started filming in Malta and is benefitting from the tax incentives scheme of Malta Film Commission. 

HELSINKI: The Fencer by Klaus Härö has been selected as the official Finnish feature candidate for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2016 Oscar Awards. This is Härö’s fourth film selected as a Finnish Oscar bid.

PRAGUE AND BRATISLAVA: European cinemas face a new challenge as cinemas that were digitalized in the early phase of the new technology are facing the need to invest in upgrades of the already outdated equipment.

This year's edition of the Forum 2000 conference will host project KineDok within its programme, screening the documentary film 1989 at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Prague on 15 September 2015.