FNE asked Fatih Akin about his international coproduction The Cut that screened in the main competition at the recent Venice Film Festival. The Cut was supported by the Polish Film Institute among other partners. The Polish Film Institute has increasingly become involved in high profile international projects. Click HERE for the interview.

RIGA: The producers of a doc about Latvian athlete Raymond Dombrovsky’s bid to cross North America on roller-skis have launched a kickstarter campaign to fund the film which has also received backing from the Latvian National Film Centre.

PIESTANY: Chosen by a panel of seventeen European critics, Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty won the Meeting Point Europe Award at the Cinematik IFF this year.

The 19th edition of Sofia International Film Festival will take place between 5th and 22th of March 2015 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

PORTOROZ: Director Siniše Gačića's A Fight For won the Vesna for both best feature film and the Teleking Award at the 17th Festival of Slovenian Film which ended on 14 September 2014 in the Slovenian resort town of Portoroz.

RE-ACT (Regional Audiovisual Cooperation and Training) is a new trans-regional initiative for co-developing audiovisual projects between Croatia, Slovenia and the Italian region of Friuli Venizia Guilia. FNE spoke to Debora Serracchiani, President of Region Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Hrvoje Hribar, head of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC) about this ground breaking initiative. Click HERE for the interview with Serracchiani and HERE for the interview with Hribar.

BATUMI: The Batumi International Art-house Film Festival (BIAFF) which started on Sunday, it is being held in the Georgian city Batumi from the 14-21 September 2014.

Hungary: Slovak Animation Days at Jameson CineFest Miskolc

WARSAW: The World Conference of Screenwriters will take place this year from 1-2 October 2014 in Warsaw.

The Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa has accepted the honour of becoming the president of the international jury of the 7th edition of CinEast, the Central and Eastern European Film Festival in Luxembourg, held from 9 to 26 October 2014.