The National Film Institute – Hungary (NFI) announced the following TV grants on 18 September 2026.

NICOSIA: The 25th Cyprus Film Days International Festival 2027 invites filmmakers from Cyprus and around the world to submit their feature films for consideration in the Festival’s Competition sections. The festival will take place from 16 to 24 April 2027, and the deadline for submissions is 30 November 2026.

Films in Competition

Latvian director Linda Olte returns to the Warsaw Film Festival with her latest film The Child (Latvia, Lithuania) premiering at the international competition. Her film Sisters won two awards in Warsaw in 2022 — the main prize in Competition 1-2 and FIPRESCI award for the best debut from Eastern Europe.

COLIBRI — Innovative Worlds Gallery is the first gallery dedicated exclusively to worldbuilding and original virtual worlds, while also functioning as a creative studio focused on arts-based innovation.

Returning for its sixth edition, the TV Beats Co-Financing Market brings forward bold new drama projects with strong international sales, distribution and co-production potential.

TALLINN: Films by Estonian director Janno Jürgens and Hungarian director Attila Hartung have been selected for the Official Competition of the 30th anniversary edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF). The festival also unveiled the First Feature Competition lineup.

The following films from the FNE partner countries have been selected as official candidates for the 99th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards in the Best International Feature Film category.

COTTBUS: Fourteen Latvian films and a Montenegrin programme comprising three feature films and five short films will screen at the 36th FilmFestival Cottbus (3 – 8 November 2026) in the programmes Close-Up: Latvia and View from the Black Mountain: Montenegro Special.

Discovery Campus, the international education programme of Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, has selected 24 emerging film professionals from17 countries for its Black Room, Music Meets Film and Frame Within a Frame programmes. The participants will come together in Tallinn this November to develop their craft, exchange ideas and learn from leading international filmmakers.

Astra Film Festival is a place where film continues beyond the closing credits, through conversations involving filmmakers, invited experts and the audience. This year's edition, taking place in Sibiu from 17 to 25 October, features four DocTalks - moments when cinema turns into conversation. Starting from films in the programme, the discussions address some of the most important questions of our time: how a world built over generations is changing, how we relate to technologies that are transforming our lives, what we do with traditions that are part of who we are and with the painful legacies of the past, and what happens when state institutions fail to protect the most vulnerable.