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.

Welcome back autumn!

Holidays are over, but no need to feel gloomy - can't you feel the fresh breeze of ED news? Our presence in Biarritz' jury and some words on our meetings to come in San Sebastian and Rome will make you wish the leaves fall faster;you'll learn more on European distribution thanks to a report from Locarno and a focus on how it works in Spain;  and enjoy the traditional FNE's "distributor of the month"and carnet rose sections.

The fourth edition of the US in Progress co-production forum will be held on October 22-25, 2014, during the 5th American Film Festival in Wrocław (October 21-26).

INUVIK –09.09.2014–An epic journey will begin in Inuvik on September 14, when the seven time USA champion in biathlon, Raymond Dombrovsky, will embark on a month-long 4,200 mile trip across North America, from Arctic to Baja, Mexico, covering parts of the road on roller-skis.

We are happy to announce that the call for entries to short film workshop "Four Corners of Culture" is extended for projects from Poland and Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia until September, 26.