A total of 15 documentaries that will be presented within the official programme of the 57th DOK.Leipzig, the biggest documentary and animation event in Germany, were developed under or otherwise supported by IDF’s activities (Ex Oriente Film, Doc Launch, East Silver or Project Market) and five of them will compete for the prizes in four categories.

WARSAW: The 10th edition of CentEast Market Warsaw will present works-in-progress from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia as part of the 30th Warsaw Film Festival from 17 to 19 October 2014.

VIENNA: Famous Croatian producer and Holocaust survivor Branko Lustig received the Goldener Rathausmann from the Mayor of the City of Vienna on 7 October. Lustig is in Vienna as a guest of the LET'S CEE Film Festival which is showing 91 productions from Central and Eastern Europe from 2 to 11 October 2014.

TALLINN: The 18th edition of the Black Nights Film Festival will focus on Polish cinema. Nearly two dozen Polish films will be presented from 14 to 30 November 2014. The festival will open with Jan Komasa's Warsaw 1944 produced by Akson Studio .

LIMASSOL: Eight national and 64 international short films will be screened in the 4th edition of the International Short Film Festival of Cyprus (11-17 October).

BUDAPEST: The Hungarian Parliament has approved the increase of the indirect film support ratio from 20 to 25% of eligible costs. The European Commission approved the increase earlier this year in June 2014

ROTTERDAM: HBF+Europe will provide substantial financial support to European minority coproducers for feature films of filmmakers from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of the Eastern Europe.

Short films from Georgia, Bulgaria, Finland, Poland, Croatia and Hungary are competing for the European Short Film Award 2014. The EFA awards ceremony will be held in Riga on 13 December.