PRAGUE: Vienna-based Filmdelights has acquired international sales rights to Czech/Croatian long documentary The Investigator / Vyšetřovatel. The film directed by Viktor Portel was selected for both Opus Bonum and Czech Joy sections at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, running 25 – 30 October 2022.

TBILISI: The first edition of the Tbilisi International Archive Film Festival started at the National Archive of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia on 5 October 2022 with the screening of the first Georgian documentary film, Journey of Akaki Tsereteli in Racha - Lechkhumi (1912) directed by Vasil Amashukeli.

FNE correspondent and film critic Alexander Gabelia spoke to Radosława Bardes, managing director of ATM Virtual, about the general goals and activities of the studio.

BRATISLAVA: FNE spoke to Veronika Golianová, co-founder and co-CEO of Slovak Impact Games, about their current activities, as well as the state of the Slovak game development industry.

KUTAISI: I Didn't Make It to Love Her by Spanish-British director Anna Fernandez De Paco was awarded Best Film at the Kutaisi International Short Film Festival (KISFF, 24 - 29 September 2022). Sandro Souladze was named the best director for The Watchers (Georgia).

BATUMI: Klondike by Ukrainian director Maryna Er Gorbach was awarded Best Film at the Batumi International Art House Film Festival (BIAFF, 18 - 25 September 2022). Respublika by Georgian Khvicha Emiridze and Tinatin Emiridze won the Focus Caucasus Competition at the CineDOC-Tbilisi, which this year was held in the framework of BIAFF.