Films from FNE Partner Countries Win Big at Sundance Film Festival 2026
PARK CITY: To Hold a Mountain by Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival held 22 January – 1…
Success Story of To Hold a Mountain - Winner of Best International Doc at Sundance
BELGRADE/PODGORICA: Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary went to Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić’ To Hold a Mountain, where a mother and daughter defend their mountain and…
Tudor Cristian Jurgiu’s On Our Own Acquired by True Colours
BUCHAREST: The new feature film by Romanian director Tudor Cristian Jurgiu, On Our Own / De capul nostru, has been picked up by Italy’s sales agent True Colours ahead of…
East Doc Forum 2026 Announces Selected Projects
PRAGUE: A total of 21 projects have been selected for the 25th edition of East Doc Forum, which will be held at the French Institute in Prague on 24 March…
PRODUCTION: Serbian/Croatian/Swedish Doc Reborn in Postproduction
BELGRADE: Serbian director Narcisa Darijević Marković and Croatian-Swedish director Marija Ratković Vidaković are currently in postproduction with their long documentary Reborn, a project backed by Film Center Serbia and the…
Budapest International Documentary Festival 2026 Underway in Hungary
BUDAPEST: The 12th Budapest International Documentary Festival (BIDF) is currently held (24 January - 1 February 2026) in Budapest and also in Békéscsaba, Debrecen, Eger, Győr, Jászberény, Kecskemét, Pécs, Sopron,…
GRANTS: Croatia Announces Video Games Grants for 2025
ZAGREB: The Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC) has announced its grants for the production and development of video games for 2025.
New Artistic Director for Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
TALLINN: The 30th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) will be held 6 – 22 November 2026 with significant leadership changes. Triin Tramberg has been appointed as Artistic Director.
Croatia’s Slano Film Days 2026 Announces Participants
ZAGREB: Fourteen established directors and actors from the Balkan region have been selected for the 3rd edition of Slano Film Days, announced for 16 – 20 June 2025 in Croatia.
BOX OFFICE: The Wedding Breaks Historic Records in Croatia
ZAGREB: Igor Šeregi's Croatian/Serbian comedy The Wedding / Svadba registered the best cinema opening for a Croatian film ever, with 170,496 admissions. The Wedding surpassed Avengers: Endgame (2019), which attracted…
BOX OFFICE: Fränk Ranks Second in Overall Estonian Box Office in 2025
TALLINN: Tõnis Pill’s Fränk is the only Estonian film in the overall box office in Estonia in 2025, ranking second with 112,104 admissions, after The Minecraft Movie, which had 127,475…
Four Domestic Films in Overall 2025 Box Office in Romania
BUCHAREST: The Yellow Tie, a Romanian/British biopic of the famed Romanian composer Sergiu Celibidache directed by his son, Serge Ioan Celebidachi, and starring John Malkovich, is second in the overall…
Malta Joins Eurimages
STRASBOURG: On 22 January 2026, Malta has become the 40th member country of the Council of Europe’s Eurimages fund.
BOX OFFICE: Domestic Admissions Nearly Triple in North Macedonia in 2025
SKOPJE: Georgi M. Unkovski’s debut feature DJ Ahmet, a coproduction between North Macedonia, Czech Republic, Serbia, and Croatia, was the most watched domestic film in Macedonian cinemas in 2025, and…
Cercamon Picks Up Hold Onto Me, the First Cypriot Film Selected for Sundance Film Festival
NICOSIA: Myrsini Aristidou’s debut feature Hold onto Me / Krata Me, which has its world premiere on 26 January in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition of the 2026 Sundance Film…
FNE at Berlinale 2026: Two Restored Films by Judit Elek in Berlinale 2026 Selection
BERLIN: Two films by Judit Elek, A Hungarian Village / Istenmezején and Encounter / Találkozás, which were restored by the National Film Institute – Hungary (NFI) through its Film Archive …
New Arthouse Cinema Opens in Bucharest
BUCHAREST: The Apollo 111 Cinema will open in Romania’s capital city on 29 January 2026.
Big Opening for Croatian/Serbian Comedy The Wedding
ZAGREB: Igor Šeregi's Croatian/Serbian comedy The Wedding / Svadba had its Croatian premiere simultaneously on 13 screens at CineStar - Branimir Mingle Mall in Zagreb, a first-time ever for a…
BOX OFFICE: Second-Best Year on Record for Domestic Films in Croatia
ZAGREB: Croatian cinema achieved one of its most successful box-office years in 2025, with total admissions for domestic films reaching 328,526, the second highest attendance figure since the founding of…
ArtdocFest / Riga 2026 Announces Lineup
RIGA: Ten films will compete for the Herz Award in the Baltic Focus competition of the 6th international documentary film festival ArtdocFest/Riga (28 February - 8 March 2026). Nineteen titles…
