NICOSIA/VILNIUS: Armenian director Jivan Avetisyan has just completed his Sci-Fi drama Revival / Veratznvantze. The international cast of this Armenian/Cypriot/Lithuanian coproduction is led by Armand Assante (USA), Robin Hairabian, and Clémence Baudouin (France), Maia Morgenstern (Romania), Heino Ferch (Germany), and Babken Chobanyan (Armenia).

TALLINN: Estonian actor Priit Võigemast and Georgian actress Tinatin Dalakishvili play the leads in acclaimed Estonian director Veiko Õunpuu’s new film Serafima, a story of moral choices and survival under authoritarianism in Soviet Estonia.

SARAJEVO: Bosnian director Dino Mustafić is currently in production with the TV miniseries Armbands, about the massacre in Prijedor. He will start shooting a feature film with the same title and the same cast & crew in the spring of 2026.

PODGORICA: Slovenian director Nina Tratnik has wrapped shooting on her debut feature Fires / Pozari on 14 November 2025. The producer and coproducers of this Montenegrin/Albanian/Serbian coproduction are all women, starting with Bojana Radulović of Montenegrin Code Blue Production.

ZAGREB: Croatian director Goran Dević is in postproduction with his long documentary New Life / Novi život. This is his 13th film which he is making with producer Hrvoje Osvadić of 15th Art Production. Their most recent film, Pavilion 6 (2024), has been the first Croatian film ever acquired by the BBC.

BUDAPEST: Hungarian director Dániel Füzes is currently shooting his debut feature Switched Stance / Ellentétes alapállás, which is backed by the National Film Institute – Hungary (NFI) through its Incubator Programme.

ZAGREB: Croatian director Laura Pascu's feature film Between Us / Među nama has been completed and is awaiting its premiere. The film was backed by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC).

VILNIUS: The national premiere of Lithuanian director/writer Andrius Žemaitis’s debut feature Tabasco will take place on 14 November 2025 in the competition programme of the Scanorama Film Festival (6 – 23 November 2025).

SOFIA: Director Olga Koleva, in collaboration with screenwriters Nevena Kertova and Georgi Ivanov, is developing her debut feature project Garden Alley, produced by Geopoly.

PODGORICA: Montenegrin director/writer Andrija Mugoša will present his debut feature drama Happiness Is Just a Blue Couch Away / Pu Spas Za Sve Nas, backed by the Film Centre of Montenegro, at the upcoming Work in Progress - Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event 2025.

LJUBLJANA: Andrina Mračnikar has started shooting her sophomore feature Mila/Marija, a Slovenian/Austrian/Greek drama with a budget estimated at 4.6 m EUR.

ZAGREB: Croatian director Arsen Anton Ostojić is currently in final production and postproduction with what he calls “one of the most demanding and expensive film projects in the region”. His 3.5 m EUR 3D long animated film The Crystal Planet / Kristalni planet, a coproduction between the Czech Republic, Croatia and Slovakia, is backed by the respective national film bodies.

BELGRADE: Serbian director Predrag Ličina is currently in production with his sophomore feature The Virus of Pathological Kindness / Virus patološke dobrote, a Serbian/Croatian joint supported by the respective national film centres. Its premiere is already set for the World Kindness Day - 13 November, in 2026.

BURGAS: Producer and journalist Sevda Shishmanova has started shooting her debut feature, Remains of Life. The filming of this Bulgarian/German joint is taking place in Bulgaria and Israel.

LJUBLJANA: Slovenian director Janez Burger has started shooting his seventh feature film One Month / En mesec on 23 September 2025. The 33-days shooting of this Slovenian/Croatian/Italian coproduction is taking place in Ljubljana, Kamnik, Solkan and at the FS Viba Film studio.

ZAGREB: Croatian director Ivana Škrabalo is currently in postproduction with her feature film Five Days at the Sea / Pet dana na moru, a coproduction between Croatia, Slovenia and North Macedonia.