SOFIA: Bulgarian National Television announced that the most popular Bulgarian TV series Under Cover, which is currently shooting, will come to an end in 2016. According to the BNT Programming Director Sevda Shishmanova the fifth season of the series directed by Viktor Bojinov, Dimitar Mitovski and Zoran Petrovski will start broadcasting on 20 March 2016.

NICOSIA: Cypriot writer/director Christos Georgiou is currently shooting his feature film Happy Birthday. The project was selected for the Berlinale Coproduction Market 2014.

SOFIA: Ralitza Petrova, an alumna of UK’s National Film and Television School, is in postproduction with her first feature film, the Bulgarian/Danishcoproduction Godless/Bezbog. The release is planned for the second half of 2016.

BUCHAREST: Andrei Dăscălescu is in production with the 90 min documentary Planeta Petrila set in the small Romanian mining town of Petrila.

SOFIA: Zornitsa Sofia is in postproduction with her third feature film, theBulgarian/Croatian coproduction Chieftain/ Voevoda. The release is planned for 2017.

WARSAW: Lech Majewski will start shooting the adult fantasy Valley of the Gods in March 2016. The film is a Polish/American coproduction starring Josh Hartnett, Charlotte Rampling and John Rhys-Davies, which will be shot in Poland, Italy and Utah, USA.

LONDON: London-based production house Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) has wrapped production on DeDe, a Georgian/British/Croatian/Dutch coproduction which is part of the company’s current slate of ten films.

WARSAW: Agnieszka Holland has wrapped the third and final stage of the shoot for her crime thriller Game Count, a coproduction between Poland, Czech Republic, Germany and Sweden.

BERLIN: Ruxandra Ghiţescu is participating in Berlinale Script Station within Berlinale Talent Campus (13-18 February 2016) with her debut feature, Otto the Barbarian. The film produced by Alien Film is set to be shot in 2017.

NICOSIA: Director and writer Stavros Papageorgiou is currently in production with the ethnographic, arts and historical documentary The Legacy of the Cypriot Goddess.

NICOSIA: Director-producer and founder of Tetraktys Films Ltd, Stavros Papageorgiou is developing the 60 minute documentary Greek Minds at Work, the first creative space technology documentary ever produced in Cyprus.

PRAGUE: The Czech/French coproduction Skokan directed by Petr Vaclav is in postproduction. The film produced by Jan Macola of Mimesis Film and coproduced by French Cinema Defacto was partially shot during the 2015 Cannes IFF, using the Cannes festival Palais and surroundings.

ZAGREB: The fourth and final installment of the successful Koko series will start shooting in June 2016. The Mystery of Green Hill will be directed by first time director Čejen Černić with Kinorama producing.

PRAGUE: An important anniversary of Czechoslovak legionnaires inspired Czech director Petr Nikolaev to pay a tribute to them with an epic feature film. The Czechoslovak Legionnaires Community approached Petr Nikolaev after he directed a WWII film in 2011.

NICOSIA: The 60-minute social/human rights documentary Missing Fetine is in the postproduction stage.

BUCHAREST: Uruguay, by the Spanish-born Madrid- and Bucharest-based director Jesús del Cerro, started shooting on 2 February 2016. The film stars Dragoș Bucur (The Way Back) and Cristina Flutur (Beyond the Hills, Mobra Films).