BUCHAREST: Palme d'Or winner Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) is currently filming Provisory, a drama inspired by the tragic death of a young woman in a Romanian Orthodox monastery in 2005.

BUCHAREST: The American mid-budget western-thriller The Timber produced by Patrick Newall, Scott Einbinder and Ana Media is currently in production in the Carpathian Mountains and at MediaPro Studios (www.mediaprostudios.com).

ZAGREB: Hrvoje Mabic is completing production on Sick, a 70 minute long lenght documentary following a young woman commited to a hospital by her parents to be "treated" for homosexuality, showing how preconceptions can nearly destroy a young life.

BUCHAREST: Australian animator Elliot Cowan is preparing a feature animation based on his series of short films The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead and Roundhead produced by U.S. company Scenery Hill Entertainment and the Romania's Artis Film (www.artisfilm.ro).

{mosimage}BUCHAREST: Romanian director Serban Marinescu will begin shooting The Charade a romantic drama produced by Giuliano Doman and Family Film (www.familyfilm.ro) in early February. Based on the script written by Radu F. Alexandru, Şarada/The Charade tells the story of a man haunted by his past - his wife mysteriously disappears in 1986 and just as mysteriously re-enters his life 16 years later.

BUCHAREST: Romanian director Serban Marinescu will begin shooting The Charade a romantic drama produced by Giuliano Doman and Family Film (www.familyfilm.ro) in early February. Based on the script written by Radu F. Alexandru, Şarada/The Charade tells the story of a man haunted by his past - his wife mysteriously disappears in 1986 and just as mysteriously re-enters his life 16 years later.

BRATISLAVA: After the international success of Foxes (2009), Slovak director Mira Fornay will begin shooting My Dog Killer/Môj pes killer in February. The film, a story of brotherhood and friendship, is produced by Juraj Buzalka andthe Slovak company Mirafox (www.mirafox.sk) together with Viktor Schwarcz and Cineart TV Prague (site under construction).

WARSAW: Polish director Marcin Krzyształowicz has completed shooting his new film Manhunt, a dynamic thriller reliving the reality of war occupation.

ZAGREB: Lukas Nola is preparing his fifth feature, Be Quiet, a story about a family abuse produced by Ankica Tilic and Kinorama (www.kinorama.hr).

BUCHAREST: Calin Peter Netzer is preparing Child's Pose, his third feature film, for a February-March 2012 shoot. Netzer (Maria, Medalia de onoare/ The Medal of Honor) is co-authoring the script with Răzvan Rădulescu (Felicia, înainte de toate/First of All, Felicia).

ZAGREB: Croatian director Nebojsa Slijepcevic is in production with a Croatian-Romanian-German documentary Gangsters of Love that follows a matchmaker that is helping a single mother to find a husband while along the way taking an ironic look at the profoundly conservative nature of the Croatian men.

PRAGUE: Czech director Martin Privatsky is in postproduction with Tomorrow Will Be Better, a documentary about Libor Podmol, a struggling and fatherless Czech village boy who became the 2010 world freestyle motorcross champion.

BUCHAREST: Radu Dinulescu is in post-production with The Cernosaurs, a 70 minute 2D animation film produced by the Romanian company Artis Film (www.artisfilm.ro ) with the support of the National Centre for Cinema (www.cncinema.abt.ro ) and Romanian public television (www.tvr.ro ).

{mosimage}BUCHAREST: Romanian Emmy-winning director Alexander Nanau is in production with Totonel, a 90 minute documentary about the education of a 10 year old boy growing up in an ill-fated neighborhood in Bucharest. He started shooting in February 2011 and plans to wrap in April 2012.

{mosimage}WARSAW: After a filming break of over a year, production has resumed on the Polish war drama Mystery Of Westerplatte (Tajemnica Westerplatte), a debut film directed by Paweł Chochlew.

BUDAPEST: Hungarian director and writer Szabolcs Hajdu in in mid-production with The Gambler, the follow-up to his 2010 film Bibliotheque Pascal, Hungary's candidate for the foreign language Oscar in 2011.