ZAGREB: Finnish writer/director Arto Halonen (Princess, Pavlov’s Dogs) is in postproduction with the first Finnish-Croatian coproduction, a comedy about the doping-phenomenon notable for the casting of Canadian Olympic athlete Ben Johnson, who relinquished his gold medal when he tested positive for doping, in a minor role.

WARSAW: Polish producer Opus Film may join the international coproduction of the drama The Cut by German director Fatih Akin.  Opus Film was also a coproducer on the sci-fi film The Congress directed by Ari Folman which premiered at the 66th Cannes IFF.

CRACOW: Polish director Wojciech Smarzowski's completes shooting on his drama The Mighty Angel on 18 May 2013, concluding 47 days of filming that began in November 2012.

WARSAW: The Rose and The Ring, a 75-minute animated film directed by Zofia Oldak based on the classic English fairy tale of William Makepeace Thackeray is in production at Studio Miniatur Filmowych.

WARSAW: After eight years of preparation, Jan Komasa started shooting his Warsaw Uprising film City 44 on 11 May 2013 in Warsaw.

NICOSIA: Award winning writer/director Christos Siopachas is in postproduction with Five Shilling Nylon, a love story set in 1950 about a miller whose life is turned upside down by the arrival of a young married woman at the mill.

WARSAW: The third part of a 26-episode series slated for broadcast in Poland and Argentina, Hip-Hip & Hurra, is in the final stage of production. 

BRATISLAVA: Slovak producer/director Juraj Kilián debuts with Intrigues, a coproduction of the four Visegrad countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) mainly financed by the Visegrad Fund. 

NICOSIA: Stavros Papageorghiou is in postproduction with Kypris - The Great Goddess of Cyprus, a 60 minute documentary offering an exploration of the worship of the goddess Aphrodite from an archeological, mythological, religious, art and tradition perspective. 

WARSAW: Poland’s Braidmade Films teams up with Germany’s 27 Films Productions to co-produce The Fox, a feature film based on the D.H. Lawrence book and directed by Matthias Luthardt.

NICOSIA: Writer/director Stelana Kliris will begin shooting Committed a small budget romantic comedy and road movie on 24 May 2013. 

WARSAW: New Blood (Nowa krew), a documentary about Polish villagers who emigrate to Iceland will go into preproduction in summer 2013. 

WARSAW: One Man Show, the story of struggling 33-year-old actor Marcin Sitek, is midway through a 16 month shoot. 

WARSAW: Blue Notebook, a documentary directed by Natasza Ziółkowska-Kurczuk about 20^th century classical Polish composer Witold Lutosławski, is currently in production.

PLZEN: Producer Ales Hudsky, attending the Finale Plzen film festival for the presentation of upcoming Czech films on 26 April 2013, told FNE that his international coproduction has moved into postproduction following the completion of final filming in Mexico in mid-April.

BUCHAREST: Eliza Zdru is in early development with a 90 minute documentary following the life of the first filmmakers in the Balkans, the Manakia brothers (aka Manaki brothers) and the negative of the picture they took of her great-grandfather, Mita Zdru, in 1923.