Estonia was a star performer in box office, admissions and national market share for domestic films in 2011, with Bulgaria also making a very strong showing.

SOFIA: Best know as the director of The World Is Big And Salvation Lurks Around The Corner (shortlisted in the Academy awards for Best Foreign Language Film), since 1999 Stefan Komandarev represents Bulgaria as a European Film Promotion 2012 Producer on the Move.

PRAGUE: The Korean film Snowpiercer has moved filming to Prague after location shoots in Austria.

CANNES: The Industry office of the Festival del film Locarno is announcing the launch of STEP IN, a new industry initiative in Cannes. The initiative will focus in 2012 on European film distribution and exhibition in Eastern and Central European countries.

BUDAPEST: "I feel lucky because my job is my hobby too", says Judit Stalter, Hungary's European Film Promotion 2012 Producer on the Move.

"If I don't work, I'm always watching films, reading scripts or just talking films with my friends who are mainly filmmakers," she says. "This is an obsession that requires 24 hours a day." 

Cinema City, the largest exhibitor in Central Europe, opened its third multiplex of the year in the seaside town of Burgas, Bulgaria on 15 May 2012.

CANNES: It´s CANNES time again, and we very much hope you will come and visit us in the friendly and optimistic CZECH & SLOVAK pavilion # 132 in the International Village at Marché du Film!

CANNES: Estonia will be glad to meet you once again in this year's Cannes. We are situated in International Village Pantiero, pavillion 219.

MEET "LATVIA FILMS" IN CANNES

At the Village International Pantiero, Pavilion 221

BRATISLAVA: Juraj Nvota's latest film The Confidant which premiered in Slovakia on 19 April with 9,000 admissions on opening weekened, reached attendance of 21,000 in its first three weeks. The Czech premiere is scheduled for 5 July 2012.  

The Confidant is a thriller about the clash of an individual facing the well-organized force of state security. Young Czech film star Jiří Mádl plays the role of Adam, a young radio ham forced to save his girlfriend Eve from official harassment and thus deciding to sign a "contract with the devil" of state security, becoming a secret police agent wiretapping people to obtain compromising materials to be used against them.