ZAGREB: The Croatian festival of animated films Animafest taking place 5 -10 June 2017, selected nine features and 44 short films for its main competition sections.

Meet the Film Center Serbia and Serbian Film Commission at Cannes Film Festival 2017, See Pavilion #134, Village International Riviera www.fcs.rs - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

ZLIN: The 57th International Film Competition of Children's Films in Zlin, running 26 May - 3 June 2017, has again lined up an international selection of films for the children and youth competition sections, reaching to such diverse territories as India, Iran and Chile, as well as the US, Canada and across Europe. The one domestic film in the two main competition sections, each consisting of eight films, is the Slovak/Czech coproduction Little Harbour by Slovak director Iveta Grofova.

connecting cottbus, the East-West co-production market at the FilmFestival Cottbus, is now accepting project submissions for its 2017 edition by July 18th. Producers, sales agents and other industry representatives are also invited to participate.

Ex Oriente Film workshop was established in 2003 as the very first training initiative focusing on Eastern and Central European creative documentary films.

The VOD portal DAFilms is screening ten documentary films to mark the 15th anniversary of the Ex Oriente programme.

STRASBOURG: Central European territories claimed some of the largest increases in film admissions across the region in 2016, according the Europeam Audiovisual Observatory’s annual report.

WARSAW: FNE has teamed up with the Brussels based team of the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC) to bring you regular updates on EU cinema policies that impact all industry professionals across Europe. Click here for FNE UNIC EU Cinema Policy Update.