WARSAW: Applications for the 11th FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project, a training programme for young critics and film journalists from Central and Eastern Europe coordinated by the Warsaw Film Foundation and FIPRESCI, are welcome until 15 September 2016.

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SARAJEVO: Robert De Niro will receive the First Honorary Heart of Sarajevo – Lifetime Achievement Award, while Stephen Frears will receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award at the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival. The festival takes place from 12 to 20 August 2016.

BUCHAREST: The 13th edition of Anonimul International Independent Film Festival, will run from 8 to 14 August 2016 in Sf. Gheorghe, Danube Delta, having Park Chan-wook as special guest.

Macedonian Film Agency announced the 2016 production grants for feature films, documentaries and animated films in July 2016.

VALLETTA: The 4th edition of Triq Cinemoon Festival, an unusual open air festival with the selection based on the audience’s vote, will kick off on 11 August 2016.

TBILISI: A group of Bollywood producers are currently visiting Georgia. They have been invited by Enterprise Georgia in cooperation with the Georgian National Film Centre and their visit is part of the Georgian state-run programme Produce in Georgia.

In cooperation with Nordisk Panorama, the Institute of Documentary Film is organising numerous Eastern European delegations including a strong representation of Czech producers heading to this traditional Scandinavian festival of short and documentary films, taking place in Swedish Malmö from 18 to 20 September 2016.

BUCHAREST: Romanian filmmakers have clashed over the controversial draft of a new film law that is slated go to the Parliament in autumn 2016.

BUCHAREST: Twelve participants from Romania, Bosnia, Italy, Finland, England and Germany will participate in the 11th Aristoteles Workshop, which will take place in Șurdești, Maramureș county from 23 August to 24 September 2016.