JIHLAVA: The submissions for the 20th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival are open. The festival will take place on 25-30 October 2016.

Since its launch in 2005, over 100 remarkable documentary projects from Central and Eastern Europe have been presented at Docu Talents from the East.

WARSAW: Papusza by Krzysztof Krauze and Joanna Kos-Krauze was released in the UK on 1 April 2016.

BUCHAREST: Romance TV will launch in Romania and Hungary on 3 May 2016.

The 5th Visegrad Film Forum (VFF) with a five-day programme full of master classes with renowned experts, runs from April 5 – 9 with the leading topic audience development and film literacy.

These development and production grants for low budget feature films were approved by the Ministry of Education and Culture in November 2014 for 2015.

BUCHAREST: Ştefan Buzea’s Mercy Street, the first 3D animated feature film made with 100% Romanian technique, will hit the domestic screens in mid-April 2016.

Thursday evening saw the start of the 21st Vilnius International Film Festival Kino Pavasaris, hosted at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic. The biggest celebration of cinema will bring more than 200 select films and as many international guests to Lithuania. Kino Pavasaris also joined other film festivals around the world in sending a public message of support for the Busan International Film Festival.

Thursday evening saw the start of the 21st Vilnius International Film Festival Kino Pavasaris, hosted at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic. The biggest celebration of cinema will bring more than 200 select films and as many international guests to Lithuania. Kino Pavasaris also joined other film festivals around the world in sending a public message of support for the Busan International Film Festival.

After four years of big investments and hard work, Opal Production studio completed “Mercy Street” movie, the first 3D animationfeature made in Romania with astereoscopic animation technique, 100% autochthonous, developed by Ştefan andAlexandru (Ducu) Buzea, the film director and respectively the character designer and animator.