VENICE: The German/French/Serbian coproduction Short Summer by Nastia Korkia has been selected for the Official Competition of Venice Days, while Sharunas Bartas’ Lithuanian/French coproduction Laguna will screen in Venice Days Special Events. Below are the films selected for Venice Critics’ Week and Venice Days 2025.

VENICE: Films by Hungarian directors Ildikó Enyedi and László Nemes are in the Competition of the 82nd Venice Film Festival (27 August - 9 September 2025). The Orizzonti competition will open with Teona Strugar Mitevska’s Mother.

VALLETTA: The Mediterrane Film Festival is rapidly carving out a place for itself on the international festival calendar as one the the top places where industry professionals have to be in June.

KARLOVY VARY: Slovak/Czech documentary Better Go Mad in the Wild / Raději zešílet v divočině by Miro Remo won the Grand Prix - Crystal Globe in the main competition of the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (4 – 12 July 2025).

KARLOVY VARY: KVIFF Eastern Promises, the festival's Industry section and film market, has the rewarding mission of bridging the gap between talented filmmakers and their potential co-production partners, festivals and audiences.

This year for the tenth time FNE together with FIPRESCI is organising the ratings of all feature films in the main Crystal Globe competition, and the Proxima competition of the official Karlovy Vary International Film Festival programme by international critics attending the Festival.

VALLETTA: Russell Crowe made a surprise appearance to pick up Mediterreane Film Festival’s Malta Film Legend special award at the closing ceremony of the festival held in the iconic Fort Manoel on 29 June 2025. Malta Film Commissioner Johann Grech handed out the award to the star of Gladiator, which was shot on the island along with a host of other big international productions that have chosen Malta as their location.

CANNES: Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne’s latest film Young Mothers screens in competition in Cannes this year and it is hard to think of anyone with a more successful Cannes track record than this Belgian directing duo.

CANNES: Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa takes us back to the dark days of the Stalinist purges in the Soviet Union for his historical drama Two Prosecutors that screens in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

CANNES: American director Kelly Reichardt’s film The Mastermind screens in competition in the final days of this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Known for her minimalist films that focus on American working-class characters often in small towns she brings her own brand of humour and sadness to the struggles of the everyday man.