BERLIN: Director Jane Schoenbrun’s feature I Saw the TV Glow screened earlier this year in the World Dramatic Competition of the Sundance Film Festival before having its international premiere in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival. Schoenbrun also wrote the script for the film.

BERLIN: American director Nathan Silver’s warm and original comedy Between the Temples had its international premiere at its Panorama screening at this year’s Berlinale. The film screened earlier this year in the official selection of the USA Dramatic Competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.

BERLIN: Director Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man screened in the main competition at the 2024 Berlinale after making its debut at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Schimberg also wrote the script for this dark satire that takes a new look on the old trope that beauty is only skin deep.

BUCHAREST: The first feature film by Romanian writer/director/producer Bogdan Mureșanu, The New Year That Never Came, which is a coproduction with Serbia, has been picked up by Cercamon ahead of its world premiere in the Horizons competition of the 81st Venice IFF. Mureșanu is the author of The Christmas Gift (2018), the Romanian short film with the most international awards.

VENICE: Films from Dea Kulumbegashvili, Andrei Ujică, Peter Kerekes, Bogdan Mureșanu and Vojtech Strakaty have been selected for the Competition and Horizons (Orizzonti) sections of the 81st Venice International Film Festival, which will be held 28 August – 7 September 2024.

BUCHAREST: TWST / Things We Said Today, the new work by the acclaimed Romanian-German writer / director Andrei Ujică, will have its world premiere in the Official Selection - Out of Competition of the 81st Venice IFF (28 August – 7 September 2024). This French/Romanian coproduction has been a dream project for Ujică since high school.

VENICE: Projects from Lithuania, Malta and the Czech Republic have been selected for Venice Immersive within the 81st Venice International Film Festival (28 August - 7 September 2024). The Antique by Georgian Rusudan Glurjidze will screen in the competition of Giornate degli Autori, while Serbian documentarian Mladen Kovačević’s Possibility of Paradise has been selected out of competition.

KARLOVY VARY: The 1st Annual Czech Leonarda Film Award was launched during the Karlovy Vary IFF for female filmmakers who create scripts for feature and documentary films, animated films, new TV formats and experimental films for cinema, television or the web.

KARLOVY VARY: Northern Irish documentary maker Mark Cousins took home the Grand Prix - Crystal Globe at the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for his film A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things (UK), which screened in the main competition. The film is about the life and work of Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, an under-appreciated female artist of last century. The festival took place 28 June to 6 July 2024.

KARLOVY VARY: The winners of KVIFF Eastern Promises, the industry segment of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, have been announced. The 58th edition of the festival is held from 28 June to 6 July 2024.