Includes new chair Ada Solomon and deputy chairs to be Leontine Petit and Matthieu Darras
LJUBLJANA: The best new short animated films from Central and Eastern Europe are running in the Main Competition of the 22nd Animateka Festival, taking place in Ljubljana from 1 to 7 December 2025.
Filming of Estonian-Latvian-Polish co-produced feature film Serafima has wrapped
Press releases 02-12-2025The gripping drama Serafima by acclaimed director Veiko Õunpuu tells a story of moral choices and survival under authoritarianism in Soviet Estonia in the 1960s. It is a tale of love poisoned by fear, violence, and emotional trauma. The leading roles in the film – based on award winning writer Vahur Afanasjev’s novel Serafima and Bogdan – are played by Estonian actor Priit Võigemast and Georgian actress Tinatin Dalakishvili who is known to the wider public from the Netflix film Extraction 2.
PRODUCTION: Veiko Õunpuu Wraps Filming Estonian/Latvian/Polish Coproduction Serafima
Estonia 02-12-2025TALLINN: Estonian actor Priit Võigemast and Georgian actress Tinatin Dalakishvili play the leads in acclaimed Estonian director Veiko Õunpuu’s new film Serafima, a story of moral choices and survival under authoritarianism in Soviet Estonia.
BERLIN: Agnieszka Holland’s Franz received two new nominations at the 38th European Film Awards in the European Costume Designer and European Make-up & Hair Artist categories.
PRODUCTION: Nina Tratnik Enters Postproduction with First All-Women Feature Film in Montenegro
Montenegro 28-11-2025PODGORICA: Slovenian director Nina Tratnik has wrapped shooting on her debut feature Fires / Pozari on 14 November 2025. The producer and coproducers of this Montenegrin/Albanian/Serbian coproduction are all women, starting with Bojana Radulović of Montenegrin Code Blue Production.
STRASBOURG: New films by Jasmila Žbanić and Juris Kursietis are among the nine titles from FNE partner countries that received Co-production Support from Eurimages.
STRASBOURG: The Council of Europe officially adopted the final text of the Convention on the Co-Production of Audiovisual Works in the Form of Series, the first international legal framework dedicated to the independent co-production of series for TV and streaming platforms.
BOX OFFICE: The Yellow Tie with John Malkovich Leads Romanian Weekly Charts as Annual Top Ten Is Studded with Domestic Productions
Romania 25-11-2025BUCHAREST: The Yellow Tie, a Romanian/British biopic of the famed Romanian composer Sergiu Celibidache directed by his son, Serge Ioan Celebidachi, is topping the Romanian weekly box office with 96,002 admissions and 976,587 EUR / 4,970,851 RON gross.
BERLIN: The European Arthouse Cinema Day (EACD), celebrated on 23 November 2025 in 650 cinemas and film-cultural venues in more than 46 countries across the globe, was prepared through three free workshops.
