Join us for the New Horizons' Polish Days Goes to Cannes screening, which will be held on Friday 9 July from 12:00 till 14:00 at the Marché du Film.

New Horizons International Film Festival and Polish Film Institute will present a selection of five Polish feature films in various stages of production (works-in-progress):

• Imago, directed by Olga Chajdas, produced by Apple Film Production

• Fucking Bornholm, directed by Anna Kazejak, produced by Friends with Benefits Studio

• Fears, directed by Łukasz Ronduda and Łukasz Gutt, produced by Serce

• Inverted, directed by Jacek Lusiński, produced by Aurum Film

• Lipstick on the Glass, directed by Kuba Czekaj, produced by Centrala FILM, INDI FILM

The pitching session will be screened in Cannes in Palais des Festivals – Palais K and online in your local time zone. More information about the presented projects attached and here.

The screening is for the Market badge holders only.

Transilvania International Film Festival (July 23 – August 1) launches Drama Room, a program dedicated to drama series creation and financing, aiming at building capacity locally and within the covered region. Drama Room is open to directors, producers and screenwriters interested in developing and producing series and mini-series and is open to participants from Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Serbia, Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Greece, Turkey and Georgia.

The first edition of Drama Room will be a hybrid one and will take place between July 26-28, 2021. It will consist of a series of online tutoring sessions in collaboration with MIDPOINT Institute and a case-study, with the support of HBO Romania (a physical event during Transilvania IFF). The program will focus on providing the necessary informational toolkit to enable film professionals access to the drama world both financing and content creation.

The deadline for applying is July 12: vp.eventival.com/tiff/2021

Docu Talents from the East 2021 – selection announced!

Eight remarkable documentary projects in post-production from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia and Slovakia made it to the 17th edition of Docu Talents from the East 2021. Since 2005, Docu Talents has served as a launchpad for a number of documentaries from the region of Central and Eastern Europe. The presentations will take place at Cinelink Industry Days at Sarajevo Film Festival on August 14–19. The most promising project will receive 5,000 USD cash prize in partnership with Current Time TV.

official poster of the 74th Cannes Film Festival

Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s debut feature Murina will have its world premiere at Directors’ Fortnight, a programme taking place 6th – 17th July and running in parallel to the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. In addition, producer Bojan Kanjera will be participating in the Producers on the Move platform. Dalija Dozet will present her project My Dad’s Lessons as part of the Cannes Docs, organized during the Cannes Film Market, while the Croatian Audiovisual Centre will once again promote Croatian cinema at the Merché du Film.