31 local productions are included in the Romanian Days competition — 11 feature films (most of them fiction debuts) and 20 short films competing for the section’s three major awards: Best Feature Film, Best Debut and Best Short Film. The feature films selected in the Romanian Days competition will also compete for the attention of the FIPRESCI jury, while the shorts are eligible for recognition from the Signis jury.

The following grants have been announced by the Slovenian Film Centre on 25April 2026.

On 18 May at the Marche du Film in Cannes, the winners of this year's Goes to Cannes showcase were announced. Tallinn Black Nights Film festival (PÖFF), presented two of the three awarded projects. 

FNE has teamed up with FIPRESCI critics attending the Cannes Film Festival to rate the films in the Main Competition, Un Certain Regard, Directors' Fortnight and Critics Week, giving the films 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 stars. 5 is the best and 1 is the worst. The ratings give an overview of critics’ opinions from a large number of countries and provide insights into what critics in many different countries think about the programme. FNE will be publishing updates each day from today until the end of the festival.

BUCHAREST: Independent distribution company Good Time Films is officially launching in Romania with Asghar Farhadi’s Parallel Tales, and Maryam Touzani’s Calle Málaga.

On Friday, 15 May 2025, the arthouse cinema associations welcomed more than 200 guests from the film industry, funding bodies, and the political sphere to their reception held during the 79th Cannes Film Festival.

The TV Beats Co-Financing Market, a part of the Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event drama-series programme TV Beats, has opened submissions. The initiative spotlights high-quality drama series projects with significant international distribution and sales potential, welcoming applications from production companies until July 14, 2026.

FNE has teamed up with FIPRESCI critics attending the Cannes Film Festival to rate the films in the Main Competition, Un Certain Regard, Directors' Fortnight and Critics Week, giving the films 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 stars. 5 is the best and 1 is the worst. The ratings give an overview of critics’ opinions from a large number of countries and provide insights into what critics in many different countries think about the programme. FNE will be publishing updates each day from today until the end of the festival.

ZAGREB: The second edition of the Zagreb City of Film, organised by the Cinehill Film Festival with support from the City of Zagreb and the Zagreb Tourist Board, opened with a screening of Mate Relja’s popular Croatian children's film, Train the Snow / Vlak u snijegu (1976) at Zagreb’s main railway station.