VALLETTA: Malta will see 500,000 EUR going into upgrading cinemas in six cinema complexes.

UHERSKE HRADISTE, CZECH REPUBLIC: The Association of Czech Film Clubs handed out its annual awards at the 41st Uherske Hradiste Summer Film School.

SARAJEVO: Two world premieres are among the ten films in the main competition of the Sarajevo Film Festival which runs 14-22 August 2015. 

MOTOVUN: The French/Belgian war film Wakhun Front by Clement Cogitore won the main prize of the 18th Motovun Film Festival, which ran 25-28 July in the Croatian mountain town. 

Documentary director Jan Gogola is in post-production with the 80-minute creative documentary Excursions.

PRAGUE: A draft budget including 800m CZK for film incentives and 400m CZK for new Czech film production has been put forward.

PRAGUE: Central European Media Enterprises (CME) reported an 8 percent increase in net revenues for the second quarter ended 30 June 2015, at 166.8m USD.

VALLETTA: Malta has signed a film coproduction agreement with China, according to the Times of Malta.

WARSAW: The 10th edition of the script development workshop ScripTeast is accepting applications through 31 July 2015.

LJUBLJANA: Award-winning Slovenian director Metod Pevec is completing work on his feature documentary Home (Dom) produced by Danijel Hocevar for Vertigo and supported by the Slovenian Film Center.