Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) and supported for the 11th time by AKBANK, the Istanbul Film Festival ended on Sunday, 19 April.

It was announced today that Peace To Us in Our Dreams by the acclaimed Lithuanian director Šarūnas Bartas has been selected for the Directors’ Fortnight section at the Cannes Film Festival where it will have its world premiere.

One of the most prominent Lithuanian film directors Šarūnas Bartas presented his 7th film „Eastern Drift“ and started the development of his new film. The publishing of the film was long waited not only in Lithuania but outside of its boarders too. It has been officially announced that his drama "Peace to Us in Our Dreams" world premiere will be held at the Cannes Film Festival in a parallel program „Quinzaine des Realisateurs“.

HAMBURG: European Film Promotion selected 20 producers, including producers from Czech Republic, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia, to participate in the networking platform Producers on the Move at the Cannes Film Festival (13- 24 May 2015). FNE will once again team up with EFP in promoting the event.

PRAGUE: Seven projects in rough-cut stage will participate in the first workshop session of DOK.Incubator in Třešť (Czech Republic) from 30 May to 6 June 2015.

JIHLAVA: The 11th edition of Docu Talents from the East will be held on 7 July 2015 within the industry section of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (3-11 July 2015).

ZAGREB: The third season of the action/crime drama series Crossing Lines will be partly shot in Croatia from 22 to 25 April 2015.

Debut feature by renowned Slovak documentary filmmaker Jaro Vojtek CHILDREN (orig. Deti, SK-CZ 2014) will have its international premiere at the upcoming 5th Beijing IFF (April 16 - 24, 2015), competing for theTiantan Award decided by a seven-member jury of Luc Besson, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Peter Chan, Robert Mark Kamen, Kim Ki-duk, Fernando Meirelles and Zhou Xun.

Documentary projects in the rough-cut stage which come to the workshop, this year, bring the stories of five continents...