PRAGUE: The disarming, award-winning Polish documentary Rabbit a la Berlin screens at Kino Světozor (www.kinosvetozor.cz/en/‎) in a celebration of the end of the Berlin Wall, which ironically gave the bunnies a safe haven for 28 years.

Miroslav Krobot's original script chronicling the pitfalls of love in a small Moravian town, Nowhere (Díra u Hanušovic), is filming in the Czech Republic's Jeseniky mountains, which form and shape the story, according to the director.

The head of Croatia's Nukleus Film, launched in 2009 and expanded into Slovenia three years later, will represent Eastern Europe at the European Film Promotion Producers Lab in Toronto September 4-7.

A nine-screen digital Cinema City Multiplex with cutting-edge 3D projection is being built within the IKEA center in Lublin, company officials have announced. The project, in a shopping mall featuring 150 venues, is set to open late next year.

Following two decades of mainly small-scale, personal films, Czech producers are moving into larger projects celebrating epic historic tales set in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the First Republic and the Cold War.

The creative team behind Walking Too Fast (Pouta) - director Radim Špaček, screenwriter Ondřej Štindl, DoP Jaromír Kačer and producer Vratislav Šlajer - have wrapped two months of shooting for coming-of-age film Places (Mista), the second in a planned trilogy examining the changing face of the contemporary Czech Republic.

TBILISI: Ciné-DOC, the region's pioneering documentary IFF, launching 15-20 October, has announced its submission deadlines for the international competition section and the Focus Caucasus screenings.

Balkanima, the festival of Southeastern European animation running 1-5 October, now in its 10th edition, is accepting submissions through 10 August, seeking work up to 25 minutes from continental filmmakers with no entry fee.

Following up on last year's first appearance of official Chinese representation, the Warsaw IFF (www.wff.pl), running 11-20 October, will launch the China-Eastern Europe Film Promotion Program (CEEFPP), intended to foster a long-term relationship and cultural exchange between film professionals from the two regions.