In 2025, New Nordic Films will focus on co-productions with the Baltics, aiming to promote collaboration and co-production opportunities between the Baltic and the Nordic countries.
Two films co-produced with Lithuania – Solomamma and Becoming – have been selected for competition programs at this year’s Locarno Film Festival, while several Lithuanian industry professionals will participate in prestigious international networking initiatives.
The program of the 20th Cinematik will be enriched with exclusive premieres of new Slovak and co-production films
Festivals 05-08-2025The Cinematik International Film Festival, which is one of the most important and most visited film events in Slovakia, has traditionally been profiled as a place for exclusive premieres of Slovak and co-produced films. It will be no different during its 20th anniversary year, which will take place in Piešťany from September 10 to 15. The festival will open with the Slovak premiere of director Tereza Nvotová's new film Father, but the program will also offer other titles with the participation of filmmakers such as Caravan, Hore je nebo, v doline som ja, Radeji zešílet v divočine, Veľký plastenecký výlet, Summer School 2001 and many others.
Unconventional Parisian scale over nearly a century – feast of the metropolis image on screen in RIGA IFF programme section ARCHITECT’S CUT
Festivals 31-07-2025This October, Riga International Film Festival’s (RIGA IFF, 16-26 October) programme section ARCHITECT’S CUT will be dedicated to the image and architecture of Paris on screen. On the first weekend of the festival, at the Ziedonis Hall of the National Library of Latvia, the audiences will have a chance to experience two special screenings – The Great Arch, the Cannes-screened biographical drama on the making of the Grande Arche of Paris, and in collaboration with the prestigious Cinémathèque française (French Cinematheque), a selection of shorts by francophone cinema masters, Paris, As Seen By… La Cinémathèque française. Tickets to ARCHITECT’S CUT screenings are available on the festival website, rigaiff.lv or at Biļešu serviss sales points. More information: rigaiff.lv/architectscut.
The following production grants were announced by the Arts Council Malta on 4 July 2025.
What's cooking?
- Accreditations Are Open - Join As at Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event in November!
- Two Baltic Co-Production Market alumni projects will premiere at La Biennale di Venezia!
- The First Serial Bridges Baltics Calls for Applications!
- Call for BWiFM season #5 is Open
Now in its second edition, WINECAST returns as Georgia’s only international festival where cinema and wine meet in unforgettable places. From 20–24 August 2025, the festival unfolds across two iconic venues: the Tbilisi Wine Museum and the historic Château Mukhrani, bringing together filmmakers, producers, writers, and wine lovers from around the world and offering a cinematic and sensory journey like no other.
After its successful 2024 debut at the Radisson Collection Tsinandali, where it welcomed nearly 1,000 guests and spotlighted the USA in partnership with the American Film Showcase, the U.S. Embassy in Georgia, and the USDA, WINECAST now turns its focus to Europe. The 2025 The program includes bold new voices in European cinema, international competition films, regionally rooted gems, and a curated selection of Georgian and international wines. Expect screenings, tastings, workshops, industry talks, and long, slow evenings filled with music and conversation.
Highlights include:
- Over 30 fiction and documentary screenings
- 30 Georgian wineries and 10 international producers
- Curated film & wine pairings
- Daily masterclasses, workshops, live music, and cultural evenings
The first three days (Aug 20–22) will be hosted in the heart of Tbilisi, while the final two (Aug 23–24) take place at Château Mukhrani, blending cinematic storytelling with the beauty and depth of Georgian winemaking.
More than just a festival, WINECAST is a vibrant gathering of filmmakers, producers, winegrowers, critics, and cultural leaders. It’s a space where stories unfold on screen, and every sip deepens the experience.
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Romanian feature "Milk Teeth", directed by Mihai Mincan and produced by deFilm, premieres at the Venice International Film Festival, in the Orizzonti competition
Festivals 23-07-2025"Milk Teeth", the second fiction feature film written and directed by Mihai Mincan, will have its world premiere in the Orizzonti competitive section at The Venice International Film Festival (82nd edition), which will take place from 27 August to 6 September 2025.
The following production grants for long documentaries were announced by the Slovenian Film Centre on 10 July 2025.
The 20th Cinematik will open with Father – Tereza Nvotová's third feature film with a chilling theme inspired by reality
Festivals 18-07-2025The celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Cinematik International Film Festival in Piešťany will start in a truly grand manner. It will be opened by the third feature film by director Tereza Nvotová, Father, with whose festival premiere the organizers promise the audience a truly exceptional and emotionally powerful experience. The drama, shot in a Slovak-Czech-Polish co-production, stars Milan Ondrík, Dominika Morávková and Aňa Geislerová.
