The following production grants for long documentaries were announced by the Slovenian Film Centre on 10 July 2025.

The 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.

The 23rd Franco-German Film Meetings, organized by Unifrance, the Académie Franco-Allemande du Cinéma, and German Films, will take place on October 8 and 9, 2025 in Paris, and will bring together committed professionals from the French, German, and European film industries to discuss current developments in our sector and imagine new perspectives together.

For more than 20 years, this event has been an essential platform for producers, distributors, exporters, creatives, partners, financial institutions, decision-makers – and for all those who passionately contribute to Franco-German and European film exchanges.

Information and program: https://www.das-rendez-vous.org/rdv-2025/

The registration form can be found here

Submissions are still open for the 27th edition of East-West co-production market connecting cottbus. Taking place during FilmFestival Cottbus on 5-7 November 2025, coco will present 13 projects in development (cocoPITCH) and 6 works in progress (cocoWIP).

 Submissions are open for international films & projects

In exactly two months, Piešťany will become the venue for the 20th anniversary Cinematik International Film Festival. The detailed program will include a number of hot new releases, Slovak premieres and festival previews. The organizers promise one of the best programs in the entire history of the festival and over 100 films. The first category of discounted accreditations sold out in an incredible 50 seconds.

Georgian director Mariam Bitsadze, currently studying in the joint Master’s program of ECAL (Lausanne) and HEAD (Geneva), has been selected for the Film Foundry section of the Locarno Film Festival with her short film Sous la table, a program dedicated to showcasing bold and promising new voices in European cinema.