BRATISLAVA: Slovak producer Wanda Adamik Hrycová (Colette) of Wandal Production is in development with Schengen Story directed by Peter Bebjak.

WROCŁAW: Shooting on the ZDF docudrama Roads To Auschwitz...Staying Alive Was Not An Option directed by Oliver Halmburger has started in Wrocław.

PRAGUE: Shooting of the new film by Petr Nikolaev Dodgeball was competed at the end of September.

WARSAW: Accomplished Polish producer and screenwriter Michał Szczerbic makes his feature debut with a WWII drama Fair (Sprawiedliwy).

RIGA: Acclaimed Latvian director Laila Pakalnina is shooting a period drama, Dawn (Ausma), produced by her own studio Hargla.

WARSAW: Polish director will explore complicated family relations in her second feature, My Daughters, Cows produced by Kalejdoskop Film Studio.

LODZ: Director Jarosław Konopka is working on his motion capture animated film Escape about the masscare in Volhynia of 1943 , produced by Se-Ma-For.

WARSAW: Accomplished Polish DoP Bartosz Prokopowicz is making his feature directing debut with Chemo, a drama inspired by his wife's battle with cancer.

SARAJEVO: Bulgaria’s award-winning Iglika Trifoniva (Letter to America, Investigation) is in postproduction with her Hague Tribunal fiction False Witness, an ambitious coproduction between Bulgaria’s Klass Film , Holland’s Phanta Vision and Sweden’s Filmlance.

SOFIA: Milko Lazarov, whose minimalist, almost dialogue-free low budget debut film Alienation became Bulgaria’s 2013 creative surprise, is developing Nanook produced by his company Red Carpet.

VILNIUS: The Lithuanian/Polish/Norwgian docudrama The Man Who Knew 75 Languages from director Anne Magnussen and co-director Pawel Debski has gone into production.

VILNIUS: Director Arūnas Matelis is in production with his feature length documentary Gladiators. A Different World/Gladiatoriai. Kita planeta, a Lithuanian, Italian, Belgian, Swiss, Irish, Northern Ireland/UK and Latvian coproduction.  

PRAGUE: Prague-trained and based Slovenian director Olmo Omerzu, winner of the 2012 Czech Critics “Discovery of the Year”  award, is now shooting his second feature a drama titled Family Film.

RIGA: Latvian director's Renārs Vimba debut feature Mellow Mud has finished its summer production shoot, producers Alise Ģelze and Aija Bērziņa said.

Groundbreaking Czech animation filmmaker Karel Zeman is the subject of an upcoming Czech documentary.

KARLOVY VARY: Producers and a scriptwriter of a proposed Czech-Polish coproduction entitled Binderiana presented the project at Karlovy Vary’s recent Pitch and Feedback forum, telling the panel that they’re still looking for the right director to handle the unusual genre film.