VALLETTA: Maltese director/producer Shirley Spiteri Mintoff is preparing her feature film Waiting to Hear from Julia, which will be shot in Malta and Italy in 2027.

SKOPJE: Macedonian director Arben Thaçi has started shooting his second feature film Ajal, produced through the Tetovo-based company Arbfilm. The contemporary drama explores mortality, family ties, faith, belonging, and moral responsibility against the landscape of the Šar Mountain region.

TALLINN: Acclaimed Estonian filmmaker Ilmar Raag’s A Girl from Tallinn / Tüdruk Tallinnast is currently undergoing final editing and polishing in Tallinn. The six-part series is an Estonian/Ukrainian/Bulgarian coproduction.

VALLETTA: Maltese director/writer/producer Joshua Cassar Gaspar is preparing his sophomore feature Nativity, which will be shot in Malta and in the United States (Los Angeles) in 2027.

BRATISLAVA: Slovak directors Lukáš Hanulák and Matúš Krajňák are currently in production with an 8-episode TV miniseries called Drink Up! / Do dna! (working title), a psychological drama about alcoholism. To capture accurate and precise details, screenwriter Richard Pupala spent some time undercover in rehab.

TALLINN: Estonian director/screenwriter Andres Keil is currently in production with his documentary film Target / Sihik, which is produced by Jaak Kilmi through Pimik (Estonia).

VALLETTA: Maltese director Rebecca Cremona is overseeing production on Life Stream, an ambitious omnibus feature film produced by Kukumajsa Productions. The project comprises six distinct segments helmed by international writer-directors Muayad Alayan (Palestine), Ása Hjörleifsdóttir (Iceland), Chika Anadu (Nigeria), Shuming He (Singapore), Javier Colón Ríos (Puerto Rico), and Cremona herself.

SAAREMAA: Australian-born director Phillip Donnellon is currently in production with his German/Estonian/Finnish debut feature The Reef. Most of the shooting is taking place in Estonia.

ZAGREB: BARDO – A Post-COVID Story / BARDO – Jedna post COVID priča directed by Branko Ištvančić and produced by Artizana (Croatia) is currently in the last stage of preproduction. The 70-minute creative documentary is seeking production financing and international coproduction partners.

BELGRADE: Young Serbian scriptwriter David Jakovljević and director Siniša Cvetić are currently in postproduction with their third common feature film, Is It a Roar of Thunder, or the Shaking of the Ground? / Jali grmi ja l’ se zemlja trese?, a coproduction between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

SKOPJE: Macedonian director Igor Aleksov has officially started shooting his sophomore feature The Secret of the Bare Hill / Tajnata na Goliot Rid on 6 August 2026 in Skopje. The film is a coproduction between North Macedonia, Kosovo, and Serbia.

SKOPJE: Macedonian director Marjan Gavrilovski has started shooting his third feature film Ants / Mravki, a darkly comic drama supported by the North Macedonia Film Agency.

BUCHAREST: Decebal’s Wedding / Nunta lui Decebal by Matei Lucaci-Grunberg is currently in production in Romania, starring Romanian and British actors. This bittersweet comedy-drama debut feature was originally produced as a stage play for Teatrelli in Bucharest, written by Matei Lucaci-Grunberg and Eduard Buhac.

BUDAPEST: Sinless / A pokol élővilága, the second feature by Hungarian director Attila Hartung, will be released in domestic theatres on 26 November 2026, following the director's critically acclaimed debut feature, FOMO: Fear of Missing Out / FOMO: Megosztod és uralkodsz (2019, produced by Filmteam).

LJUBLJANA: Slovenian directors duo Katja Predan and Áron Horváth Botka have started shooting a TV miniseries with the working title Planet B / Štuk. The project is supported by the Slovenian Film Centre, which expanded grants for audiovisual projects to include TV series for the first time in 2022.

BUCHAREST: Acclaimed Romanian cinematographer Adrian Silișteanu is in preparation with his first feature film as a director. Another Story about My Son / O altă poveste despre fiul meu is a Romanian/Bulgarian coproduction backed by the Romanian Film Centre (CNC) and the Bulgarian National Film Center.