WARSAW: Janusz Zaorski finished shooting his new drama Polish Sibiriad (Syberiada Polska), a major production devoted to a dark period in Polish history, on 1 July and has now entered the postproduction stage.

BUCHAREST: The Spanish filmmaker Albert Serra (Birdsong) is due to start shooting his new feature Historia de la meva muerte in Romania on 1 September 2011.

BUCHAREST: The Spanish filmmaker Albert Serra (Birdsong) is due to start shooting his new feature Historia de la meva muerte in Romania on 1 September 2011.

BUCHAREST: The feature film Horses Are Green On The Walls from director/writer Dan Chişu (Websitestory, The Bear) is nearing the end of postproduction and had a prescreening in the work-in-progress section at the recent Karlovy Vary IFF (www.kviff.com).

BUCHAREST: The feature film Horses Are Green On The Walls from director/writer Dan Chişu (Websitestory, The Bear) is nearing the end of postproduction and had a prescreening in the work-in-progress section at the recent Karlovy Vary IFF (www.kviff.com).

Shanghai Gypsy, the second feature film by Slovenian director Marko Naberšnik, began shooting on 27 June 2011 and is expected to wrap on 2 October 2011.

BUCHAREST: Tudor Giurgiu's second feature, Of Snails and Men/Despre oameni şi melci, is inspired by true events, even if they may sound quite odd. In 2002, Reuters published an news report stating that the workers from a Romanian factory proposed donating their sperm in order to obtain funds to save their factory from being privatized.

BUCHAREST: Tudor Giurgiu's second feature, Of Snails and Men/Despre oameni şi melci, is inspired by true events, even if they may sound quite odd. In 2002, Reuters published an news report stating that the workers from a Romanian factory proposed donating their sperm in order to obtain funds to save their factory from being privatized.

The Czech Production company Central European Production and Locations (www.praguelocations.com) signed an coproduction agreement with the Chinese production company V.V .Hand Productions of Beijing to co-produce the action adventure film Destiny.

BRATISLAVA: Young Slovak director Adam Oľha (Martin-Lisbon) is in the final stage of production with his second feature documentary, The New Life of a Family Album. Based on a long-term observation and shot over the period of three years, the movie is a portrait of the author's own family.

BUCHAREST: Everybody in Our Family, the second feature from Romanian director Radu Jude (The Happiest Girl in the World/Cea mai fericită fată din lume) starts shooting in 15 June 2011 producer Ada Solomon told FNE. Described as a war movie set in an appartment, Everybody in Our Family bears a resemblance to a short film Jude made in 2007, Alexandra. The approach will be a realistic one, as in all of Jude's films.

BUCHAREST: Everybody in Our Family, the second feature from Romanian director Radu Jude (The Happiest Girl in the World/Cea mai fericită fată din lume) starts shooting in 15 June 2011 producer Ada Solomon told FNE. Described as a war movie set in an appartment, Everybody in Our Family bears a resemblance to a short film Jude made in 2007, Alexandra. The approach will be a realistic one, as in all of Jude's films.

BUCHAREST: Rudolf van den Berg's feature film Süskind is a war drama based on true events. In Amsterdam, 1942, Walter Süskind, a Jew, befriended SS officer Ferdinand Aus der Funten in an attempt to save a group of children from the death camp. He managed to save almost one thousand until he himself was caught.

BUCHAREST: Rudolf van den Berg's feature film Süskind is a war drama based on true events. In Amsterdam, 1942, Walter Süskind, a Jew, befriended SS officer Ferdinand Aus der Funten in an attempt to save a group of children from the death camp. He managed to save almost one thousand until he himself was caught.

TALLINN: The Estonian NGO Cinema Bus (www.kinobuss.ee), which tours the country with film and animation workshops and screens films in rural areas, has initiated an ambitious project to produce a feature film with 10,000 volunteers from across the country. The project, defined as a sci-fi documentary, is a mixture of guerilla film-making and community activism and is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Estonian film in 2012.

BUCHAREST: Writer-director Anca Damian (Crossing Dates) is in postproduction with a long animated feature Crulic - The Path to Beyond, a Romanian-Polish coproduction based on the tragic story of Claudiu Crulic, a 33-year-old Romanian who starved himself to death in a Polish prison in January 2008.