VALLETTA: The American survival thriller Ascent directed by Adam Green and starring Inanna Sarkis, Gregg Sulkin, Paris Berelc and Timothy Granaderos will launch production in Malta at the end of February 2025.
VILNIUS: The 3rd edition of the SMART7 Competition includes seven films by emerging directors such as Laurynas Bareisa, Eugen Jebeleanu and Kamila Tarabura.
BUCHAREST: Kontinental '25, the new feature by the Romanian agent provocateur Radu Jude started selling in Berlin right after its world premiere and before winning the Silver Bear for Best Script at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival (13 – 23 February 2025).
LOS ANGELES: Gints Zilbalodis’ Academy Award-nominee Flow received the award for Best International Film at the 40th Independent Spirit Awards held on 22 February 2025.
BUDAPEST: The inaugural Hungarian Animation Pitch Forum will be held on 28 March 2025 at the Toldi Cinema in Budapest, organised by the Friss Hús Short Film Festival with support from the National Film Institute – Hungary (NFI).
TALLINN: The Women’s Nights Film Festival NÖFF, one of the special festivals of the Tallinn Black Nights International Film Festival (PÖFF), will be held in the Estonian town of Rapla 7 - 9 March 2025.
Film New Europe is introducing its Agenda for Coproduction Markets, Pitchings and Work-in-Progress 2025.
BERLIN: FNE has teamed up with FIPRESCI critics attending the Berlin Film Festival to rate the films in the Main Competition, Perspectives and Forum giving the films 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 stars. 5 is the best and 1 is the worst. The ratings give an overview of critics' opinions from a large number of countries and provide insights to what critics in many different countries think about the programme.
RIGA: Gints Zilbalodis' Golden Globe-winner and Academy Award-nominee Flow has surpassed the 20 m USD mark at the global box office. The film was bought by Criterion Collection for a deluxe home video release later in 2025.
BERLIN: The executive directors of the Film Centre of Montenegro and the National Film Center of Moldova, Aleksandra Božović and Valentina Iusuphodjaev, respectively, have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation between their institutions at the European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin on 16 February 2025.
