Los Angeles - Government Commissioner Csaba KAEL announced the extension of Hungary’s highly successful film support scheme till 2030, continuing its commitment to contribute to such international successes as ‘Dune’, ‘Maria’ and ‘The Brutalist’. National Film Institute awarded ‘Best Int’l Production Filmed in Hungary’ for the first time in history.

PÖFF sets focus on German cinema and has chosen the world premiere of David Dietl's "Long Story Short" to open the festival.

The selection for this year's international Script Pool competition, which focuses on film scripts, includes projects from Finland and Latvia, as well as three co-productions with Germany.

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) reveals the selection for the Baltic Film competition. Presenting the crème de la crème of fresh output from the festival’s home region, this year’s Baltic Competition programme consists of 16 works, including 6 world premieres and 2 international premieres, alongside with previously released and critically acclaimed Baltic films.

The 10th edition of the European Genre Forum, the only European training programme for up and coming genre filmmakers, will present its eight projects from eight production countries during the final lab in Tallinn. For the first time, one of the projects will receive an award of 25,000 euros, consisting of one day rental of an LED stage, preceded by one day of pre-lighting for the production of a selected film.