BUDAPEST: More than 500 buyers will attend Content Budapest (27 – 29 June 2023), alongside 200 commissioners and senior executives from channels, platforms and production companies across the region. The C21 event aims at stimulating the business in the region through a rich agenda including the Content Budapest Series Pitch 2023.

VILNIUS: FNE spoke to Ricardas Jascemskas, project manager of the Lithuanian Game Developers Association (LGDA), about their current activities, as well as the state of the Lithuanian game development industry.

VILNIUS: Lithuanian director/screenwriter Arturas Jevdokimovas is working on his new project, the Lithuanian/Danish/Georgian long documentary Life and Death of a Christmas Tree / Kalėdų eglutės gyvenimas ir mirtis. The film is planned to be finished and premiere in the autumn-winter of 2023/2024.

VILNIUS: FNE spoke to Dovydas Vilkelis, CEO and producer of Animatrix, about their current activities, as well as the state of the Lithuanian animation and game development industries.

VILNIUS: The new project by Lithuanian director/editor Eimantas Belickas, the long documentary Generation.eu / Karta.eu, is built around the fact that on 1 May 2004, some 50 children were born in Lithuania at the same time with Lithuania's integration into the European Union. The experiences, searches and journeys of a generation are captured in documentary cinema.

VILNIUS: Acclaimed Lithuanian director/writer Algimantas Puipa’s new project is the feature film Midnight Show / Vidurnakčio seansas, whose filming is due to start in September 2023.

LIMASSOL: The Fishbowl by Puerto Rico-based Glorimar Marrero Sánchez was awarded as Best Beature Film at the 21th Cyprus Film Days International Film Festival, which ran 21 - 29 April 2023 at the Rialto Theatre in Limassol and the Zena Palace cinema in Nicosia.