This month we speak with Ondřej Trantina, Chief Operations Officer within Atlas Cinema and Komorni kino Evald, and Petr Frakaš, Deputy Director within Atlas cinema and Booking manager within the same cinema. Both Atlas and Evald are part of the CinemArt distribution company.

ZAGREB: The Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC) has approved 277,488.50 EUR as project development and script development grants for TV series and individual works for animated projects, documentaries and dramas. The third season of the acclaimed crime series Rest in Peace, the first series developed by HAVC broadcast in Western Europe, is among the winners.

BUCHAREST: The draft of the new Film Law, which was made public by the Ministry of Culture, aims at bringing more money to the Film Fund and at supporting Romanian films domestically. The new law will also give the Romanian Film Centre the power to allot funding from the Film Fund for international coproductions.

BUCHAREST: Ivana Mladenovic’s debut feature Soldiers. A Story from Ferentari, a contemporary gay love story set in the poorest neighborhood of Bucharest, is currently shooting. The film is a Romanian/Serbian/Belgian coproduction, produced by Ada Solomon through HiFilm Productions.

This month we speak with Đive Galov, the programme manager of Kino Sloboda, Dubrovnik.

SARAJEVO: Adina Pintilie is participating with her debut feature Touch Me Not / Nu mă atinge-mă in the Sarajevo Work in Progress sessions, set to take place within CineLink on 17 and 18 August 2016, during the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival (12-20 August 2016).

SARAJEVO: Ruxandra Ghiţescu is participating in the CineLink Co-production Market with her debut feature, Otto the Barbarian. The film produced by Alien Film is set to be shot in 2017.

FNE and Europa Distribution are launching a new chapter in our Distributor of the Month section focusing on new trends and challenges of film distribution. In the coming months we will talk with European distributors about the digital single market and VOD, trying to understand how they see the future through these lenses.

TBILISI: Georgian National Film Centre announced its plan to retrieve Soviet-era Georgian films stored in state archives in Russia, and also old Georgian film tapes scattered in Georgia. After restoration and digitalisation, they will be stored in a new building. Zurab Maghalashvili, the Head of GNFC, gives us more details about this complex process.