BUCHAREST: Catrinel Dănăiaţă’s debut feature, Double / Dublu, a drama supported by the National Film Center, started shooting on 19 April 2015.

BUCHAREST: Gabriel Achim's second feature The Last Day/Ultima zi, an independent dark comedy about faith, fidelity and forgiveness, is shooting from 20 April to 10 May 2015.

BUCHAREST: David Oelhoffen's Far from Men was awarded Best Film at the 11th Bucharest International Film Festival which took place from 20 to 26 April 2015.

VILNIUS: Vilnius Film Cluster opened the biggest sound stage in the Baltics in 2014 and plans the digitalisation of 20 abandoned cultural houses in the regions of Lithuania, as well as moving to scientific innovations.

BUCHAREST: Andrei Gruzsniczki’s QED was granted 10 nods at the Romanian Filmmakers’ Union (UCIN) National Awards. The gala will be held on 6 May 2015.

FNE together with Europa Distribution is launching a new chapter of the Distributor of the Month section. This time we focus on new strategies in film distribution and the importance of domestic film festivals in releasing new titles. We will also be looking at what distributors can do in order to prevent piracy.

This month we speak to Slobodanka Miskovic, the director of Art-kino from Rijeka, Croatia. The Art-kino is a public institution founded by the City of Rijeka, which operates in the field of film art and culture.

VILNIUS: Rolandas Kvietkauskas, the head of the Lithuanian Film Centre spoke with FNE about the results of the tax incentives scheme launched in January 2014, projects to improve distribution, digitalisation of old cinemas and changing film laws.

VILNIUS: Lithuanian love story 2 Nights Till Morning, and documentaries 23 East. 23 West and Alexander the Grand (Caritas at Amor) were presented at Meeting Point Vilnius (31 March -2 April 2015), the industry days of Vilnius Film Festival.