This month we speak with Denis Samardzic, the Creative Director of Multiplex Ekran Zenica from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

CLUJ-NAPOCA: Director/screenwriter/producer Dan Chişu will have the world premiere of his seventh film The Anniversary in the Romanian Days competition of the 16th Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) from 8 to 10 June 2017. The festival will run this year from 2 to 11 June.

CLUJ-NAPOCA: Gheorghe Preda’s documentary Camera Obscura will screen in the Romanian Days competition of the 16th Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) from 8 to 10 June 2017. The festival will run this year from 2 to 11 June. This is the first Romanian documentary about the former film clubs that were popular during the communist era.

CLUJ-NAPOCA: Călin Peter Netzer’s Ana, mon amour will screen in the Romanian Days competition of the 16th Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) from 8 to 10 June 2017. The festival will run this year from 2 to 11 June. This Romanian/German/French coproduction was awarded the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution for editing at the 2017 Berlinale.

CLUJ-NAPOCA: The documentary film The Trial by Ileana Bîrsan and Claudiu Mitcu will have its premiere in the Romanian Days competition of the 16th Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) from 8 to 10 June 2017. The festival will run this year from 2 to 11 June.

BUCHAREST: More than 8,000 people attended the screenings of the 21th European Film Festival in Bucharest and also in Iași, Târgu Mureș, Gura Humorului and Timișoara from 4 to 28 May 2017.

BUCHAREST: The number of subscribers for digital retransmission programmes increased by ten percent in 2016 compared to 2015, according to the National Authority for Management and Regulations in Communications of Romania (ANCOM).

BUCHAREST: The Chamber of Deputies rejected the Film Law approved by the Romanian government as an emergency ordinance on 29 November 2016. The new law proposed by the Ministry of Culture aimed at bringing the Romanian film law into line with European legislation and was approved by the Government in December 2016, shortly before the parliamentary elections won by the Social-Democratic Party.

TBILISI: One of the most acclaimed Georgian new directors, Rusudan Glurjidze, is currently reaping awards with her debut feature House of Others. The film received the Satellite Award for Best First Feature from the International Press Academy in February 2017 and it had also been selected as Georgia’s bid for the 2017 Academy Awards.