RIGA: The National Film Centre of Latvia has awarded 245,000 EUR to Juris Poskus’ new feature fiction film 24 Hr Sunshine / Saule spīd 24 stundas, an international coproduction between Latvia’s FA Filma and Norway’s Sweet Films.

WARSAW: Maria Sadowska is in production with The Art of Love, a biopic of Michalina Wisłocka, a famous Polish sexuologist who revolutionised the sex life of Poles.

WROCLAW: Shooting on the Polish/US fantasy film Valley of the Gods starring John Malkovich and directed by Lech Majewski begins on 18 May 2016 in Wroclaw.

PRAGUE: Prague sees the return of a controversial statue to a prominent spot in the city thanks to a new film from Czech TV. Shooting started on the TV film Monster directed by the renowned TV director Viktor Polesný. The film is based on a story by Rudla Cainer titled Granite Stalin.

TBILISI: LA-based director, Nick Agiashvili has been confirmed to direct the UK/Georgian co-production Shindisi, to be produced by Liberty Studio, 20 Steps and Lakumi in Georgia in partnership with UK’s Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME).

LJUBLJANA: Slovenian director Marko Naberšnik began filming his fourth feature film Slovenia, Australia and Tomorrow the World, a Slovenian/Macedonian coproduction, on 11 May 2016.

VILNIUS: The documentary El Padre Medico by director Vytautas Puidokas is in production. Principle photography began in March 2016 and will wrap in September.

PRAGUE: The Prague-based award-winning young Slovenian director Olmo Omerzu is developing his third film, Jackdaws on the Road, a Czech/Slovenian/Slovak coproduction. Omerzu is working once again with producer Jiří Konečný of endorfilm.

BRATISLAVA: Czech/Slovak coproduction The Angel of God 2, the sequel to director Jiří Strach’s 2005 fairy-tale comedy, is completing production in preparation for a Christmas holiday season theatrical and TV release.

BRATISLAVA: The new Slovak/Swedish animated series for children Vincent & Sheep is nearing the end of its Kickstarter campaign. The production is seeking 27,000 EUR.

LJUBLJANA: The Slovenian drama A Comedy of Tears by Marko Sosič is being readied to be presented at the Market of the Cannes Film Festival. “Basically the film is completed. We’re are just making the final picture and sound corrections,” producer Boštjan Ikovic told FNE.

PRAGUE: Acclaimed Czech New Wave filmmaker Jan Němec, the writer and director of the upcoming film The Wolf from the Royal Vineyard Street, died in March this year shortly before finishing his film. Now, the film, which had been shot and almost completely edited, has been turned over to his team, consisting mainly of former students from Prague’s FAMU film school, to take on the daunting task of finishing the film without him.

PRAGUE: Jan Hřebejk, one of the most successful and active contemporary Czech filmmakers, has completed work on his Slovak/Czech coproduction The Teacher / Učitelka and is preparing a trilogy under the working title Garden Store.

TBILISI: Acclaimed director, producer and screenwriter George Ovashvili has just finished the shooting of his feature film Khibula, a Georgian/German/French coproduction about the first president of Georgia, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, in the final chapter of his life.

ZAGREB: Ivan Salaj's debut feature The Eighth Commissioner / Osmi povjerenik, an adaptation of the award-winning novel by Renato Baretić, is about to wrap shooting in Croatia.

SARAJEVO: Goodbye Cockroach!, a feature film inspired by the songs of the famous Bosnian-Herzegovinian band Zabranjeno pušenje, plans to start shooting in August 2016.