RIGA: Latvian born Russian writer/director Yevgeni Pashkevich's feature film What Silent Gerda Knows (Ko zina klusā Gerda) has entered development stage with distribution rights already acquired by Paris-based WIDE.

LJUBLJANA: Idyll, a Slovenian horror feature film, began shooting already started on 21 June 2014.

VILNIUS: Lithuanian young generation director Lina Lužytė is working on her debut feature film Do You Love Me? (Ar tu mane myli?).

TRENSIANSKE TEPLICE: Slovakia will have a domestic fairytale in cinemas in October 2014 with the premiere of Laska na Vlasku, a 15th century romance directed by Mariana Cengel Solcanska, and the first Slovak fairytale made in almost 15 years.

ZAGREB: Croatian filmmaker Dalibor Matanić will begin shooting the Croatian-Slovenian coproduction The High Sun/Zvizdan on 22 September 2014. The film is now in the location scouting and casting phase.

VILNIUS: Popular Finnish director Antti J. Jokinen is shooting the feature film Kätilö (Wildeye) in Vilnius, Lithuania. The director is known for his work on The Resident (2011), Puhdistus (2012) and Nightwish: End of an Era (2006).

RIGA: The Latvian/Greek/German coproduction Modris, a debut feature by Latvian director Juris Kursietis, is set to be released in Latvia on 24 October 2014.

LJUBLJANA: Two years after a popular and intriguing teaser posted on YouTube, student Oscar nominee Žiga Virc is shooting his awaited docu-fiction Houston, We Have a Problem, based on the urban myth of Yugoslavia selling its secret space programme to the US in March 1961 followed two months later by president Kennedy announcing that the USA would go to the moon.

BUCHAREST: Radu Muntean is set for an August- September 2014 shooting on One Floor Below, a Romanian-French-Swedish coproduction.

BRATISLAVA: Slovak documentary filmmaker Miro Remo is finishing work on Vrbovský veter, his second documentary after his award-winning short student documentary Arsy-Versy

WARSAW: Jacek Bromski will start shooting the thriller Anatomy of Evil on 24 June 2014 in Warsaw and Szczecin.

NICOSIA: The Serbian director Vladan Nikolic is in preparation with a new feature he will shoot mainly in Greece (20 days), and with some additional shooting also in New York starting 16 June 2014.

VILNIUS: The Lithuanian feature film Crisis from young film director Andrius Blaževičius is in preproduction.

BUCHAREST: Nicolae Mărgineanu continues the investigation of the communist era with Poarta Albă, a feature about the concentration camp of Poarta Albă and the construction of the Danube-Black Sea channel.

BUCHAREST: Marius Iacob’s documentary The Wellness Process, recently awarded with Robert Bosch Stiftung Prize for International Cooperation between Germany and Eastern Europe at goEast Wiesbaden, is set to start shooting in June 2014.

ZAGREB: After spending four years in development, the Dutch/Croatian thriller from acclaimed Dutch director David Verbeek began filming in Croatia on 24 April 2014.