ESTONIA: The epic war drama 1944, now halfway through a two-part filming schedule, is primed to continue a tradition of a strong box-office for patriotic war films in Estonia.

PRAGUE: Leading young Czech and international actor Jiří Mádl (Borgia, Four Suns, Colette) is finishing work on his debut film as a director and scriptwriter, the ultra-low budget To See a Sea.

SOFIA: France’s Joséphine de La Baume will star in the Ukrainian-Georgian-German-Bulgarian 2.6m EUR coproduction Ursus - The Caucasian Bear, co-written eight years ago by esteemed Georgian scriptwriter Zaza Buadze and film director/producer Otar Shamatava.

TALLINN: Sulev Keedus is shooting The Husband Slayer. The Virgin. The Shadow. (Mehetapja süütu vari), scheduled to be completed in autumn 2015.

Known for his delicate but continuing interest in the fate of the Balkan people award-winning director Kostadin Bonev is in postproduction on his third feature film The Sinking of Sozopolis (working title A Town, named Salvation).

TBILISI: The acclaimed Georgian filmmaker George Ovashvili plans an April 2014 completion date for Corn Island which is finishing a two-part shoot.

WARSAW: False Witness, the film written by Iglika Triffonova which won the Krzysztof Kieślowski Award at the fifth edition of ScripTeast, is now shooting.  

LODZ: After a long break, renowned Polish director Grzegorz Królikiewicz makes a comeback with Neighbors, a warm, absurd comedy about extraordinary people.

WARSAW: Agnieszka Holland is in preparation with Game Count (Polish title Pokot), a crime drama which will go into production in 2014.

WARSAW: Jan Jakub Kolski will complete filming on Serce, serduszko i wyprawa na koniec świata (Heart, Heartling and the Journey To The End Of The World) at the end of November 2013.

BUCHAREST: Distributor InterComFilm Romania has already started a promotional campaign marketing Ovidiu Georgescu's The Last Incubus as the first Romanian magic realism film, well in advance of its 14 February 2014 release.

WARSAW: Warsaw by Night produced and directed by Natalia Koryncka-Gruz completed filming in Warsaw on 12 November 2013.

NICOSIA: The English-language low-budget romantic comedy Committed written and directed by Stelana Kliris is expected to be completed by the end of December 2013.

BUCHAREST: Director Michael Damian is in production with Love by Design a romantic comedy featuring the British-born international star Jane Seymour. The film is produced by Solar Indie Junction, a new company established in Romania by Mandragora Group.

MALTA: After filming among the most beautiful places in the Maltese Islands, including underwater scenes since 30 September, Konstantin Buslov's film The Divers wrapped shooting on 28 October. The Malta based Film Corporation Ltd provided services throughout the whole month of shooting.

BRATISLAVA: Production is nearing the end of its first phase on Live and Let Live (Ži a nechaj ziť) a Slovak political thriller inspired by real events from 1995-1996 in Slovakia.