All articles by Martin Blaney
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NewsTransilvania industry prizes go to projects from Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine
Bulgarian filmmaker Martin Iliev’s Fathers won the Transilvania Pitch Stop lead prize.
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NewsSpain’s ‘Lionel’ wins top award at Transilvania film festival
Other winners included Konstantina Kotzamani’s ‘Titanic Ocean’ and Goran Stanković’s ‘Our Father’.
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NewsRomania extends cash rebate and relaunches Cinema Law with minority coproduction support
The minority producer support aims to make Romanian producers important international partners.
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NewsMunich film festival unveils 2026 lineup
Films by Pawel Pawlikowski, Valeska Grisebach and Skinner Myers among 48 playing in festival’s four competition strands.
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News‘Archangel’ starring Jim Cavaziel and Ashkenazi drama ‘Lost Paradise’ among recipients of Romania’s cash rebate
‘Lost Paradise’ is produced by France’s Alain Goldman with Legendary 193’s Patrick Wachsberger.
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FeaturesRomanian Days to showcase top regional works in progress to leading European sales agents
Transilvania Pitch Stop has previously showcased projects including Christos Nikou’s ‘Apples’ and Maksym Nakonetschny’s ’Butterfly Vision’.
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NewsSiddiq Barmak’s Afghanistan-set ‘The Postman’ secures sales agent
EXCLUSIVE: ‘The Postman’ is Barmak’s third film following ‘Osama’ and ‘Opium War’
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FeaturesTransilvania’s Mihai Chirilov on the ‘existential claustrophobia’ of the 2026 lineup
Chirilov has been artistic director since the decision to bring arthouse film to Cluj in 2002.
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NewsFilms by Kuosmanen, Akin and Seidl among seven projects backed by German minority co-production fund
Kuosmanen’s ’Dream Come True’ is inspired by the true story surrounding the salvaging of the cargo of the world’s most expensive champagne from a shipwreck.
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NewsCyrielle Raingou, Mikel Gurrea films among six-strong line up for Munich’s first work-in-progress showcase
Inaugural First Cut+ Munich event will present projects by filmmakers from Brazil, Cameroon, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Spain and Germany.
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News‘Sound Of Falling’ sweeps German Film Awards, as Tricia Tuttle and Wim Wenders receive standing ovations
İlker Çatak’s Yellow Letters received the Silver Lola.
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NewsGermany boosts production incentives to €250m and paves way for investment obligation
Country seeks to make itself a more attractive hub for film and TV series production.
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NewsMunich film festival sets 28 world premieres for 2026 edition
Festival lines up new films by Randa Chahoud, Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu and Skinner Myers.
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NewsTransilvania Pitch Stop unveils 10 projects for 2026 edition
Line-up includes debut features by Romania’s Octavian Saramet, Bulgaria’s Martin Iliev and Ukraine’s Iryna Asonov.
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FeaturesCzech Republic sees impact of revamped audiovisual fund and new studio facilities
Czech Republic has a strong reputation as a stand-in for other international locations.
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NewsTransilvania film festival unveils competition lineups
Akinola Davies Jr’s My Father’s Shadow is among the films in the running for the €10,000 main prize.
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NewsJan Ole Gerster, Sebastian Schipper projects among seven backed by Germany’s national film fund
German Federal Film Fund (FFA) awards €2.5m to seven projects.
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NewsJohn Lee Hancock’s ‘Monsanto’, starring Laura Dern and Jonathan Bailey, to shoot in Germany for Netflix
Jonathan Bailey replaces Glen Powell.
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NewsFranco-German fund to support films by female directors from Ukraine, India and Lebanon
The fund has previously supported Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Cannes Competition title ’Minotaur’,
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NewsTony Gilroy’s ‘Behemoth!’, Paul Greengrass’ ‘The Uprising’ receive Austrian backing
The second season of The Day Of The Jackal was awarded €956,000.