After a 14-year hiatus, Albania has revived its National Film Festival, bringing the country’s cinema back to audiences in Tirana. The festival was staged across four venues in the capital — the University of Arts, Agimi Cinema, the Pyramid of Tirana and
Tallinn has closed the 12th international contemporary photography fair Foto Tallinn 2026 with the strongest results in the project’s history. According to Estonia’s public broadcaster ERR, attendance nearly doubled compared with the previous edition, whi
Riga is bidding farewell to the 17th International Contemporary Art Festival Survival Kit, one of the Baltic region’s most influential annual cultural events, organised by the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art.
Malta brought part of its Venice story back home. In Sliema, a ten-day exhibition, Diamonds in the Rough: Research Processes in the Context of No Need to Sparkle, offered a behind-the-scenes look at the research and creative process that led to Malta’s na
Pope Leo XIV has inaugurated AQVA, a major artistic project at the Vatican Apostolic Library and the first exhibition in the new five-year cycle Catastrophe and Wonder.
Ahead of the 51st Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, FilmNewEurope drew attention to the scale of this year’s programme: 16 films were selected for the Main Competition, including five feature-length directorial debuts. The English-language edition of Polski
Denmark has officially selected May el-Toukhy’s Woman Unknown (Kvinde ukendt) as its entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. The decision was unanimously approved on 25 September by the Danish Oscar committee, comprising represent
On 24 September 2026, Marina Vlady (1938–2026) died at the age of 88. One of the best-known French actresses of her generation, she won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival, became a muse to Jean-Luc Godard, and was the wife of the legendary
After four years of research and conservation, Florence’s Basilica of Santa Croce has reopened the Bardi Chapel, home to Giotto’s fresco cycle The Stories of St Francis. Work began in June 2022 and was completed in 2026, the 800th anniversary of the death