The Finnish Film Foundation has awarded a total of €75,000 to two Finnish co-productions : I Was Here by the Estonian filmaker Rene Vilbre (Mat the Cat) and Cross Dates by Romania’s Anca Damian. Cross Dates is produced in Romania by Tudor Giurgiu (Libra Film Productions) in co-production with Finland’s Kaarle Aho (Making Movies). Written and directed by Anca Damian, the film starring Mimi Branescu, Oxana Moravec and Matti Tistinen focuses on three ecounters during two days in Bucharest. Co-financing for the €570,000 film was provided by YLE TV1 in Finland. The film is now in post-production after having finished shooting and is set to be released in February 2008.