Throughout the thirtieth Sarajevo Movie Pageant (August 16-23), the competition’s business challenge CineLink will current its work in progress. These embody eight novels from South-East Europe, the Center East and North Africa and one documentary in manufacturing or post-production.
Contestants embody Alisa Kovalenko, who competed in Sarajevo final 12 months for “We Will Not Disappear,” which additionally screened on the Berlinale; Adrian Sitaru ) was named Greatest Director in Locarno for “Greatest Intentions”; Tarik Aktas gained the Greatest Newcomer Director award in Locarno for “The Useless Horse Nebula”; Ralitza Petrova, for “The Useless Horse Nebula” “Atheism” gained the Locarno Golden Leopard Award for Greatest Movie; Maya Vitkova participated within the Sundance Movie Pageant with “Victoria”; Ana Urushadze gained the Golden Leopard Award for Greatest Movie in Locarno; Gained the Locarno Award for Greatest Debut.
These tasks shall be introduced to funders, gross sales brokers, distributors, broadcasters and competition planners with the goal of driving tasks to completion and growing distribution alternatives.
Right here is the lineup:
“Frontline” (Poland, Ukraine, Denmark)
Report
Director: Alisa Kovalenko
Product: Kasia Kuczynska
Within the coronary heart of the Ukrainian frontline, a mom, soldier and filmmaker captures the delicate tranquility shattered by warfare, revealing via her twin lens the deeply private and untold facets of the battle.
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Courtesy of Alisa Kovalenko
“Harakiri” (Romania)
novel
Director: Adrian Sitaru, Vlad Poppa
Product: Illyana Adnana
“Seppuku” tells two seemingly unrelated tales: one a few TV present’s superficial and judgmental method to suicide, the opposite an in-depth take a look at love and psychological well being in a household.
“Take heed to Yellow” (Türkiye)
novel
Director: Bhanu Shivshi
Merchandise: Yusuf Aslanyürek, Orkun Huylu
Suna returns to her Anatolian village to seek for her lacking cat, uncovering household secrets and techniques and reconnecting together with her roots alongside the way in which.
“Expensive Rabbit” (Croatia, Serbia)
novel
Director: Igor Jelinovich
Producer: Raya Rajic
Tonina’s secretive transfer to amass a coveted household property in Hvar results in a breakdown in her relationship together with her sister Tayana. This results in a resentful go to the place unstated tensions come to a head.
“Warfare Version” (Türkiye)
novel
Director: Tariq Aktas
Forwards: Güneş Şekeroğlu, Tarik Aktaş
Kriegsausgabe is an epic dystopian journey set in Mesopotamia, because the infamous warrior Kramnuk makes an attempt to flee the violence and struggling he has brought about.
“Want” (Bulgaria, Denmark, Sweden)
novel
Says: Lariza Petrova
Gamers: Poliangelova, Nikolai Todorov, Lariza Petrova, Eva Jacobson, Anna Bywald
When a daughter inadvertently turns into the inheritor to her estranged father, all she needs is to reject the inheritance and return to her personal life. However a near-death expertise modified every thing.
“It is my flip!” (Hungary)
novel
Director: Zhang Ge
Merchandise: Katalin Csényi, Sissy Cui
The movie explores the challenges of disconnection via the journey of a brother and sister attempting to interrupt free from the constraints of custom, maturity and their very own our bodies.
“One month” (Bulgaria)
novel
Director: Maya Vitkova-Kosev
Product: Maya Vitkova-Kosev
Sarah is an artist who nonetheless lives together with her mother and father and has not had a relationship since her fiancé left her ten years in the past. Life is unbroken.
“Supporting Position” (Georgia, Estonia, Türkiye)
novel
Director: Anna Urushadze
Gamers: Davit Tsintsadze, Ivo Felt, Sophio Bendiashvili, Bacho Meburishvili, Zeynep Atakan, Andrey Epifanov, Eleonora Granata, Dato Bakhtadze
A retired Georgian movie star accustomed to taking part in heroic protagonists embarks on a cathartic journey after being requested to play the supporting position of an disagreeable outdated man.
