Sarajevo Film Festival’s trade part CineLink has revealed the primary tasks chosen for its co-production market.
CineLink has chosen eight function movie tasks from Southeast Europe to participate within the CineLink Workshop, working from June 16–20, with one extra venture set to affix the others within the CineLink Co-Production Market, working Aug. 16–21. The program goals to attach filmmakers with decision-makers in manufacturing, financing, distribution and gross sales. In addition, this system presents script growth help by tailor-made consultations and expert-led periods.
This 12 months’s tasks are thematically related by their “exploration of trauma, drawing parallels between contemporary struggles and historical events,” in response to a press release. “They delve into the tension between the need for belonging and the quest for individual identity, offering a search for meaning amid chaos, and inviting audiences to discover beauty in vulnerability and strength in connection.”
The assertion provides: “Seeking a responsible and thoughtful way to speak about the present moment, authors are turning to historical themes and increasingly to adapted material, which offers them a sense of security that there is a story worth telling, but also the way it supposed to be told.”
Director Andrei Tănase and producer Anamaria Antoci current their second function, “Agatha Candy,” which follows their first function “Day of the Tiger, which premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam and screened in competitors on the Sarajevo Film Festival.
David Kapac returns with “Pogana,” his second function co-written with Andrija Mardešić, his collaborator on their debut “The Uncle,” which premiered at Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
Two tasks from Turkey are additionally a part of the lineup: the historic drama “That Country” by Yusuf Elbaşı, produced by Burak Çevik (“Belonging,” “Forms of Forgetting”), and the coming-of-age movie “Rain Country” by Sarajevo Talents alumna Zeynep Köprülü.
Azerbaijani filmmaker Hilal Baydarov (“Sermon to the Fish,” “In Between Dying”) returns together with his new drama, “Stone Over Stone,” after successful the Heart of Sarajevo for greatest documentary. Romania’s Miruna Minculescu joins with “Bright Gray,” produced by Oana Iancu and first offered by Sarajevo pageant’s Pack & Pitch program.
From Hungary, Dorka Vermes (“Arni,” Venice Film Festival) returns with “Places Half Empty,” and Kalman Nagy presents “The Shame of the Boberly Family,” produced by Johannes Schubert, identified for “Club Zero” by Jessica Hausner. Austria’s Simon Maria Kubiena presents “The Flowering of the Chimera,” his function debut after the success of his quick “Catching Birds.”
The CineLink Co-Production Market presents the next awards: Eurimages Co-Production Development Award (€20,000); Film Center Montenegro CineLink Award (€10,000); Film Center Serbia CineLink Award (€10,000); ARTEKino International Prize (€6,000); and CineLink Female Voices Award (€20,000).
CineLink Co-Production Market chosen tasks:
AGATHA CANDY
Director and Writer: Andrei Tănase
Producers: Anamaria Antoci, Anda Ionescu, Ana Voicu
Production Company: Tangaj Production
Country: Romania
While investigating the case of a teenage woman left for lifeless within the woods, Luminița (34), a small-town police officer, dangers being swallowed right into a darkish, sinister world, the place the illegal meets the occult.
BRIGHT GREY
Director: Miruna Minculescu
Writers: Miruna Minculescu, Iulia Lumânare
Producers: Oana Iancu, Ana Ciobanu
Production Company: The East Company Productions
Co-Production Company: Contrast Films
Countries: Romania, Bulgaria
Caught in a tangled scenario with current and former lovers, Călina tries to seek out function as each a mom and a humanbeing on a charity journey to the frontier of a warfare that doesn’t belong to her, however scares her lower than her personal.
PLACES HALF EMPTY
Director: Dorka Vermes
Writer: Sára Törley-Havas
Producers: Evelyn Balogh, Botond Lelkes
Production Company: Non Lieu Kft.
Country: Hungary
A controversial and intimate portrait of a queer relationship within the context of Orbán’s Hungary.
POGANA
Director: David Kapac
Writers: Andrija Mardešić, David Kapac
Producers: Rea Rajčić, Tina Tišljar
Production Company: Eclectica
Co-Production Companies: Vertigo
Countries: Croatia, Slovenia
On a faraway Dalmatian island within the Twenties Pogana, a lady from the inlands, is bought to be the brand new spouse of a widowed sailor with 5 kids. When the sailor is misplaced at sea, Pogana is left on the mercy of the merciless villagers and their customs.
RAIN COUNTRY
Director: Zeynep Köprülü
Writers: Zeynep Köprülü, Haziran Düzkan
Producers: Utku Zeka, Zeynep Köprülü, Cansu Menlikli
Production Company: Periferi Film
Country: Turkey
In early 2000’s İstanbul, highschool senior Gül’s secret is uncovered after her classmate’s suicide, turning her life the other way up. Gül embarks on a journey to seek out her internal energy for independence and progress.
STONE OVER STONE
Director: Hilal Baydarov
Writers: Hilal Baydarov, Georg Tiller
Producers: Maéva Ranaïvojaona, Georg Tiller, Hilal Baydarov
Production Company: Subobscura Films
Co-production Company: Ucqar Film
Countries: Austria, Azerbaijan
Living and dealing within the decaying confines of a building web site, a younger couple struggles to safe a hopeful future for their unborn little one, trapped in a cycle of poverty and exploitation as they search for redemption amidst the rubble.
THE SHAME OF THE BORBÉLY FAMILY
Director: Kálmán Nagy
Writer: Kálmán Nagy
Producers: Andi G. Hess, Johannes Schubert
Production Company: Schubert
Co-Production Company: Lupa Pictures
Countries: Austria, Hungary
In a small Hungarian city, the lifetime of Tamás and Éva’s household shatters when their 17-year-old son assaults his instructor with a knife. The household should face the implications of the violent act.
THAT COUNTRY
Director and Writer: Yusuf Elbaşı
Producer: Burak Çevik
Production Company: Fol Films
Country: Turkey
In the mid-Nineteenth century, a Turkish painter and a German photographer got down to seize photos of the Ottoman homeland. Lost within the mountains, they search for the aim that led them there.
THE FLOWERING OF A CHIMERA (WT)
Director and Writer: Simon Maria Kubiena
Producers: Elli Leeb, Fabian Leonhardt
Production Company: Chimera Film
Countries: Austria, Germany
After a darkish occasion, Jakob’s household is unable to face what he did and grows more and more distant from him. Things begin to change when the 18-year-old varieties an uncommon reference to Marius, a manufacturing facility colleague who’s over 30 years older than him. But as the 2 of them draw nearer, Jakob’s previous rises to the floor.
