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Sarajevo’s CineLink Industry Days announces first projects selected to its Co-Production Market and Drama strands

CineLink’s activities for this year have continued (almost) as planned, amid the pandemic uncertainty.

Following the first of the two annual calls for projects - 8 feature films and 5 drama series were selected and invited to take part in the CineLink preparatory workshop that took place “on-line” at the end of April 2020. The filmmakers behind the selected projects spent two weeks working with the CineLink staff and its regular team of tutors and consultants on further development of their projects.

Amra Bakšić Čamo, Head of CineLink said: „This year's CineLink will not only be unique due to the ongoing pandemic, but because it will gather a new generation of authors that demand to be heard through strong, gripping cinematic storytelling. The line-up features first and second time directors’ projects and their common trait is wittiness, passion and thought-provoking. This year’s CineLink Drama selection features a very diverse line-up and it is a great indicator that this part of the industry is keeping its pace with the rest of the continent. “ 

The second annual call for CineLink Co-Production Marke  is now open. We are looking for feature-length fiction projects from established authors, in advanced stages of development and financing, pursuing a good market access point in CineLink to further their conversion and placement effort.
The deadline for application is June 3, 2020.

CineLink Co-Production Market:

BLUE BANKS
Director: Andreea Cristina Bortun
Writer: Andreea Cristina Bortun
Producer: Gabriela Suciu-Paduretu
Production company: Atelier de Film
Country: Romania

BLUE BANKS is a painfully honest story about a young mother’s ambition to live her life according to her own dreams, while her dreams are neither precise, nor great, but mostly cursory, thin and inappropriate, tailored according to the aspirations of her own very poor community.

CAPTURING SAMI
Director: Adi Voicu
Writer: Adi Voicu
Producer: Marcian Lazar
Production company: Axel Film
Country: Romania

When you’re capturing something, someone may be capturing you.

FLAME
Director: György Mór Kárpáti
Writer: György Mór Kárpáti, Zsófi Lányi
Producer: Viktória Petrányi
Production company: Proton Cinema
Country: Hungary

Under the weight of her parent’s divorce, LAURA finds herself in a growing crisis. In order to accept her family’s new situation, she must face her fears of unknown, destructive forces.

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO KIMON
Director: Neritan Zinxhiria
Writer: Neritan Zinxhiria
Producer: Vasilis Chrysanthopoulos
Production company: PLAYS2PLACE
Country: Greece

Hurting her lover and winning her back; when KIMON’S erotic fantasy about his ex-girlfriend results to her and her lover’s death, remorse will bring him close to the family of the deceased man.

MELTING OF THE RULER
Director: Ivan Salatić
Writer: Ivan Salatić
Producer: Jelena Angelovski, Dušan Kasalica
Production company: Meander Film
Country: Montenegro

Untold stories of Montenegrin nineteenth-century everyman and their beloved ruler Morlak.

SPITE
Director: Andrijana Stojković
Writer: Andrijana Stojković
Producer: Mirko Bojović
Production company: BaBoon Production
Country: Serbia

While fighting for a custody of his daughter Ivan, Bosnian war veteran, is trying to lead an exemplary life but his past haunts him materialised in Basset, a ghost of a Syrian man.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE
Director: Borbála Nagy
Writer: Borbála Nagy
Producer: Ágnes Horváth-Szabó, András Pires Muhi
Production company: ELF Pictures
Country: Hungary

A prank video on YouTube triggers a chain of events in a small-town high school in Hungary affecting various levels of the authoritarian system. Based on true events.

WALLS
Director: Amra Mehić
Writer: Melina Alagić
Producer: Zijad Mehić
Production company: Relative Pictures
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Would you trade your freedom for being loved and could a real love really take your freedom?

CineLink Drama

THE ABYSS
Creator: Marjan Alčevski
Director: Mladen Dizdar
Writer: Marjan Alčevski
Producer: Siniša Juričić
Production company: Nukleus Film
Country: Croatia

While investigating a series of murders of powerful men in Osijek, investigator Zora faces a dilemma: would she rather be a good cop or a good human being?

BLACK DELTA
Creator: Dragos Bucur and Sofia Bucur
Writer: Dragos Bucur and Sofia Bucur
Director: Dorian Boguta
Producer:  Cristian Nicolescu
Production company: Actoriedefilm.ro & Digital Cube
Country: Romania

A teenager and her father investigate a boy’s disappearance and end up uncovering a religious order, mythical beings and their own family secrets.

BLOCK 27
Creator: Ivan Knezevic
Producer:  Ivana Mikovic
Production company: Firefly Productions
Country: Serbia

When a teenager disappears in the rough blocks of New Belgrade, his twin sister, ignored by the confused parents and the inefficient police, starts a search of her own.

THE DISSECTION
Creator: Seyfettin Tokmak, Selman Bayer
Writer: Seyfettin Tokmak, Selman Bayer
Director: Seyfettin Tokmak
Producer: Zeynep Koray
Production company: ZKF
Country: Turkey

The criminal medecin Spitzer and Officer Yusuf gather to solve of a series of murders. A confrontation between old and new, reason and intuition within this relationship leads them to success. 

MATTER
Creator: Blaž Završnik, Dario Nožić Serini, Katarina Rešek
Director: Blaž Završnik, Katarina Rešek
Writer:  Blaž Završnik
Producer: Bojan Mastilović
Production company: Iridium Film
Country: Slovenia

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