CineLink Co-Production Market unveils second round of projects

The new line-up complements the 8 projects in early development, by first-and second-time filmmakers, who took part in the CineLink Project Development Workshop in April this year. All selected projects will participate in CineLink Industry Days throughout the Sarajevo Film Festival from August 11 to 16.

 

Amra Bakšić Čamo the Head of CineLink said: „The selection brings a variety of narratives and artistic approaches, while a healthy balance of established names and exciting new talent promise a lively market in August.“

 

Director: Gentian Koçi

Writer: Gentian Koçi

Producer: Gentian Koçi, Blerina Hankollari

Production company: ARTALB FILM

Co-production company: Graal Films 

Albania, Greece

 

Two identical inseparable deaf-mute twin brothers in their forties, discover that due to a genetic disease, they will separately, but progressively and irreversibly go blind. Slowly immersing into an unbearable silenced darkness, not being able to see the world and each other anymore, the two brothers have to make a strong decision.

 

Director: Milica Tomović

Writer: Milica Tomović

Producer: Vladimir Vasiljević

Production company: EED Productions

Co-production company: Meander

Serbia, Montenegro

 

In the middle of the country’s breakup, three generations, equally hilarious and deranged, attend a child’s costume birthday party.

 

Director: Gabor Fabricius

Writer: Gabor Fabricius, György Barathy

Producer: Gabor Ferenczy, Gabor Fabricius, András Muhi

Production company: Focusfox, Otherside Stories

Hungary

 

1983: Frank, an angry kid from the streets with “no future”. With his punk band he realizes that the state banned their music because their words are political. Frank escapes to a psychiatric ward where Hanna, a young enemy of the system, joins him. Medication mutes Frank, but words of freedom are louder.

 

Director: Ru Hasanov

Writer: Ru Hasanov

Producer: Orkhan Tarverdizade,

Production company: Coyote Cinema

Co-production company: Arizona Productions

Azerbaijan, France

 

Vitaly Pronin lives on the island of Kur Dili on the Azerbaijani-Iranian border, alone, with no electricity or running water. It used to be a prosperous Soviet animal farm up until the Caspian Sea rose and destroyed the bridge connecting it to the mainland. Vitaly, now 67 years of age, enjoys the dusk of his life on the island with thousands of feral horses until his solitude is interrupted by Seymour, an emotionally and physically abused international chess grandmaster. Based on a true story.

 

Director: Pjer Žalica

Writer: Pjer Žalica

Producer: Pjer Žalica, Aida Huseinović,

Production company: FORUM Association for Art and Culture

Co-Production: Propeler Film, A.S.A.P. Films, Staragara, Bascelik, Artikulacija Film

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro

 

Armin returns to his hometown where he is taken on a quest where truth liberates but at the same time binds and hurts. 

 

Director: Dénes Nagy

Writer: Dénes Nagy

Producer: Marcell Gerő, Sára László 

Production company: Campfilm

Co-production company: Novak Prod, Mistrus Media

Hungary, Belgium, Latvia

 

March 1943. A Hungarian soldier is sent on a mission where he witnesses a mass murder. NATURAL LIGHT is about making decisions in a morally ambiguous world.

 

Director: Matevž Luzar

Writer: Matevž Luzar

Producer: Petra Vidmar

Production company: Gustav Film

Slovenia

 

Events on wind orchestra tour should change band members lives, but they decide to sweep them under the rug.

 

 

Director: Mehdi Hmili

Writer: Mehdi Hmili

Producer: Moufida Fedhila

Production company: Yol Film House

Co-production company: MPM Film, Tarantula Productions 

Tunisia, France, Luxembourg/Belgium

 

Amel is released from prison after an adulterous affair. In the violent streets of Tunis, she seeks for her missing son.

 

Director: Babak Payami

Writer: Babak Payami

Producer: Hussain Amarshi, Charles Wachsberg

Production company: Payam Films Inc.

Country: Canada

 

It takes the Bolshevik revolution, Nazi takeover of Germany and Fascism in Italy to transform the young Azeri Jewish boy, Lev Nussimbaum into Essad Bey, the famous writer who understood nothing from love.