The Sarajevo Film Festival's CineLink Co-Production Market has announced its Work in Progress selection. Ten promising projects (eight fictions and two documentaries) will be presented at closed screenings to about 40 specially invited industry decision-makers, comprising funders, sales agents, distributors, broadcasters and festival programmers.

The list includes two projects by acclaimed Bulgarian filmmakers, The Pig [+lire aussi :
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interview : Tinatin Kajrishvili
fiche film] by Georgia's Tinatin Kajrishvili (Brides [+lire aussi :
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interview : Tinatin Kajrishvili
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interview : Bobo Jelčić
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Three debut feature projects are coming all the way from the Middle East: Fig Tree by Alamork Davidian and The Day After I'm Gone by Nimrod Elsar (both from Israel), plus the Lebanese-Egyptian documentary What Comes Around [+lire aussi :
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Two more debut features, Mo [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Macedonia's Ljubo Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska, round off the selection.

The selected projects will be judged by a jury consisting of Paolo Bertolin (Venice Film Festival), Paz Lazaro (Berlin International Film Festival), Hedi Zardi (LuxBox), Petra Gobel (The Post Republic) and Serkan Yildirim (TRT), and will be vying for three awards: The Post Republic Award, worth €50,000 (in kind); the CineLink Restart Award, worth €20,000 (in kind); and the Turkish National Radio Television Award, worth €30,000 (in cash).

"The CineLink Work in Progress strand has proven to be incredibly effective for both the filmmakers presenting their works and the attending industry delegates," says Sarajevo's head of industry, Jovan Marjanović. "We are certain that this year’s projects are the films we will be watching on screens around the world in the next year or two." 

Here is the complete CineLink Work in Progress selection:

Fiction features

The Pig [+lire aussi :
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Producers: Elena Mosholova, Yariv Lerner, Pavlina Angelova
Production companies: Gorilla Film, Nu Boyana Film, Screening Emotions

Nanook – Milko Lazarov (Bulgaria/France/Germany)
Producers: Veselka Kiryakova, Guillaume de Seille, Eike Goreczka
Production companies: Red Carpet, Arizona Films Production, 42film

All Alone – Bobo Jelčić (Croatia/Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Producers: Zdenka Gold, Alem Babić
Production companies: Spiritus Movens Productions, Dokument Sarajevo

Horizon [+lire aussi :
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Producers: Lasha Khalvashi, David Hardies
Production companies: Gemini, Artizm, Momento Film

Fig Tree – Alamork Davidian (Israel/Germany/France)
Producers: Saar Yogev, Naomi Levari, Felix Eisele, Sandrine Brauer
Production companies: Black Sheep Film Productions Ltd, Av Medien Penrose, En Compagnie des Lamas

The Day After I’m Gone – Nimrod Eldar (Israel)
Producer: Eitan Mansuri
Production company: Spiro Films Ltd 

Mo [+lire aussi :
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Producer: Liviu Marghidan
Production company: Scharf Advertising 

The Story of a Summer Lover [+lire aussi :
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Producer: Paul Negoescu
Production companies: N-Graphix, Papillon Film, Screening Emotions

Documentary features

What Comes Around [+lire aussi :
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Producer: Reem Saleh
Production company: Mazameer Productions

Honeyland [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] – Ljubo Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska (Macedonia)
Producers: Ljubo Stefanov, Atanas Georgiev
Production companies: Apollo Media, Trice Films