CentEast Market underway
The fourth edition of the CentEast Market (October 15-18) – organised as part of the 24th Warsaw International Film Festival – is currently underway. The event brings together producers, buyers, distributors, festival programmers and any professionals interested in Central and Eastern European film.
This year, market organisers have chosen to focus on productions from Belarus, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine. The line-up includes screenings of over 30 completed films (many to be presented by their producers) and clips from works in progress.
The first section of the market will show completed features, including films that have had their première screening at international festivals as of last June (Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska’s 33 Scenes from Life [+see also:
trailer
film profile] and Slovakian director Juraj Nvota’s Music [+see also:
trailer
film profile]); and works unveiled at domestic film festivals (Gdynia in Poland, Varna in Bulgaria), which haven’t yet had their international première (Farewell to Hemingway by Bulgaria’s Svetoslav Ovtcharov, Little Moscow [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Poland’s Waldemar Krzystek and Kasia Adamik’s The Offsiders).
Among the titles in post-production are five features and a documentary, including Feliks Falk’s new film and Peter Strickland’s debut narrative feature.
CentEast Market’s third section will present the trailers of 13 films in progress, including two titles backed by Russian producer Yelena Yatsura, the debut feature by Romanian director Radu Jude and works by Sinisa Dragin and Igor Voloshin.
As usual, the market gives pride of place to the Warsaw Screenings, which are dedicated to the presentation of new Polish films. Today, the programme includes a debate about Polish production, following the international success of Andrzej Jakimowski’s feature, Tricks [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Andrzej Jakimowski
interview: Tomasz Gąssowski
film profile], which has sold to over 20 countries.
(Translated from French)
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