The Baltic Event Co-Production Market is running this year from 25-26 November in an entirely digital format, as previously announced (read the news). The market will be showcasing 19 projects, welcoming for the first time works from Israel and the Philippines. For this edition, the official industry events of the 24^th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event have Russia in Focus, hence the presence at the market of five projects from the country.

The Baltic countries are represented by three film projects from experienced directors. Estonia, Baltic Event’s home country, is welcoming 8 Views of Lake Biwa, the new project by Marko Raat, produced by Oscar-nominated Ivo Felt and Dora Nedeczky for Tallin-based Allfilm and coming ten years after his last fiction film The Snow Queen. Tasty is the sophomore project from Lithuanian writer-director Eglė Vertelytė — whose debut Miracle [+lire aussi :
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Three feature debuts are representing the Nordic Countries. From Sweden, Isabella Carbonell’s Dogborn [+lire aussi :
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Other highlights in Baltic Event’s selection come from South Eastern Europe. Apathy, the latest project from award-winning Greek filmmaker Alexandros Avranas (Miss Violence [+lire aussi :
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This year, the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award worth €20,000 will be handed out by a jury which comprises Renata Santoro, head of programming at Venice’s Giornate Degli Autori, Finnish producer Kaarle Aho (Making Movies), and scriptwriter Elena Kotova, the Eurimages representative in Czech Republic.

Here is the full list of participating projects at the 2020 Baltic Event Co-Production Market:

8 Views of Lake Biwa - Marko Raat (Estonia)
Producers: Ivo Felt, Dora Nedeczky (Allfilm)

Aliya - Dekel Berenson (Israel/Russia)
Producers: Marek Rozenbaum (Transfax Films), AR Content

Apathy - Alexandros Avranas (France)
Writers: Alexandros Avranas, Stavros Pamballis
Producers: Sylvie Pialat (Les films du Worso), Adeline Fontan Tessaur (Elle Driver)

Class A - Brian Durnin (Ireland)
Writer: Cara Loftus
Producer: Laura McNicholas (925 Productions)

Cold as Marble [+lire aussi :
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Writer: Roelof-Jan Minneboo
Producer: Guillaume de Seille (Arizona Productions)

Dogborn [+lire aussi :
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Producers: David Herdies, Farima Karimi, Erik Andersson (Momento Film)

Electric Sleep - Zeynep Dadak (Germany/Turkey)
Producer: Titus Kreyenberg (unafilm), Fenafilm

Kevlar Soul - Maria Eriksson-Hecht (Sweden)
Writer: Pelle Rådström
Producer: Ronny Fritsche (Zentropa Sweden)

Maria's Silence [+lire aussi :
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Producer: Gints Grūbe (Mistrus Media)

Milk Teeth - Mihai Mincan (Romania)
Producers: Ioana Lascar, Radu Stancu (deFilm)

Ninja from Manila - Miko Livelo (Philippines)
Producer: Alemberg Ang (vy/ac Productions)

Soldier - Toni Kamula (Finland)
Producer: Oskari Huttu (Lucy Loves Drama)

Tasty - Eglė Vertelytė (Lithuania)
Producer: Lukas Trimonis (iN SCRiPT)

Forever, Forever [+lire aussi :
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Writers: Anna Buryachkova, Marina Stepanska
Producers: Natalia Libet, Vitaliy Sheremetiev (DGTL RLGN)

Focus on Russia

At the End of the World - Eduard Novikov (Russia)
Writer: Semyon Ermolaev
Producer: Sardana Savvina (Sardaana Films)

The Beilis Case - Andrey Proshkin (Russia)
Writer: Yuri Arabov
Producers: Alexander Vaynsheyn, Archil Gelovani, Marina Naumova (Garpastum Pictures)

The Land Named Sasha - Yulia Trofimova (Russia)
Producer: Katerina Mikhaylova (Vega Film)

The Summer Ends Soon - Yana Skopina (Russia/Kazakhstan)
Producers: Tamara Bogdanova, Yerkezhan Maksut, Anna Katchko (Kinokult)

White Road - Ella Manzheeva (Russia)
Producers: Elena Glikman (Telesto Film), Victoria Lupik (Anniko Films)