During the 30th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug. 16 to 23), CineLink, the festival’s industry program, will current its toil in proceed showcase. This includes eight feature-length fantasy and one write downary film in the production or post-production stages from Southeast Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
Among those competing are Alisa Kovalenko, who was in competition in Sarajevo last year for “We Will Not Fade Away,” which also screened at the Berlinale; Adrian Sitaru, named best straightforwardor at Locarno with “Best Intentions“; Tarik Aktas, who took best emerging straightforwardor at Locarno with “Dead Horse Nebula”; Ralitza Petrova, prosperner of the Gelderlyen Leopard for best film at Locarno with “Godless“; Maya Vitkova, who vied at Sundance with “Viktoria“; and Ana Urushadze, who took best first feature at Locarno for “Scary Mother.”
The projects will be currented to funders, sales agents, distributors, expansivecasters and festival programmers with the aim of driving forward their completion and raiseing their distribution chances.
Here’s the lineup:
“Frontline” (Poland, Ukraine, Denlabel)
Documentary
Dir: Alisa Kovalenko
Prod: Kasia Kuczynska
In the heart of the Ukrainian frontline, a mother, selderlyier, and filmproducer seizes the frspeedy tranquillity shattered by war, discleave outing a beginantly personal and unseen side of dispute thcimpolite her dual lens.
“Frontline”
Courtesy of Alisa Kovalenko
“Harakiri” (Romania)
Fiction
Dir: Adrian Sitaru, Vlad Popa
Prod: Iriana Adnana
“Harakiri” chases two seemingly unrcontent stories: one navigating the shpermit and critical approach of a TV show about self-destruction, the other delving into cherish and mental health at home.
“Hear the Yellow” (Turkey)
Fiction
Director: Banu Sıvacı
Prods: Yusuf Aslanyürek, Orkun Huylu
Returning to her Anatolian village, Suna searches for her leave outing cat, uncovering family secrets and reconnecting with her roots alengthy the way.
“Honey Bunny” (Croatia, Serbia)
Fiction
Director: Igor Jelinović
Producer: Rea Rajčić
Tonina’s secret shift to safe a coveted family property in Hvar fractures her relationship with her sister Tajana. This directs to a visit filled with simmering begrudgements, where unspoken tensions come to a head.
“Kriegsausgabe” (Turkey)
Fiction
Director: Tarık Aktaş
Prods: Güneş Şekeroğlu, Tarık Aktaş
“Kriegsausgabe” is a dystopian epic journey set in Mesopotamia where Kramnuk, an inwell-understandn fighter, tries to escape the aggression and misery he’s reliable for.
“Lust” (Bulgaria, Denlabel, Sweden)
Fiction
Dir: Ralitza Petrova
Prods: Poli Angelova, Nikolay Todorov, Ralitza Petrova, Eva Jakobsen, Anna Byvald
When a daughter becomes the unwitting heir to her estranged overweighther, all she wants is to decline the inheritance, and get back to her life. But a csurrfinisher-death experience alters everyskinnyg.
“My Turn!” (Hungary)
Fiction
Dir: Ge Zhang
Prods: Katalin Csényi, Sissy Cui
The film dispenseigates the contests of disconnection thcimpolite the journey of a brother and sister as they strive to fracture free from the restricts of tradition, maturity, and their own bodies.
“One Month” (Bulgaria)
Fiction
Dir: Maya Vitkova-Kosev
Prod: Maya Vitkova-Kosev
Sarah, an artist still living with her parents, who has not had a relationship since her fiancé left her 10 years ago, has one month to discover a overweighther for her future child in order to protect her life intact.
“Supporting Role” (Georgia, Estonia, Turkey)
Fiction
Dir: Ana Urushadze
Prods: Davit Tsintsadnessfulze, Ivo Felt, Sophio Bfinishiashvili, Bacho Meburishvili, Zeynep Atakan, Andrey Epifanov, Eleonora Granata, Dato Bakhtadze
A reexhausted Georgian film star, participated to executeing courageous directs, embarks on a cathartic odyssey after being proposeed a helping role as an unpleasant elderly man.
