CineLink Co-Production Market
This year’s edition of the CineLink Co-Production market presents 17 projects from Southeast Europe, selected from a total of 80 entries from 18 different countries. With an average of 60% of the projects going from development to production, CineLink has grown into one of the most successful development and financing platforms in Europe. CineLink also offers an awards fund of over 160,000 Euros in cash and services.
4 BLOWS
Romania Writer & Director: Peter Kerek Producer: Anca Puiu Production Company: Mandragora Looking for at CineLink: World sales representative and co-producer
At the age of 5, Istvan loses his sister in a car crash. At 9, he tries to emigrate to his father. At 19, he is forced to reveal his true identity at the secret police academy. In the present, in his 30’s, he is reaching the “point zero” of his existence. The film searches for one identity through four events, four periods and four different places.
A BLAST
Greece Writer: Syllas Tzoumerkas & Youla Boudali Director: Syllas Tzoumerkas Producer: Maria Drandaki Production Company: Homemade Films/ Pan Entertainment SA Looking for at CineLink: Co-producers, sales agents, financiers, post-production facilities
Only yesterday Maria was a caring mother, a loving wife, a responsible daughter. Today she is determined to sweep away everything she has ever cared for. Maria’s tragic tale of ascent to redemption is narrated through bits of the present interwoven with fragments of the past, creating a dazzling and devastating mural of contemporary Greece.
CLIMBING THE MOUNTAIN
Hungary/Belgium Writer & Director: Gabriele Dettre Producer: Viktor Huszár & Arash T. Riahi Production Company: HVD Productions, Hungary & Golden Girls, Austria Looking for at CineLink: German and Scandinavian co-producers
John was a successful, satisfied man, until a hill-climbing experience with his friend Vadim. When - still fascinated- he returns to the city and realizes that his life doesn’t have much of a meaning, he decides to stay in his friend’s car. For good! He waits patiently for a while, till changes really start occurring.
COWBOYS
Croatia Writer: Saša Anočić & Tomislav Mršić Director: Tomislav Mršić Producer: Suzana Pandek Production Company: Kabinet Looking for at CineLink: Partner for post-production, international distribution, production services in kind
Eight socially unadjusted people gather in a small town to make a theatre play. Primarily envisioned as a plain western, it slowly becomes a metaphor for their own lives. All the participants start using it to fight their personal demons and realize that they’ve got an opportunity to finish something for the first time in their lives.
FATHER
Germany/Kosovo Writer & Director: Visar Morina Producers: Maximilian Leo, Jonas Katzenstein & Visar Krusha Production Company: augenschein Filmproduktion GmbH & Krusha Films Looking for at CineLink: Co-producers, distributors (cinema & TV), sales agents
Five years after the death of his mother, Nori (10) approaches the hardships of daily life in Kosovo with wit and charm. Then his father decides to go to Germany, leaving him behind with his uncle. Nori follows him, on his own. The reunion in Germany is not a happy end but turns into a story of coming of age at 10.
A GOOD WIFE
Serbia Writer: Mirjana Karanović & Stevan Filipović Director: Stevan Filipović & Mirjana Karanović Producer: Snežana Penev Production Company: This and That Productions Looking for at CineLink: Co-producers, film fund representatives, world sales and broadcasters
Milena (50) is living the middle-class dream until the day everything starts falling apart. She has cancer. Her husband is a war criminal and she has irrefutable proof of it in her hands. What seemed to be a perfect family life shows its horrifying face when a woman who was just another housewife decides to take her life in her own hands.
DUST CLOTH BRIDES
Georgia Writer & Director: Tinatin Kajrishvili Producer: Tinatin Kajrishvili Production Company: Gemini Looking for at CineLink: Co-producer, sales agent
Goga and Nutsa would be a regular couple if it wasn’t for the fact that they got married in prison. After years of physical separation, social pressure, temptations and doubts born inside prison walls they get a chance to spend a night together. Marriage in prison and a one-day honeymoon four years later was not their dream but became their reality.
Turkey Writer & Director: Ahu Öztürk Producer: Nesra Gürbüz & Çiğdem Mater Production Company: Ret Film Looking for at CineLink: Co-producers, funds, sales agents, distributors, TV stations
Two cleaning women; the obliged relationship with the people they work for, the obliged hierarchy within their friendship/sisterhood, the obliged struggle to survive, motherhood, womanhood and poverty. While Nesrin and Hatun travel between poor ghettos of Istanbul and city lights they try to understand life and survive, in their own ways.
LIGNITE
Greece Writer: Effi Gavrilou Director: Gregory Rentis Producer: Maria Tsigka Production Company: Argonauts Productions S.A. Looking for at CineLink: Co-producers and financiers
Teenage Kosmas is forced to accept a job at the mines to take care of his younger brother Panayiotis after their father unexpectedly dies. Faced with an adult world he was not prepared for, Kosmas eventually realizes that to provide for his brother, he first has to assume responsibility of himself, making the hardest decision of his life.
MEN DON’T CRY
Bosnia and Herzegovina Writer & Director: Alen Drljević Producer: Damir Ibrahimović Production Company: Deblokada Looking for at CineLink: Co-producers, distributors
Bosnia and Herzegovina, fifteen years after the war. Eleven men are the only guests at a remote mountain hotel. The group is made up of two trainers and nine participants of an unusual workshop. The men are war veterans, former soldiers of several different armies who fought against each other across former Yugoslavia in the nineties.
PANAMA
Serbia Writer: Pavle Vučković & Jelena Vuksanović Director: Pavle Vučković Producer: Tatjana Žeželj Production Company: Collapse Films Looking for at CineLink: Co-producers
Jovan, architecture student and well-known womanizer, starts dating Maja casually, but soon her mysterious and shady behavior intrigues him and he ends up lost in his own game. In the web of lies, pride, jealousy and passionate sex, Jovan suppresses his own feelings, desperately trying to hold on to the life before Maja.
S.K.
THE MINER
1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Kaminski, a member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination, discovers the corpse of a boy he takes for his son, and decides to carry out an impossible deed: to save the child’s body from the flames and find a rabbi to bury it.
Alija the miner is sent to a dangerous abandoned mine on the Slovenian-Austrian border to dig out whatever was hidden inside after WWII. He finds indications that there might be proof of a horrible political crime. Work is immediately called off, but Alija, remembering his brother who is maybe buried in a similar mine in Srebrenica, keeps on digging.
Hungary Writer: Laszlo Nemes & Clara Royer Director: Laszlo Nemes Producer: Gabor Sipos, Gabor Rajna Production Company: Laokoon Filmgroup Looking for at CineLink: French/German/Israeli co-producers
SOUTH FACING WALL
Turkey Writer & Director: Kutlug Ataman Producer: Kutlug Ataman Production Company: Elvent Kutlug Ataman Looking for at CineLink: Co-producer
Medine prepares for her son Ismail’s circumcision feast. The boy fears his father Ibrahim will sacrifice him if he fails to get a ram to serve. Ibrahim squanders everything whoring, dishonouring Medine. The villagers poke fun. They join the feast. Medine makes them believe they have eaten Ismail, not the ram. When the truth comes out they all learn their lesson.
Slovenia/Bosnia and Herzegovina Writer & Director: Hanna A. W. Slak Producer: Dunja Klemenc, Alem Babić Production Company: Studio Maj, in co-production with Dokument Looking for at CineLink: Co-producer, sales agent
THERE, OUTSIDE
Turkey Writer: Emre Yeksan & Ahmet Büke Director: Emre Yeksan Producer: Özgür Doğan Production Company: Perisan Film Looking for at CineLink: Co-producers, sales agents, distributors, funds.
9-year-old Soner’s circumcision party is organized in the sprawling and poorly maintained central park of the city. The ecstatic guests don’t notice Soner’s fear until the moment when the army interrupts the party looking for terrorists. He flees and they start searching for him all over the park, encountering their own vices, fears and inabilities.
Awards
CineLink Co-Production Market
QUIET PEOPLE
Croatia/France/Serbia Writer & Director: Ognjen Sviličić Producer: Damir Terešak Production Company: Maxima Film in coproduction with KinoElektron & Biberiche Productions Co-producers: Janja Kralj & Nikolina Vučetić Looking for at CineLink: Sales agent, distributors, roadcasters, post production facilities
A boy has been beaten to death and nobody helps. His father decides to take justice in his own hands and finds and beats up the kid responsible for his son’s death, but the revenge doesn’t change anything. There is no consolation. The family has to continue living without their beloved son.
THAT TRIP WE TOOK WITH DAD
Romania/Germany Writer & Director: Anca Miruna Lazarescu Producer: Verona Meier, Daniel Mitulescu Production Company: Razor Film, Strada Film Looking for at CineLink: Distributors, word sales, pre sales
That Trip we took with dad
Summer of 1968: Mihai (27) succeeds in organizing a trip for his father, his younger brother and himself outside Romania. Due to the political turmoil of that CZ "ODB .JSVOB -B[BSFTDV summer, what should have been a relaxing holiday becomes a life changing journey. The three men will encounter chaos, freedom and responsibilities they can’t run away from.
Eurimages Co-Production Development Award – 30,000 EUR CNC CineLink Award – 10,000 EUR Arte International Relations CineLink Award – 6,000 EUR Living Pictures CineLink Award – in kind support up to 10,000 EUR Synchro Film Vienna CineLink Award – in kind support up to 2,500 EUR each to three different projects EAVE Scholarship
Work in Progress
Post Republic Award – in kind post production services, 80.000 EUR Restart Award – in kind support, 20.000 EUR
Jury
CineLink jury
Čedomir Kolar, producer Sanja Ravlić, Eurimages representative Michel Reilhac, ARTE Behrooz Hashemian, producer Georges Goldenstern, Cinéfondation, Cannes Film Festival Annamaria Lodato, ARTE Jacqueline Ada, CNC
Work in Progress jury
Raymond Phathanavirangoon, Hong Kong International Film Festival David Steinberger, Post Republic Marion Klotz, Memento Films International
CineLink Work in Progress
At the Work in Progress sessions, the most promising regional projects currently in post-production are presented. This year, the region covered by Work in Progress has been extended to include the Caucasus Region as well as the North African and Middle Eastern countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea.
Barbarians
Standing Aside, Watching
Luka is a teenager from a town near Belgrade, released from prison on parole. Because of pressure of family issues and his girlfriend being harassed, he causes an incident which turns everybody against him. During protests in Belgrade, he goes looking for his father who was declared missing in Kosovo, but actually lives with another family.
Antigone, a young woman in her 30’s, decides to come back to Th., a small Greek town from which she was absent for a long time. Reigned by the unspoken law of silence, the streets of Th. are quiet, but under the surface violence and discrimination rules. She faces the choice between taking action or just standing aside, watching.
Serbia Writer & Director: Ivan Ikić Producer: Milan Stojanović Production Company: SENSE Production Looking for: partners for picture and/or sound post-production
Greece Writer & Director: Yorgos Servetas Producer: Konstantinos Kontovrakis (Kinestet) & Fenia Cossovitsa (Blonde) Production Company: Blonde Audiovisual Productions Looking for: post-production funds, festivals, sales agents
The Bridge
Viktoria
Đulaga’s death and the obligation to go to his funeral trigger a major reaction in his friend Slavko. He wonders about the potential consequences of going to the funeral. He is torn apart between intimacy and politics, nationalism and friendship. They live on different sides of the town of Mostar which is heavily split into Croatian and Muslim communities.
Unwanted, Viktoria is born with no umbilical cord to connect her to her mother and thus proclaimed “the baby of the decade”. Viktoria becomes a symbol of communist Bulgaria and while growing up, she dominates her environment and is at subconscious war with her mother - the one who didn’t want her.
Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina Writer & Director: Bobo Jelčić Producer: Zdenka Gold Production Company: Spiritus Movement Looking for: additional financing (or in kind support/postproduction facility), world sales agent
Harmony Lessons
Kazakhstan Writer & Director: Emir Baigazin Producer: Anna Katchko Production Company: JSC Kazakhfilm n.a. Shaken Aimanov Looking for: partner for post-production (color correction, sound edit & mix in Europe), sales agent
Aslan, a 13-year-old student at a high crime rate village school in Kazakhstan, developed an obsessive personality disorder as a consequence of a public humiliation. The dirty criminal world of the school conflicts drastically with Aslan’s perfectionism. As a result he decides to kill Bolat, a kid part of the established power system in the school and the one guilty for his humiliation.
Bulgaria/Romania Writer & Director: Maya Vitkova Producer: Maya Vitkova, Anca Puiu Production Company: Viktoria Films (BG), Mandragora (RO) Looking for: world sales company, partners and financiers, postproduction company - VFX (CGI)
White Shadow
Israel/Germany Writers: Noaz Deshe & James Masson Director: Noaz Deshe Producer: Noaz Deshe & Ginevra Elkann Production Company: Shadoworks Looking for: technical support for VFX, animation sequences, sound mixing and color grading
WHITE SHADOW is the story of Alias (14), an albino boy on the run. After witnessing his father’s murder, his being sent by his mother to the city where he will grow up fast in a ruthless world and transform from victim to a man with his own destiny.
18th Sarajevo Film Festival and Screen International present
4th Regional forum on the state of the film industry in Southeast Europe
the annual conference for the film industry in Southeast Europe
Thursday 12th-Friday 13th July, Hotel Europe, Sarajevo
- over 100 professionals from 15 different countries in
the region expected; - both public and private sector represented; - burning issues such as online platforms, new developments in distribution, production financing, copyright issues, collecting societies, tax breaks; - public policies to be shaped up and advocated for; - a lot of networking to be done! Speakers include: Eric Garandeau, President, CNC Michel Reihlac, Executive Director of Arte France Cinéma Mike Goodridge, Editor, Screen International Aida Begić, Director of Children of Sarajevo Roberto Olla, Executive Director, Eurimages Mathilde Henrot, Programmer, Festival Scope Jonathan Olsberg, Consultant, Olsberg SPI Thomas Ruettgers, Managing Director, DCINEX Helmut Koszuszeck, Head of Legal and Business Affairs, AGICOA Pjer Žalica, Film Director, Association of Filmmakers in Bosnia and Herzegovina Hido Biščević, Secretary General, Regional Cooperation Council
To register contact us on regionalforum@sff.ba For more information, visit the Industry section on www.sff.ba
Looking back on CineLink’s first 10 years Interview with Amra Bakšić Čamo, Head of CineLink, and Jovan Marjanović, Head of Industry What was the state of Southeast European film when CineLink started? JM: At this time the previous system had collapsed and there weren’t too many films made here. The defining film of the era, No man’s land by Danis Tanovic, had received an Oscar the year before, but it was produced outside of the region. But all of a sudden there was talk of a film fund here in Bosnia and how the country should start to support film. The whole region was going through a transition to market economy, and other countries also started opening up, supporting independent producers and making films.
other. That’s a key thing. It’s a 360 degrees approach, which creates a pool of talent and opens professional possibilities for them too. We have people who basically went through all these points and I think we have managed to contribute to rejuvenating the film scene in the region. I think that is one of the key successes.
ABC: When we were pitching CineLink in the beginning we could mention the Oscar and a few other things, but basically we had nothing to pitch. Then Grbavica happened, 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days happened, and suddenly it was all different. Suddenly people were aware and on the lookout for Southeast European filmmakers.
ABC: A difference between CineLink and other co-production markets is the workshop. But it’s extremely important for us too, because through this and the other industry sections we quickly learn what is going on and adapt our programme according to that. A couple of years ago, we had a successful market and we already had a huge number of films that went into production after the market. We could have decided to stick to that model and just continue to select good projects. But every year we rethink and renew the programme. I can’t mark our important steps in a timeline; all the changes we have made, such as introducing Work in Progress, have grown organically. It has always been about being contemporary, at the right time at the right place.
So why did this film wave happen?
What is the next thing? Will this film wave go on?
ABC: It had to happen. There were so many stories to tell. The generation we are talking about now is one that has witnessed so many changes. If you look at for example Romania and Bosnia, different things happened, but there were big changes. And I think it was impossible to do it immediately after the changes - you needed a period of reflection.
How has the role of the producer developed during this decade in Southeast Europe? JM: Back then there were almost no films produced in a European co-production environment. The producers were only starting to get into the role of independent producers working in a patchwork financing situation, needing to present and pitch their projects to various partners and funds. They were used to an old system where there were people who signed off cheques in state owned studios. This was not just former Yugoslavia but all countries with a socialist past and this was one of the reasons that we decided to set up the workshops. The whole idea of presenting your script and ideas to others and talking openly about what you were doing, what is common in today’s business, was not common then. ABC: Now it’s unimaginable to think of Balkan film without producers, also if you think of names and faces, but in 2002 there were none, just directors and the tradition of auteur cinema. The emergence of the modern producer is a European thing, but for us it was more than that.
What is special about CineLink? JM: The whole setting of the festival and the platform it provides: the connection to the Competition programme on one side and Sarajevo Talent Campus on the
ABC: We can’t start from scratch and be new once more. Now the big task is to be a mature industry and to constantly have good films coming. We can not surprise anymore with a Romanian film or a Bosnian film. Nobody is surprised to see a good film from Serbia. Now they expect it! JM: We need to concentrate on what we are good at: strong filmmakers, strong auteur cinema. For CineLink I think the next step is strengthening the market, and building an integrated regional audiovisual market, for distribution, exhibition and financing. We want to see more distributors at our tables, we want to be a platform for the business as a whole. The distributors are small and there are no serious launches of the films. We need stronger business models, to bring in money from the market into the regional films.
Looking back, what are you most proud of? ABC: From the beginning we realized that our task was to help create an industry. We have offered a place and a platform and now there is a generation of regional producers who actually feel that they belong to something and somewhere and that they can share their experiences with someone else. For me, that is the most important part of the whole idea of CineLink and the festival Competition programme. And for the younger generation I think that will change a lot. JM: One of the goals we set for ourselves was to become a catalyst for film business in the region. And when you think about the whole film wave coming from the Balkans in the past 10 years, each one of these films, or a director or a producer, had something to do with something that Sarajevo Film Festival or CineLink did.
Andreas Teich ©, Berlinale 2010
“Our project was born in Romania, but it grew up in Sarajevo.” - Florin Serban, director of If I want to whistle, I whistle, winner of the Jury Grand Prix - Silver Bear at Berlin Film Festival 2010
A trip down memory lane
“CineLink was absolutely crucial for us.” - Labina Mitevska, Macedonia, producer of The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears - at CineLink 2008 and now in competition at Sarajevo Film Festival 2012
Richard Hübner ©, Berlinale 2010
“I would like to thank CineLink for its contribution in realizing Bal, both in script development and in finding partners for our film. CineLink played a pivotal role in presenting the project in the international arena. The heart of Sarajevo will go on beating through Bal.” - Semih Kaplanoğlu, Turkey, director of Bal (Honey), winner of the Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival 2010
”We’re running a marathon here” Interview with Mirsad Purivatra, Director, Sarajevo Film Festival What was your original vision for the Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry section and for the part the festival would play in the region? We wanted to bring the region closer together to start with, so commencing CineLink and the Competition programme was our first step in that direction. This really profiled the festival and attracted the international film industry, which created a solid ground for further development. Later, together with Berlinale, we started the Sarajevo Talent Campus, an annual educational platform for about 60 emerging directors, producers, scriptwriters and actors from all over the region, offering seven days of lectures, workshops and networking with the most prominent filmmakers and film professionals. To complement this and provide the participants with hands-on experience we also established a short film production scheme called Sarajevo City of Film, which already resulted in over 20 shorts, that keep on successfully circulating the international festival circuit.
If you look back at the Competition and Cinelink the past decade, which are your best memories?
There are many good memories, but being able to discover exceptional talent at an early stage, say from a script or a short film, and help their films get made and launched, is a fantastic feeling.
What is the relation between the Sarajevo Film Festival and the development of Southeast European film the past decade? We decided to be an international film festival with a special focus on the region of Southeast Europe and that proved to be the right choice as we were blessed by a remarkable flourish of talent in the region that corresponded with our efforts. Nowadays cinemas from Southeast Europe like Romanian, Turkish, Bosnian, Hungarian or Slovenian cinema to name only a few, offer a great variety of films, with diverse stories, told in distinctive styles for us to choose from and present to our audience. I guess what I’m saying is that it has been a reciprocal relationship and I hope it will continue being such.
What is your plan and vision for the next decade?
We recognize so much potential here. There is a market in this region for 150 million inhabitants, from Turkey to Austria. It is a market that is not yet integrated, but where we have so many possibilities to work together towards a common goal: to have more films, better films, more funds, more distribution, more audiences that enjoy more, not only in festivals, but also in cinemas and at home. Sarajevo Film Festival wants to help strengthening this market.
The festival is also an important local audience event – how do you think this will develop in the future?
While film distributors faced closings of the cinemas and drops in admissions and box-office revenues, film festivals around the region grew almost to replace the theatrical release window for many films and over the past 15 years festivals played a vital role in catering for the growing audiences of what we call art-house films. Some festivals took things a step further and became industry relevant platforms for development, financing, promotion and distribution of audiovisual works, as we did. Today, we are a versatile and potentially vertically integrated player, a festival–distributor-exhibitor, and our brand is a major audience puller for art-house films. The real opportunity lies in diversifying the activities and with prospects brought by digital cinema maximizing the audiences across the region, year round and not only during the festival events.
Where do you hope to be at CineLink’s and the Competition’s 20th anniversary?
We know we’re running a marathon here, but this is about long term goals. The fact that eight national film funds from Southeast Europe join forces and successfully organize a joint umbrella pavilion at the Cannes Film Market every year is an encouraging one, as it means we can act jointly and build sustainable partnerships. It means we showed mutual respect, it means we can create a good atmosphere in our countries, in our region, and we hope that in the future we can be as recognizable and respected as Scandinavia is today. That is what we think is a good example of how we can improve the quality of our film business.
The Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry platform offers activities for people from all spheres of the business and for film makers in all stages of their career. Apart from CineLink, Regional Forum and Rough Cut Boutique, it also includes the following sections.
Sarajevo Talent Campus
The educational and networking platform for emerging filmmakers from Southeast Europe, launched in 2007 in collaboration with the Berlinale Talent Campus, offers an intensive programme of lectures, workshops, discussions, and screenings dedicated to young talented directors, actors, producers, and screenwriters. For more information, please contact us at talent-campus@sff.ba.
Sarajevo City of Film
Sarajevo City of Film is a fund supporting the realization of short micro-budget films by young film makers from Southeast Europe who have participated in the two previous editions of Sarajevo Talent Campus. The aim is to support and promote the new young film scene in the region, and to create a link between training, networking and the film industry. For more information, please contact us on sarajevocityoffilm@sff.ba.
Minimarket
A platform designed for promotion of short films featured at the festival, aiming to enhance their circulation internationally. Minimarket brings short film makers together with prominent European short film festival programmers and professionals active in sales and distribution of short films. To see what Minimarket can do for your short film, email minimarket@sff.ba.
Operation Kino
Every year, as part of our MEDIA Mundus supported project Operation Kino, the Sarajevo Film Festival together with the Transylvania International Film Festival, the Sofia International Film Festival and the Istanbul International Film Festival select about 15 feature films each and take on a tour to the cinematically, politically and socially most deprived parts of our regions. In addition, in cooperation with Reelport’s Europe’s Finest, a number of the titles are offered worldwide on the Operation Kino VOD platform, as well as to digital cinemas across the world. www.operationkino.com
Rough Cut Boutique
Run in collaboration with the Balkan Documentary Centre, the Rough Cut Boutique workshop puts together filmmakers of five selected documentary projects at a rough cut stage with top international documentary experts for six intensive editing sessions of their films. One of the projects gets the chance to pitch at the Work in Progress sessions.
AIN’T NO CINDERELLAS!
Turkey Writer, Director & Producer: Emel Çelebi Production Company: ZeZe Film AIN’T NO CINDERELLAS! follows the establishing of the IMECE Women’s Union in Esenyurt, one of the biggest suburbs of Istanbul where immigrants from Anatolia are settled down. The film will enter the lives of the disorganized domestic women workers, the victims of a patriarchal capitalist system, and testify of their struggle for their fundamental rights.
NAKED / BASIL IN THE STONE
Croatia Writer & Director: Tiha K. Gudac Producer: Nenad Puhovski Production Company: Factum Recently I discovered my grandpa was at “Naked Island”, a labor camp formed in Yugoslavia during peacetime. Like thousands of his fellow inmates, upon his return, grandpa feared saying a word about it, not even to his own family. The film follows my investigation into our past, and into a disturbing, violent and forbidden part of our homeland’s history.
TOTONEL
Romania Writer & Director: Alexander Nanau Producer: Marcian Lazar Production Company: Strada Film TOTONEL is a family story told from the perspective of children. The film follows Totonel, a ten-year-old boy living in Bucharest’s toughest ghetto with his two older sisters. As they wait for their mother to return from jail after five years, Totonel discovers that he wants a different life than his family can offer.
I’M LOOKING FOR A BRIDE
Macedonia Writer & Director: Marija Džidževa Producers: Vladimir Stojčevski, Goran Stojiljković Production company: Award Film & Video This is a film about the life of Todor Trajanovski and his search for a bride. Together with seven single brave men he goes on a trip to Russia, all of them in hope of meeting their soulmates. Finally, he finds Regina, a wife for himself. What kind of magic is that? Can Regina, a woman from a city of half a million people move to live in a village with 50 houses? Do we still believe in love?
THE SECOND BEST
Bulgaria Directors: Vesela Kazakova & Mina Mileva Producers: Vesala Kazakova & Mina Mileva Production Company: Activist 38 A portrait of a man who made most of the significant animated films in Bulgaria for decades, in the shadow of their official director. While the director travelled the world receiving awards and glory, our hero was not allowed to travel. Dressed in humour, this film takes us back to the 70’s and explores, alongside the craft of animation, the politics of how these films were really made.
Rough Cut Boutique awards
FIFHD, Geneva cash award for the best project dealing with human rights issues, 1.500 EUR One project will get selected to pich at the Work in Progress sessions and compete for their awards
France - Partner Country 2012 This year we are happy to team up with one of Europe’s greatest countries for filmmaking to bring together people from our respective industries. In collaboration with the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’image animée and the Embassy of France in Sarajevo, we’re bringing a strong delegation of French professionals from all spheres of the film business to CineLink. The French delegation will be presented to all the participants, the French support system will be discussed and the possibilities of co-producing with France explained in detail. In addition, the French delegation members, many of whom are already CineLink regulars, will also be busy participating in meetings at the co-production market, taking a first look at the most promising films in shooting, or in post, in the Work in Progress section, or catching international and world premieres of films from the region in the Festivals’ Competition Programme. The CineLink Partner Country Initiative has been running for a decade now, systematically strengthening the working relationship between profession-
als and institutions from this part of the world and their international counterparts. The Partner Country Initiative has led to many co-productions and an enhanced circulation of film works between the participating countries. Previous partner countries: 2011 Switzerland 2010 Israel 2009 Sweden 2008 Ireland 2007 Cine Regio 2006 The Netherlands 2005 Germany 2004 Austria
CineLink Programme Thursday, 12.07.2012. MEETING ROOM
10.00 - 13.00 One on One Meetings 15.00 - 18.00 One on One Meetings
SCREENING ROOM
Friday, 13.07.2012. TERRACE
09.30 – 10.30 CineLink Networking Breakfast Hosted by ACE and EAVE BY INVITATION ONLY
10.30 - 12.00 ACE Interview
BY INVITATION ONLY
Producer and Head of CineLink Amra Bakšić Čamo in conversation with Čedomir Kolar Hosted by ACE
Cinema Meeting Point
MEETING ROOM
15.00 - 18.00 Work in Progress
9.30 - 11.30 What is new in digital cinema?
Presentation by Thomas Ruettgers, DCINEX; Igor Rahelić, DCINEX; Tony Dilley, Harkness
CONFERENCE HALL
9.30 - 10.15 The World Cinema Support – New possibilities for co-producing with France Presentation by Michel Plazanet, Deputy Director, Directorate of European and International Affairs, CNC
12.00 - 13.00 Case study: Co-producing Children of Sarajevo by Aida Begić (BA/FR/DE/TR)
Panel discussion moderated by Sonja Heinen, Head of the Berlinale Co-production Market Speakers include: Aida Begić, director, producer Filmhouse; Francois d’Artemare, co-producer, Les Films de l’Apres-Midi; Adis Djapo, producer
15.00 - 16.00 Toward an integrated regional audio-visual market in Southeast Europe
Panel discussion moderated by Katriel Shory, Executive Director of the Israeli Film Fund Speakers include: Jovan Marjanović, Head of Industry, Sarajevo Film Festival; Snežana Marić, producer, Refresh Production; Sanja Ravlić, Head of Development, Croatian Audiovisual Centre; Danijel Hočevar, producer, Emotion Film Concluding remarks from: Hido Biščević, Secretary General, Regional Cooperation Council; Jon Ivanovski, Ambassador, Macedonian Chairmanship in Office of the South East European Cooperation Process; Mirsad Purivatra, Director, Sarajevo Film Festival
16.15 - 17.00 Comeback of service productions in Croatia and Serbia
Panel discussion moderated by Snežana Marić, producer, Refresh Production Speakers include: Tanja Aćimović, Responsible for Filming in Croatia scheme, Croatian Audiovisual Center; Andjelka Vlaisavljević, producer, Work in Progress; Erika Milutin, producer, Embassy Film; Anila Gajević, Zona Casting Agency
17.15 - 18.00 On-line platforms for development, financing and promotion of films – what are the industry’s needs?
Keynote by Michel Reihlac, Executive Director of Arte France Cinema Panel discussion moderated by Mike Goodridge, Editor, Screen International Speakers include: Tobias Pausinger, consultant, CineMart; Darko Lungulov, film director, Rocket Hub; Mathilde Henrot, programmer, Festival Scope
Restaurant LOVAC
10.00 - 13.00 One on One Meetings 15.00 - 18.00 One on One Meetings
SCREENING ROOM
10.00 - 13.00 Work in Progress BY INVITATION ONLY
MEZZANINE HALL
12.00 – 13.00 Sarajevo Talent Campus Pack & Pitch Pitching Session moderated by Gabriele Brunnenmeyer
CONFERENCE HALL
9.30 - 11.00 Collecting societies in Southeast Europe – how to ensure successful remuneration?
Panel discussion moderated by Mirza Hajrić, Head of Legal department, AMUS Speakers include: Helmut Koszuszeck, Head of Legal and Business affairs, AGICOA; Antonije Nuić, Chairman, Croatian Society of Film Directors; Pjer Žalica, film director, Association of Filmmakers in Bosnia and Herzegovina; more speakers TBC
12.00 – 13.00 Reforming the Convention on European co-production Keynote by Roberto Olla, Executive Director, Eurimages, followed by a presentation by Jonathan Olsberg, consultant, Olsberg SPI
15.00 - 16.00 Creating a new support scheme for distribution of European films in developing markets – the distributors’ perspective
Panel discussion moderated by Mike Goodridge, Editor, Screen International Speakers include: Igor Stanković, distributor, MCF Megacom; Amer Bećirbegović, distributor Art Servis; Denis Borić, distributor, Continental Film; Anamaria Dorotić, Head of Content Aquistion Managment and Promotion, Croatian Telecom; Jasmin Duraković, producer Depo
16.30 – 17.45 Public policy for vitality of cinema – a presentation of the cinema support system in France A presentation by Eric Garandeau, President, CNC
17.45 – 18.00 The challenge of rebuilding an industry – a brief on the state of the audiovisual sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Speakers include: Jovan Marjanović, Member of the board, Film Fund Sarajevo; Vedran Padalović , Senior Expert Associate, Ministry of Education and Culture of Republic of Srpska; Zoran Galić, producer, VizArt Film
13.00 - 15.00 Romanian Lunch
Restaurant Lovac
TERRACE
Hosted by MDM Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung, Medienboard BerlinBrandenburg, Film Fund Hamburg, Film Festival Cottbus, Connecting Cottbus BY INVITATION ONLY
BY INVITATION ONLY
23.00 CineLink & Competition Programme 10th Anniversary Party BY INVITATION ONLY
BKC FESTIVAL CENTRE – VIDEO BAR 9.00 – 19.00
13.00 - 15.00 CineLink German Lunch with Bosnian BBQ
Festival Square Terrace 18.30 – 19.30 French Cocktail
Hosted by CNC, Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée on the occasion of the France CineLink Partner Country Initiative BY INVITATION ONLY
BKC FESTIVAL CENTRE – VIDEO BAR 9.00 – 19.00
Saturday, 14.07.2012. MEETING ROOM
10.00 - 13.00 One on One Meetings
NATIONAL THEATRE
20.00 Awards Ceremony
A special thank you to our partners
CineLink goes green!
Starting this year, the Project Books and Who’s who are only available in digital form. Scan the QR code or download them from the CineLink page on www.sff.ba.
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CineLink Team
Jovan Marjanović, Head of Industry; Amra Bakšić Čamo, Head of CineLink; Tina Šmalcelj, CineLink Coordinator; Åsa Garnert, CineLink PR; Maegene Fabias, Meetings Coordinator; Ena Đozo, Industry Manager and Regional Forum Coordinator; Tobias Pausinger, Work in Progress Consultant; Alex Traila, Work in Progress Coordinator; Tina Hajon, CineLink Line Producer; Armin Hadžić, CineLink Assistant; Snežana Marić, Matchmaker and State of the Region Editor; Ellena Giuffrida, Matchmaker; Nedjeljka Mojaš, CineLink Hospitality Manager; Jadranka Ćuzulan, CineLink Hospitality and Video Bar Coordinator