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Table of Contents 04 Welcome to Talents Sarajevo 2019 08 Talents International 10

Talents Sarajevo Programme

14 Acting Studio 16 Camera Studio 17 Directors Summit 20 Editing Studio 22 Pack&Pitch 24 Producers Summit 26 Script Station 28 Talent Press 30 Mentors 33 Experts, Panellists, and Moderators 42 Talents Sarajevo Team

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Talents Sarajevo 2019 Innocence Un/Protected The notion of “innocence” is complex, as it thoroughly permeates the sphere of arts and culture. It is found in the oldest myths and in contemporary media spectacles, intertwined with a variety of images, meanings and values. Usually, it is conceived of as a state that should be cherished and rescued from its horrifying antithesis: some form of corruption. And yet, this simplistic conception conceals a paradox: there is nothing innocent about innocence. Rather than being merely a state that precedes corruption, the idea of innocence is often a socially imposed notion that masks the fact that the blissful harmony it signifies never actually existed. Cinema has often tackled the profound ambiguity of innocence. This year’s Talents Sarajevo theme borrows its title from Dušan Makavejev’s INNOCENCE UNPROTECTED, a documentary about the first Serbian talking picture of the same title, which was made in 1942 while the nation was under occupation. In the original film, a lovely young woman represents the titular innocence that requires protection. Makavejev challenges this notion of innocence, and reframes it in a stark social and historical context: Who was innocent in World War II? Is it possible to be innocent in such catastrophic circumstances? The director also challenges the (oft-presumed) innocence of the arts in general, and of cinema in particular. This year, Talents Sarajevo explores the relationship between innocence and cinema today. The professional development of young filmmakers is often framed in terms of an “end of innocence”: they are to leave the world of youthful fascination for cinema to enter the pragmatic, cruel world of “the industry”. Are these young film professionals truly innocents who require protection? And what of the notion that the very act of artistic creation is inherently innocent? Ideas and “inspiration” are often portrayed as organic and pure, only to be compromised and twisted under allegedly non-artistic influences. In another contradiction, innocence is often associated with ignorance: the less we know, the more innocent we are. Talents Sarajevo is at the centre of this conundrum: we offer a sheltered space, a sort of protection for young talents, and at the same time offer knowledge that can be seen as an end to innocence. We welcome you – the newest crop of Talents – to join us in this paradoxical, intriguing and promising adventure.

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Welcome to Sarajevo! The silver jubilee of the Sarajevo Film Festival coincides with a less formidable anniversary – the 13th edition of Talents Sarajevo. Far from being superstitious, we believe that the tragic facts of life – the roots of all superstition – are inevitible, but can also pave the way for creativity and optimism. Cinema is one of the most wondrous and complex of tools to confront loss and trauma of every kind. One such loss was the death of Dušan Makavejev, a dear friend of the Sarajevo Film Festival and Talents Sarajevo, earlier this year. Beyond grief and mourning, however, his passing inspired us to give this titan of world cinema his due respect, by re-discovering and re-appropriating his wonderful INNOCENCE UNPROTECTED (1969), its title offering the thought-provoking thematic framework for Talents Sarajevo 2019. As constant reinvention is Talents Sarajevo’s sine qua non, we are especially proud to introduce a new segment of the programme, aiming to offer our participants more time and space to present themselves to their peers. Talent PuLsE is an ongoing daily forum, which gives Talents the opportunity to divulge their new projects or share their creative interests and critical thoughts on any given subject. Talent PuLsE is also the place for networking with your peers and possible future collaborators, who might otherwise be separated by the boundaries of their respective Talents studios, summits, and labs. As for our other activities this year, there are too many to try to sketch them out here. They are detailed in the pages that follow, and we cannot wait to infuse them with good energy and make Talents Sarajevo into six unforgettable days in August for all of us. Our friends at the Sarajevo Film Festival, Berlinale Talents, and the Academy of Performing Arts are ready and waiting, so please – come and join us! Nebojša Jovanović, Programme Manager Dina Ćerić, Project Coordinator Amila Čirkinagić, Programme Manager Assistant

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Berlinale Talents Welcome to Talents Sarajevo, held this year within the framework of a very special jubilee edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, this festival has proven the perfect launch pad, a vibrant playground – and definitely the best dancefloor – for many, many emerging and established filmmakers from Southeast Europe. Now, with the 13th Talents Sarajevo ahead, we are happy once again to be part of this capital encounter and joint adventure. To call ourselves a member of the Sarajevo family, with all our lovely colleagues on the team, and of course the more than seven hundred Talents Sarajevo alumni in the community, makes us very proud. Speaking of family, we look forward to meeting all of you in the coming days, and cannot wait to get to know more about your work, ideas, and of course yourselves in person. The programme is once again as diverse as you, and we hope that you will benefit greatly from the sheltered space for inspiration and collaboration that Talents Sarajevo provides. Despite all the wonderful guests coming to the sessions from near and far, the real stars are – and always will be – you. We hope to stay in touch in the future, and should you consider joining us for Berlinale Talents 2020 in Berlin, applications are still open at berlinaletalents.de until 2 September 2019. Several of our Berlinale colleagues are attending this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival and Cinelink Industry Days – please do not hesitate to speak with us if you have questions or would like to show us your new film. Florian Weghorn, Berlinale Talents Programme Manager Christine Tröstrum, Berlinale Talents Project Manager

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The Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo Since its beginnings twenty-five years ago, the Sarajevo Film Festival has been closely and actively supported by the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo throughout its development into the most prestigious and important film event in the region. The relationship between the institutions has always been one of interdependence. Indeed, for many filmmakers in Sarajevo, the Academy and the Festival are two faces of the same identity. Nothing exemplifies the intricate nature of this bond as well as the partnership between the Academy and Talents Sarajevo, which has been in place since the latter’s inception in 2007. Once more this year, the Academy happily stands by the Festival’s most vigorous and talented bunch. We generously host a new generation of Talents on our premises, particularly on the Open Stage Obala, the central venue for the programme’s activities. Many of the Academy’s teaching faculty are among the architects of Talents Sarajevo, while many Academy students are members of the Talents staff. And how could it be otherwise? Since its foundation in 1981, the Academy has been a safe place and a supportive, enticing environment for many talented people with a penchant for the cinema and theatre. Some of them have brought international acclaim to our small city. During the Bosnian War, the Academy and its professors were involved in some of the most creative work – staging, among other events, the first Sarajevo Film Festival and the MESS International Theatre Festival, as well as producing a number of films and plays. Some of the names that have most profoundly shaped Bosnian and regional cinema were Academy students during those bleakest of times – a clear example that true talent cannot be contained under even the harshest of conditions. It is therefore a joy for us to spend the vibrant festival days with the participants of Talents Sarajevo, and to provide these up-and-coming filmmakers and their mentors with a platform and a space where they can create, collaborate, network, and be inspired. A warm welcome to you all, Pjer Žalica, Dean, Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo

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The Talents programme was launched at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2003 as the Berlinale Talent Campus â&#x20AC;&#x201C; now Berlinale Talents. Soon after, the platform was expanded internationally. In addition to Talents Sarajevo, founded in 2007, Talents International initiatives have been established in Argentina (Talents Buenos Aires), Brazil (Talent Press Rio), Japan (Talents Tokyo), Lebanon (Talents Beirut), Mexico (Talents Guadalajara), and South Africa (Talents Durban). Each of these platforms retains the familiar structure and purpose of their German counterpart, while providing a regional perspective and relying on the support and infrastructure of their home festivals and partners. With more than eight thousand alumni in the community, the Talents International initiatives continuously help to connect film professionals around the globe, and share a passion for sustainable film development and cultural exchange across borders and barriers.

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Talents Sarajevo at a Glance Alongside the individual studio schedules, Talents Sarajevo presents a number of sessions, master classes, panels, and screenings that all Talents are expected to attend. Come with your peers to explore various aspects of the art of filmmaking with some of the major players in today’s film industry. OPENING SESSION: PRODUCTION DESIGN AND NARRATIVE DISCIPLINE The thirteenth edition of Talents Sarajevo is inaugurated by celebrated production designer Eugenio Caballero, whose work with directors including J.A. Bayona, Sebastián Cordero, Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro, Jim Jarmusch, and Baz Luhrmann has brought him accolades including an Academy Award, an Ariel Award, and an Art Directors’ Guild Award (for del Toro’s PAN’S LABYRINTH); Goya, Gaudí, Fenix, and Platino Awards (for Bayona’s A MONSTER CALLS); and an Ariel Award and Oscar, BAFTA, and ADG nominations (for Cuarón’s ROMA). He also designed the opening ceremony of the 2014 Paralympics in Sochi, Russia, and collaborated on the Cirque de Soleil show LUZIA. In this opening session, Caballero discusses his creative process and approach to production design, illustrated with examples from his wide body of work. ICEBREAKER It’s all Talents all the time! Meet your fellow Talents, the Talents Sarajevo team, this year’s mentors, alumni of the Talents International programme, and representatives from Berlinale Talents. We’ll get to know each other and provide an overview of the week to come. TALENT PuLsE Talent PuLsE is an ongoing forum where Talents can present their work to their peers, and share their preoccupations, plans, and interests. Tell us more about the project you are developing right now, or share your thoughts about the film you saw the other day – take your pick! Part playground, part fair, and part chat room, this is a space for networking across the boundaries of professionally defined summits, studios, and labs. In the final PuLsE session, Berlinale Talents Programme Manager Florian Weghorn outlines the opportunities that await Talents who apply to attend the counterpart platform at the Berlin International Film Festival, as well as the benefits of being part of the international Talents network. WRAP UP We close Talents Sarajevo as we began: all together. Perhaps a little weary, but loaded up with new knowledge, and now full-fledged Talents alumni. We’ll ask for your feedback on your experiences over the past week to capture your input and insight; then, some casual time to catch up with peers, wish everyone well, catch a final screening – and hit the closing night festivities. MASTER CLASSES BÉLA TARR: BEYOND FILMMAKING When Béla Tarr announced in 2011 that THE TURIN HORSE would be his final feature, the cinema world met the words with disbelief and sadness – would one of the most honest and profound voices of cinema really stop making films!? However, Tarr’s subsequent activities have shown that while he may have given up on working with one art form, he remains creative and busy nevertheless. Alongside his return to the Sarajevo Film Festival with his recently digitised magnum opus SÁTÁNTÁNGO, Tarr gives a master class about his opulent and unstoppable cinematic experiences: from filmmaking to education to combining film with other art forms.

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IN CONVERSATION WITH GAEL GARCÍA BERNAL Gael García Bernal won international acclaim with a string of prominent roles in a number of cult films, including Pedro Almodóvar’s BAD EDUCATION, Alfonso Cuarón’s Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN, Walter Salles’s THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, and Pablo Larraín’s NERUDA. At the Festival, García Bernal presents his feature CHICUAROTES, which had its premiere at the Festival de Cannes this year. The Festival also presents IT MUST BE HEAVEN, the latest film by Elia Suleiman, in which García Bernal plays one of the main roles. IN CONVERSATION WITH ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ IÑÁRRITU Five-time Academy Award-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu – winner of the 2019 Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award and the first Latin American filmmaker in history to be nominated for either the best director or the best producer Oscar, and the first to win the Best Director Award – shares his rich experience and broad knowledge with Talents, festival-goers, and media representatives. Moderated by Mike Goodridge, a Sarajevo habitué and the artistic director of the International Film Festival & Awards Macao. IN CONVERSATION WITH NADAV LAPID Nadav Lapid visits the 25th Sarajevo Film Festival not only with this year’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner SYNONYMS, but also with a selection of his student films, which will be screened to celebrate thirty years of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, Jerusalem. In conversation with Berlinale Talents Programme Manager Florian Weghorn, Lapid will address the constants and shifts in his work, from his student shorts to his feature films, and reveal why he enjoys creating short-form work. IN CONVERSATION WITH PAWEŁ PAWLIKOWSKI Praised by film critics and loved by audiences, Paweł Pawlikowski is an auteur whose films mirror his personal experiences, as well as his ethical values and artistic vision. His films reveal an immense talent, a deep understating of historic changes, and a strong sense of the interaction between the personal and the historical. In his own words, Pawlikowski is guided in his work by a desire to find new meaning in what is wellknown and already seen. “For me, that’s the essence of cinema: photographing reality and making it mean more. Not going with the flow as realism is supposed to do, but on the contrary looking at reality against the grain, discovering its strangeness.” INNOCENCE RE/PROTECTED Film critic Dana Linssen (NRC Handelsblad, de Filmkrant) presents an experimental master class about audiovisual thinking to defy the notion that critics are just the eunuchs at the orgy. More and more, critics are working in audio-visual forms, and Linssen has been commissioning video essays for the big screen at the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Critic’s Choice for the past five years. Illustrated with film clips and other forms of audio-visual material, she will demonstrate how images expose, explore, obscure, reveal, and conceal (hidden and unknown) meanings. Talents are invited to participate actively in the experiments in this laboratory of eyes, where the camera and the editor’s cut can be optical unconscious, lie detector, and magician’s tool all at once. The event will disclose some tricks of the trade, and be part film analysis, part speculative philosophy, part media criticism, all to come to an understanding of the question if and how images can n/ever be innocent. PANEL DISCUSSION: SEE FACTORY Required screening: SEE FACTORY – SARAJEVO MON AMOUR (Various / 2019) For the past six years, the Factory has developed a unique filmmaking formula: it couples directors who don’t

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know each other to make a film together. For SARAJEVO MON AMOUR, the Southeast European edition of the project, filmmakers from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia were paired with others from Brazil, Greece, Israel, Romania, and Switzerland. The result is an omnibus work of five short films inspired by the city of Sarajevo. Producer Dominique Welinski discusses the film and its production process with nine of the directors involved. FILM SCREENINGS Talents Sarajevo provides tickets for required screenings. Tickets are distributed daily by your Talents coordinator. Please be sure to attend, as these films will inform your conversations and sessions over the course of the week. In addition, you can visit the main box office, where your accreditation will permit you to obtain two tickets per day to additional films of your choice.

REQUIRED SCREENINGS CHICUAROTES (Gabriel García Bernal / Mexico / 2019) SEE FACTORY SARAJEVO MON AMOUR (Maša Šarović, Sharon Angelhart, Teodora Mihai, Dušan Kasalica, Urška Djukić, Gabriel Tzafka, Neven Samardžić, Carolina Marcowicz, Eleonora Veninova, Yona Rozenkier / Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, North Macedonia, France / 2019) THE SON (Ines Tanović / Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Romania, Slovenia, Montenegro / 2019) SYNONYMS (Nadav Lapid / France, Israel, Germany / 2019) RECOMMENDED SCREENINGS AND THEN WE DANCED (Levan Akin / Georgia, Sweden, France / 2019) BACURAU (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles / Brazil, France / 2018) DAUGHTER OF CAMORRA (Siniša Gačić / Slovenia, Italy / 2019) THE GOLDEN GIRL (Denisa Morariu-Tamas, Adrian Robe / Romania / 2019) IN FABRIC (Peter Strickland / United Kingdom / 2018) IT MUST BE HEAVEN (Elia Suleiman / France, Qatar, Germany, Canada, Turkey, Palestine / 2019) LES MISÉRABLES (Ladj Ly / France / 2019) PAIN AND GLORY (Pedro Almodóvar / Spain / 2019) SÁTÁNTÁNGO (Béla Tarr / Hungary, Germany, Switzerland / 1994) THE SOVIET GARDEN (Dragoș Turea / Moldova, Romania / 2019) preceded by IN BETWEEN (Samir Karahoda / Kosovo / 2019) TAKE ME SOMEWHERE NICE (Ena Sendijarević / Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Netherlands / 2018)

CINEMA | PORTRAITS For the 25th Anniversary of the Sarajevo Film Festival, renowned photographer Brigitte Lacombe exhibits forty large prints, which provide rare and intimate moments from her long-time collaborations with influential filmmakers, and a revelatory insider’s look at cinema. The exhibition of photographs, taken between 1975 and 2017, presents a selection from Lacombe’s body of work, and offers a personal glimpse into contemporary cinema.

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BRIGITTE LACOMBE SHOOTS TALENTS After being a jury member at last year’s Sarajevo Film Festival, photographer Brigitte Lacombe returns. During her stay, the participants of Talents Sarajevo will join this filmmaking canon when they are captured by her revelatory camera. STORY TALENTS SARAJEVO EXHIBITION STORY, the leading Croatian woman’s weekly magazine, promises a very special opening event at the 2019 Sarajevo Film Festival. For the first time, guests have the opportunity to participate in the Story Talents Sarajevo Exhibition, which displays a selection of the best Talents Sarajevo participants since its inception. Get a glimpse of this special exhibition from 18 to 23 August at the STORY pavilion on the Festival Square.

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Acting Studio

Who are we as actors today? How does the art of acting evolve over time? What is elemental to an actor’s work in the here and now? How does acting relate to innocence? These are the questions via which actor Snežana Bogdanović frames the activities of Acting Studio this year. In a series of discussions and workshop sessions, Bogdanović shares her craft, experience and knowledge, traversing and challenging contemporary tendencies in acting for the cinema. The studio’s activities also intersect with those of the International Casting Directors Network’s Master Class, another Sarajevo Film Festival-related platform, and include a photo session with the photographers of Story magazine. Mentor: Snežana Bogdanović REQUIRED SCREENING STITCHES (Miroslav Terzić / Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina / 2019) THE POWER OF THE ACTOR: AWARENESS – RESPONSIBILITY – PROFESSIONALISM Are you waiting to be discovered – or being proactive and making casting directors aware of your work? How and where do casting directors search for actors? How can you be ready, promote yourself, and prepare and submit a self-tape? What are the joys, the necessities, and the possible difficulties of participating in castings for a foreign-language project? Casting director Beatrice Kruger addresses these topics in a master class followed by a question-and-answer session. CASTING: A DIRECTOR’S PERSPECTIVE Deeming every actor to be unique, Paweł Pawlikowski admittedly does not have a set method or concrete strategy for working with them. According to him, the pivotal moment in determining how performers will appear and interact onscreen is the casting process. But what exactly does casting imply, and just how does it work? How can an actor meet the expectations and requirements any given director has for their vision? Snežana Bogdanović discusses casting issues with the director of THE WOMAN IN THE FIFTH, IDA, and COLD WAR in a seminar setting. OVERCOMING FEAR AND TENSION: A TALK WITH ULIKS FEHMIU The formula for screen presence and charisma is arguably the philosopher’s stone of the acting profession. While many of its of ingredients remain elusive and unfathomable, others are reasonably apparent; overcoming various types of anxiety, fears, and tension are among the most prominent of these. Snežana Bogdanović tackles this dark side of the acting in a conversation with Uliks Fehmiu, one the most popular actors of the post-Yugoslav region. PACK&PITCH PUBLIC PITCH SESSION The Talents Sarajevo Pack&Pitch module supports emerging directors and producers in preparing their projects for the marketplace. Participants learn how to analyse and prepare their projects for effective written and oral presentation, then pitch their projects at the end of the programme to a jury and an audience of peers and industry professionals. For more details, see page 22. STORY MAGAZINE PHOTO SHOOT During Talents Sarajevo, the participants of the Acting Studio have the opportunity to experience a photo shoot with the best photographers from the leading Croatian women’s weekly magazine STORY – Dražen Kokorić and Robert Gašpert. The portraits will be on display at next year’s Sarajevo Film Festival.

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Tugce Altug TURKEY

Marko Braich CROATIA

Baran Can Eraslan TURKEY

Efthalia Papacosta GREECE

Marina Popović BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Haris Salihović BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Mia Skrbinac SLOVENIA

Tara Thaller CROATIA

Akbari Tourialay ROMANIA

Ilija Volcheski NORTH MACEDONIA

Stefan Vujišić NORTH MACEDONIA

Sara Luna Zorić BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

The Talents Sarajevo Acting Studio sessions are generously supported by the Embassy of the United States of America in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Talents Sarajevo #13

Camera Studio

Each year, the Camera Studio welcomes not only a new generation of talents, but also a different renowned director of photography, whose expertise and experience navigate them through a series of discussions, master classes and case studies about the vicissitudes of cinematography in contemporary filmmaking. This year, we are honoured to have as our mentor Sofian El Fani, the Tunisian cinematographer who lensed STRING, BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR, TIMBUKTU, AGA’S HOUSE, and IT MUST BE HEAVEN, to name but a few. The Camera Studio sessions intersect with those of the Editing Studio and Directors Summit, and address aesthetics, as well as an analysis of different aspects of cinematography as artistry and craft in general. Mentor: Sofian El Fani REQUIRED SCREENING IT MUST BE HEAVEN (Elia Suleiman / France, Qatar, Germany, Canada, Turkey, Palestine / 2019) FILMMAKERS ON FILMMAKING: CRISTI PUIU Widely credited by critics with starting the Romanian New Wave with his first feature, STUFF AND DOUGH, Cristi Puiu has made some of contemporary European cinema’s landmark works, among them THE DEATH OF MR LAZARESCU, AURORA, and SIERANEVADA. In this session, Puiu shares his insight and experience with Talents directors, cinematographers, and screenwriters. IN COLLABORATION: DIRECTORS AND CINEMATOGRAPHERS Camera Studio and Directors Summit participants come together to discuss the possibilities of collaboration between cinematographers and directors. The conversation is led by mentors Sofian El Fani and Gyula Gazdag. THE INNOCENCE OF THE AUDIENCE Storytelling is communication, and communication always implies an audience. To what extent should a storyteller/filmmaker be aware of the audience? Should the audience be regarded as an innocent receiver, or one that comes loaded with presuppositions and prejudices? Jan Forsström discusses the advantages of the storyteller’s awareness of the audience, using the Greek rhetorical tradition as a theoretical basis. He will share some of his own “imaginary audience” tools for fine-tuning scripts and scenes, and discuss the dangers of trying to comply with presumed audience expectations. TRIBUTE TO PAWEŁ PAWLIKOWSKI: DOCUMENTARY DAY The first day of the Festival’s Tribute to Paweł Pawlikowski features screenings of two of the director’s celebrated documentaries: SERBIAN EPICS and TRIPPING WITH ZHIRINOVSKI. After the screenings, Pawlikowski will be on hand for a question-and-answer session with the audience.

Barış Aygen TURKEY

Botond Nagy HUNGARY

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Fili Olsefski GREECE

Fabris Šulin SLOVENIA

Ioana Turcan ROMANIA

Directors Summit

The Directors Summit sessions are intended as a discussion platform for the participating directors. They also serve as a forum for interface with Talents screenwriters, producers, cinematographers, and editors. Mentor: Gyula Gazdag FILMMAKERS ON FILMMAKING AIDA BEGIĆ: A SURVIVAL KIT FOR THE DIRECTORIAL PROCESS Having made three feature-length films and several shorts, Aida Begić (CHILDREN OF SARAJEVO, NEVER LEAVE ME, SNOW) is one of the most acclaimed of contemporary Bosnian directors. Her productions range from shoestring budget student works to international co-productions, but her vision always privileges the stories of the marginalised and disenfranchised. Drawing from own experience, Begić will share her advice on how to make a film of one’s own despite all odds. FILMMAKERS ON FILMMAKING: CRISTI PUIU Widely credited by critics with starting the Romanian New Wave with his first feature, STUFF AND DOUGH, Cristi Puiu has made some of contemporary European cinema’s landmark works, among them THE DEATH OF MR LAZARESCU, AURORA, and SIERANEVADA. In this session, Puiu shares his insight and experience with Talents directors, cinematographers, and screenwriters. IN COLLABORATION DIRECTORS AND CINEMATOGRAPHERS Camera Studio and Directors Summit participants come together to discuss the possibilities of collaboration between cinematographers and directors. The conversation is led by mentors Sofian El Fani and Gyula Gazdag. DIRECTORS AND PRODUCERS Producers Summit and Directors Summit participants come together to discuss the possibilities of collaboration between producers and directors. The conversation is led by mentors Katriel Schory and Gyula Gazdag. EDITING – THE DEFINITIVE RE-WRITE Directors Summit, Editing Studio, and Script Station participants come together to discuss the impact of editing on the film’s storytelling. The conversation is led by mentors Gyula Gazdag, Redžinald Šimek, and Jan Forsström. THE INNOCENCE OF THE AUDIENCE Storytelling is communication, and communication always implies an audience. To what extent should a storyteller/filmmaker be aware of the audience? Should the audience be regarded as an innocent receiver, or one that comes loaded with presuppositions and prejudices? Jan Forsström discusses the advantages of the storyteller’s awareness of the audience, using the Greek rhetorical tradition as a theoretical basis. He will share some of his own “imaginary audience” tools for fine-tuning scripts and scenes, and discuss the dangers of trying to comply with presumed audience expectations. PACK&PITCH PUBLIC PITCH SESSION The Talents Sarajevo Pack&Pitch module supports emerging directors and producers in preparing their projects for the marketplace. Participants learn how to analyse and prepare their projects for effective written and oral presentation, then pitch their projects at the end of the programme to a jury and an audience of peers and industry professionals. For more details, see page 22. Talents Sarajevo #13

Directors Summit

Aikaterini Andreadou GREECE

Yorgos Angelopoulos GREECE

Hanna Besirević BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Ömer Deniz TURKEY

Urška Djukić SLOVENIA

Balint Erkel HUNGARY

Mihai Ghita ROMANIA

Ana Jakimska NORTH MACEDONIA

Sara Jurinčić CROATIA

István Kovács HUNGARY

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Vladimir Petev BULGARIA

Nikola Polić SERBIA

Romina Ruda ALBANIA

Maša Šarović SERBIA

Savvas Stavrou CYPRUS

Metehan Şereflioğlu TURKEY

Hristo Simeonov BULGARIA

Andra Stoianovici-Hera ROMANIA

Deniz Telek TURKEY

Lida Vartzioti GREECE

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Editing Studio

Editing Studio participants attend a series of discussions and case studies under the mentorship of Redžinald Šimek, the busiest of Bosnian-Herzegovinian editors (BRIDGES OF SARAJEVO, DEATH IN SARAJEVO, NEVER LEAVE ME, THE SON, WITH MOM). Several visiting editors will also lend their skills to the studio to elucidate editing as a genuine and creative process, always intricately interconnected with the other dimensions of filmmaking. Mentor: Redžinald Šimek IN COLLABORATION: EDITING – THE DEFINITIVE RE-WRITE Editing Studio, Directors Summit, and Script Station participants come together to discuss the impact of editing on a film’s storytelling. The conversation is led by mentors Redžinald Šimek, Gyula Gazdag, and Jan Forsström. THE INNOCENCE OF THE AUDIENCE Storytelling is communication, and communication always implies an audience. To what extent should a storyteller/filmmaker be aware of the audience? Should the audience be regarded as an innocent receiver, or one that comes loaded with presuppositions and prejudices? Jan Forsström discusses the advantages of the storyteller’s awareness of the audience, using the Greek rhetorical tradition as a theoretical basis. He will share some of his own “imaginary audience” tools for fine-tuning scripts and scenes, and discuss the dangers of trying to comply with presumed audience expectations. SARAJEVO MON AMOUR: A CASE STUDY IN POSTPRODUCTION After a panel discussion about the production of the SEE Factory production SARAJEVO MON AMOUR, the film will be tackled from the vantage point of post-production. Editor Saša Peševski and post-production supervisor Dejan Ćorić join Redžinald Šimek in conversation. THE SON: A CASE STUDY IN EDITING Redžinald Šimek discusses his work on Ines Tanović’s sophomore feature, which opens the Festival this year. TO POST OR NOT TO POST? THAT IS THE QUESTION Despite the mind-blowing advances in today’s tech-crazy world, the phrase ‘we can fix it in post’ should be anathema to producers and film crew alike. Avanpost Digital Cube CEO Cristian Nicolescu chats with Talents about how relying on the post-production phase to remedy shortcuts taken during production can take an unexpected toll on budgets and getting films to the screen. TRIBUTE TO PAWEŁ PAWLIKOWSKI: DOCUMENTARY DAY The first day of the Festival’s Tribute to Paweł Pawlikowski features screenings of two of the director’s celebrated documentaries: SERBIAN EPICS and TRIPPING WITH ZHIRINOVSKI. After the screenings, Pawlikowski will be on hand for a question-and-answer session with the audience. WITH MOM: A CASE STUDY IN CO-EDITING Talents Sarajevo alumna Nataša Damnjanović pays a visit to the new generation of Talents, in an analysis of editing as the collaborative process of two editors. Appropriately, her interlocutor will be mentor Redžinald Šimek, who was her co-editor on WITH MOM.

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Lukas Miheljak SLOVENIA

Tomislav Stojanović CROATIA

Ana Žugić SERBIA

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Pack&Pitch

Since 2010, Pack&Pitch has supported emerging directors and producers in preparing their projects for the marketplace. Participants learn how to analyse and prepare their projects for effective written and oral presentation. Talents are mentored in group and one-on-one sessions by pitching trainers, who instruct them in the creation of one-pagers and the analysis of their projects, and provide insight into the all-important subjects of how to pitch, and to whom. Over the course of several days of intensive sessions, Talents prepare written and oral presentations of their projects, which they pitch at the end of the programme to a jury and an audience of their peers and industry professionals. The Talent who makes the most successful pitch is invited to participate in the Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink programme in 2020. Also awarded is an in-kind prize of post-production services worth €4,000 from Studio Chelia. Mentors: Gabriele Brunnenmeyer, Nicholas Davies

Sergiu Cumatrenco Producer, MOLDOVA Project: SANTA BARBARA

Ádám Felszeghy Producer, HUNGARY Project: PELICAN BLUE

Svetislav Podleshanov Director, NORTH MACEDONIA Project: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE NEW ERA

Nesligül Satir Producer, TURKEY Project: THE PATH OF TIME

Kiril Karakash Director, NORTH MACEDONIA Project: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE NEW ERA

Ivan Koroman Director, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Project: THE POSSESSED

Stefka Mancheva Director, BULGARIA Project: BLIND SPOT

The Talents Sarajevo Pack&Pitch sessions are generously supported by Studio Chelia and CineLink Industry Days.

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Producers Summit

Under the guidance of Israeli Film Fund director and long-time producer Katriel Schory, Producers Summit participants attend a series of lectures, discussions, shadowing opportunities, and presentations throughout the Sarajevo Film Festival, with an emphasis on involvement with the activities of CineLink Industry Days, the festival’s industry platform. The sessions provide Talents with skill-building knowledge gathered from industry experts with extensive experience, accomplished filmmakers, and their Talents peers in other programme sections. Mentor: Katriel Schory IN COLLABORATION: DIRECTORS AND PRODUCERS Producers Summit and Directors Summit participants come together to discuss the possibilities of collaboration between cinematographers and directors. The conversation is led by mentors Katriel Schory and Gyula Gazdag. INTRODUCTION TO CINELINK INDUSTRY DAYS Join Head of Industry Jovan Marjanović for a familiarisation tour of CineLink Industry Days, the Sarajevo Film Festival’s multi-platform sessions and programming tooled for networking, support and development of the film business in Southeast Europe and the Southern Caucasus. MEET THE PRODUCERS How do producers operate on the ground? What are the questions, considerations, and personal connections that lead to involvement in bringing a film to the screen? Five producers attending the Festival will provide their insight in casual question-and-answer sessions with Producer Summit participants. This year’s guests are Diana Elbaum, Danijel Hočevar, Titus Kreyenberg, Ankica Jurić Tilić, and Yorgos Tsourgiannis. PACK&PITCH PUBLIC PITCH The Talents Sarajevo Pack&Pitch module supports emerging directors and producers in preparing their projects for the marketplace. Participants learn how to analyse and prepare their projects for effective written and oral presentation, then pitch their projects at the end of the programme to a jury and an audience of peers and industry professionals. For more details, see page 22. TO POST OR NOT TO POST? THAT IS THE QUESTION Despite the mind-blowing advances in today’s tech-crazy world, the phrase ‘we can fix it in post’ should be anathema to producers and film crew alike. Avanpost Digital Cube CEO Cristian Nicolescu chats with Talents about how relying on the post-production phase to remedy shortcuts taken during production can take an unexpected toll on budgets and getting films to the screen. TRIBUTE TO PAWEŁ PAWLIKOWSKI: DOCUMENTARY DAY The first day of the Festival’s Tribute to Paweł Pawlikowski features screenings of two of the director’s celebrated documentaries: SERBIAN EPICS and TRIPPING WITH ZHIRINOVSKI. After the screenings, Pawlikowski will be on hand for a question-and-answer session with the audience. WHAT KIND OF PRODUCER DO YOU WANT TO BE? The Executive Director of the Israeli Film Fund since 1999, and the producer of more than 130 films over a career spanning more than four decades, Katriel Schory brings his wealth of experience to Talents producers in a conversation about defining a career path generated by considering the kind of producer you want to become.

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WHEN THE QUEST FOR POLITICAL TRUTH BECOMES PERSONAL – FILMING MY MOTHER Mila Turjalić and Maryam Zaree discuss how politics and regimes shape the lives and personal histories of families. How can one build a film around a conversation with mothers, or a lack of conversation that leads to an understanding of the family and political truth? What are the challenges of having your family and yourself as the protagonists of your film?

Aycan Aluçlu TURKEY

Tamara BabunCROATIA

Vladimer Chikhradze GEORGIA

Zeki Peynirci TURKEY

Tina Tišljar CROATIA

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Script Station

The Script Station sessions are designed to provide a space for constructive discussions about specific script issues to support and encourage their further development and bring them to the next level of completion. The lab consists primarily of group and one-on-one meetings with mentors during Talents Sarajevo, and follow-up conversations in the future. Mentors: Teresa Cavina, Jan Forsström, Olivia Hetreed FILMMAKERS ON FILMMAKING: CRISTI PUIU Widely credited by critics with starting the Romanian New Wave with his first feature, STUFF AND DOUGH, Cristi Puiu has made some of contemporary European cinema’s landmark works, among them THE DEATH OF MR LAZARESCU, AURORA, and SIERANEVADA. In this session, Puiu shares his insight and experience with Talents directors, cinematographers, and screenwriters. IN COLLABORATION: EDITING – THE DEFINITIVE RE-WRITE Script Station, Editing Studio, and Directors Summit participants come together to discuss the impact of editing on the film’s storytelling. The conversation is led by mentors Jan Forsström, Gyula Gazdag, and Redžinald Šimek. THE INNOCENCE OF THE AUDIENCE Storytelling is communication, and communication always implies an audience. To what extent should a storyteller/filmmaker be aware of the audience? Should the audience be regarded as an innocent receiver, or one that comes loaded with presuppositions and prejudices? Jan Forsström discusses the advantages of the storyteller’s awareness of the audience, using the Greek rhetorical tradition as a theoretical basis. He will share some of his own “imaginary audience” tools for fine-tuning scripts and scenes, and discuss the dangers of trying to comply with presumed audience expectations. PACK&PITCH The Pack&Pitch module supports emerging directors and producers in preparing their projects for the marketplace. Participants learn how to analyse and prepare their projects for effective written and oral presentation, then pitch their projects at the end of the programme to a jury and an audience of peers and industry professionals. For more details, see page 22.

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Zsofia Lanyi HUNGARY

Michael Onder TURKEY

Sotiris Petridis GREECE

Dora Šustić CROATIA

Lia Tsalta GREECE

Lyubomir Tsvetkov BULGARIA

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Talent Press

Talent Press sessions are tailor-made for emerging regional film critics and journalists. Through the platform, film criticism is introduced as a tool for the contextualisation of filmmaking practices in Southeast Europe and the Southern Caucasus, and its relation to other European countries, as well as for further enhancement of film language. Participants review films and events throughout the festival, coached by two prominent film critics. Via group and individual sessions, participants further develop their skills with articulating their impressions and insights in the form of written articles and interviews, which are published on the Talents Sarajevo website and those of its media partners. Mentors: Dana Linssen, Yoana Pavlova Films eligible for review: DAUGHTER OF CAMORRA (Siniša Gačić / Slovenia, Italy / 2019) THE GOLDEN GIRL (Denisa Morariu-Tamas, Adrian Robe / Romania / 2019) HEIDI (Cătălin Mitulescu / Romania / 2019) IT MUST BE HEAVEN (Elia Suleiman / France, Qatar, Germany, Canada, Turkey, Palestine / 2019) OPEN DOOR (Florence Papas / Albania, Italy, Kosovo, North Macedonia / 2019) PALACE FOR THE PEOPLE (Boris Missirkov, Georgi Bogdanov / Bulgaria, Germany, Romania. 2018) THE SON (Ines Tanović / Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Romania, Slovenia, Montenegro / 2019) THE SOVIET GARDEN (Dragoș Turea / Moldova, Romania / 2019) preceded by IN BETWEEN (Samir Karahoda / Kosovo / 2019) TAKE ME SOMEWHERE NICE (Ena Sendijarević / Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Netherlands / 2018) SEE FACTORY SARAJEVO MON AMOUR (Maša Šarović, Sharon Angelhart, Teodora Mihai, Dušan Kasalica, Urška Djukić, Gavriil Tzafka, Neven Samardžić, Carolina Marcowicz, Eleonora Veninova, Yona Rozenkier / Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, North Macedonia, France / 2019) BEYOND FILMMAKING When Béla Tarr announced in 2011 that THE TURIN HORSE would be his final feature, the cinema world met the words with disbelief and sadness – would one of the most honest and profound voices of cinema really stop making films!? However, Tarr’s subsequent activities have shown that while he may have given up on working with one art form, he remains creative and busy nevertheless. Alongside his return to the Sarajevo Film Festival with his recently digitised magnum opus SÁTÁNTÁNGO, Tarr gives a master class about his opulent and unstoppable cinematic experiences: from filmmaking to education to combining film with other art forms. NOBODY JUST WRITES (ABOUT CINEMA) Writer, filmmaker, and curator Patrick Holzapfel shares some thoughts on film criticism as an approach to writing versus film criticism as an approach to cinema, and what part language plays in these endeavours. (RE)COLLECTION BY OTHER MEANS The 25th edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival promises to unleash an abundance of images, both from the screen and during the innumerable events around the city. It is also an invitation to reflect on the festival’s beginnings, set as it was on the frontier between newsreel and fiction. In the spirit of Dušan Makavejev’s cinematic hybrid INNOCENCE UNPROTECTED, as well as in the context of our pursuit for new, audio-visual forms of criticism, this year’s Talent Press participants will become a very particular kind of correspondents. On a mission to record their experiences in Sarajevo via collecting images, be they ready-made or produced

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during the festival, over the course of one week each critic will curate a mood board that relays their experience, thus connecting the dots between the demanding reality of today’s professional standards and the ludic, the impromptu, and the instantaneous. In short: the necessary reflex of being a 2.0 film thinker. THE VOICE, THE FILM CRITIC, THE LEGEND CHUCK NORRIS VS COMMUNISM sounds like a fun way to flip the tense dynamics between West and East in a pre-1989 world, yet it was Irina Nistor’s signature voice and bold risk-taking that played a key role in shaping modern cinephile culture in Romania. Film translator by day, voice actor by night, before the fall of Ceaușescu Ms Nistor literally mediated popular American cinema for the local VHS-hungry audience. In a conversation with one of the most celebrated figures of contemporary Romanian film criticism and programming, Talent Press participants will have the opportunity to discuss with Ms Nistor what it means to translate one culture into another – back when she was living under the constant threat of arrest, as well as nowadays, since Ilinca Călugăreanu’s 2015 documentary transformed her into the face of an era – with her involvement in the Psychoanalysis and Film Festival in mind.

Călin Boto ROMANIA

Alexander Gabelia GEORGIA

Jovana Gjorgjiovska NORTH MACEDONIA

Milica Joksimović SERBIA

Sezen Sayinalp TURKEY

The Talents Sarajevo Talent Press sessions are generously supported by the Goethe-Institut in Sarajevo.

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Mentors SNEŽANA BOGDANOVIĆ – Acting Studio Snežana Bogdanović is a theatre, film, and television actor from the former Yugoslavia. She is the recipient of numerous national and international awards, including the European Film Award nomination for Best Actress. At the height of her career, due to political unrest and war in the former Yugoslavia, Bogdanović left the country and moved to the United States. She currently lives in New York City. Her most recent work was as Ana in STITCHES, which premiered at the Berlinale, and in THE SON, which opens the Sarajevo Film Festival this year. GABRIELE BRUNNENMEYER – Pack&Pitch Gabriele Brunnenmeyer works for the Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film as a project and script advisor. She has been an artistic advisor for the Maia Workshops, developing events including the Connecting Cottbus, Incontri, and currently MDM’s Meet Your Neighbour in Leipzig. Alongside consulting on script development, packaging, and pitching for individual projects, she consults for the First Films First script development programme, Midpoint Feature Launch, Berlinale Talents, Talents Sarajevo, the Baltic Pitching Forum, and the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab, among others. TERESA CAVINA – Script Station Teresa Cavina is a veteran of festivals including Abu Dhabi, El Gouna, Locarno, Rome, and Venice, and the Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels. She has extensive experience with co-production forums, having launched Open Doors in Locarno and directed the New Cinema Network in Rome; and with analysing screenplays for funds including Abu Dhabi’s SANAD and the Grants Programme of the Doha Film Institute (DFI). She currently works as a screenplay and film project analyst with Premio Solinas, the DFI, and the Italian Ministry of Culture. NICHOLAS DAVIES – Pack&Pitch Nicholas Davies obtained a BA in cinema studies from the University of Toronto. He spent ten years at TIFF as Director of Creative Services, and was the programmer of the festival’s Dialogues: Talking with Pictures section, with guests including Guy Maddin, Isabella Rossellini, Ousmane Sembène, and Vilmos Szigmond, among many others. Over the past ten years, he has worked with numerous film and art institutions in Canada, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Poland, Qatar, and the UAE. He is a former Talents Sarajevo Programme Manager. SOFIAN EL FANI– Camera Studio Sofian El Fani is an award-winning Tunisian-French cinematographer. After graduating from the Maghrebian Institute of Cinema in Tunisia, he trained on films including Anthony Minghella’s THE ENGLISH PATIENT. His credits include Mehdi Ben Attia’s LE FIL, Kaouther Ben Hania’s SHALLAT OF TUNIS, Abdellatif Kechiche’s BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR, and Abderrahmane Sissako’s TIMBUKTU, among many others. Most recently, he shot Elia Suleiman’s IT MUST BE HEAVEN, which received a Special Mention at the Festival de Cannes, and appears in the Sarajevo Film Festival this year.

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Mentors

JAN FORSSTRÖM – Script Station Jan Forsström is a Finnish screenwriter, director, script editor, and author. His screenwriting credits include J-P Valkeapää’s THE VISITOR; THE PRINCESS OF EGYPT, which Forsström himself directed; and Zaida Bergroth’s LAST COWBOY STANDING, THE GOOD SON, and MIAMI, as well as her upcoming MARIA’S PARADISE, which will have its premiere in September 2019. As a script editor, Forsström has been involved in dozens of Finnish and international productions. He is currently finishing his second book of short stories. GYULA GAZDAG– Directors Summit Gyula Gazdag is a screenwriter and director of film, theatre, and television. He is a Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA, Artistic Director of the Sundance Directors Lab, and has worked with new talent at the Script Station of Berlinale Talents since 2006. He worked with young actors, directors and screenwriters as the mentor of the Film Stage Studio at Sarajevo Talents from 2015 until 2018. In 2010, he was named one of the ten best film teachers in the United States by Variety. OLIVIA HETREED – Script Station Olivia Hetreed is the multi-award-winning screenwriter of GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING and WUTHERING HEIGHTS. Recent international films include FINDING ALTAMIRA; Bosnia and Herzegovina’s first animated feature BIRDS LIKE US; and THE JOURNEY, Iraq’s Academy Award entry for 2018. Previously she was a film editor. She has just completed her directorial debut short film, HOME FROM HOME, and is now preparing to direct her first feature. Hetreed has mentored writers all over the world, from Ireland to India, Skye to Sarajevo. DANA LINSSEN – Talent Press Dana Linssen is a long-term film critic for the Dutch daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad and the former editor-in-chief of the film magazine de Filmkrant. She is the founder of the Slow Criticism Project, a counterbalance against the commodification of film criticism. With Jan Pieter Ekker, she programs the Critics’ Choice at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and the Director’s Forum at the Netherlands Film Festival. She teaches at ArtEZ Theatre Academy in Arnhem and the Audio-Visual Media Department of the HKU University of the Arts in Utrecht. YOANA PAVLOVA – Talent Press Yoana Pavlova is a Bulgarian journalist, critic, and researcher. Her field of work includes cinema, new media, digital culture, and the New East – topics she covers in Bulgarian, English, and French for several print and online publications. She is the founder and a contributing editor of Festivalists.com, a playform for experimental media criticism. Pavlova co-authored The Bulgarian Nouvelle Vague (2012), Eastern Promises (2014), and Cinemas of Paris (2016).

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KATRIEL SCHORY – Producers Summit Katriel Schory studied at the NYU Film School and returned to Israel in 1973. His production company Belfilms has produced more than 150 films, including award-winning features, documentaries, and television dramas. Starting in 1999, for more than twenty years he was the Executive Director of the Israel Film Fund, which supports and promotes Israeli feature films. During these years he authorised the production of more than three hundred Israeli films, many of which won prestige, including Academy Award nominations, Gold and Silver Lions and Bears, and Golden Globe Awards. REDŽINALD ŠIMEK – Editing Studio Redžinald Šimek was born in Sarajevo, and attended the film editing and directing programme of the Academy of Performing Arts, Sarajevo. His professional experience includes positions ranging from sound engineer to video editor, to motion graphics designer, post-production supervisor to new-media producer. Among his many credits as an editor are Ines Tanović’s THE SON; Danis Tanović’s SUCCESS and DEATH IN SARAJEVO; Aida Begić’s NEVER LEAVE ME and BRIDGES OF SARAJEVO; and Reem Saleh’s WHAT COMES AROUND.

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Experts, Panellists, and Moderators AIDA BEGIĆ Aida Begić was born in Sarajevo in 1976., and graduated with a degree in directing from the Sarajevo Academy of Performing Arts. Her award-winning graduation film, FIRST DEATH EXPERIENCE, was presented in the Official Selection of the 2001 Festival de Cannes. Her debut feature film, SNOW, had its premiere at Cannes 2008 in the Semaine de la Critique, where it took the Grand Prix. CHILDREN OF SARAJEVO, her second feature-length film premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2012, where it won the Special Jury Prize. EUGENIO CABALLERO Eugenio Caballero was born in Mexico City, and studied the history of art and cinema in Florence. He began his career in Mexico as a production designer on award-winning music videos and short films. His feature-film credits include nearly thirty works by directors including J.A. Bayona, Sebastian Cordero, Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro, and Baz Luhrmann. He has won numerous awards, among them Ariel, Art Directors’ Guild, and Academy Awards for Del Toro’s PAN’S LABYRINTH. He also designed the opening ceremony of the Sochi Paralympics, and Cirque de Soleil’s LUZIA. AMILA ČIRKINAGIĆ Amila Čirkinagić obtained a Master’s degree in film studies from Copenhagen University. As the market co-ordinator at Nordisk Panorama from 2008 through 2013, she was responsible for the catalogue of Nordic short and documentary films. She has since worked as the programme manager of the Financing Forum for Kids Content and the youth programmes of the Sarajevo Film Festival. Čirkinagić has also worked on outreach strategies for several documentaries at WG Film, a leading Swedish documentary production house. DEJAN ĆORIĆ After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, Dejan Ćorić edited videos and commercials for television. Since 2000, he has been part of the on the creative team of the Sarajevo Film Festival, as well as a designer of much of the audio-visual content produced by the Obala Art Centre. In the field of post-production, he has recently worked on BRIDGES OF SARAJEVO, SIERANEVADA, and A GOOD DAY’S WORK, among other titles. He was the post-production supervisor for SEE FACTORY SARAJEVO MON AMOUR, a Festival selection this year. NATAŠA DAMNJANOVIĆ A Berlinale Talents and Talents Sarajevo alumna, Nataša Damnjanović obtained a degree in film editing from the Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade. She was nominated for the Robert Bosch Stiftung Co-production Prize in 2010, and in 2012 was a script editor trainee at the TorinoFilmLab. Since 2006, she has run the Belgrade-based production company DART film, together with Vladimir Vidić. She currently works as a producer and video director at the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in the Hague.

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URŠKA DJUKIĆ Urška Djukić was born in Ljubljana in 1986, and studied at the Academy of Arts, University of Nova Gorica. Her first short film, BON APPÉTIT, won the Best Short Film Award at the Festival of Slovenian Film. In 2018, she was chosen to participate in the SEE Factory, a joint project for young directors curated by the Directors’ Fortnight and the Sarajevo Film Festival. There she co-directed the short film THE RIGHT ONE, which had its premiere at the Directors’ Fortnight in 2019.

DIANA ELBAUM Diana Elbaum has produced a vast number of films. She set up her first company, Entre Chien et Loup, in 1989, and has produced more than one hundred features, documentaries and television series, with talents Chantal Akerman, Raoul Peck, Mahamat Saleh Haroun, and Paul Verhoeven, among many others. Deeply committed to developing the European film industry, Elbaum set up le Boost Camp, the first Frenchspeaking workshop for women directors, in 2017. The same year, she launched her new company, Beluga Tree. SHARON ENGELHART Sharon Engelhart was born in Jerusalem in 1987. Based in Tel Aviv, she is a graduate of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, Jerusalem. She works as a director, scriptwriter, and casting director. NIGHT SWIMMING, her graduation film, was selected for numerous film festivals. She is currently developing her first feature-length film, COS YOU’RE UGLY, which was selected for the Cannes Cinéfondation Residency and won several development grants from Israel and France.

ULIKS FEHMIU Uliks Fehmiu has performed extensively on stage and appeared in numerous films. For his performance in REDEMPTION STREET, he won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor at the 18th Sarajevo Film Festival. His most recent work includes SUCCESS, an HBO Europe original series directed by Academy Award winner Danis Tanović. Fehmiu has also produced several critically acclaimed films, including WHITE WHITE WORLD, which has its premiere in the Official Competition at the Locarno Festival, and STITCHES, which was selected for the Berlin International Film Festival. VINCENT FÖRSTER Vincent Förster is a documentary filmmaker, producer and programmer from Berlin. His studies in international relations and Arabic at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, took him to Egypt, Morocco, and Sudan, where he also made his first film projects. As part of his MFA in film directing at the Edinburgh College of Art, he finished SOME OF THESE DAYS, a short comedy-documentary about jazz and dictatorships. In 2018, he joined the programming team of Berlinale Generation, and now sits on the section’s selection committee.

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GAEL GARCÍA BERNAL Award winning actor Gael García Bernal made his directorial debut with DÉFICIT. He directed the short films THE LETTER for the omnibus feature-length film 8; LUCIO for the collective Mexican film REVOLUCIÓN; LA MANO VISIBLE for the Sundance Institute Short Film Challenge; and LOVE OF MY LIFE for the collective feature MADLY. He also co-directed the four short films THE INVISIBLES for Amnesty International. Besides appearing in the series, he has also directed episodes of AQUÍ EN LA TIERRA and MOZART IN THE JUNGLE. CHICARUOTES is his second feature-length film. ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ IÑÁRRITU Multi-award-winning director, writer, and producer Alejandro González Iñárritu is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers working today. He made his feature directorial debut with the Oscar-nominated AMORES PERROS, which had its premiere at the Semaine de la Critique at the Festival de Cannes in 2000. His subsequent films include 21 GRAMS, BABEL, BIUTIFUL, and BIRDMAN, which took the Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, and THE REVENANT, which brought him his second Best Director Oscar. MIKE GOODRIDGE Mike Goodridge is currently Artistic Director of the International Film Festival & Awards Macao. He is also an independent film producer through his company Groovy Pictures. He was formerly CEO of the production, financing, and sales company Protagonist Pictures, and under his aegis it delivered such hit films as LOVE & FRIENDSHIP, THE FLORIDA PROJECT, THE LOBSTER, HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE, LADY MACBETH, GOD’S OWN COUNTRY and MAGGIE’S PLAN. He has written several books on cinema, and is a member of BAFTA and the European Film Academy. DANIJEL HOČEVAR Danijel Hočevar is Producer and CEO of Vertigo, a Ljubljana-based production company with a distinctive track record and extensive working experience on international co-productions and narrow-budget films, including Teona Mitevska’s GOD EXISTS, HER NAME IS PETRUNYA, Damjan Kozole’s NIGHTLIFE and SLOVENIAN GIRL, Danis Tanović’s AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF AN IRON PICKER, Srdan Golubović’s CIRCLES, and Jan Cvitković’s BREAD AND MILK. Hočevar was selected as one of Variety’s Ten Producers to Watch, and is President of the Association of Slovenian Film Producers. PATRICK HOLZAPFEL Patrick Holzapfel works as a writer, filmmaker, and curator. In 2016, he received the Siegfried Kracauer scholarship. His texts are published in various German- and English-language journals and publications. He is editor-in-chief of the German-language website Jugend ohne Film and also works for the Viennale.

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NEBOJŠA JOVANOVIĆ Film historian and theorist Nebojša Jovanović works at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo. His interests include gender and sexuality, film theory, and the history of cinema. His work has been published in Retracing Images: Visual Culture after Yugoslavia; Partisans in Yugoslavia: Literature, Film and Visual Culture; and The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia: Between Pain and Pleasure, to name a few, as well as in film magazines and journals such as Studies in Eastern European Cinema, KINO!, and Hrvatski filmski ljetopis. DUŠAN KASALICA Screenwriter and director Dušan Kasalica was born in Montenegro. His short films have been screened at numerous festivals around the world. He produced Ivan Salatić’s YOU HAVE THE NIGHT, and is currently working on his first feature-length film, THE ELEGY OF LAUREL.

TITUS KREYENBERG Titus Kreyenberg was an executive producer for film and television for many years before founding his own production company, unafilm, in 2004. unafilm produces feature films. Straightforward and artistically challenging. Fiction and documentary. National and international. The company’s films compete in internationally acclaimed film festivals around the world – among them the Berlinale, Cannes, Toronto, San Sebastián and Karlovy Vary. unafilm was represented at Cannes with THE BRIDGES OF SARAJEVO in 2014, and with I AM NOT A WITCH in 2018. BEATRICE KRUGER Having grown up between Germany, Hong Kong, Italy and the United States, Beatrice Kruger speaks five languages. She studied acting and anthropological theatre, and travelled throughout Europe as a theatre actor in the 1970s and 80s. In 1992 she founded FBI Casting in Rome and has cast a huge number of Italian and international films and television series since. Based in Rome, she is President of the International Casting Directors Network and the founder of e-talenta.eu, a multi-language platform for casting professionals and European actors. BRIGITTE LACOMBE Brigitte Lacombe is known for her influential and revelatory portraiture. For four decades, she has created iconic photographs of many celebrated artists, actors, politicians, and intellectuals. Lacombe has worked on many film sets, starting with Alan J. Pakula’s ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN, Federico Fellini’s CASANOVA, and Steven Spielberg’s CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND. She has since worked with directors Bernardo Bertolucci, Sofia Coppola, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Michael Haneke, Spike Jonze, Mike Nichols, Sydney Pollack, Lynne Ramsay, and Martin Scorsese, among others.

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NADAV LAPID Nadav Lapid was born in Tel Aviv in 1985. His first feature film, POLICEMAN, won numerous awards in festivals, including the Jury Prize at the Locarno Festival in 2011. His second feature film, THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER, was the revelation of the 2014 Semaine de la Critique at the Festival de Cannes, and went on to win more than twenty international awards. SYNONYMS won the FIPRESCI Award and the Golden Bear award at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival in 2019. BIANCA LUCAS Bianca Lucas is a filmmaker and the programmer of the European Shorts section of the Sarajevo Film Festival. Of Polish and Australian origin, she was born in 1989 in Switzerland. She graduated in media and communications with a specialisation in film studies from Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2017, she graduated from the film.factory, helmed by Béla Tarr in Sarajevo. She has been mentored by Pedro Costa, Abel Ferrara, Agnieszka Holland, Guy Maddin, Carlos Reygadas, Gus Van Sant, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, among others. JOVAN MARJANOVIĆ Jovan Marjanović has been involved in the Sarajevo Film Festival since 1999, and is currently its Head of Industry. He has produced several award-winning films, and consults for a variety of international film institutions. He was on the Board of Management of the Bosnian National Film Fund from 2011, and headed it from 2014 to 2016, and is the representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Eurimages. He holds an MSc from the Cass Business School in London, and teaches film business at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo. CAROLINA MARKOWICZ Carolina Markowicz is a screenwriter and director based in São Paulo. She has made a number of award-winning short films, which travelled to numerous international film festivals. THE ORPHAN, her most recent work, had its premiere at the Festival de Cannes in the Director’s Fortnight, and has won the Queer Palm for Best Short Film. It went on to be selected for more than one hundred festivals, and won more than thirty awards. Her first feature-length script, WHEN MY LIFE WAS MY LIFE, is slated to be shot in late 2019. TUE STEEN MÜLLER From 1975-1996, Tue Steen Müller worked for the National Film Board of Denmark (Statens Filmcentral) as press secretary, distributor, festival manager, and consultant. He was part of the team behind the Balticum Film/TV Festival in Bornholm, Denmark, from 1990 to 2000, as well as the set-up of Filmkontakt Nord, Documentary and the European Documentary Network, of which he was the first director. Since 2006, he has been a consultant and teacher in documentary matters around the world. He writes for filmkommentaren.dk

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CRISTIAN NICOLESCU Cristian Nicolescu is the CEO and co-founder of Avanpost Digital Cube. He has more than 14 years’ experience in post-production cinematography, as an editor, and postproduction and audio-visual workflow consultant. He is the youngest editor nominee to the Gopo Awards – the most important distinction awarded by the industry to Romanian professionals. He co-produced DONBASS, winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at the Festival de Cannes; Golden Bear winner ANA MON AMOUR; and ALBÜM, the Semaine de la Critique prize winner. IRINA-MARGARETA NISTOR Born in Bucharest in 1957, Irina-Margareta Nistor began work as a translator for Romanian National Television in 1980, for which she subtitled more than five hundred films and produced television shows including FILM PUZZLE and CINEMA LEXICON. She provided voice-over for nearly five thousand films between 1985 and 1996, this accomplishment becoming the subject of Ilinca Călugăreanu’s 2015 Sundance hit documentary CHUCK NORRIS VS COMMUNISM. She continues her work as a film critic, and is the director of the International Psychoanalysis and Film Festival in Bucharest. PAWEŁ PAWLIKOWSKI Paweł Pawlikowski was born in Warsaw, and has lived most of his life in the UK. After studying literature and philosophy at the University of Oxford, Pawlikowski became interested in filmmaking and began working in the British television industry. He garnered acclaim for a string of documentaries in the 1990s and for the award-winning LAST RESORT and MY SUMMER OF LOVE. IDA took the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2015. At the 2018 Festival de Cannes, Pawlikowski won the Best Director prize for COLD WAR. SAŠA PEŠEVSKI Saša Peševski was born in Sarajevo in 1986 and graduated in directing from the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, where he was in the class of Pjer Žalica. He now teaches editing at the Academy. Peševski has been involved in several projects as a director and editor, and enjoys shooting, writing, painting, street art, and music. He is a member of the informal film group Bioskop Srijedom, and the artists’ group Kolektiv Kreaktiva. CRISTI PUIU Cristi Puiu’s directorial debut came in 2001 with the low-budget road movie STUFF AND DOUGH, which was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight at the Festival de Cannes and is acknowledged by many critics as launching the Romanian New Wave. His second feature-length film, THE DEATH OF MR LAZARESCU, won the Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes, and went on to win many other awards. He has since directed AURORA, SIERANEVADA, and a section of the anthology film BRIDGES OF SARAJEVO.

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YONA ROZENKIER Yona Rozenkier was born in 1981 in Yehi’am, Israel, and graduated from the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television. His debut feature-length film, THE DIVE, won two awards at the Locarno Festival and four at the Jerusalem Film Festival, and was selected for the Chicago, Seattle, and Toronto International Film Festivals, among others. Together with Eleonora Veninova, Rozenkier wrote and directed THE SIGN for the omnibus SEE FACTORY – SARAJEVO MON AMOUR, which screens in the Festival this year.

NEVEN SAMARDŽIĆ Neven Samardžić was born in Sarajevo in 1986. In 2017, he finished studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, where he directed and wrote short films and plays. Professionally, he has done four stand-up shows and two music videos, and worked as an assistant director and director on the documentary series HOCU KOCI for Al Jazeera Balkans. CLEAN, his senior thesis film, won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Student Film.

MAŠA ŠAROVIĆ Maša Šarović was born in Subotica, Serbia, in 1993. She graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts Belgrade, where she studied film and television directing. Her awardwinning short film GRAD had its premiere in San Sebastián, and went on to screen in many film festivals. HOTTEST SUMMER DAYS, her second short work, premiered in Sarajevo, and went on to festivals in Sofia, Winterthur, and Ljubljana, where it took the Best Short Film award. She is currently studying for an MA in film directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade. BÉLA TARR Béla Tarr began his career at sixteen as an amateur filmmaker. Later he worked at Balázs Béla Stúdió, the Hungarian experimental film worskshop, where he made his feature directorial debut. In 1981, he co-founded Társulás Filmstúdió; since its closure in 1985, he has worked independently. In 2003 he founded the independent film workshop TT Filmműhely, which he headed until 2011, and in 2012, he launched the international school film.factory in Sarajevo. He is President of the Hungarian Filmmakers’ Association, and is a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres. ANKICA JURIĆ TILIĆ Ankica Jurić Tilić graduated in comparative literature from Zagreb University, and has more than twenty-five years’ experience as a producer. She is a graduate of EAVE, and a member of ACE, Producers on the Move, and the EFA. She co-founded the production company Kinorama in 2003. Her filmography includes more than twentyfive feature-length films, several TV series, and a number of shorts, among them the mullti-award-winning QUIT STARING AT MY PLATE by Hana Jusić, THE HIGH SUN by Dalibor Matanić, and THE REAPER by Zvonimir Jurić.

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YORGOS TSOURGIANNIS Yorgos Tsourgiannis is an independent film producer and the founder of the Athensbased production label Horsefly Productions. Credits include the the upcoming feature-length film ALL THE PRETTY LITTLE HORSES by writer-director Michalis Konstantatos, Emin Alper’s, A TALE OF THREE SISTERS, Yiannis Veslemes’s NORWAY Michalis Konstantatos’s LUTON, and Yorgos Lanthimos’s DOGTOOTH.

MILA TURAJLIĆ Mila Turajlić was born in Belgrade. Her THE OTHER SIDE OF EVERYTHING had its premiere at TIFF in 2017, and went on to win twenty awards, including the IDFA Award for Best Documentary. It was HBO Europe’s first co-production with Serbia, and had a record-breaking theatrical release there. Her debut, CINEMA KOMUNISTO, premiered at IDFA and the Tribeca Film Festival, and went on to win awards including the Gold Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival in 2011, and the FOCAL Award for Creative Use of Archival Footage. GABRIEL TZAFKA An alumnus of Berlinale Talents and Talents Sarajevo, Gabriel Tzafka was born in 1986, and received his MFA in film directing from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2010. His short films have been selected for numerous festivals and have won more than thirty international awards. In 2017 he completed his first featurelength film, THORN, which received the Eurimages Lab Award. ODE TO JOY, his second feature film, was developed at the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab, Jerusalem, and selected for the Cannes Cinéfondation in 2019. ELEONORA VENINOVA Eleonora Veninova is a writer and director of films and television series. Her short films HAIRS and FIGHTING FOR DEATH have won a dozen awards and screened at more than sixty film festivals worldwide. Her most recent work, THE SIGN, was co-written and -directed with Yona Rozenkier as part of the omnibus SEE FACTORY – SARAJEVO MON AMOUR, and had its premiere in the Director’s Fortnight section of the Festival de Cannes. She is currently developing her first feature-length film, SABATTIER EFFECT. FLORIAN WEGHORN Florian Weghorn is the Programme Manager of Berlinale Talents, and a programme advisor for its seven international offshoots, including Talents Sarajevo. He read theatre, film, and television studies at the University of Cologne, and graduated with an MA, majoring in the visual language of melancholy in film. After he joined the Berlinale in 2002, Weghorn was the co-director and curator of the Generation section from 2008 to 2014, and remains a member of the selection committee for the festival’s Official Competition.

Talents Sarajevo #13

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DOMINIQUE WELINSKI After more than twenty years in distribution, Dominique Welinski set up DW, a producing and consulting company. Welinski works as a creative producer, a consultant for development and international strategy, and is an expert and coach for international workshops including Open Doors Locarno, CineMart Rotterdam, Produire au Sud, Fabrique des Cinémas du Monde, Cannes Market, MEDIA, Creative Europe, Focal and the Hubert Bals Fund. In 2012, she set up the Factory in partnership with the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, a programme she has curated and co-produced since. MARYAM ZAREE Maryam Zaree was born in Tehran in 1983. At the age of two, she fled with her mother to Germany to escape political persecution. She studied acting at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, and played the leading role in Burhan Qurbani’s SHAHADA, which screened in the Competition at the 2010 Berlinale. She has since appeared in numerous films for cinema and television. In 2018, she received a Grimme Award for her performance in the series 4 BLOCKS. She made her feature directorial debut with BORN IN EVIN.

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Talents Sarajevo Team Sarajevo Film Festival Board

Mirsad Purivatra FESTIVAL DIRECTOR

Izeta Građević

FESTIVAL CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Jovan Marjanović HEAD OF INDUSTRY

Amra Bakšić Čamo HEAD OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMMES

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Nebojša Jovanović PROGRAMME MANAGER

Dina Ćerić

Nejra Branković GUEST ADMINISTRATOR / TECHNICAL COORDINATOR

Sara Čorbić TALENT ADMINISTRATOR

PROJECT COORDINATOR

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Amila Čirkinagić PROGRAMME MANAGER ASSISTANT AND TALENT PRESS COORDINATOR

Nicholas Davies PROGRAMMING CONSULTANT

Adna Aličić

Emina Emily Džindo

Anja Drljević ACTING STUDIO COORDINATOR

Merima Kutlovac EDITING STUDIO COORDINATOR

SCRIPT STATION COORDINATOR

DIRECTORS SUMMIT COORDINATOR

Benjamin Poturković CAMERA STUDIO COORDINATOR

Sajra Bilajac PRODUCERS SUMMIT COORDINATOR

Albert Ramirez VIDEO AND PHOTO DOCUMENTATION

Osman AbdelMukaram FIELD TECHNICIAN

Anel Drnda FIELD TECHNICIAN

Vedran Poričanin FIELD TECHNICIAN

Armin Zimić FIELD TECHNICIAN

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Talents Sarajevo #13 INNOCENCE UN/PROTECTED 17-22 August 2019 63 Talents in 7 fields of work: 12 actors; 5 cinematographers; 20 directors; 3 editors; 5 film critics; 8 producers; 7 screenwriters. 13 countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey 55 experts 83 conversations, events, panels, presentations, screenings, and workshops A very important segment of the Talents Sarajevo platform is its virtual dimension â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the Online Talent Database. The international pool of Talents, which grows every year, serves primarily as a promotional and networking tool. The profiles of the participants display their general information and video samples of their work. sff.ba https://www.berlinale-talents.de/bt/find/talent

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