Sarajevo’s co-production market’s first batch of projects includes new films by Erol Mintas, Ivana Mladenovic

The Sarajevo Film Festival has announced first eight selected projects for this year’s edition of CineLink.

They have been chosen from the first call for entries which was intended for projects from first- and second-time directors interested in the preparatory workshop, set for April 3-7.

The selection includesx Crows by director Erol Mintas and producer Asli Erdem from Turkey, who return to Sarajevo one year after winning the Heart of Sarajevo for best film with The Song Of My Mother, and best actor for Feyyaz Duman.

Serbian-born and Romanian-based director Ivana Mladenovic, whose film Turn off the Lights won the Heart of Sarajevo for best documentary in 2012, teams up with producer Ada Solomon for her first fiction feature, Soldiers.

Greece’s Dimitris Bavellas whose Runaway Day was in competition in 2013, is coming with the project In the Strange Pursuit of Laura Durand.

The second call for entries for this year’s CineLink, aimed at projects from established film-makers, in advanced stage of development and financing, is open from April 1 to 27.

LIST OF PROJECTS:

LANKARAN

  • Azerbeijan / France
  • Director: Elvin Adigozel
  • Producer: Gillaume de Saille
  • Production company: Arizona Productions

A COAT OF GOLD

  • Hungary / Romania
  • Director: Cristina Grosan
  • Producer: Dora Nedeczky
  • Production company: Mindwax Ltd.

  IN THE STRANGE PURSUIT OF LAURA DURAND

  • Greece
  • Director: Dimitris Bavellas
  • Porducer: Gina Petropoulou
  • Production company: Vox Productions

OTAR’S DEATH

  • Georgia / Germany
  • Director: Ioseb Bliadze
  • Producer: Eva Blondiau
  • Production company: Color of May, Imanov&BlondiauFilmproduktionGbR

THE SON

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Director: Ines Tanovic
  • Producer: Alem Babic
  • Production company: Dokument

CROWS

  • Turkey
  • Director: Erol Mintas
  • Producer: Asli Erdem
  • Production company: Mintas Film

NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT

  • Macedonia / Czech Republic
  • Director: Dimitar Banov
  • Producer: Marek Novak
  • Production company: Xova Film, s.r.o.

SOLDIERS

  • Romania
  • Director: Ivana Mladenovic
  • Producer: Ada Solomon
  • Production company: Hi Film