Works in Progress 2012

Film synopsis:
After making love, Radu and Adina are starting their day with the last minute preparations for New Year’s Eve Party. Despite the rather festive background, several circumstances indulge one of Radu’s old inner fret. This will lead shortly after New Year’s Eve to the unexpected and inappropriate break-up from Adina. Given now the reluctant situation, Alex suggestes Radu not to end the night there, but to join him and the others in a night tour of several Bucharest clubs. Although reserved, after all that happened, only one thought seems to determine him to accept: the hope of meeting again Nadia, his ex-girlfriend.

Paul - Filmography:
2006 Exam (12’) 2007 Home (14’) 2007 Radu + Ana (8’) 2007 Late (23’) 2008 A short ride (9’) 2008 The Fabulous Destiny of Toma Cuzin (11’) 2009 Renovation (26’)more than 50 selections, awarded with the prize for Best European Short Film - EFA Award (Vila do Conde International Film Festival)winner of the Robert Bosch Co-Production Prize, nominated at the European Film Academy Awards (European Oscars) for the Best Short Film 2010 Derby (15’)more than 20 selections (Berlin, Karlovy Vary, London BFI, Sarajevo etc) 2012 Horizon (11’)selected in Semaine de la Critique

Producer´s Filmography:
2012 – producer - "Everybody in Our Family" by Radu Jude selected in Berlinale Forum IFF, Bafici Argentina, IndieLisboa, Cinema Jove, Namur IFF, Sarajevo IFF, Odessa IFF, Montreal World FF, BFI London IFF, Thessaloniki 2011 – producer "Best Intentions” by Adrian Sitaru Awards: Best Director & Best Actor in Locarno IFF, Best Director & CICAE Award in Vilnius IFF, Best Central & Eastern European Film in Cleveland IFF Selected in: Chicago IFF, Abu Dhabi IFF, Namur IFF, Rio de Janeiro IFF, Cottbus IFF, Dublin IFF, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria IFF, Hong Kong IFF, Uruguay IFF, Istanbul IFF, New Horizons IFF, Melbourne IFF, Bafia IFF, Reykjavik IFF, Mumbai IFF, Zagreb IFF, Thessaloniki IFF

Producer´s Statement:
Our project is currently in the post-production process. We have already decided on the final cut of the project but we are still looking for a suitable sound post production package. Also, in terms of music, we are looking for a partner that would like to join our project and cover around 20000 euro for music rights. As distribution strategy, we plan on releasing the film in an important European Festival and than to approach a country by country method using representative festivals for each country in order to have a good festival exposure so that we can promote it and attract the attention of sales agents and broadcasters, which are missing at this point.

CONTACT AT THE FESTIVAL:

Paul Negoescu /
Manolescu
050583 Bucharest
Romania
Tel. +40723382312 / Fax. +40214103047
[email protected] / www.derbythemovie.ro
Phone at the festival: +40723382312

Ada Solomon / Producer of the film
Hi Film Productions
Traian street 179
024043 Bucuresti
România
Tel. +4021 252 48 67 / Fax. +4021 252 48 66
[email protected] / www.hifilm.ro
Phone at the festival: +40723 200 640

Working version of the film

Film synopsis:
A film based on actual events (that earlier inspired also documentary filmmaker Ewa Pieta, whose LIKE A BUTTERFLY (2004) got numerous prizes at the documentary film festivals in Stockholm, Chicago, Athens, Calgary, Berkeley, etc.)

Mateusz is a man with brain paralysis, considered by doctors and all in his environment as completely unable to connect with the outside world. After around thirty years, it suddenly appears he is intellectually normally developed and intelligent a person.

The story is told in a tragic-comical style, showing that in spite of every troubles, the will to live and hope can prevail.

Maciej Pieprzyca - Filmography:
Born in 1964 in Katowice (Poland), graduated from the Political Sciences and Journalism Dept. of the Silesian University, Scriptwriting Dept. of the State Film School in Łódź and the Directing Dept. of the State Film School in Katowice. He worked as a journalist and television / film scriptwriter. Received numerous awards and distinctions at the international film festivals for his documentary films like "The Different," "By Knock-Out," "I Am a Killer" (Turin, Tel Aviv, Cracow, Lodz) as well as for the tv films "Inferno" and the "Feast of St Barbara." He debuted in 2008 with the "Splinters" awaredd with the Best Actress Prize at the Cairo IFF 2009 among others.

Producer´s Filmography:
Tramway Films is an independent film production studio, founded by Wieslaw Lysakowski, who has been responsible for production of numerous documentary and feature films, like Jan Jakub Kolski’s "Venice" and "To Kill a Beaver", Arkadiusz Jakubik’s "A Simple Story About Love" - the most popular Polish independent film of 2011, or Maciej Pisarek’s short "Waves. Day Return." shown at Slamdance IFF 2007 among others. Currently, the studio develops next feature film projects: Jacek Koprowicz’s "Chopin and Death" or Maciej Kowalewski’s "Three Sisters T." TVP is the Polish Public TV Broadcaster, the biggest TV station in Poland, being at the same time the major film producer from many years.

Producer´s Statement:

CONTACT AT THE FESTIVAL:

Aleksandra Biernacka /
TVP SA
J.P. Woronicza 17
00-999 Warsaw
Poland
Tel. +48 22 547 6774 / Fax. +48 22 547 8070
[email protected] / www.international.tvp.pl
Phone at the festival: +48 601 600 275

Wieslaw Lysakowski / Producer of the film
Tramway Film Studio
14/9 Rejtana str.
02-516 Warsaw
Poland
Tel. +48 22 845 03 52 / Fax. +48 22 845 73 40
[email protected] / www.tramway.pl
Phone at the festival: +46 601 212 743

Working version of the film

Film synopsis:
Dmitrij’s monotonous days drag on, between working in the courthouse and his solitary rock-climbing excursions. In his endeavors to escape the stifling conformity of a small Georgian town, Dmitrij gradually begins to integrate his newly met friend Andrej in his fantasy world. Then Andrej vanishes… Dmitrij soon learns that Andrej has been accused of murder. Whilst being questioned by an attorney, Dmitrij blends the facts necessary for an alibi with the tale of his fantasy. His fractured testimony is met with disbelief at the court hearing. Andrej is ultimately convicted, and, although all would seem lost, Dmitrij begins to nurture a spiritual rebellion within his soul.

Zaza Rusadze - Filmography:
FOLDS AND CRACKS (2009) Short Fiction, writer & director | HD | 8 min | Zazarfilm | Sanguko Films Discovery Award at the 19th Festival of East European Cinema in Cottbus, Germany THE MAN FROM THE EMBASSY (2005) Feature, writer, co–author Dito Tsintsadze | Tatfilm | 35mm | 100 min | ZDF | ARTE | MDM | NRW Silver Astor Award for Best Script at Mar Del Plata Film Festival 2007 BANDITS (2003) Documentary, writer & director | BetaSP | 53 min | ARTE | RRB | Credofilm Audience Award at Punto de Vista Documentary Film Festival of Navarra, Spain Nominated for the Best Graduation Documentary for Media Prize Babelsberg, Germany

Producer´s Filmography:
A FOLD IN MY BLANKET (2012) Post-Production | Feature | 35 mm | color | 80 min with financial support of Georgian National Film Center NEGATIVE NUMBERS (2012) Development | Feature | 35 mm | color | 90 min Mini EAVE Georgia 2012 Script & Project Development Program A BEAR OVER OUR HEADS (2010) Development | Documentary | HD | color | 52 min with financial support of Sundance Documentary Fund FOLDS AND CRACKS (2009) Completed | Short | HD | 8 min | Zazarfilm | Sanguko Films Discovery Award at the 19th Festival of East European Cinema in Cottbus

Producer´s Statement:
The film’s current status is Post-Production with the planned picture lock in July/August 2012. We are seeking for funds to finish the film. We are aiming for the early pre-selection screenings of Berlin Film Festival in September 2013. Our goal is to have the world premiere of the film next year in Panorama. The sales agent is not yet attached to the film and the world territories are available. The involvement of sales at this stage is one of our main goals as well. The entire sound and image post-production is pending and needs to be done in Europe (not possible in Georgia, film is shot on 35 mm). Shooting budget is 350.000 Euros. Roughly 120.000 Euros are missing to complete the film.

CONTACT AT THE FESTIVAL:

Zaza Rusadze / Producer of the film
Zazarfilm
Arsena Street 29
0108 Tbilisi
Georgia
Tel. +995 599 68 90 03
[email protected] / www.zazarusadze.com
Phone at the festival: +49 179 10 62 154

Working version of the film
The completed film will be available on DVD at the Video Room of the Film Industry Office

Film synopsis:
Zane, young teacher with idealistic approach to life is easy to love. Only a maximalist like Zane can establish a true relationship with her class – socially disadvantaged youth from a Riga suburb. She successfully advocates her set of values – truthfulness, unconstraint, fairness, helpfulness – though she’s not quite adept at fulfilling these values herself. Zane doesn’t want to admit that her selflessness and even fanatic approach to her class is a fear of loneliness – she was recently abandoned by her pop-musician husband Eriks. When an unforeseen revelation by one of her students occurs, Zane has to choose between her principles and her own individual happiness.

Andris Gauja - Filmography:
"Family Instinct", documentary, director, FA Film, 2010 "Victors", documentary, director, Vides Filmu Studio, 2009

Producer´s Filmography:
"How Are You Doing, Rudolf Ming?", documentary, producer, director Roberts Rubins, Juris Podnieks Studio, 2010 "The Ship", animation Machinima, associated producer, director Egils Mednis, Svešās Tehnoloģijas, 2007 "The Bitter Wine", feature, producer, director Rolands Kalniņš, Platforma, 2007

Producer´s Statement:
"Graduation Year" is a film about young people targeted for youth. There are non-professionals acting mostly - pupils and students as well some actors like teachers and adults. Main character is played by Inga Alsina. The film is about young people especially graduation year’s students who are five minutes away to be adults, to show they life is the reason for making film. The film still needs some shooting because of appropriate environment and real events in autumn and winter. Rough cut will be available in February 2013. It is small budget film however co-financing is needed for music on post-production. Film primary is supposed for cinema distribution as well for showing at schools.

CONTACT AT THE FESTIVAL:

Andris Gauja / Producer of the film, director
Riverbed
4a, Andrejostas Street
LV-1045 Riga
Latvia
Tel. +371 29192948
[email protected] / www.riverbed.lv
Phone at the festival: +371 291 929 48

Guna Stahovska / Producer of the film, executive producer
Platforma
Dzintaru pr. 19
LV 2015 Jurmala
Latvia
Tel. +371 29473007 / Fax. +371 7147 020
[email protected] / www.platformafilm.com
Phone at the festival: +371 29473007

Working version of the film

Film synopsis:
"Halima’s Path" tells a touching and redeeming story of a good-natured Muslim woman Halima who unsuccessfully tries to identify the remains of her young son killed in the Bosnian war, realizing that the only solution is to find her estranged niece who now lives in the Serbian part of Bosnia and who carries a mysterious connection to him. Still, after finding her niece who at first refuses to help her, Halima sees that the spiral of tragic events from the past suddenly continues in the present, disrupting once again the troubled lives of the characters.

Arsen Anton Ostojic - Filmography:
Arsen Anton Ostojic received his BA in film directing from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb, Croatia and his MFA in filmmaking from New York University, both with honors. He made two award winning feature films, which both were Croatian candidates for an Academy Award: "A Wonderful Night in Split” in 2004, nominated for the European Film Academy Discovery Award, won 24 awards at 40 festivals and "No One’s Son" in 2008, included in the 2009 Selection of the European Film Academy; won 14 awards at 20 festivals. He recently completed shooting his third feature film "Halima’s Path”, currently in postproduction. He is a member of the European Film Academy.

Producer´s Filmography:
Slobodan Trninic is one of the top Croatian directors or photography. He worked as Director of Photography on 26 feature films in Europe; he was second unit DP of more than 20 American and European feature films and TV films; he shot 30 documentaries and more than 100 commercials. For his work he was twice awarded as the best Croatian cinematographer at the national film festival in Pula; He received prestigeous awards in Slovenia and in Macedonia. In 2010 he coproduced "Besa" ("The Oath") directed by Srdjan Karanovic and produced by Bas Celik from Serbia. He is the member of the European Film Academy. Arsen Anton Ostojic is the other producer of the film.

Producer´s Statement:
The film was shot on negative, with the top cast and crew from Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia and Serbia. We are currently doing sound design, music, color correction and visual effects. We are planning to participate at the Croatian national film festival in Pula at the end of July. Although it could be said there have been enough Balkan war stories, the fact is that there is always a need for truthful and touching human dramas, regardless of which part of the world they come. What attracted us to this project is primarily the powerful emotional story loosely based on the facts, written by the successful Bosnian writer, Fedja Isovic, with his strong sense for characters and narrative flow.

CONTACT AT THE FESTIVAL:

Arsen Anton Ostojić / Producer of the film
Arkadena Zagreb
Oporovecka 12
10000 Zagreb
Croatia
Tel. +385 1 467 3548
[email protected] / www.arsenantonostojic.com
Phone at the festival: +385 98 414 981

Working version of the film

Film synopsis:
Antonis arrives in a luxurious hotel by the sea.
It is wintertime and he wanders around in the empty, closed for the season hotel while his "dissapearance" is headline on all media.For twenty years, he has been the main presenter of a popular morning show in a leading TV Channel.
Very soon, he will have to end this charade and return. He dreams of his celebratory comeback. But he is not ready to do so...
His non-return is the only pathway in order to preserve his personal "immortality".

Elina Psykou - Filmography:
"Sunday trip” fiction, 35mm, colour, 9΄, 2004 "Summer Holidays” fiction, 35mm, color, 18΄, 2006

Producer´s Filmography:
Giorgos was born in 1973 in Athens.He joined STEFI in 1998 and is the General Manager of the company since 2007. He entered the film production with the film "Wasted Youth” which was the Opening film of the 40th Rotterdam Film Festival. His second feature "Boy Eating the Bird’s Food” is selected for the KVIFF 2012 Official Selection. "The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas” is his third feature attempt while having several other projects in development. Since 2011 he is a member of A.C.E.

Producer´s Statement:
The film is in final post production stage and we are looking for finishing funds,festivals to launch it and sales agents.

CONTACT AT THE FESTIVAL:

Giorgos Karnavas / Producer of the film
Stefi Productions
Amyklon 24 Halandri
Athens
Greece
Tel. +30 210 638 6200 / Fax. +30 210 610 8918
[email protected] / www.stefi.gr
Phone at the festival: + 30 694 567 60 69

Elina Psykou / director
Stefi Productions
Amyklon 24 Halandri
Athens
Greece
Tel. +30 210 638 6200 / Fax. +30 210 610 8918
/ www.stefi.gr

Working version of the film

Film synopsis:
Love Me or Leave

Mother and daughter compete for the same man, caught in a cycle dangerous passions.

Three best friends, in their best years, decide to celebrate a divorce, birthday and sexual adventures at their cabin. They didn’t expect Zuzana’s sixteen year old daughter, who besides her rebellion against the world of conventions carries a hate for her mother and a desire to be loved at any cost.

Mariana Čengel Solčanská - Filmography:
Mariana Čengel Solčanská studied political and cultural sciences at the University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra, from which she graduated in 2005. She proceeded to study film and television directing with Martin Sulik at the University of the Muse of the Arts in Bratislava. In 2010 as the only one from the young generation of Slovakian directors came out with two feature films, a historical drama Legend of the Flying Ciprian and a television drama Obhliadka. Both received the longest running Slovak film award Ingric. In 2012 she was nominated for the award Slnko v Sieti by the Slovak Film Academy.

Producer´s Filmography:
The production company JMB Film &TV Production was established in August 1991 in Prague and in March followed the foundation of the company JMB Film &TV Production in Bratislava. During the last years, JMB Bratislava has placed its focus mainly on the development and production of audiovisual projects in the field of fiction feature and documentary film, television projects and programmes, non-profit projects for charity purposes. It also provides services to production companies abroad. Movies: visible world, the cherry boy, half-life, terminal station, halt or i’ll miss, the camp of fallen women, jašek’s dream, …crying for the moon, the gendur family, on the beautiful, blue danube

Producer´s Statement:
The film is in post-production, after approval of a working copy sound track, music and a title song recording is planned for august 2012. Distribution is planned for november 2012. We would like to release the film in the Czech Republic afterwards. We are awaiting additional financing for distribution budget of approx. 25.000 EUR.

CONTACT AT THE FESTIVAL:

Milan Stráňava / Producer of the film
JMB Film & TV Production, s. r. o.
Koreničova 12
811 03 Bratislava
Slovak Republic

[email protected] / www.jmbfilm.sk
Phone at the festival: +421 905 702 467

Ondrej Starinský /
JMB Film & TV Production, s. r. o.
Riazanská 55
831 03 Bratislava
Slovak Republic
Tel. +421 907 475 986
[email protected] / www.jmbfilm.sk
Phone at the festival: +421 907 475 986

Working version of the film

Film synopsis:
An adventurous and touching story of Raimonds, a misunderstood adolescent, who trying to console his relationship with mother, delves into the world of trouble and petty crime.

Janis Nords - Filmography:
Amateur – 2008 (feature) Au Revoir Monkeys – 2011 (short) Freedom Day – 2010 (short) Return of Sergeant Lapins – 2010 (feature / script)

Producer´s Filmography:
"Return of Sergeant Lapins" (feature directed by Gatis Smits) (2010) - National film award "Lielais Kristaps" for Best actor "Vogelfrei" (feature directed by Janis Kalejs, Gatis Smits, Janis Putnins, Anna Viduleja) (2007) - National film award "Lielais Kristaps" for Best feature, Best script; Pussan International Film Festival (South Korea), Rotterdam International Film Festival (Netherlands), Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Czech Republic).

Producer´s Statement:

CONTACT AT THE FESTIVAL:

Alise Gelze / Producer of the film, Local film distributor, Local Sales Agent
Tanka
Dzirnavu 74-76
LV-1010 Riga
Latvia
Tel. +371 2615 6356
[email protected]
Phone at the festival: +371 2615 6356

Working version of the film

Film synopsis:
A one day story of eighteen year old Marek living near Slovak -Moravian border with his dad and with his racist friends - hooligans, however Marek’s best friend is his dog. Marek’s life is shaken up when he discovers the secret of his lost mother.

Mira Fornay - Filmography:
Her shorts have won and been selected for numerous international festivals. Her first feature, LÍŠTIČKY/FOXES premiered in the International Critic’s Week competition during the 2009 Venice Film Festival and she traveled for it during top world festivals such as IFF Pusan, IFF Warsaw, IFF Stockholm, IFF Rotterdam, IFF Seattle and many others. Mira received several awards for FOXES in Slovakia such as The Best Young Filmmaker for 2008-2009 awarded by Slovak Film and TV Academy, Slovak Film Critics’ Award for 2010 and the prize for The Most Talented Filmmaker under the age of 35 awarded by Tatra banka in 2010.

Producer´s Filmography:
MIRAFOX, founded in 2007, is dedicated to developing and producing arthouse cinema, in particular artistic work that enables social critique and an anthropological approach. MIRAFOX jointly with CINEART TV PRAGUE produced *Foxes*, the first feature film by Mira Fornay. CINEART TV PRAGUE was founded in 1992. The producer and owner of CINEART, Viktor Schwarcz, strives to support directors on their first or second feature film. The company has been producing feature films since 1998, including *Wild Bees* by Bohdan Sláma, which won the Tiger Award at in Rotterdam in 2002 and the SKYY Prize in San Francisco, and *Vaterland* by David Jarab, which won a Czech Lion for Best Art Direction.

Producer´s Statement:
Our slovak-czech coproduction film is performed by nonactors in their native dialect of slovak-moravian region. The film opens question of raising racist movement in contemporary Europe.As filmmakers we try to push limits of storytelling and the use of film language. Its one day story told/shot in a structure following the context of actions not only the actions on its own. Our main goal is to make people think. The film is at the early postproduction’s stage. We’re open to join third european co-producer with min. 10% - 15% contribution from overall budget (1mil Euro). We’d like to succeed to premiere our film on a world film festival before cinema release in our countries of origin.

CONTACT AT THE FESTIVAL:

Mira Fornay / Producer of the film, Director
Mirafox / Cineart TV Prague
Ke hrádku 11
148 00 Praha
Česká republika
Tel. + 420 603 745 519
[email protected]
Phone at the festival: +420 603 745 519

Working version of the film

Film synopsis:
The story of two young women begins at a crucial point of their lives. They have to rid themselves of failures and breakdowns, to begin again and tread a different path. Louise wants to perform in the theater which her proprietorial husband sees as betrayal. Erika is reliant on her graft, she yearns for higher eduction and better work. The story is told retrospectively, as an echo of psychiatrist treatment which Luisa undergoes. We can see her unable to speak to anybody, suffering, moveless. Then she opens herself to the doctor who shows her the new path and we can see what exactly happen to her and Erika. The film matures, similarly to the main characters within. Was the therapy successful?

Ivan Vojnár - Filmography:
Ivan Vojnar (*1942) is a documentary and fiction film director. He graduated Prague’s FAMU in 1965 at DOP department and he started to work with "new wave" directors like Jan Němec, Jaromil Jireš, Drahomíra Vihanová and Karel Vachek. He started to shoot his own documentaries at the end of eighties. In 1995 his feature length documentary essay In the Garden was awarded at Karlovy Vary IFF. His first feature film The Way Through the Bleak Woods was premiered in competition of Rotterdam IFF in 1997 and was awarded by several prizes at Noordelijk Film Festival and New European Talent Festival in Barcelona. An Unlikely Romance is his fourth feature film.

Producer´s Filmography:
Ivan Vojnár Film is a production company founded by the director himself to take care of production of his films. It gathers the team of producers and talents that are working with him since 1995. The company produced his feature films Forest Walkers (2003) - premiered at Rotterdam IFF, My Husband’s Women (2008) and documentaries Prophets and Poets (2000) - premiered at Rotterdam IFF, Reminiscing (2006) and Cinematherapy (2010) - premiered in Karlovy Vary IFF and presented at more than 15 festivals all around the world.

Producer´s Statement:
The budget is 800.000 Euro and we have covered 70% of it. The shooting of the first part of the film (hospital) is finished and the second part (retrospectives) will start this summer. The film is a coproduction of Ivan Vojnar Film, post production studio I/O Post and Plan B Films with the support of local distributor Artcam. The project was offered to Czech TV and we are awaiting their response. The main cast are young talented actress / singers that can attract younger audiences. At KVIFF we are searching for sales agent, distributors, TV sales and we would like to find out how is the interest of festival programmers.

CONTACT AT THE FESTIVAL:

Přemysl Martinek / Local film distributor
Film Distribution Artcam
Rašínovo nábřeží 6
128 00 Praha 2
Česká republika
Tel. +420 221 411 666 / Fax. +420 221 411 699
[email protected] / www.artcam.cz
Phone at the festival: +420 775 614 170

Tomáš Bojar / Producer of the film
Cinema Arsenal, s.r.o.
Na vršku 8
150 00 Praha 5
Česká republika
Tel. +420 604 472 934
[email protected]
Phone at the festival: +420 604 472 934

Working version of the film

Film synopsis:
Three years after an apocalyptic event has decimated 99.99% of the planet’s population, a young man ends his dramatic pilgrimage that brought a grim conclusion: he has found none of his relatives, friends or acquaintances alive. Now his motivation lies in a mysterious flyer which drives him to see a show that would explain "what the hell happened”. His journey is marked by encounters with few isolated survivors, an uncommunicative alien, an ordinary criminal, a ferocious pseudo-zombie, a few high-tech soldiers... and a girl.

George Dorobantu - Filmography:
"Elevator" (Romania, 2008, drama, 85 min), "Bucharestless" (Romania, 2011, essay film, 93 min), "Suspense 101" (Romania, 2012, thriller, 16 min). "Elevator" was awarded "Best Romanian Debut" award at Transilvania IFF (Romania), "Fresh Generation Award" at Fresh Film Fest (Czech Republic), "Audience Feature Choice Award" at Auburn IFF (Australia), "Best Editing" by the Romanian Filmmakers Association, "Audience Choice Award" & "Best First Film” at South-East European FF (USA).

Producer´s Filmography:
"Aliaj - a rehearsal" (Romania, 2004, rock documentay, 20 min), "Elevator" (Romania, 2008, drama, 85 min), "Guru/Kiddo" (Romania, 2009, noir comedy, 9 min), "Bucharestless" (Romania, 2011, essay film, 93 min), "Suspense 101" (Romania, 2012, thriller, 16 min).

Producer´s Statement:
We consider this film as "almost the last story of adventure, war and love in the world". With a production budget of 210.000 euros and currently in rough-cut editing stage, the post-production needs 30.000 euros for color-grading, sound mixing, a few VFX adjustments and DCP-packaging. We’re also looking for international sales agents and distributors interested in the film.

CONTACT AT THE FESTIVAL:

George Dorobantu / Producer of the film, Writer / Director
Keep Movieng
Bucharest
Romania

[email protected] / www.KeepMovieng.com
Phone at the festival: +40 742 551 380

Working version of the film

Film synopsis:
A psychological thriller, based on events that took place in a small town in southern Poland few years ago.

Army Captain Derczynski, lives a peaceful life with a beloved wife and three children. One day, he comes across a swindle, committed by his superiors, and they discharge him to cover the case. Believing he discovered a fraud, or even an anti-Polish conspiracy, captain decides to protect himself and his family.

His conservative ideals provide him an explanation of the events and back a rising conviction that enforcing a special measures of family’s protection is necessary. Derczynski shuts them down in apartment, isolating from the outside world - a source of all evil and danger.

Tadeusz Krol - Filmography:
Born in 1963 in Lodz, Poland, director and scriptwriter of numerous documentary and feature films. Debuted in 1990 with the feature "Jacosta," his later films have been awarded among others in Rotterdam (Cinemart Prize for the screenplay "Metastasis" 1994), Umea, Lisbon, and shown at Cannes IFF ("Buried Alive" - 1995 and "The Heart Behind a Sluice" - 1996). Between 2002 and 2006 he oversaw the documentary films dept. at TVP2, and afterwards directed several documentary and feature films, like: "Barber’s Hand" (doc, 2007), "Parents’ Circle" (doc, 2008), "Life Is Awesome" (doc, 2009), "Recruited Love" (2010), and the "Blue Flowers" (doc, 2011).

Producer´s Filmography:

Producer´s Statement:

CONTACT AT THE FESTIVAL:

Aleksandra Biernacka /
TVP SA
17, J.P. Woronicza str
00-999 Warsaw
Poland
Tel. 48 22 547 6774 / Fax. 48 22 547 8070
[email protected] / www.international.tvp.pl
Phone at the festival: +48 601 600 275

Working version of the film

Film synopsis:
A peaceful village embodying the idyllic beauty of the Polish countryside harbours a dark secret: the collective murder by the inhabitants of their Jewish neighbours during World War II.

Two brothers discover the secret and are forced to revise their perception of their father, their entire family and the history of their nation.

Wladyslaw Pasikowski - Filmography:
One of the best Polish directors, has won many prizes at festivals and is an audience favourite. Kroll, a thriller about desertion, won Best Debut Award and Jury Special Prize at the Polish FF. His crime thrillers, Pigs (1992) and Pigs 2 (1994), based on the political changes of 1989, became a hit in Polish cinemas in the 1990s and brought Pasikowski the Best Directing Award at the Polish FF and a Golden Duck Award for Best Film of Film magazine Pasikowski is also the director of two seasons of the crime TV series The Cop (2004-08), acclaimed by critics as "the best Polish crime series ever". Pasikowski is also the co-writer of Katyn (2007), Andrzej Wajda’s Oscar-nominated film.

Producer´s Filmography:
Apple Film Production, one of the first and leading independent production companies in Poland. To date the company has produced many feature films with famous Polish directors like Agnieszka Holland, Krzysztof Krauze, Robert Glinski , Filip Bajon , Wladyslaw Pasikowski , Malgorzata Szumowska, Andrzej Jakimowski, Krzysztof Zanussi Wojciech Smarzowski and many others International directors Apple worked with are: Vladimir Michalek, Agnieszka Lukasiak, MIchale Boganim, Ami Drodz, Michael Kreihsl. Many projects are made in international co-productions with Czech, Slovakia, Hungary, France, Austria, Sweden, Israel and Germany and frequently supported by Eurimages and MEDIA Program.

Producer´s Statement:
Aftermath is a co-production of 4 countries with Eurimages support. Film is almost ready at the very last stage of postproduction. We are looking for good sales agent, as well cinema distributors and broadcasters. The story even happening in Poland applies to many European countries and that was the reason of strong interest of co-producing countries as well as high scoring at the Eurimages. Involvment of Oskar winning production designer Allan Starski and nominated for the Oskar, Cezar winner for the film " The Pianist” DoP - Paweł Edelman enrich the quality of the thriller directed by Wladyslaw Pasikowski.

CONTACT AT THE FESTIVAL:

Dariusz Jablonski / Producer of the film
Apple Film Production
Bukowinska 22 lok 3 B
02-703 Warsaw
Poland
Tel. +48 22 851 84 40
[email protected] / www.applefilm.pl
Phone at the festival: +48 507 027 065

Violetta Kaminska / Producer of the film
Apple Film Production
Bukowinska 22 lok 3 B
02 703 Warsaw
Poland
Tel. +48 22 851 84 40
[email protected] / www.applefilm.pl
Phone at the festival: +48 501 299 276

Working version of the film

Film synopsis:
Vedran, an ex-convict, reunites with his estranged children. He establishes a relationship with them, a fatherhood he’d never known before. At the same time he grows distant from his wife.
Nataša is pregnant, but diagnosed with cancer. She intensely focuses on what sort of an environment she wants to leave her child in.
Ives is finding it increasingly hard to accept her father’s dementia. She feels trapped in a circle of illness and her relationship with her father. She wants to cut all ties to the reclusive life she leads.
All three characters are at the turning points where they don’t know what to do with themselves and ’others’ – the ones closest to them, the ones they live with.

Ivona Juka - Filmography:
Ivona Juka is the author of „Facing the Day", the most awarded Croatian documentary film, - Best documentary goEast FF Germany, Sarajevo FF, Grand Prix and etc. Film had successful cinema distribution in multiplexes and televisions. Her short fiction films „Garbage" and „Editing", were awarded and selected in Official competition of numerous festivals. She was selected by European Film Academy to make short film for awards ceremony in Berlin, and to participate at conference «Cinema of Tomorrow» as one of the European directors – "of tomorrow”. Her film "VIEW FROM A WELL” was awarded as BEST SHORT FILM at American International FF 2010 and Ivona was awarded as BEST DIRECTOR.

Producer´s Filmography:
"Facing the Day”,"Bad Blue Boys", won major awards at - GoEast FF, Sarajevo FF. Also in competition at the festivals of San Paulo, Oberhausen, Teheran, Hamburg, Montreal,Toronto,Budapest,Rotterdam etc. "Some other stories” presented at 30 International FF, among others: Montreal, Warsaw, Valladolid, Cairo, Kerala, Goteborg, Manheim-Heidelberg and many others and won 4 international awards. "Slovenian Girl” (by Damjan Kozole,delegate producer:Dane Hocevar) was in competition at Warsaw, Sarajevo, Toronto, Reykjavik, Valencia FF etc. At 39th Karlovy Vary IFF "Here” (by Zrinko Ogresta) won Crystal Globe In 2010. member of the jury at Warsaw FF and in 2011. at Czech National FF in Plzen

Producer´s Statement:
Croatian-Slovenian-Serbian co-production Script: So far the script won 4 awards – in Germany: eQuinoxe Master Class Scholarship and Nipkow fellowship, Branko Bauer award presented by Croatian Directors Guild and City of Split - Critics award Production team: 4Film(Cro),Vertigo(Slo),Sloane Film Production(Serbia) The project has been recognized by international institutions and foundations such as the Croatian audiovisual centre as the best debut film,Slovenian film centre,Serbian ministry of culture and Eurimages. The film features some of the greatest movie stars in the region. We are looking funds for post-production and Sales Agents/Distribution Company for worldwide sales

CONTACT AT THE FESTIVAL:

Ivona Juka / Director
4 Film
Bauerova 6
10000 Zagreb
Croatia
Tel. +385 1 4828 774 / Fax. +385 1 48 28 775
[email protected] / www.4film.hr
Phone at the festival: +385912519449

Anita Juka / Producer of the film
4 Film
Bauerova 6
10000 Zagreb
Croatia
Tel. +385 1 4828 774 / Fax. +385 148 28 775
[email protected] / www.4film.hr
Phone at the festival: +385 91 251 28 03

Working version of the film

Film synopsis:
Vladimir Putin’s new presidential term began in May 2012. Six months before that Putin’s stability had expired. Time has speeded up. Time has changed. Time is flowing in a different direction.
What’s going to happen next? Who’s going to be tomorrow’s hero? When we started shooting this film, we wanted to answer these very questions. We neither keep a chronicle of the protest rallies, nor make a news report. We record the thoughts and emotions of the opposition leaders. We want to understand where they lead us. What they call us up for. Even when they also face a term—in jail.

Pavel Kostomarov, Alexandr Rastorguev - Filmography:
I DON’T LOVE YOU, 2012 dir. Pavel Kostomarov, Alexandr Rastorguev (Kinotavr National Festival Prize) I LOVE YOU, 2011 dir. Pavel Kostomarov, Alexandr Rastorguev(Rotterdamm IFF 2011) HOW I ENDED THIS SUMMER, 2010, dop Pavel Kostomarov (Berlin IFF Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement) THE MOTHER, 2007 dir. Pavel Kostomarov(with Antoine Cattin)(The Best East European Film Award at Leipzig IFF) TENDER’S HEAT. WILD, WILD BEACH, 2006 dir. Alexandr Rastorguev (Special Jury Prize at 19th IDFA; LAVR National Award of Documentary Films) LIFE IN PEACE, 2004, dir. Pavel Kostomarov (with Antoine Cattin)(Silver Dove Award at Leipzig IFF, Germany)

Producer´s Filmography:
1. Aviator Production (Russia) Producers Aleksey Pivovarov, Sarkis Orbelyan Rzhev: General Zhukov’s Unknown Battle, 2009; Moscow. Fall of 1941, 2010; The Captive Heroes of Brest, 2010; Betrayal: The Story of Vlasov’s Second Shock Army, 2011; June 22, 1941: Fateful Decisions (2011). One of the films, Rzhev: General Zhukov’s Unknown Battle got Nika Award (Russian Oscar). 1. Marx Film (Estonia). Producers Max Tuula and Maria Gavrilova. I DON’T LOVE YOU / Ya tebya ne lyublyu, 2012 dir. Pavel Kostomarov, Alexandr Rastorguev (Kinotavr National Festival Prize for "The Unbearable Lightness Of Being") MAY DAY, 2012 dir. Svetlana Strelnikova for ARTE produced project 15 Young about Young

Producer´s Statement:
Status: in production / post-production The film is being shot and edited simultaneously. The pieces of the future film appear online on Facebook as we shoot them. We’re searching for the budget of 1,2 mlns euro to finish the film. The Term project can exist in three forms – a feature film, TV-series and a web-resource. Budjet: 1,2 mln euros.

CONTACT AT THE FESTIVAL:

Alexey Pivovarov / Producer of the film
Aviator Production
Basovskaya st. 8
109202 Moscow
Russia

[email protected] / www.alexeypivovarov.com
Phone at the festival: +79 035 099 754

Maxim Tuula / co-producer
Marx Film
Keemia 19
10616 Tallinn
Estonia
Tel. +7926175 25 72
[email protected] / www.marxfilm.com
Phone at the festival: + 79 262 479 847

Working version of the film

Film synopsis:
Dimitris, an indebted self-employed telecommunications engineer, shuts down his small business. Desperate for quick money, he accepts a job offer from his friend Nick who works for Dimitris’ ex boss. The two men must get rid of the hackers who keep intruding into the antennas of the company. Their investigation leads to a suspicious flat in a big block of flats, where they find an illegal hidden antenna. Dimitris starts spying on Panayota, an ill-looking tenant of the block, with whom he gradually gets closer. Filled with remorse, Dimitris switches off the illegal antenna and takes a trip to his hometown Skydra, in the north of Greece. After this trip, he will be more honest to himself.

Yannis Sakaridis - Filmography:
America Square (feature, 2013) In development. Director-Screenwriter. First award 4th Crossroads Co-production Forum 2008 Thessaloniki Film Festival. Truth (short, 2006) Director-Screenwriter. Thessaloniki Film Festival (Honorary Prize from the National awards), Raindance Film Festival, Drama Film Festival (Special Jury Prize and award for Best Music). Mausoleum (short 2004) Raindance Film Festival, Drama Film Festival, Orange Best Shorts. Dogkillers (short, 1996) Decay (short, 1996) Buskers (short, 1995)

Producer´s Filmography:
Venia Vergou Wild Duck (feature, 2012) In post-production. Producer Choriner Strasse (feature, 2014) In development. Screenwriter. Scpript funded by the Greek Film Center. Yannis Sakaridis (see director’s filmography)

Producer´s Statement:
Wild Duck is a feature film with a strong political value, both in terms of its production process and its content. Within a paralyzed state-funding production system in the economically hit Greek film industry, Wild Duck is a totally independent film, made as a result of a team work among friends and collaborators who believed in it from day one. It was shot in RED Epic, in Athens and in the north of Greece within twenty three days. Our goal is to have its premiere in one of the major film festivals and we are looking for a sales agent who will appreciate its daring qualities and will support it throughout its festival career.

CONTACT AT THE FESTIVAL:

Yannis Sakaridis / Producer of the film, Screenwriter-Director
Athens Filmmakers´ Coop
6 psaron Str., Ilioupoli
163 45 Athens
Greece
Tel. 0030 6945206744
[email protected]
Phone at the festival: 0030 6945206744

Venia Vergou / Producer of the film
Athens Filmmakers´ Coop
6 psaron Str., Ilioupoli
163 45 Athens
Greece
Tel. + 30 6932613948
[email protected]
Phone at the festival: + 30 6932613948

Working version of the film

Film synopsis:
Yavuz (58) sings popular songs from the ’70s, but his career has sunk to irregular performances in a shopping mall and teaching music on free municipality courses. Neşe (30), one of his students, has a real talent for music, but earns a living by promoting sausages at supermarket stands. When Yavuz is offered a singing job in Yozgat, he asks Nese to accompany him. Before long, Yavuz and Neşe meet Sabri (30), a barber who has two ambitions in life: to get married and to open a women’s hairdressing salon. A friendship begins to grow between Neşe and Sabri, throwing Yavuz into a state of inward anxiety. The choice that Neşe now faces is between two different men and two different lifestyles.

Mahmut Fazil Coskun - Filmography:
Mahmut Fazil Coskun was born in 1973 and studied film at UCLA and Istanbul Bilgi University. He has been working professionally as a documentary and commercial film director since 2000. Yozgat Blues is his second feature film. Selected filmography: Wrong Rosary (2009): Tiger Award at Rotterdam Film Festival 2009, Best Screenplay, Director, Actor at Istanbul Film Festival 2009, Best Balkan Film at Sofia Film Festival 2009, other 15 awards and over 50 festivals. Documentaries: Architect Sinan (2010) / Living: Cahit Zarifoglu (2004) / Roger Garaudy – Kommunist (2003) / Aliya (2002): Turkish Authors Association Award

Producer´s Filmography:
Halil Kardaş was born in 1974 and graduated from Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul. He has been producing commercials and documentaries for national and international TV channels, such as Al Jazeera and TRT. Selected filmography: Dream Catchers, Extraordinary Imams, Oil wrestlers, Istanbul’s Travellers German co-producer Andro Steinborn (The Countess, Goodbye Bafana, Funny Games): In more than 12 years in the film industry, Andro has overseen the production of more than 40 feature films. After more than one decade as Producer, Managing Director and Advisor for X Filme, Studio Babelsberg and other companies, in 2010 he established his own production house Arden Film.

Producer´s Statement:
Yozgat Blues is a subtle, bittersweet dramedy about a Turkish way of life rarely portrayed in cinema. The director’s fresh point of view and the universality of the story has been attracting great interest from the film industry. Additionally, the actors and crew are extremely talented and multiple award winners. Budget: 950.900€ (850.900€ in place) Awards: Eurimages Co-Production Development Award/Meeting on the Bridge Development and Postproduction Award Partners attached: Arden Film (Germany)/Eurimages (production funding)/Turkish Cultural Ministry/ Tiglon (Turkish distributor)/TRT Channel (Turkish TV) Looking for: Financing, Distributors, Sales Agents, TV channels, etc.

CONTACT AT THE FESTIVAL:

Catharina Schreckenberg / Executive Producer
Arden Film
Goethe Strasse 81
10623 Berlin
Germany
Tel. +49 176 358 979 51 / Fax. +49 30 887 1448 10
[email protected] / www.ardenfilm.com
Phone at the festival: +49 176 358 979 51

Tarik Tufan / Scriptwriter
Hokus Fokus
Yeni Yuva Sk. 7/2 Cihangir-Beyoglu
34433 Istanbul
Turkey
Tel. +90 533 7780877 / Fax. +90 212 249 9435
[email protected] / www.hokusfokusfilm.com

Working version of the film

Film synopsis:
Eric is a 21-year-old talented student at the Moscow Conservatory.
The story unfolds over 3 days leading up to the music competition in which he’ll perform a song from Schubert’s Winterreise song cycle.
A 23-year-old named Lyokha from provincial town comes barging into Eric’s life. Lyokha is everything Eric is not - he is rude, full of life and even violent, and soon enough he finds himself in grave trouble.
Watching Eric’s performance at the competition from backstage Lyokha experiences something he does not understand - emotions so intense, yet sublime and magnetic.The two young men find themselves overwhelmed by the great passion they cannot bear, which leads them to the inevitable.

Sergey Taramaev, Luyba Lvova - Filmography:

Producer´s Filmography:

Producer´s Statement:

CONTACT AT THE FESTIVAL:

Mary Nazari / Local film distributor, Local Sales Agent
Too Much Pictures
Maluy Sykharevskiy pereulok 9
101000 Moscow
Russia
Tel. +7 495 7897837 / Fax. +7 495 7897837
[email protected]
Phone at the festival: +7 903 589 7837

Working version of the film