The documentary A Hunter Girl tells the story of a young girl Nurazhar and her father Nurlan. They are engaged in the ancient Salbuurun hunt, which is done with taigans (a Kyrgyz hunting dog). We see how father and daughter become equal partners in the hunt. Their lifestyle challenges gender norms: Nurazhar learns to hunt alongside her father, breaking the tradition of passing on the knowledge of hunting from father to son. Together they overcome stereotypes and demonstrate the evolution of tradition in modern society.
Sulaimanova Suiumkan is an excellent cinematographer working in the Kyrgyz Republic, a member of the Union of Cinematographers of the Kyrgyz Republic, a member of the Association of Producers of the Kyrgyz Republic and a member of the U. Kudaibergenova Federation of Stuntmen. She has extensive experience in movie production and is a student of the famous Kyrgyz director Ernest Abdyzhaparov. For her debut short film Snow Leopard, she won the Golden Globe Prize and Scholarship (HFPA) and received the 2019 Best Asian Short Film nomination at the Asian World Film Festival (AWFF) in Los Angeles. A Hunter Girl is her debut independent documentary.
Koychubekov Zhumanazar, a director and cameraman, co-founded the Creative Center public foundation in 2019. The foundation's mission is to produce socially significant audiovisual projects aimed at promoting positive and creative values within the country. In 2018, he obtained a degree in cinematography from B. Beishenalieva University, and in 2021 he earned a master's degree in journalism from the American University of Central Asia. Over the course of his career from 2007 to 2024, he has worked on 16 feature films, 20 documentaries and 15 short films.
Nurazhar is 13 years old. Her courage and fortitude symbolize the struggle of women in our society. I strive to tell their story not only as the life of a girl who is passionate about hunting, but also as a relationship between father and daughter that is imbued with respect and mutual understanding. My goal is to share the story of Nurazhar with the world through cinema. I want to show not only her life and her achievements, but also highlight the importance of support and solidarity among women. My story is a call to fight for equality and justice, which I hope will be heard and understood by the world community.
Creative Center
Dinara Asanova street 1, 720030, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
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Suiumkan Sulaimanova | Director, Scriptwriter
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Zhumanazar Koychubekov | Co-Producer
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Amedspor, a minor football club from the Turkish second league, came into the spotlight when it decided to reclaim its Kurdish identity. While the “peace process” aiming to improve Kurdish citizens’ right in Turkey was on the verge of collapsing, the team was emerging as a strong competitor. However, the club found itself in turmoil due to the escalating Kurdish-Turkish conflict. They are often attacked by nationalist fans during away games, hence traveling under police escort. The chants and banners of Amedspor supporters are often perceived as “terrorist propaganda” by the Football Federation. The club has had to pay record-breaking fines, and the footballers receive frequent suspensions. The film follows Amedspor and its loyal fans during a turbulent football season against this backdrop.
Rezan Yeşilbaş (1977, Turkey) graduated from the Cinema and TV Department of Marmara University in Istanbul. He started his career as an assistant director on Zeki Demirkubuz’s Kıskanmak (Envy, 2008) and Yeraltı (Inside, 2012). Yeşilbaş’s short film Bé Deng (Silent, 2012) won several awards, including the Golden Palm for Best Short Film in Cannes and the Best Fiction Film Award at Melbourne International Film Festival. Together with Hüküm (The Judgement, 2008), Bé Deng is part of Yeşilbaş’ trilogy about women. Rezan Yeşilbaş is also working as an executive producer with his company Rezfilm. His first feature film Ucan Kofteci will be released in 2024.
Ahmet Gürata is an academic, festival curator and film producer. He is currently teaching at the Izmir University of Economics. He has published research on the history of Turkish cinema, reception, remakes and documentary in anthologies and journals. He also works as a programmer for the International Antalya Film Festival, Festival on Wheels and is affiliated with Docedge: Asian Forum for Documentary. He is the co-producer of Beriya Şevê (Before The Night, Ali Kemal Çınar, 2021).
Growing up as a Kurd in Turkey, you instantly become aware of the nationalism and discrimination at an early age. The nationalist discourse is often expressed in everyday situations. One is constantly reminded of the difference between “us” and “them”, depending on their ethnic or religious background. When I started studying film, I became increasingly concerned about the lack of critical perspective in the film industry. Years later, witnessing the unfair treatment of Amedspor, I was immediately drawn to the subject. With a small crew, I decided to follow the club and explore the dynamics that kept them going. I thought Amedspor would be a perfect metaphor to explore the prevalent political and ethnic tensions in Turkey.
Rezfilm
Istanbul, Turkey
Rezan Yesilbas | Director
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Ahmet Gurata | Producer
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1.6 million tons of unexploded military ordnance (UXO) were dumped into the Baltic and Northern Seas after the Second World War. A brooding and meditative cinematic journey observes the effects this has had on the nature and people around the Baltics.
Born in Ukraine, raised in Germany and the UK and currently residing in Lithuania, Alexander Belinski is a film lover turned filmmaker who completed his solo short film Ypostas (2017) and the feature length landscape documentary The Sun Sets in the East (2018), which was presented at Ji.hlava, Beldocs and other international festivals. He is a BA journalism graduate from City, University of London. Agnė Dovydaitytė is a Lithuanian filmmaker with a background in marketing and journalism. In 2017, she completed her BA journalism degree at City, University of London. After studying together with Alexander Belinski, she returned to Lithuania to create her debut documentary The Sun Sets in the East, which was based on her grandfather's diary. Agnė was a Berlinale Talent in 2022.
Dagne Vildziunaite has been working in the TV and film industry for 20 years. In 2007, she established the independent production company JUST A MOMENT, which has already released 30 films and two unscripted TV shows. Out of the 30 completed films, as many as 14 are co-productions with partners from Sweden, Finland, Germany, Italy, France, Latvia, Croatia, Romania and Norway. She is a member of the European Film Academy and networks such as ACE, EAVE, EURODOC, etc. In addition to producing, Dagne constantly works as a tutor and expert at national and international funding bodies, festivals and workshops. In 2017, she was nominated for the Best Professional Work in Cinema at Lithuania’s National Film Awards’ Silver Crane.
Have you ever gone swimming in an unfamiliar place and suddenly felt a presence underwater – the heavy weight of the unknown? This is the feeling that Baltic UXO captures. Through static shots, long takes and minimal dialogue, we approach the complex issue of munitions in the Baltic Sea in an unconventional but fitting manner. The slow cinema form embodies the time, mystery and stillness of the sea and the processes surrounding it. Feeling before understanding, to paraphrase Bresson – that’s how we want viewers to engage with our film.
Just a moment
Vitebsko 23-491, LT11350, Vilnius, Lithuania
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Agne Dovydaityte | Director
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Alexander Belinski | Director
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Dagnė Vildžiūnaite | Producer
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Tarek, a young Syrian deserter, finds work at a construction site in a forest near a Lebanese village. He quickly discovers that the locals are hostile towards the workers due to the memories of the 1990s Syrian military occupation. As the construction work progresses, strange events take place. The Syrian workers suspect the villagers of sabotage, which amplifies the tension. In the midst of this paranoia, Tarek is subject to visions of a woman lurking in the forest. He suspects that she might be the ghost of a woman who was murdered during the occupation. But when no one believes Tarek, he seeks the help of Rana, a young Lebanese villager who resolves to unravel the mystery of this woman before the confrontation between the two clans becomes unavoidable.
Nadim Tabet is a Lebanese director who has directed several short films that have screened internationally. In 2001, he co-founded the Lebanese Film Festival and worked as a film programmer for several European festivals. His first feature film One of These Days (2017) premiered at Rome Film Fest and was sold by Celluloid Dreams. He is currently in the post-production phase of his second feature, as well as a series titled Faraya. Nadim Tabet also directs fashion films and music videos for several bands coming from Europe and the Arab world and gives conferences on cinema in various universities.
Founder and CEO of Abbout Productions and Schortcut Films, Georges Schoucair has developed and produced critically acclaimed independent films and actively contributed to the development of Lebanese cinema. He co-founded MC Distribution, a MENA distribution company, and since 2008 has been the vice-president of Metropolis, the only arthouse cinema in Beirut. Georges has closely worked with award-winning directors such as Kaouther Ben Hania, Alain Gomis, Annemarie Jacir, Khalil Joreige, Joana Hadjithomas, Lucretia Martel, Shirin Neshat, Bill Plympton, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jean-Luc Godard and Elia Suleiman. His films have been exhibited at international film festivals such as Cannes, Berlinale, Toronto, Venice, Locarno and Karlovy Vary.
Is it possible to continuously build upon the rubble of the past without being haunted by the ghosts of our history? The figure of the ghost seems to me to be an accurate metaphor to describe how, in Lebanon, the past haunts the present to the point of plunging it into eternal repetition. I have a feeling that if walls are being built between people everywhere in the world, it is because several countries accuse the "other" of being the cause of all their misfortunes instead of facing their own “history”. Despite the darkness of its subject, my film is above all a love story.
Abbout Productions
Madrid Street, Mar Mikhael Azirian building, 2nd floor, 1100, Beirut, Lebanon
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Mobile: +961 144 7824
Nadim Tabet | Director
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Antoine Waked | Producer
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A love story about the young Andrej, who is twenty, secretly in love, living with his grandma, and has the problem of climbing high trees when drunk and then being unable to get down. Andrej has a serious plan to better himself – to see no one, meet no one, only talk to his grandma and abstain in peace. Then he unexpectedly encounters Miša, his secret love interest, who he’s tried to smile at 17 times while at parties. However, he’s never able to remember her reaction, because he’s always too drunk, but not today – today he’s sober! Andrej and Miša start to talk and, over a glass of Fanta, they find an interest in each other. The fight for their young and tender love in this cruel and crazy world begins!
Martina Buchelová graduated in 2018 from the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia (FTF VŠMU) with a degree in film and TV directing. She spent one year at Prague’s FAMU on the Erasmus programme and also holds a bachelor degree in cultural studies from Comenius University in Bratislava. In 2015, she was selected for the Future Frames programme: Ten New Filmmakers to Follow at Karlovy Vary IFF with her short film Green Line. Her bachelor short film Magic Moments had its world premiere at Toronto IFF in 2017, and the film was also awarded the prestigious Young Talents prize by the Tatrabanka Foundation in 2018 for direction. She is currently working on her debut feature Lover, Not a Fighter.
Michaela Kaliská and Erika Paulinská are based in Bratislava and both hold master’s degrees from the Production Department at FTF VŠMU. Michaela produced several short films and was an executive producer for a documentary trilogy for the European Union project EU CHIEF. In 2021, she co-founded NINJA film, focusing on young voices and bold approaches. Erika manages the Fest Anča International Animation Festival and was the executive producer for Suzie in the Garden, which premiered at Berlinale in 2021. She heads the Festival Department at the Academy of Performing Arts and is a producer at NINJA Film.
Julie Marková Žáčková is an independent film producer and talent agent under her brand NOCHI. With over 10 years in the industry, she graduated from FAMU's producing department. Her first feature Occupation premiered at Tallinn Black Nights and won Best Film at the Czech Film Critics’ awards.
The film's themes grew in me for a few years, as chaotic and absurd changes began to emerge in society. I decided to tell a contemporary love story. A young alcoholic falls in love with the daughter of an avid conspiracy theorist. Although in unpleasant circumstances and not ready at all, Andrej and Miša share honest love. All they want to focus on is their relationship, but it is impossible to escape external or inner chaos. They have to face the shit they’re in and slowly deal with it to protect what is dear to them. I want the characters to be able to make decisions not only as representatives of a certain group but as individuals who can act outside of these characteristics and connect. The main themes revolve around self-sabotage, manipulation and seeking hope and ease in a chaotic world.
NINJA Film
Karola Adlera 13, 84102, Bratislava, Slovakia
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Unit and Sofa Praha
Sálvatorská 1092, 11000, Praha 1, Czech Republic
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Martina Buchelová | Director, Scriptwriter
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Michaela Kaliská | Producer
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Mobile: +421 917 640 496
Julie Marková Žáčková | Producer
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As Máté (27) celebrates the birth of his son, his art teacher mother, Krisztina (57) gradually loses her sight as a complication of diabetes. While reluctant to show vulnerability, she increasingly relies on Máté, who goes above and beyond to help his mother. When Máté's family is about to move from the country, Máté has to make a choice, while Krisztina fears being left alone in the darkness.
Born in Budapest, Bernadette Mayer holds a BA in cinematography and an MA in film directing from SZFE, Hungary. Transitioning from DOP to director, she developed her deeply personal debut feature following two successful shorts, including Bond and Kötött Pálya, which have been screened at several international film festivals such as Friss Hús Iff, Etiuda Krakow or DaKino IFF, establishing her as a promising female voice in Hungarian cinema.
The Budapest based Kino Alfa, founded by Genoveva Petrovits, is committed to sensitive and critical cinematic portrayals of social phenomena through personal dramas. The company collaborates with young Hungarian talents to make their debut or second films, providing support for their early careers. Kino Alfa is developing projects that are receiving international attention, such as My Mother, the Monster (Oliver Rudolf), Soft Hours (Anna Gyimesi) and Democracy Work in Progress (Mihály Schwechtje). This is Kristóf Sólyom's first feature film as a producer, but he is working on other projects, such as the documentary Dreams at Sunset (Ibolya Simó).
My mother went blind when I was a teenager. This personal experience forms the basis of the story, in which an unexpected tragedy tests a mother-son relationship, disrupting the fragile balance of attachment. It's an unconventional coming-of-age tale where an adult mother is forced to relearn how to take responsibility for her own life and detach from her son. The film explores questions such as the dilemma of reconciling our own lives with caring for others. Only humour can light up the most unbearable events such as these in our lives. The film is committed to articulating this duality.
Kino Alfa
Király utca 80, 1068, Budapest, Hungary
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Kristóf Sólyom | Producer
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Mobile: +36 304 905 495
Bernadette Mayer | Director, Scriptwriter
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Ex-military Beibars, nicknamed Moor, returns from prison to look after his brother's family, but finds that his brother has disappeared, leaving huge debts behind. It's up to Moor to pay.
Adilkhan Yerzhanov is a Kazakh film director with over 20 years of experience directing feature films & TV series, earning accolades at various film festivals. Member of the EFA (European Film Academy) and APSA Academy, winner of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards in 2019 for Achievement in Directing (A Dark, Dark Man), APSA Film Fund Development grant recipient in 2018 for A Dark, Dark Man film project, two-time participant in the Cannes Film Festival's Official Program (The Owners, 2014, and The Gentle Indifference of the World, 2018, Un Certain Regard Section) and a two-time participant in the Venice International Film Festival (Orizzonti / Yellow Cat / 2020 & Orizzonti Extra / Goliath / 2022 / Premio Bisato d’oro to Berik Aitzhanov & Daniyar Alshinov / Best Actors).
Olga Khlasheva graduated in 2001 from the Kazakh State University of International Relations and Foreign Languages with a degree in philology and literature and in 2019 from the T. Zhurgenov Kazakh National Academy of Arts with a degree in film studies and film criticism (MA). She has been in the film industry since 1997 as head of international relations at Kazakhfilm National Studios and at the Eurasia International Film Festival. Producer (including international promotion) of all films by Adilkhan Yerzhanov. EFA (European Film Academy) member, APSA Academy member (nomination for Best Producer for the films The Owners and The Gentle Indifference of the World) and APSA Fund Grant recipient in 2018. NETPAC member and juror at various film festivals. Graduate of EAVE Film Marketing Workshop and EWA Online Marketing Training.
«She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd;
And I lov'd her that she did pity them.».
«Othello», Shakespeare
Idea: A vicious circle of despotism and violence, where only love can break this circle.
References: Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, Takeshi Kitano's Hana-bi, Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive and Alexei Balabanov's Brother.
Style: Beybars's detachment is ostensive, as well as the form of the film: silence and bursts of violence.
Short Brothers
145A Karimov str, 050006, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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Arizona Films
t7t, av d'Argenteuil, 92600, Asnidres/S, France
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Olga Khlasheva | Producer
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Mobile: +77 778 047 057
Guillaume De Seille | Producer
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Following their father's discharge from the hospital, his youngest son stays overnight with the ailing patriarch in the confined spaces of the family home. During their evening stroll, they forge a deeper bond, revealing intimate secrets. Little do they realize that this will be their first true connection and ultimate farewell.
Siam is a director of documentary and fiction films, member of the European Film Academy and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts which annually awards the Oscars. Siam debuted as a director with the ITVS and Sundance-supported feature documentary Whose Country?, which was selected for NYFF and KVIFF (2016) and distributed by Kino Lorber in North America. It was followed by Amal, which was selected as an IDFA Opening Night Film (2017) and won the Sheffield Jury Prize (2018). His fiction film My Father’s Scent completes his trilogy on Egyptian authority and explores the socio-consequences of a patriarchal society through the portrayal of a father-son relationship.
Mohamed Hefzy is one of the leading film producers in the Middle East and Africa. In 2013, Screen International named him as the only Arab among 30 future leaders in film production. In June 2019, he was invited as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences in the Producers branch. His films Clash, Feathers, Souad, Yommedine and Aissa all premiered at Cannes from 2016 to 2023.
Guillaume de Seille (1968) worked for 10 years at the Canal+ Cinema Department. Hewas artistic director for a Canal+ programming and then for the public broadcaster France 2. Under Arizona Films, he has produced or coproduced more than 60 feature art-house films with foreign directors that have been chosen by all major film festivals, released in France and often broadcasted on European channels.
A family drama set within the confines of an apartment, My Father's Scent challenges traditional family values and dynamics, exposing the oppression of patriarchy, generational struggles and the pain of reconciliation. At its core, it is a film about toxic masculinity and contemporary manhood in a patriarchal society built on false appearances. It unfolds as a poetic odyssey, peeling back the layers of a fraught father-son relationship riddled with misunderstandings. Through the intense highs of confrontation to the lows of regret, the film navigates the depths of raw human emotion. The central premise is a poignant one: if each of us who has lost a loved one could spend one final night with them, would we settle old scores or mend broken bridges?
ArtKhana
37A Falaki St, 11516, Cairo, Egypt
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Film Clinic
141(A) Corniche El Nile, 9th floor, Maadi, 11511, Cairo, Egypt
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Arizona Films
t7t, av d'Argenteuil, 92600, Asnidres/S, France
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M Siam | Director, Scriptwriter, Producer
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Mobile: +33 668 679 070
Guillaume De Seille | Co-Producer
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Mohamed Hefzy | Producer
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Sandbag Dam is a story about a forbidden love set in a village threatened by swollen rivers. Upon his return home for his father's funeral, Slaven revives his relationship with a childhood friend, the young athlete Marko, his teenage love and the reason his father kicked him out of the house. Now tempted to reunite, they need to make peace with their own decisions and struggle against family restraints.
Čejen Černić Čanak is a film and TV directing graduate from the Zagreb University Academy of Dramatic Art. She has directed a number of short films – animation, fiction and documentaries. In 2017, she directed her debut feature film, The Mystery of Green Hill, based on the children's novel by Ivan Kušan. The film received excellent reviews and topped the box office list in the first week of distribution. The film attracted 65,000 viewers to Croatian cinemas and was distributed throughout the region and also in the USA, Canada, China, Austria, Germany, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore. It was presented at more than 25 international film festivals. Sandbag Dam is her second feature.
Ankica Jurić Tilić is a producer from Croatia with more than 30 years of film experience. She holds a degree in comparative literature from Zagreb University. She is also a graduate of EAVE, member of ACE, Producers on the Move and EFA. She founded her production company Kinorama in 2003 together with two partners. Ankica’s filmography includes 30 feature-length films, several TV series and a number of shorts. Her films have been screened and awarded at prestigious festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Karlovy Vary and Toronto. In 2019, she was awarded the Eurimages Co-production Award at the EFA ceremony in Berlin. She teaches at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb and at EAVE. In 2023, her films were presented at Cannes, Locarno, Venice, Toronto and Tallinn.
This is a story about gay love, but also about any kind of misunderstood, condemned or ostracised love. I wanted to build the emotion by staying close to my characters, two very young men who because of their relationship experience family rejection, social condemnation and even existential threats. The external circumstances, such as the flood that threatens the village, are used as a metaphorical image of the tightening of the rope around them, but also as a metaphor of a society that keeps neglecting and ignoring problems instead of facing them and moving forward. This is why I find this subject very important, and I hope I’ve managed to film an emotional story that will reach and teach the hearts and minds of wider audiences.
Kinorama
Šulekova 29, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia
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Čejen Černić Čanak | Director
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Mobile: +385 911 556 622
Marija Stojanović | Co-Producer
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Ankica Jurić Tilić | Producer
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Mobile: +38 598 465 576
Middle-aged single Smaragda moves into the house of her recently deceased mother and takes care of her guide dog. When the kids TV show she hosted years ago stops airing, she starts pondering on what kind of a legacy she’ll leave behind. Failing to get back into the business and in financial deadlock, she starts working in a tourist resort while exploring the world of social media. With her friends by her side, she learns, falls, heals and comes to terms with her own existence.
Emilios is a First Films First, Torino Film Lab, Midpoint Institute and Talents Sarajevo alumnus. He wrote and directed the award-winning short films Bad Habits (ISFFC, Pula, Mediterranean SFF of Tangiers) streaming on Sofy TV and Amazon Prime, and Rearrangement (PÖFF shorts, Edmonton). He’s currently in the post-production phase of his debut feature Smaragda – I Got Thick Skin and I Can’t Jump, funded by the Cyprus Deputy Ministry of Culture and Creative Europe MEDIA (First Films First, TFL Extended, cocoPITCH, dot.on.the.map) and in the development phase of his second feature Boys Of Summer (MFI).
Tonia is a multi-award-winning director/producer, member of the EFA, Oxbelly fellow and Berlinale Talents alumna. She has acted as creative advisor at Rawi Screenwriters Lab and juror at Karlovy Vary and Thessaloniki film festivals. Her films have been presented at major markets (TFL, Midpoint, FFF, Connecting Cottbus, Sofia Meetings, MIB) and selected at prestigious festivals including Locarno, Karlovy Vary, Cairo, Palm Springs, Seattle, Santa Barbara and Sydney, where she was presented as 1 of Europe’s 10 most outstanding women directors. Her film Pause was awarded the FIPRESCI among other prizes and received rave reviews from THR and the L.A. Times, while it was listed as one of the “20 most daring films of 2019” by Rotten Tomatoes. It was released theatrically in USA and Europe and streamed on Amazon Prime and HBO Europe.
The story is inspired by my cousin, who lost her mother to a disease after going through it herself and decided not to get married or have children. It made me ponder how sometimes this can derail our life path in unexpected ways. But with the right mind-set, it can only make us stronger. The character in the film has a pessimistic attitude towards bringing another life into this world, and she bases her life choices on this idea. It’s a world of vanity, injustice and full of mishaps. We all know this. But it’s also beautiful, and if we act out as if the world is good, it will only get better, generation by generation. The film explores themes of existence, companionship, legacy and the pressure to conform to social identity group norms.
Bark Like A Cat Films
Nicosia, Cyprus
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Tonia Mishiali | Producer
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Emilios Avraam | Director
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They say that you can't put a price on love — well, not unless you’re on OnlyFans.
This film captures one year in the fast-changing life of young mother Rosalinda. After attending an unusual workshop for OnlyFans newcomers, she decides to start a business creating online sexual content on the platform. Initially, she hides her identity with a mask, but for greater profit, she reveals her face. How does her boyfriend cope with her new career, and how is their relationship affected by the many “customers” who fall in love with her, especially one in particular?
In addition to this unconventional love triangle, the film also follows two other OnlyFans “creators” from the workshop, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the 24/7 job of selling one's identity and managing numerous users.
Barbora Chalupová is a screenwriter and director of the emerging young generation. Her greatest achievement is the film Caught in the Net (co-directed by V. Klusák, 2020), which became the most widely-viewed documentary in Czech cinemas, with over 570,000 admissions. The film premiered at CPH:DOX and was distributed all around the globe (e.g. Japan, South Korea, Germany...). Another of her successes is The Law of Love (2021), which premiered at BFI Flare and deals with the marriage of same-sex couples. She is a long-time collaborator with Czech Television, where she has made the documentary series Under a Distraint Order: How Debts Are Created, which was nominated for PRIX EUROPE 2023. She is a member of the European Film Academy.
Pavla Klimešová is a producer based in Prague, Czech Republic. The films which she has made as a producer include Caught in the Net (2020, dir. Barbora Chalupová, Vít Klusák), One Second Forever (2021, dir. Vít Klusák), The Law of Love (2021, dir. Barbora Chalupová) and The Great Nothing (2023, dir. Vít Klusák & Marika Pecháčková). She is currently preparing the family adventure film Electric Wonder (dir. Barbora Chalupová), the semi-autobiographical film Thinking David (dir. Šimon Holý) about the coming-out of a Jewish boy in Prague, and the imaginative and transformative VR experience Melodies Of Resilience (dir. Ondřej Moravec), which is about dealing with performance anxiety.
The film enters a sensitive area of radical transformations in experiencing and understanding intimacy and relationships through OnlyFans. For me, it was always a question of the emancipation of the female body, but also one of objectification. However, I discovered that our main character, Rosalinda, uses self-objectification as a means to achieve freedom, adding layers of complexity to the story.
Rosalinda – with her complicated past, 4-year-old son, boyfriend and a devoted fan – offers a nuanced perspective on modern relationships in the 21st century. In this new dynamic, women find themselves constantly acting as sexual servants driven by the promise of financial success.
Helium Film
Senegalská 636/4, 160 00, Prague, Czech Republic
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Mobile: +420 737 454 912
Pavla Klimešová | Producer
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Barbora Chalupová | Director
Zoran’s awkward and almost pointless life, including a pothead roommate, an unavailable ex-girlfriend and a job on reality TV, turns upside-down when his estranged and intolerable father is diagnosed with a terminal illness and he commits to helping him through his final weeks. Driving around in an old Yugo Florida, the two men get to know each other better then in all the years that had come before.
Vladimir Tagić is best known as creator/writer/director for his Canneseries-awarded hit TV series Operation Sabre, which just premiered in the Competition programme, winning the Special Interpretation Award. His previous TV series Morning Changes Everything, a great regional hit in Ex-Yugoslavia that had its Avant premiere at Sarajevo Film Festival in 2018, won the Rainbow Award at the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia in Belgrade as one of its many successes. His short films have travelled the world, and the most successful one, Emergency Exit, premiered at Clermont Ferrand IFF. In 2017, the film was presented at Cannes IFF in the framework of the Acid Trip programme.
Marija Stojanovic produced the feature fiction Oasis by Ivan Ikic, which premiered at Giornate degli Autori in Venice in 2020, winning the Europa Cinemas Label Award, after which it continued traveling to festivals such as Cottbus IFF, Pyngao IFF, Moscow IFF and has so far won 17 awards. Her latest achievement is the Krzysztof Kieslowski-scripted award-winning dramedy Forever Hold Your Peace, a six country co-production by Montenegrin director Ivan Marinovic that premiered at Tallinn Black Nights IFF in the 2023 main competition programme. So far, the film has had 35,000 admissions domestically and is now traveling the world. Marija line-produced the hit family film How I Learned to Fly by Radivoje Andric, based on the bestselling children’s book, which grossed 200,000 admissions domestically.
This is the most personal story I have written. My father fell ill in 2015 and several months before he died, he wanted me to take him to a monastery to make a confession. What was strange was that he had been a communist and atheist his entire life, he didn't even baptize me, and I can't say that he had ever developed an attitude towards religion. One November morning, he probably overslept for the first time in his life and we were late, so he was agitated. We sat in his run-down Yugo with me behind the wheel, the car wasn’t fully functional and the road was icy. That morning was probably the saddest, funniest and most absurd morning of my life.
Sense Production
Kosovska 8, 11000, Belgrade, Serbia
Email: [email protected]
Marija Stojanović | Producer
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: +381 69 645 614
Vladimir Tagic | Director
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: +381 628 305 178
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