CineLink co-production market, the backbone project of the
Sarajevo Film Festival’s
Industry Section is a development and financing platform for carefully picked local feature projects destined for European co-production. With average conversion rate of its selected projects from development to production of over 60% in the past 11 years,
CineLink grew into one of the most successful development and financing platforms in Europe. Films developed trough this project are now part of prestigious festivals selections and distribution catalogues around the world. Selection and diversification in development are central to this success, while focus on the emerging talents and the modern cinematic language these local productions with international potentials offer, proved essential to the program΄s raising profile in the film industry.

CineLink 2014 call for entries attracted over 200 projects in development from 18 different countries in Southeastern Europe. The selection committee picked 14 projects altogether for the
CineLink and the
CineLink Plus lineups, with the author’s potentials and strength of the story as a criteria on one side, and potential benefit for the project from our development workshops and the co-production market on the other. All projects selected will be presented directly at the
CineLink co-production market during the festival, from
20th to 23rd of August. Additional titles will be added in the upcoming weeks.
CineLink Selection 2014
Producer: Gentian Koci
Production company: Aetalb Films, Albania
Producer: Veselka Kiryakova
Production company: Red Carpet, Bulgaria
Producer: Annamaria Aslanoglu
Production company: Istos Film, Turkey
Giant by Dimitris Papanastasiou
CineLink Plus selection 2014
Producer: Melisa Onel
Prodution company: Melisa Fatma Onel Tecimen, Turkey
Producer: Kutlug Ataman
The Black Pin by Ivan Marinovic
Producer: Jelena Miseljic
Production company: Adriatic Western, Montenegro
Borders by Ionut Piturescu
Producer: Patricia Drati Ronde
Production company: Anthropoesis Films and CPH:Lab, Romania, Denmark
Production company: Intrarea Film, Romania