altcine - 2014 Sarajevo FF, CineLink selected projects

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

Hotel Zagorje by Aldo Tardozzi

Producer: Barbara Jukopila, Damir Ibrahimovic

Production company: Produkcija Ziva, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Daybreak by Gentian Koci

Producer: Gentian Koci

Production company: Aetalb Films, Albania

Nanook by Milko Lazarov

Producer: Veselka Kiryakova

Production company: Red Carpet, Bulgaria

The Escape by Kenan Kavut

Producer: Yesim Ustaoglu