The selection includes 12 new feature-length films: 10 fiction and 2 documentary, which will be presented to the high-profile industry professionals (funders, sales agents, distributors, broadcasters and festival programmers) with the aim of assisting their completion and enhancing their distribution possibilities.
“This year’s CineLink Work in Progress selection presents a variety of films with subject and genres shifting from coming of age to historical and current issues. Selection contains projects developed through CineLink workshops, and some new discovered to us, brought us a lot of pleasure. This year’s selection presents upcoming artists as well as experienced ones known to audiences and we are very happy and proud that they will be with us in Sarajevo,” explains Amra Bakšić Čamo, Head of CineLink.
The projects will compete for two awards: the Post Republic Award (40,000 EUR in kind), and the Turkish National Radio Television Award (25,000 EUR in cash). The jury deciding the awards: Vanja Kaluđerčić – International Film Festival Rotterdam, Marcin Łuczaj – New Europe Film Sales, Esra Demirkiran – Turkish National Radio Television, Dennis Ruh – European Film Market, Deniz Erel, The Post Republic.
The complete list of selected project for Work in Progress can be found here.