Since 2010, Pack & Pitch has supported emerging directors and producers in preparing their projects for the marketplace. Participants learn how to analyse and prepare their projects for effective written and oral presentation. Talents are mentored in groups and one-on-one sessions by pitching trainers, who instruct them in the creation of one-pagers and the analysis of their projects, and provide insight into the all-important subjects of how to pitch, and to whom. Over the course of several days of intensive sessions, Talents prepare written and recorded oral presentations of their projects, which they pitch at the end of the programme to a jury and an audience made up of their peers and industry professionals. The Talent who makes the most successful pitch is invited to participate at next year’s edition of CineLink Industry Days as an observer.
Sava Reljin & Ivan Stepanović, SERBIA
Kobajagi
English Title: Kobajagi
Thriller
In school, VUK and ISIDORA promised each other to dedicate their lives to radical activism. Years later, they meet again, and Isidora introduces Vuk to Kobajagi, a game in which their dreams of a better world can become a reality.
DIRECTOR
Sava Reljin
SCREENWRITER
Sava Reljin
PRODUCER
Ivan Stepanović
Márton Berecz and Jakob Ladányi Jancsó, HUNGARY
Piroska
English Title: Rose’s Well
Drama
Total madness is impossible to understand, but getting close to an insane person may not be. It is not without danger, though.
DIRECTOR
Márton Berecz
SCREENWRITER
Jakob Ladányi Jancsó
PRODUCER
Márton Berecz
Gana Čomagić, MONTENEGRO
Transfer
English Title: Transfer
Film Noir
A Berlin couple and their new friend live through a sensual night set in a thumping and visceral Podgorica, as a layover adventure escalates into a gang chase and a fight for survival.
DIRECTOR
Gana Čomagić
SCREENWRITERS
Rade Vukčević, Gana Čomagić
PRODUCER
Sara Radović
Yuriy Dvizhon, UKRAINE
Вхід до зони комфорту
English Title: Step Into The Comfort Zone
Queer
Through the prism of the stories of middle-aged LGBT people, we will learn about their lives fighting with the outside world for their freedom. And how their struggle has become more exciting and purposeful in modern Ukraine.
DIRECTOR
Yuriy Dvizhon
SCREENWRITERS
Ljosha Chashchyn, Anastasiia Alieksieieva
PRODUCER
Alexandra Bratyshchenko
Hasan Ali Kılıçgün, TURKEY
Otuz Dakikadan Sonra
English Title: After Thirty Minutes
Drama
AFTER THIRTY MINUTES tells the story of an immigrant pizza courier, SHAVKAT, and his girlfriend FATIMA, who often joins him on deliveries, they have an accident, and Shavkat's lack of a work permit forces him to flee the scene.
DIRECTOR
Hasan Ali Kılıçgün
SCREENWRITER
Hasan Ali Kılıçgün
PRODUCERS
Hasan Ali Kılıçgün, Özgürcan Uzunyaşa, Meryem Yavuz
Yannis Karpouzis, GREECE
Searching For Thule
English Title: Searching For Thule
Documentary
In her quest to solve the riddle of Europe, a scholar passionate about history and geography reconstructs the journey of the ancient Greek sailor Pytheas from Marseilles to the ends of the earth and the mysterious country Thule.
DIRECTOR
Yannis Karpouzis
SCREENWRITERS
Yannis Karpouzis, Alexander Strecker
PRODUCERS
Tasos Koronakis