The Sarajevo Film Festival co-production market, CineLink's Work in Progress section, has announced its line-up. The initiative aims to assist the completion and subsequent festival presentation and theatrical release of selected films at its event on August 19 and 20. It will welcome delegates from Wild Bunch, The Match Factory, Pyramide, Memento, Fortissimo as well as the Cannes, Berlin, Sundance and Rotterdam film festivals, to name a few.

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The best-known name among the selections is certainly Romania's Adrian Sitaru (Best Intention [+lire aussi :
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The second Romanian project in the selection is Double [+lire aussi :
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Another very interesting title is Birds Like Us, promoted as Bosnia and Herzegovina's first feature-length animation. Based on an 11^th century Persian fable and set in the world of birds, it is directed by Faruk Šabanović, who also co-wrote the script with Olivia Hetreed. The cast includes Jeremy Irons, Jim Broadbent and Alicia Vikander, and the project lists Abbigail Disney and Cat Villers as co-producers. The Bosnian production company is PRIME TIME, and TRT Turkish Radio and TV is a partner and investor. It was co-produced by the UK, the US and Turkey.

From Bulgaria, the Works in Progress programme will present Godless [+lire aussi :
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Selected from Sarajevo's Docu Rough Cut Boutique, the only documentary in the line-up is Siniša Vidović's Korida, about bull fights in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The documentary follows five bull trainers in their daily lives and reveals a practically unknown subculture and its everyday conflicts. Korida is a co-production by Austria's Golden Girls Filmproduktion (best known for Everyday Rebellion) and Filmservices GmbH.

The jury, consisting of Tanja Meissner (Head of International Sales & Acquisitions, Memento Films), Khalil Benkirane (Head of Grants, Doha Film Institute) and Tolke Palm (Producer, The Post Republic), will hand out The Post Republic Award (worth €50,000 in post-production services) and The Restart Award (further support worth €20,000).

Previous Work in Progress projects include Brides [+lire aussi :
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interview : Tinatin Kajrishvili
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interview : Tudor Giurgiu
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interview : Ada Condeescu
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interview : Noaz Deshe
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