10/10/2013 - More than 240 Polish and international film professionals have registered to see Eastern European works-in-progress, recent Chinese productions and the Warsaw Screenings

More than 240 Polish and international film professionals will open the 9^th CentEast Market in Warsaw on October 18, the three-day industry event unspooling during the Warsaw International Film Festival (October 11-20), and for the first time screening a selection of recent Chinese films in the China-Eastern Europe Film Promotion Project.

Three days later, the package of 10 Eastern European works-in-progress in the programme – including Polish directors Krzysztof Zanussi’s Foreign Body and Wojciech Smarzowski’sThe Mighty Angel, as well as Czech director Jan Hrebejk’s The Icing - will be introduced in Moscow, as part of Russian TVINDIE Productions’ Project for Tomorrow. For the first time they will also be presented during the Beijing Film Market in April 2014.

“The Eastern European titles are brand-new – they have never been to any festivals or markets before – and the eight Chinese films on show representing a variety of productions, both features, animation and documentary, have not been abroad, either,” explained market director Anna Korcz, in charge of the CentEast Market for the first time. The Chinese catalogue will be accompanied by The Film Factory’s Et Hu and the Beijing Film Market’s Claudia Jiang and Hongyuan Zhang.

The Warsaw Screenings, programmed since 2000 with recent Polish films with market potential, will this year include the current No 1 in the Polish box office, veteran director Andrzej Wajda’s Walesa, Man of Hope [+see also:
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Paris-based Paweł Pawlikowski’s Ida [+see also:
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Jan Kidawa-Błoński’s In Hiding(photo) was presented in Busan, while Sebastian Buttny’s feature debut, Heavy Mental, Krystyna Krauze-Jacek Petrycki’s Returns of Agnieszka H – a biopic of Polish director Agnieszka Holland – and Juliusz Machulski’s The Embassy are unspooling for the first time.