A new chapter awaits the Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry platform, CineLink Industry Days, with the recently announced change of leadership. Maša Marković, head of Industry, will be joined by Ishak Jalimam as the new director of CineLink, taking over from Amra Bakšić Čamo. After stepping down, Čamo will focus on developing new projects under the umbrella of the Sarajevo Film Festival.

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Jalimam, who is the founder and president of Realstage Productions, is also a graduate from the Sarajevo Academy of Performing Arts and a recipient of the Young Producers Award at the Sofia Film Festival’s Sofia Meetings in 2020.

On a different note, joining the likes of Milica Tomović, Asmina Proedrou and Darko Sinko, among others, in the ranks of those already announced for the CineLink selection (see the news) will be Philip Sotnychenko, whose La Palisiada [+lee también:
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The full list of projects participating in the CineLink Co-Production Market is as follows:

Air in a Bottle (Bosnia and Herzegovina/Serbia)
Director/writer: Aida Begić
Producer: Snežana van Houwelingen
Production companies: Film House Sarajevo, This and That Productions

Mather/Papan (Bulgaria)
Directors: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
Writers: Angelina Rangelova, Mina Mileva
Producers: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
Production company: Activist38 Ltd
Co-production company: Doni Mont Ltd

Selfless (France/Algeria/Qatar)
Director/writer: Meriem Measraoua
Producer: François d'Artemare
Production company: Les Films de l'Après-midi

Times New Roman (Ukraine/Lithuania)
Director/writer: Philip Sotnychenko
Producer: Valeria Sochyvets
Co-producer: Klementina Remeikaite
Production company: Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema
Co-production company: Afterschool

Toz Baba (Turkey)
Director/writer: Mehmet Bahadir Er
Producer: Mehmet Bahadir Er, Maryna Er Gorbach
Production company: PROTIM VP

Big Woman (Serbia/France)
Director: Milica Tomović
Writers: Milica Tomović, Sara Đurović, Tanja Šljivar
Producers: Dragana Jovović, Jelena Radenković
Co-producer: Jasmina Sijerčić
Production companies: Non-Aligned Films, Big Time Production
Co-production company: Bocalupo Films

Confirmation (Slovenia/Austria)
Director: Darko Sinko
Writers: Darko Sinko, Andreea Valean
Producers: Vlado Bulajić, Bernhard Holzhammer
Production company: December
Co-production company: Eutopia Film

Divine Position (working title) (Turkey/Germany/France)
Director/writer: Nehir Tuna
Producers: Nehir Tuna, Dorothe Beinemeier, Thierry Lenouvel
Production company: Ignore Studio
Co-production companies: Red Balloon, Ciné-Sud Promotion

Hystéra (Greece)
Director/writer: Asmina Proedrou
Producer: Maria Kontogianni
Production company: Wild at Heart

Lullaby (Greece/Georgia)
Director: Keti Machaviarani
Writers: Keti Machaviarani, Nestan Kvinikadze
Producers: George Kyriakos, Effie Skrobola
Production company: View Master Films
Co-production company: Vineyard Films

Soft Hours (Hungary/France/Slovakia)
Director/writer: Anna Gyimesi
Producers: Genoveva Perovits, Edyta Janczak-Hiriart, Barbara Janišová Feglová
Production company: Kino Alfa
Co-production companies: Kometa Films, Hitchhiker Cinema

Someone’s Daughter (Serbia)
Director/writer: Staša Bajac
Producers: Jelena Angelovski, Ivan Pribićević
Co-producer: Dušan Kasalica
Production company: Digitalkraft
Co-production company: Meander Film

Uptight Ass (Serbia/Croatia)
Director/writer: Matija Gluščević
Co-writer: Dušan Zorić
Producers: Čarna Vučinić, Tena Gojić
Production company: Naked
Co-production company: Dinaridi Film