The Sarajevo Film Festival's CineLink Co-production Market has announced its selection, which will be presented during the festival's Industry Days, set to take place from 12-17 August 2023.

Of the 11 projects, four are second features. Ukrainian filmmaker Kateryna Gornostai (Stop-Zemlia [+leggi anche:
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Other filmmakers will arrive on the heels of successful shorts: After Dark is directed by Albania's Erenik Beqiri, whose Van competed at Cannes before winning Best Short at Les Arcs in 2019, while Hungary's Olivér Rudolf was in Cannes’ Cinéfondation Competition with Fonica M-120 before developing My Mother, the Monster.

Promising new directors in the line-up include Bulgaria's Ana Kitanova with Cold, Turkey's Zeynep Dilan Süren with It Will Hurt a Bit, Croatia's Josip Lukić with Mom's Alive Today, Montenegro's Djordje Vojvodić with Nothing Will Be Named After Me and Austria's Brigitta Kanyaro with Vagabondess (working title).

The project teams will have the chance to win several prizes: the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award (€20,000), the Film Centre Montenegro CineLink Award (€10,000), the Film Center Serbia CineLink Award (€10,000), the ARTEKino International Prize (€6,000) and the Female Voices CineLink Award (€10,000), sponsored by Film Centre Slovenia.

The call for entries for the CineLink Producers' Lab is open until 6 June (click here), while the deadline for Work in Progress is 29 June. Find out more here.

Here is the full list of CineLink Co-production Market projects:

After Dark - Erenik Beqiri (France/Albania/Italy)
Writers: Erenik Beqiri, Marija Apčevska
Producers: Olivier Berlemont (Origine Films), Dritan Huqi (On Film Productions), Alessandro Amato, Luigi Chimienti (dispàrte)

Antonivka - Kateryna Gornostai (Ukraine)
Writer: Kateryna Gornostai
Producer: Vika Khomenko (Moon Man LLC)

Cold - Ana Kitanova (Bulgaria)
Writer: Iliana Kitanov
Producer: Stefan Kitanov (RFF International)

It Will Hurt a Bit - Zeynep Dilan Süren (Turkey)
Writers: Zeynep Dilan Süren, Elif Danyal
Producers: Kübra Balcan, Rana Ekin (Pembe Film)

A Long Embrace - Gabriel Tzafka (Greece/Denmark/France)
Writer: Gabriel Tzafka
Producer: Maria Kontogianni (Wild At Heart)
Co-production companies: REinvent Studios, Promenades Films

Mom's Alive Today - Josip Lukić (Croatia/Serbia)
Writer: Josip Lukić
Producer: Tena Gojić (Dinaridi Film)
Co-production company: Non-Aligned Films

My Mother, the Monster - Olivér Rudolf (Hungary/France)
Writers: Zsigmond Kungl, Olivér Rudolf
Producers: Genovéva Petrovits, Barnabás Tóth-Just (Kino Alfa Kft), Florent Coulon (VraiVrai Films)

Nothing Will Be Named After Me - Djordje Vojvodić (Montenegro/Serbia/Slovenia)
Writers: Maja Todorović, Nikola Ljuca, Djordje Vojvodić
Producer: Miljan Vučelić (Bitter Frames Production)
Co-production companies: Biberche, Perfo Production

Primavera - Dušan Kasalica (Montenegro)
Writer: Dušan Kasalica
Producer: Jelena Angelovski (Meander Film)

Vagabondess (working title) - Brigitta Kanyaro (Austria)
Writers: Brigitta Kanyaro, Eugen Klim
Producers: Lena Weiss, Eugen Klim (Glitter and Doom GmbH & Co KG)

We Won't Get Old Together - Marius Olteanu (Romania)
Writer: Marius Olteanu
Producer: Oana Giurgiu (Libra Film)