Climate change and its impacts on the local landscape – that is the subject that we have decided to focus on at this year’s One World film festival under the motto of “Not till a hot January.” The festival has looked at environmental issues since nearly the very beginning, and over the past three years films on this subject have had their own category, UnEarthed. This year, it is our main thematic category. In addition, all virtual reality documentaries will be on the subject of nature and the environment, supplemented by a special nature installation. “By combining creative documentaries, accompanying events, and VR projects, we hope to provide a broad overview of the climate crisis – compared to other festivals that also address this subject, the diverse range of perspectives is truly unique. For instance, you can attend a workshop on fermenting seasonal vegetables, see a film on environmental racism (a subject almost nobody talks about in our country), explore nature in a dead forest at DOX, or immerse yourself in an emotional VR environment,” says the festival’s programming director Ondřej Moravec. The 22nd edition of the One World festival takes place from 5 to 14 March in Prague, after which it will travel to 35 other cities throughout the Czech Republic.

The festival opens with the Oscar-nominated Honeyland. This internationally recognized documentary about traditional beekeeper Hatidze Muratova looks not only at a disappearing trade in the breathtaking mountain regions of North Macedonia, but is also a powerful parable about the state of our civilization. Hatidze lives a quiet life with her sick mother in an old mountain village, but her peace is upset by the arrival of a nomadic family that sees beekeeping as a quick way to make money. The poetic and understand yet multilayered film shows what it means to fully internalize the natural order and live in harmony with it. The film is being distributed in the Czech Republic by Artcam Films.

Besides the main category, UnEarthed, the festival consists of its three annual competition categories (Czech Competition, International Competition, and Right to Know), plus another thirteen thematic sections. The International Competition presents foreign documentaries made with an original approach that will be vying for Best Film and Best Director. Being shown in world premiere is Agnieszka Zwiefka’s Scars about the controversial life path of a former female fighter for the Tamil Tigers. The festival is also hosting the international premiere of Ninosca, a portrait of a woman from Nicaragua, whom director Peter Torbiörnsson (Best Director award at One World in 2002) followed for 40 years, from her early childhood in a village all the way to her emigration to Spain for work so that she could feed her family. These films will be competing with three documentaries that won awards at the Sundance film festival. The Painter and the Thief looks at the strange relationship between two seemingly very different people: Czech artist Barbora Kysilková and one of the thieves who stole two of her paintings from a Norwegian gallery in 2015. In Acasa, My Home, director Radu Ciorniciuc explores the life of a family living in the Bucharest Delta on the city’s outskirts who are forced by gentrification to move to the city. Family is also the central theme of Iryna Tsilyk’s The Earth Is Blue As an Orange, a portrait of single mother Anna and her four children living in a warzone in Ukraine. 

In the Right to Know category, the Václav Havel Jury will be judging films that contribute, in a unique manner, to protecting human rights or that present powerful stories of people engaged in fighting for human rights. One of this year’s contenders is Advocate, which shows Israeli attorney Lea Tsemel’s endless struggle for legal justice. Tsemel, who has spent her entire career fighting for the rights of Palestinians, will be on hand in person. Former Vietnamese pop star (and today dissident) Mai Khoi, who sat on the Václav Havel Jury in 2017, will present her documentary Mai Khoi & The Dissidents, which follows her transformation from prominent singer into an enemy of the communist regime who calls attention to the lack of freedom in her country. The crew of the Sea-Watch 3, headed by Captain Carola Rackete, has saved more than three dozen refugees from drowning in the Mediterranean Sea. The film Sea-Watch 3 shows how.

A total of eleven films, including five world premieres, will be vying for the title of best documentary in the Czech Competition. In The Czechs Are Excellent Mushroom Pickers, Apolena Rychlíková looks at climate change in the Czech Republic from the viewpoint of an extraterrestrial probe. Director Andrea Culková explores the emotions evoked by climate change in women in her documentary Grief. Linda Kallistová Jablonská’s Doggy Love, meanwhile, offers a portrait of the musher Jana, who sets out with her team for the longest sled dog race in Europe, the Finnmarksløpet. The capital of Mongolia is currently home to one and a half million people – half the entire country’s population. When fifty-year-old Tumurbaator arrives in the city, will his dream of a better life come true? Find out in Anji Sauvé Clubb’s Nomad Meets the City. And director Dmitry Bogolyubov looks at how Putin’s followers use the legacy of the Great Patriotic War to gain support from the Russian people in Town of Glory.

The category Masculinity and Femininity shows different perspectives on male and female gender roles, include men’s and women’s roles in society, at work, and in the family. Finland has recently been in the news as a country of emancipated women. Award-winning director Joonas Berghäll balances this image with his portrait of overworked, broken, hard-drinking, and frustrated Finnish men in his film The Happiest Man On Earth. By comparison, women in Nigeria are barely visible in public life. In Chris van der Vorm’s Mrs F., an activist known by that pseudonym holds workshops and organizes public events where women try to gain the respect they need in their communities. Jola, the main protagonist of Lessons of Love, has spent all her life doing what was expected of her. Now, at age 69, she leaves the past behind, begins to live anew, and finally earns the respect – above all self-respect – she deserves.

No system – political, social, legal – is perfect, as the documentaries in the category Gaps in the System remind us. For instance, in his film Push, director Fredrik Gretten looks at the housing crisis and gentrification and tries to figure out why attractive cities are being turned into stage sets where ordinary people can no longer live. In Lovemobil, Elke Lehrenkrauss explores the lives hidden behind the heart-shaped neon lights on campervans parked on the side of the road, where women entice passers-by into their special private sphere to sell them their bodies. And in the poetic In My Blood It Runs, Maya Newell follows a stubborn and determined boy who is trying to find his place and identity somewhere between his aboriginal Australian culture and majority society.

Another new category this year is Diagnosis, in which the festival is presenting films on health and healthcare. One of the world’s best care facilities for people with Alzheimer’s is in the Thai city of Chiang Mai. Mother looks at the life of the caregiver Pomm and at Maya, a sick woman from Switzerland whose family places her in the facility. Midnight Family looks at the desperate shortage of government ambulances in Mexico City and at the private ambulance services that transport patients in need. In 2015, a fire at a Bucharest nightclub claimed the lives of 64 people. More than half of them died in hospitals, and the investigative documentary Collective, which is also part of the festival’s International Competition, explores the reasons for their deaths and looks at the mistakes made at the hospitals.

A new regional category this year is China: Powerful and Powerless. One film in this category is China’s Artful Dissident, about a dissident living exile who uses his art to fight against the totalitarian state. The title character of another film, Ximei, is also fighting the system – and an incurable illness. In the 1990s, when China began a campaign of paying people for donations of blood and plasma, many poor peasants were attracted by the easy money. However, poor hygienic conditions caused around 300,000 people to become infected with HIV, and today they are ostracized by society. Besides films that look at conditions inside China, the section also includes documentaries that explore how the country operates outside its borders. What are the pitfalls associated with a New Silk Road construction project near a remote Georgian village? Find out in A Tunnel.

In our traditional category Journeys to Freedom, we present films that look at the situation in countries with undemocratic regimes. This year, the category includes several films made by local filmmakers, including Filipino director Alyx Ayn Arumpac, whose Aswang paints a horrifying picture of the war on drugs that President Rodrigo Duterte has declared on his people. In Khartoum Offside, Sudanese director Marwa Zein follows a group of young woman in Khartoum who practice football in secret and without any professional equipment. Their skills and enthusiasm are comparable to that of men, but the Sudanese government rejects all proposals for a women’s team. War of Art explores how foreign artists look at undemocratic countries: Norwegian director Tommy Gulliksen takes a group of artists from “the West” on a cultural exchange to North Korea – but the first step towards mutual understanding is difficult, and the film shows how different people from different environments can be. 

Another of our traditional – and popular – categories is One Zero, which looks at the challenges and dangers of modern technology. For instance, Hi, AI explores advances in domestic humanoid robots that are ever better at meeting our need to ascribe human traits to advanced machines. The longitudinal documentary Sing Me A Song paints a portrait of a young monk in a remote monastery in the mountains of Bhutan and shows what happens when the monks get smartphones and computer games. The film asks us to consider one of the less frequently discussed risks of the digital revolution. Meanwhile, Barbora Chalupová and Vít Klusák’s highly anticipated and radically experimental film Caught in the Net explores the taboo subject of online child abuse.

They stand out from the crowd and approach everyday life differently than most people – these are the protagonists of the films in the category Long Live Life! In Talking About Trees, for instance, four film buffs try to bring the glamour of the silver screen to Sudan by founding a film club. This Train I Ride paints a portrait of several women who share the (in)dependence of the freedom provided by freight trains as they travel across America. In When Tomatoes Met Wagner, cousins Aleco and Christos from a small village in Greece try to improve their tomato harvest by playing classical music as they think about how to bring life back to a farming region where only a handful of old-timers remains.

Another traditional category, Panorama, presents internationally recognized and award-winning documentary films that have enjoyed success at foreign festivals. One example is Photographer of War – an intimate portrait of photographer and World Press Photo laureate Jan Grarup, who has spent 25 years photographing war but who must now face personal struggles. The Feminister, meanwhile, takes a behind-the-scenes look at politics through the eyes of Sweden’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs Margot Wallström, who committed herself to promoting a feminist foreign policy during her time in office. And thanks to The Letter, audiences hear about the lynching of dozens of men and women in Kenya who have been accused of sorcery – often by their own relatives.

Retrospective: Nanfu Wang

American-based Chinese director Nanfu Want first caught the world’s attention with her 2016 debut film Hooligan Sparrow about human rights activist Ye Haiyan. The film has been shown at festivals in more than 25 countries, and was shortlisted for an Academy Award in the category of Best Documentary Feature. Besides showing this first film, the retrospective also presents her documentary I Am Another You and her most recent work, One Child Nation, which won the Grand Jury Award for best documentary film at the Sundance film festival. 

Oscar nominees at One World

This year’s One World festival is also showing several films that were nominated for the Academy Awards. Besides the festival’s opening film Honeyland, these include The Cave, the second Oscar-nominated film by member of the International Jury Feras Fayyad. The film tells the story of Syrian doctor Amani Ballour, who runs an underground hospital in the eastern town of Ghouta. Another entrant from Syria is For Sama, which tells the dramatic tale of journalist and filmmaker Waad Al-Kateab as she reports on the unending conflict as a witness for her newborn daughter Sama. The film was also nominated for a BAFTA Award. The film is being distributed in the Czech Republic by Artcam Films.

Talking Cinema

Talking Cinema presents a series of discussions with foreign experts and other individuals on selected topics from this year’s festival: the protests in Hong Kong, the worsening housing crisis, the impacts of the climate crisis, and the changing role of men in the world today.

Guests who have accepted our invitation to attend this year’s festival include Sweden’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs Margot Wallström; political activist, member of the Demosisto movement in Hong Kong, and member of this year’s Václav Havel Jury Amon Yiu Yeuk-wa; and Leilani Farha, special UN rapporteur on housing rights. Coming to speak on climate change is leading climatologist and expert on oceans and extreme climate phenomena Stefan Rahmstorf. Meanwhile, therapist Dan Doty, who has a wide range of experiences with helping men and adolescent boys deal with psychological issues and whose Evryman project organizes support groups and wilderness retreats, will speak about the role of men in the 21st century.

All discussions will take place at Kino 35 and will be interpreted into Czech and English. Three discussions will also be translated into Czech sign language.

East Doc Platform: Sundance winning producers and new docs on the horizon

For the 9th time, the East Doc Platform will be an essential part of One World IHRDFF. Running between March 7–13, its programme includes the traditional closely watched presentation Czech Docs… Coming Soon, revealing five upcoming Czech and co-production documentaries, while the East Doc Forum will bring together the most promising projects from Central and Eastern Europe with a chance to get number of awards.

The programme includes a masterclass by Swedish filmmaker and journalist Fredrik Gertten (PUSH), Austrian editor Niki Mossböck (Earth, Grbavica) will discuss how to begin a film on examples of her work, while German producer Erik Winker will talk about the co-production aspects of the upcoming documentary Trees Floating by Salomé Jashi. One of the highlights of East Doc Platform will be the moderated panel discussion Filmmaking Against Dictatorships: How to Shoot and Keep Your Freedom, which will bring filmmakers to share their experience and talk about the obstacles the critical filmmaking is facing recently. 

Film professionals who want to attend the whole East Doc Platform industry programme can buy Industry Pass until February 21. The open programme is available for free, without any accreditation.

Dangling ticket

For some people, a ticket to the movies can take a bite out of their pocketbook. For them, One World has come up with “dangling tickets” so that everyone can make it to the cinema – even people who, for whatever reason, can’t afford a ticket. Like last year, the information stand in the Lucerna building will offer the option of buying an extra ticket and leaving it dangling from a special ticket hanger. This option will also be available at the second information stand in the Municipal Library on Mariánské náměstí.

New this year, anyone purchasing tickets online may purchase extra tickets and bring them to the People in Need café in the Langhans Building. The festival’s organizers will then distribute the tickets on the spot or hang them up at the information stands during the festival.

One World in numbers

• This year’s festival presents 133 documentaries from 60 countries in 16 categories
• We are showing 27 exclusive premieres (21 world and international premieres, 6 European premieres) 
• The festival takes place in 37 cities (5–14 March in Prague, then throughout the Czech Republic and in Brussels) 
• We have more than 130 confirmed festival guests 
• As part of One World for All, all films will be screened with Czech subtitles – this includes films in Czech. The entire program is thus accessible for people with hearing impairments. In addition, the festival is showing 4 films with audio commentary for people with visual impairments, plus 3 relaxed screenings for viewers with mental impairments, autism, or epilepsy.

• 132,227 visitors saw films at the 2019 festival

Practical information

• Ticket sales in Prague start on Wednesday 19 February. Ticket prices are CZK 70 in the first wave and CZK 90 in the second. During the festival, tickets cost CZK 110.
• Holders of a handicapped ID and viewers over age 65 receive a 50% discount on all screenings. 

• For people with a handicapped ID, their attendants receive free admission.  
• In order to ensure reservations for holders of a handicapped ID and for further information (accessibility, seniors, Czech sign language interpretations, audio commentary), please write to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call +420 221 462 411.
• As in the past, this year we again offer central assisted ticket sales at an information stand in the Lucerna building, where filmgoers will find two computers where they can purchase tickets online for any screening at any cinema, with volunteers available to help if necessary. The tickets are either printed out or sent via email.
• The press center, where we will be issuing press accreditation during the festival, can be found at the People in Need Center in the Langhans Building (Vodičkova 37, Prague), which is open from 5 to 14 March from 10am to 8pm.  
• The festival’s audience center will be at the Tibet Open House on Školská Street in Prague 1. Here, visitors can purchase festival merchandise, relax with their children over a cup of coffee, or attend various accompanying events.  

• During the festival, parents may make use of a children’s play corner at the Municipal Library on Mariánské náměstí.  

The festival program can be found at https://www.oneworld.cz/2020/programme

The One World 2020 video spot can be found at https://youtu.be/PB3eRaUfieg

More information, including this year's visual, can be downloaded at https://www.oneworld.cz/2020/press

A list of guests is attached. Photographs and access to films are provided upon request.  

Please contact our media coordinator to arrange interviews with festival guests. 

Contact:  
Nikola Páleníčková, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
+420 732 989 638 

The festival’s spokesperson is Gabriela Gálová.  
Contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
+420 605 919 769 

Organizer:  
People in Need

Co-organizer: 
Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic

With support from:  
Czech Film Fund
City of Prague 
Creative Europe – Media Programme
Avast Endowment Fund
Zátiší group

General media partner:
Czech Television

Main media partner:
Czech Radio

Thank you: 
Tibet Open House

Here we are: next month, the 4th session of the European VoD Meetings will kick-off in Sofia, gathering 36 participants from 15 countries and representing 29 companies. Organized in cooperation with the Sofia FF and Sofia Meetings, and co-financed by Creative Europe MEDIA Programme, the training will feature round tables, cases studies and workshop focused on marketing and audience development, financing and business planning, tech, film licensing, analytics and trends of the VoD sector, focusing on the main challenges and best practices of indie European VoD platforms. On March 21st a panel will be co-organized with Europa Cinemas and Europa Distribution, highlighting the potential for cooperation in the value chain.

LET'S MEET AT BERLINALE!

If you are interesting in learning more about the EUROVOD association and activities, please contact our general delegate, Silvia Cibien, who will be attending the EUROPEAN FILM MARKET @ BERLINALE from February 20th to 25th. On Monday 24th, we are hosting an informal event for EuroVoD members and partners only. For more info or to set-up a meeting, please write to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

RECENT ACTIVITIES

Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival & Market 

Organized by the Short Film Market, in partnership with EuroVoD  and the Relais Culture Europe / Bureau Europe Creative France, the panel Online Platforms and Short Films: which kind of exposure for which audience? " took place on the 3rd February: an overview of the European online distribution landscape by presenting EuroVoD  the association of European Video on Demand platforms specialized in art-house, independent and European cinema. The aim of the panel was to discuss the realness of a market for short films online and to explore alternative business models and audiences that can be reached : what fits best from subscription to advertisement based services ? How exposure strategies can lead to new audiences ? Is a niche market sustainable ? On the stage, William Page (representing FilmDoo & EUROVOD), Penelope Bartlett (The Criterion Channel) and Lucie Canistro (UniversCiné& EUROVOD member).

European Co-Production Forum 

On Feb 7-8th the ECPF took place in Brussels, gathering key players from TV and cinema at an international level to tackle and debate the future of the industry. The panel 'PLATFORMS: THE EUROPEAN RESPONSE (FINANCING & TAXATION), moderated by Thierry Leclercq (Ecran Total), was hosting Silvia Cibien (EuroVoD General Delegate), Maxime Lacour (Director of UniversCiné Belgium & UniversCiné Luxembourg, EUROVOD Treasurer), Julien Vin-Ramarony (President of VOD Factory, EuroVoD member) and Ava Striker (Development Ex at Mubi).

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 SPOTLIGHT ON

European Audiovisual Observatory 
New report: Territoriality and financing of audiovisual works: latest developments.The European Audiovisual Observatory, has reviewed developments in media legislation over the past five years with regards to the country of origin principle and territoriality of copyright, and the way these principles operate in practice in financing audiovisual production. It walks us through them in this very useful new report that you can download here.New report on Media Law in Europe: Self- and Co-regulation in the new AVMSD. Following the new version of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive, the European Audiovisual Observatory released a report reflecting on the place it has kept for self- and co-regulation in each country to implement parts of the Directive. You can download the full report here.

Parenting at Film Festivals 
The collective launched in January 2017 for parents in the film industry facing the difficulty of traveling for film festivals and the necessity of childcare. many festivals were receptive to their concerns and proposed solutions to then set up their own new measures. The collective created the RED BALLOON ALLIANCE, which is an initiative that offers different benefits to new parents, such as a an onsite daycare, kids screenings and special access badges (depending on the festival). They are working actively with Berlinale, Cannes Film Festival and San Sebastián Film Festival. Parenting at Film Festivals is currently looking for partners to further establish and expand the community of family-friendly festivals and film professionals. If you are interested, please contact them on their private Facebook page. 

Free Webinar: Benefiting from fragmentation & frustration in the video industry 
Dataxis is co-hosting a free webinar with Mirada on March 17th on the role for operators to resolve the fragmented environment and revive fatigued subscribers, and how can they benefit from it? The 1-hour webinar will explore the origins of the upcoming AVoD influx, the causes and cures for subscriber fatigue, how to fill the leanback experience gap, and creating a universal experience. You can sign up now online.
Free Webinar: European OTT landscape 2020: from parcelling to bundling?
And you can sign up here for another Dataxis webinar on February 20th on Analysis of the multiplication of D2C OTT platforms and its consequences for the traditional content distribution markets.

AVE is proud to announce once more a very strong presence of EAVE projects & producers at this year's Berlin Film Festival: 5 films in COMPETITION, 5 in the new section ENCOUNTERS, 13 projects in PANORAMA & PANORAMA DOKUMENTE, 7 at the FORUM, 11 at the GENERATION sections, 3 at BERLINALE SPECIAL, 13 at the BERLINALE CO-PRODUCTION MARKET, 6 at CO-PRO SERIES and numerous films by EAVE PRODUCERS at the EUROPEAN FILM MARKET! 

Competition

• ALL THE DEAD ONES by Caetano Gotardo, Marco Dutra, producer: EAVE graduate Clément Duboin, sales: Indie Sales
• BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ by Burhan Qurbani, producers: EAVE graduates Léontine Petit, Derk-Jan Warrink, Marleen Slot, sales: Beta Cinema
• SIBERIA by Abel Ferrara, producer: Interchange graduate Marta Donzelli, sales: The Match Factory
• THE INTRUDER by Natalia Meta, producer: PUENTES and EAVE+ graduates Benjamin Domenech and Santiago Gallelli, sales:  Film Factory Entertainment
• THE SALT OF TEARS by Philippe Garrel, producer: EAVE graduate Laurine Pelassy, sales: Wild Bunch

Berlinale Encounters

• LOS CONDUCTOS by Camilo Restrepo, co-producer: EAVE graduate Arek Gielnik, sales: Best Friend Forever
• MALMKROG by Cristi Puiu, co-producers: EAVE graduates Milan Stojanovic, Anamaria Antoci, Labina Mitevska, Dan Wechsler, sales: Shellac
• ORPHEA by Alexander Kluge, Khavn de la Cruz, producer: TTB graduate Stephan Holl, sales: Rapid Eye Movies
• SERVANTS by Ivan Ostrochovsky, producer: EAVE graduate Katarina Tomkova, co-producer: EAVE graduate Oana Giurgiu, Tudor Giurgiu, sales: Loco Films
• THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN by Sandra Wollner, producer: EAVE graduate David Bohun

Panorama

• A COMMON CRIME by Francisco Marquez, co-producer: PUENTES graduate Daniel Pech, EAVE graduate Dan Wechsler, sales: Cercamon
• DAYS OF CANNIBALISM by Teboho Edkins, producer: EAVE graduate Janja Kralj, co-producer: EAVE graduate Derk-Jan Warrink, Koji Nelissen, sales: Indie Sales
• DIGGER by Georgis Grigorakis, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Fenia Cossovitsa, sales: The Match Factory  
• EXILE by Visar Morina, producer: EAVE graduate Jonas Dornbach, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Jean-Yves Roubin, sales: The Match Factory
• FATHER by Srdan Golubovic, co-producers: EAVE graduate and group leader Danijel Hocevar, EAVE graduate Adis Djapo, EAVE graduate and National Coordinator Bosnia-Herzegovina Amra Baksic Camo
• HOPE by Maria Sødahl, co-producers: EAVE graduates Lizette Jonjic, Peter Possne, sales: TrustNordisk  
• LITTLE GIRL by Sébastien Lifshitz, co-producer: EAVE graduate Monica Hellström, sales: mk2 Films
• ONE OF THESE DAYS by Bastian Günther, producer: EAVE graduate Martin Heisler, sales: The Match Factory  
• PARI by Siamak Etemadi, producers: EAVE graduate Konstantinos Kontovrakis, EAVE+ graduate Giorgos Karnavas, co-producers: EAVE graduates Borislav Chouchkov, Frans van Gestel, Laurette Schillings, Arnold Heslenfeld, Dan Wechsler, PUENTES graduate Kostas Tagalakis, sales: Heretic Outreach
• SOW THE WIND by Danilo Caputo, producers: EAVE graduates Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin, co-producer: Konstantina Stavrianou, sales: Pyramide International
• WILDLAND by Jeanette Nordahl, producers: EAVE graduate Katrin Pors, TTB graduate Mikkel Jersin, sales: Bac Films Distribution

Panorama Dokumente

• IF IT WERE LOVE by Patric Chiha, producer: Interchange graduate Charlotte Vincent, sales: Best Friend Forever
• NARDJES A. by Karim Aïnouz, producer: EAVE participant Christopher Zitterbart, sales: MPM Premium

Forum

• ENTRE PERRO Y LOBO by Irene Gutiérrez, producer: EAVE graduate Katrin Pors, sales: Bendita Film Sales  
• RED MOON TIDE by Lois Patiño, producer: EAVE graduate Felipe Lage Coro, sales: Lights On
• THE EXIT OF THE TRAINS by Radu Jude, Adrian Cioflanca, producer: EAVE graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon
• UPPERCASE PRINT by Radu Jude, producer: EAVE graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon, sales: Best Friend Forever
• QUANTUM CREOLE by Filipa Cesar, producer: EAVE graduate Michel Balague
• WHAT REMAINS / RE-VISITED by Clarissa Thieme, co-producer: EAVE graduate Amira Lekic
• WINDOW BOY WOULD ALSO LIKE TO HAVE A SUBMARINE by Alex Piperno, co-producers: EAVE graduates Frank Hoeve, Rachel Ellis, sales: Square Eyes

Berlinale Special

• GOLDA MARIA by EAVE graduate Patrick Sobelman, sales: mk2 Films
• NUMBERS by Oleg Sentsov, producers: EAVE graduates Violetta Kaminska, Isabela Wojcik, sales: Latido Films
• PERSIAN LESSONS by Vadim Perelman, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jamila Wenske

Generation Kplus

• DEATH OF NINTENDO by Raya Martin, co-producer: TTB graduate Jeremy Chua
• MONTY AND THE STREET PARTY by Anders Morgenthaler, Mikael Wulff, producer: EAVE graduate Lizette Jonjic, sales: TrustNordisk
• SCHOOLGIRLS by Pilar Palomero, producer: EAVE + graduate Valérie Delpierre, sales: Film Factory Entertainment
• SUNE - BEST MAN by Jon Holmberg, producer: EAVE graduate Malin Söderlund, sales: Global Screen
• VEINS OF THE WORLD by Byambasuren Davaa, producer: PUENTES graduate Tobias Seibert
• A FOOL GOD by Hiwot Adamasu, producer: EAVE graduate Marie Dubas

Generation 14plus

• JUMBO by Zoé Wittock, producers: EAVE graduates Anaïs Bertrand, Pascaline Saillant, Annabella Nezri, Gilles Chanial, sales WTFilms
• PARADISE DRIFTERS by Mees Peijnenburg, executive producer: EAVE graduate Antonin Dedet, sales: Orange Studio
• POMPEI by Anna Falguères, John Shank, producers: TTB graduate Valérie Bournonville, EAVE graduate Clément Duboin, sales: The Party Film Sales
• ORDINARY JUSTICE by Chiara Bellosi, producer: EAVE graduate Carlo Cresto-Dina, sales: Vision Distribution
• YALDA, A NIGHT FOR FORGIVENESS by Massoud Bakhshi, producer: EAVE graduate Marianne Dumoulin, co-producers: EAVE graduate Nicole Gerhards, EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, sales: Pyramide International

Perspektive Deutsches Kino

• KIDS RUN by Barbara Ott, producer: EAVE graduates Gabriele Simon, Martin Heisler, sales: The Yellow Affair  
• GARAGE PEOPLE by Natalija Yefimkina, producer: EAVE graduate Dirk Decker, Andrea Schütte, sales: Rise and Shine
• SISTERS APART by Daphne Charizani, producer: EAVE graduate Martin Hampel, sales: Match Factory Productions
• SLEEP by Michael Venus, producer: EAVE graduate Verena Gräfe-Höft, sales: Global Screen
• WALCHENSEE FOREVER by Janna Ji Wonders, producer: EAVE graduate Martin Heisler, sales: Deckert Distribution

Hommage

• THE LAST STATION by Michael Hoggman, producer: EAVE graduate Jens Meurer

On Transmission

• EAVE project SOLE by Carlo Sironi, producers: EAVE graduates Giovanni Pompili, Aga Wasiak, sales: Luxbox

Berlinale Co-Production Market

• A HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY by Davi Pretto, co-produced by PUENTES graduate Paola Wink
• ANTONIA’S GARDEN by Christine Repond, producer: EAVE graduate Ivan Madeo
• BEDSITTERLAND by Nick Kelly, producer: EAVE graduate Martina Niland
• BOLDSTAR by Antoinette Jadaone, producer: TTB graduate and group leader Bianca Balbuena
• ELECTRIC CHILD by Simon Jaquemet, producer: EAVE graduate Tolga Dilsiz
• LET THE RIVER FLOW! by Ole Giæver, producer: PUENTES graduate Elisa Pirir
• REFLECTION by Valentyn Vasyanovych, producer: EAVE graduate Vladimir Yatsenko
• PIGGY by Carlota Pereda, Morena Films, producer: EAVE graduate Merry Colomer
• SALT LAKE by Mañana, producer: EAVE graduate Piotr Kobus
• TRANSIT TIMES by Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu, producer: EAVE graduate and German National Coordinator Jonas Weydemann

Talent Project Market

• THE LAST PARADISE ON EARTH by Sakaris Stora, producer: EAVE graduate Jon Hammer

Berlinale Directors

• THE HERD by Milko Lazarov, producer: EAVE participant Veselka Kiryakova
• MARET by Laura Schroeder, producers: EAVE graduates Palmyre Badinier, Dorothe Beinemeier

Rotterdam – Berlinale Express

• A SHADOW CREEPS IN SILVER TREES by John Trengove, producer: EAVE graduate Cait Pansegrouw, Elias Ribeiro
• SLEEPWALKERS by Radu Jude, producer: EAVE graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon

Company Matching

• Cinéma Defacto, France, EAVE graduate Sophie Erbs
• Kinorama, Croatia, EAVE graduate and group leader Ankica Juric Tilic
• Rei Cine, Argentina, EAVE+ and PUENTES graduates Santiago Galleli and Benjamin Domenech
• Snowglobe, Denmark, EAVE graduate Katrin Pors

Co-Pro Series 2020

• THE KING’S WIVES by Hany Abu-Assad and Amira Diab, producer: EAVE graduate Myriam Sassine
• BABYLAND produced by EAVE graduate Ana Alexieva
• PRECIOUS produced by EAVE graduate Leontine Petit
• PAWNS produced by EAVE+ graduate Artem Vasilyev
• TRANSITNIKI produced by EAVE graduate Karsten Stöter
• SNOW produced by EAVE graduate Ursula Wolschlager

Berlinale Talents

• EAVE MW graduate Malgorzata Wabinska
• TTB graduate Nathalie Dennes
• EAVE participant Samantha Biffot
• PUENTES graduate Alessandro Amato
• PUENTES graduate Lina Badenes
• EAVE and PUENTES graduate Irina Malcea
• TTB graduate Fei Ling Foo
• EAVE graduate Jon Hammer
• EAVE graduate Carla Sospedra
• EAVE, B'EST and EAVE MW graduate Marek Novak

www.berlinale-talents.de

EFM

• 7500 by Patrick Vollrath, producer: EAVE+ graduate Jonas Katzenstein
• ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN by Thorsten Klein, producer: EAVE graduates Lena Vurma, Joanna Szymanska, sales: Indie Sales
• AQUARELA by Victor Kossakovsky, producer: EAVE graduate Heino Deckert, sales: Lionsgate
• BAGHDAD IN MY SHADOW by Interchange graduate Samir, sales: Global Screen   
• LE MILIEU DE L’HORIZON by Delphine Lehericey, producer: EAVE graduate Sébastien Delloye, sales: Be For Films
• EAVE project BREAKING SURFACE by Joachim Heden, producer: EAVE graduate Julia Gebauer, sales: Trust
• EAVE Marketing Workshop project WHITE ON WHITE by Théo Court, producer: PUENTES graduates Giancarlo Nasi, Eva Chillón (Marketing Workshop graduate developing the project: Luis Renart)
• L'ANGLE MORT (BLIND SPOT) by Pierre Trividic & Patrick-Mario Bernard, produced by EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman, sales: Doc & Film
• LOS CONDUCTOS by Camilo Restrepo, co-producer: EAVE graduate Arek Gielnik, sales: Best Friend Forever
• DIGGER by Georgis Grigorakis, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Fenia Cossovitsa, sales: The Match Factory  
• ECHO (BERGMAL) by Runar Runarsson, co-producer: EAVE graduate Dan Wechsler, sales: The Party Film Sales  
• EXILE Visar Morina, producer: EAVE graduate Jonas Dornbach, co-producer: EAVE + graduate Jean-Yves Roubin, sales: The Match Factory
• FATHER by Srdan Golubovic, producers: EAVE graduates Danijel Hocevar, Adis Djapo, EAVE graduate and National Coordinator Bosnia-Herzegovina Amra Baksic Camo
• THE FLYING CIRCUS, written and directed by Fatos Berisha, producer: EAVE graduate Vjosa Berisha
• GARAGE PEOPLE by Natalija Yefimkina, producer: EAVE graduate Dirk Decker, Andrea Schutte, sales: Rise and Shine
• GIPSY QUEEN by Hüseyin Tabak, producer: EAVE graduate Danny Krausz, sales: ARRI Media  
• THE GIRL WITH A BRACELET by Stéphane Demoustier, producer: EAVE graduate Jean des Forêts, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jean-Yves Roubinsales: Charades
• HEIMAT IST EIN RAUM AUS ZEIT by Thomas Heise, producer: EAVE graduate Heino Deckert, sales: Deckert Distribution GmbH
• HOPE by Maria Sødahl, co-producers: EAVE graduates Lizette Jonjic, Peter Possne, sales: TrustNordisk  
• IF IT WERE LOVE by Patric Chiha, producer: Interchange graduate Charlotte Vincent, sales: Best Friend Forever
• ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS by Gabrielle Brady, producers: EAVE graduates Alexander Wadouh, Samm Haillay, sales: Autlook Filmsales
• I WAS AT HOME, BUT by Angela Schanelec, line producer: EAVE graduate Jana Cisar, co-producer: EAVE graduate Natasa Damnjanovic, sales: Nachmittagfilm
• JUMBO by Zoé Wittock, producers: EAVE graduates Anaïs Bertrand, Pascaline Saillant, Annabella Nezri, Gilles Chanial, sales WTFilms
• KALA AZAR by Janis Rafa, producer: EAVE graduate Konstantinos Kontovrakis, sales: Heretic Outreach
• KIDS RUN by Barbara Ott, producer: EAVE graduates Gabriele Simon, Martin Heisler, sales: The Yellow Affair  
• KUESSIPAN by Myriam Verreault, producer: EAVE graduate Félize Frappier, sales: Be For Films   
• LOLA VERS LA MER by Laurent Micheli, producers: EAVE graduates Benoit Roland, Sebastien Haguenauer, sales: Les Films du Losange
• PUENTES project MATERNAL by Maura Delpero, producers: PUENTES graduate Alessandro Amato, Interchange graduate Marta Donzelli, sales: Charades
• NUMBERS by Oleg Sentsov, producers: EAVE graduates Violetta Kaminska, Isabela Wojcik, sales: Latido Films
• ORDINARY JUSTICE by Chiara Bellosi, producer: EAVE graduate Carlo Cresto-Dina, sales: Vision Distribution
• OSKAR & LILLY - WHERE NO ONE KNOWS US by EAVE graduate Arash T. Riahi, produced by Wegafilm Vienna
• PARI by Siamak Etemadi, producers: EAVE graduate Konstantinos Kontovrakis, EAVE+ graduate Giorgos Karnavas, co-producers: EAVE graduates Borislav Chouchkov, Frans van Gestel, Laurette Schillings, Arnold Heslenfeld, Dan Wechsler, sales: Heretic Outreach
• PELICAN BLOOD by Katrin Gebbe, producer: EAVE graduate Vera Gräfe-Höft, sales: Films Boutique  
• PERSIAN LESSONS by Vadim Perelman, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jamila Wenske, sales: Memento Films International
• POMPEI by Anna Falguères, John Shank, producers: TTB graduate Valérie Bournonville, EAVE graduate Clément Duboin, sales: The Party Film Sales
• ROUNDS by EAVE graduate Stephan Komandarev, producer: EAVE graduate Katya Trichkova, sales: Beta Cinema  
• SCHOOLGIRLS by Pilar Palomero, producer: EAVE+ graduate Valérie Delpierre, sales: Film Factory Entertainment
• SIBERIA by Abel Ferrara, producer: Interchange graduate Marta Donzelli, sales: The Match Factory
• SISTERS APART by Daphne Charizani, producer: EAVE graduate Martin Hampel, sales: Match Factory Productions
• SLEEP by Michael Venus, producer: EAVE graduate Verena Gräfe-Höft, sales: Global Screen
• SOW THE WIND by Danilo Caputo, producers: EAVE graduates Marianne Dumoulin, Konstantina Stavrianou, sales: Pyramide International
• SYSTEM CRASHER by Nora Fingscheidt, producer: EAVE graduate and German National Coordinator Jonas Weydemann, sales: Beta Cinema
• THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT’S A RESURRECTION by Jeremiah Lemonhang Mosese, producers: EAVE graduates Cait Pansegrouw, Elias Ribeiro
• THE BAREFOOT EMPEROR, directed and produced by EAVE graduate Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth, co-producers: EAVE graduates Frans van Gestel, Arnold Heslenfeld and Laurette Schillings, sales: Be For Films
• THE CAVE (NANG NON), directed and produced by EAVE graduate Tom Waller, sales: Wild Bunch
• THE MOLE AGENT by Maite Alberdi, producers: EAVE graduates Ingmar Trost, Denis Vaslin, Fleur Knopperts, sales: Dogwoof
• TTB project MOTEL ACACIA by TTB graduate Bradley Liew, producers: TTB graduate and group leader Bianca Balbuena and TTB graduate Jeremy Chua, co-producers: by EAVE graduates Bostjan Virc and Sinisa Juricic, sales: Picture Tree International  
• WALCHENSEE FOREVER by Janna Ji Wonders, producer: EAVE graduate Martin Heisler, sales: Deckert Distribution
• WILDLAND by Jeanette Nordahl, producers: EAVE graduate Katrin Pors, TTB graduate Mikkel Jersin, Eva Jakobsen, sales: Bac Films Distribution

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EAVE at the Creative Europe MEDIA stand (Central Hall, Stand number: 24) of the EFM: February 21-26

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MIDPOINT TV Launch graduate project at Berlinale Co-Pro Series 2020 

With Berlinale and its Co-Pro Series 2020 around the corner, we would like to reckon the very successful journey of the TV series project Babyland, which was being developed within our TV Launch program in 2019. 

This Bulgarian project, produced by the acknowledged producer Martichka Bozhilova (Agitprop) and written by Simona Nobile and Dianne Jones, is going to take part in the Co-Pro Series 2020 of Berlinale Co-Production Market! 

Before being chosen for this prestigious industry platform, Babyland was presented within the Season Finale platform at CineLink Drama within FF Sarajevo. After the TV Launch training, Babyland was also accepted to the first ACE Producers Series Special Program. 

In December 2019, the project was selected as one of the 30 drama projects for the C21 Drama Series Pitch of the Content London event.

In January 2020, Martichka Bozhilova pitched the project at Göteborg Film Festival within the TV Drama Vision conference.  

Huge congratulations for all the successes achieved so far and fingers crossed for the Berlinale experience. 

The Co-Pro Series Pitches take place on Tuesday, February 25 at 10 am in Zoo Palast. 

MIDPOINT TV Launch is realized with the support of Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the Czech Film Fund and the Slovak Audiovisual Fund. It is presented in cooperation with Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event, HBO Europe, Marseille Web Fest, Serial Eyes, NEM Zagreb, C21 Media, Series Mania, CANNESERIES Institute, Seriencamp, MIA TV Market, MediaXchange, Meeting Point Vilnius and the Audiovisual Producers' Association. MIDPOINT Institute operates under the auspices of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

The selectors, under the guidance of the director of the Festival, Krzysztof Gierat, will have to face the breakneck process of selecting the best, both from among almost 2500 submitted titles, as well as those that we managed to invite to Krakow straight from the prestigious festivals around the world.

By mid-April, the team of selectors, consisting of about 20 outstanding critics, film theorists and filmmakers, will select titles which will be presented in four competitions of equal rank — three international ones: documentary film competition, short film competition, music documentary film competition DocFilmMusic and Polish film competition. Fascinating stories from all over the world will also go to the special film sections.

It is not surprising that half of the films submitted from all around the world are short feature films. This trend has persisted for several years. Just like it was the case last year, almost 1300 of them were submitted. Dagmara Romanowska, film critic and the curator of the feature film section, emphasises that this year, there is a prevalence of intimate portraits of family and individuals, themes from the opposite ends of the spectrum of life – adolescence and the last years of life, illnesses, farewells. There are few views on the political and cultural turmoil of the world, although occasionally there are stories that must have arisen on the basis of the #MeToo movement, asking questions about sexuality and crossing borders.

Details

The 60th Krakow Film Festival will take place on May 31 – June 7, 2020

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