Cee projects by up-and-coming filmmakers dominated the Works in Progress industry event at Karlovy Vary. In the Works in Progress section of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff), producers and directors from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and North Africa presented their projects slated to premiere after the Kviff. The 2019 edition brought mostly Cee projects by up-and-coming filmmakers. The jury, consisting of Khalil Benkirane, of the Doha Film Institute, producer Aija Berzina and Virgini Devesa, from Alpha Violet, decided to pick the Russian-Moldovan co-production Pigeon’s Milk by first-time director Eugen Marian as the winner of the award, worth €100,000 in post-production services and cash (see the news). Below is an overview of the various projects presented, starting with the winning one: Pigeon’s Milk - Eugen Maryan (Russia/Moldova)Pigeon’s Milk is the first official Russian-Moldovan co-production,...
Moldovan director Eugen Marian’s debut feature film project “Pigeon’s Milk,” and Iranian filmmaker Afsaneh Salari’s documentary project “The Silhouettes” picked up Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival’s Works in Progress prizes Tuesday.
In “Pigeon’s Milk,” a teenager in a remote Moldovan village plans to run away with a friend, but as he plots his revenge against the people who have wronged him, the escape plot threatens to go awry. Roman Borisevich, Alexander Kushaev and Anna Shalashina of Russia’s Koktebel Film Company are producing.
The jury commented: “With strong cinematic language, this first-time filmmaker offers a visual and harmonious world through a story with resonance, announcing a unique voice from a country we do not see much cinema from.”
“The Silhouettes” centers on Taghi, an engineering student in Iran whose parents fled war-torn Afghanistan. As Afghans are only allowed to have manual-labor jobs in Iran, Taghi...
In “Pigeon’s Milk,” a teenager in a remote Moldovan village plans to run away with a friend, but as he plots his revenge against the people who have wronged him, the escape plot threatens to go awry. Roman Borisevich, Alexander Kushaev and Anna Shalashina of Russia’s Koktebel Film Company are producing.
The jury commented: “With strong cinematic language, this first-time filmmaker offers a visual and harmonious world through a story with resonance, announcing a unique voice from a country we do not see much cinema from.”
“The Silhouettes” centers on Taghi, an engineering student in Iran whose parents fled war-torn Afghanistan. As Afghans are only allowed to have manual-labor jobs in Iran, Taghi...
- 7/3/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Nine feature films currently in post-production will be presented this week as part of Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s Works in Progress section, a highlight of the festival’s Eastern Promises industry program.
The selected projects, which come from Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and North Africa, will be pitched to an audience of industry guests on July 1 at 2 p.m. in Karlovy Vary’s Cas Cinema, followed by one-on-one meetings the next day. The best project will receive a €100,000 award that will enable the film to be completed at leading post-production facilities in Prague.
“Our main purpose is to help discover projects with good international potential that could travel beyond the region of Central and Eastern Europe,” said Karlovy Vary head of film industry office Hugo Rosak, programmer Lenka Tyrpakova and Wip manager Vojtech Strakaty by email.
The festival receives around...
The selected projects, which come from Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and North Africa, will be pitched to an audience of industry guests on July 1 at 2 p.m. in Karlovy Vary’s Cas Cinema, followed by one-on-one meetings the next day. The best project will receive a €100,000 award that will enable the film to be completed at leading post-production facilities in Prague.
“Our main purpose is to help discover projects with good international potential that could travel beyond the region of Central and Eastern Europe,” said Karlovy Vary head of film industry office Hugo Rosak, programmer Lenka Tyrpakova and Wip manager Vojtech Strakaty by email.
The festival receives around...
- 6/28/2019
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
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