Selected projects for the 6th Sofia Meetings
Second Film Projects Program
Radu Jude presents Everybody in Our Family (Romania), producer Ada Solomon
Kristina Buozyte presents Aurora (Lithuania), producer Ieva Norviliene
Huseyin Karabey presents Come to My Voice! (Turkey)
Andri Luup presents Fiction (Estonia), producer Eero Tavistu
Conor Barry (producer) presents Love Eternal (Ireland), director Brendan Macdowney
Jaak Kilmi presents The Ballet Master and the Seven Enemies of the People (Estonia), producer Margus Ounapuu
Gyula Nemes presents Zero (Hungary), producer Lazslo Nemes
Freddy Mas Franqueza presents Last Moments (Spain), producer Claudia Peris
Boris Despodov and Andrey Paounov present Mexican Express (Bulgaria, Estonia), producers Boris Despodov and Priit Tender
Robert Lakatos presents Transilvania Show (Hungary), producer Andras Muhi
Plus Minus One Program
Jozko Rutar (producer) presents Archeo (Slovenia), director Jan Cvitkovic
Yannis Sakaridis presents America Square (Greece), producer Maria Tsigka
Chapour Haghighat presents The Silence (France, Iran), producer Anne Ferron-Haghighat
Stefan Komandarev presents The Judgement (Bulgaria), producer Stefan Komandarev
Ognjen Svilicic presents Heaven on Earth (Croatia, Germany, France), producer Janja Kralj
Joshua Sinclair presents L'Italo Americano, producer Paolo Spina
Taavi Vartia presents Petros&Kyle (Finland, Greece), producer Erica Koukouna
Konstantin Bojanov presents Ave (Bulgaria, France), producers Dimitar Gotchev and Janja Kralj
Dimitar Mitovski presents The Black Box (Bulgaria), producer Ivan Doykov
Sofia Cinelinks Sarajevo Program
Kirill Mikhanovsky presents Fuga Mortis (Ukraine, Russia), producers Oleg Kokhan and Yevgenii Gindilis
Edmond Budina presents The Dance of Flags (Albania), producer Robert Budina
Kaha Kihabidze presents Cold Clouds (Georgia, Russia), producer Yelena Yatzura
Sirri Onder presents Milk Powder (Turkey), producer Necati Akpinar
Selected Projects from EAVE for the 2nd time at Sofia Meetings
The Ballet Master and the Seven Enemies of the People, director Jaak Kilmi, producer Margus Onauruu
Archeo, director Jan Cvitkovic, producer Jozko Rutar
Love Eternal, director Donald Muldowney, producer Conor Barry
Sofia Meeetings presents the winning project of the last edition of Crossroads, Thessaloniki IFF
America Square, director Yannis Sakaridis, producer Maria Tsigka
The winning project of Sofia Meetings will be presented at the next Crossroads.
Special Events
The Robert Bosch Foundation
For the third time the Co-Production Prize will be presented at the Sofia Meetings and for the first time there will be a "Get together" with 5 German Producers.
In a sort of a speed dating German Producers and Eastern European filmmakers will come together and pitch their projects and ideas
CEI Round Table in Partnership with SUNNY SIDE OF THE DOC and State Institute of Culture /Ministry of Foreign Affairs/
Theatrical Distribution in Central and Eastern Europe and Digital Distribution
Distribution in Eastern and Central Europe for Documentary and Fiction
The Ancillary Markets, VOD & TV Distribution
Presentations of The Auteurs and Going Digital
European Distributors Up Next! continued discussions at the Sofia Meetings
European Film Promotion (EFP) launched its new programme "European Distributors: Up Next!" in cooperation with the San Sebastian International Film Festival in 2008
to support ambitious distributors with the aim of increasing the wider distribution of non-domestic European films in Europe.
Media Desk Bulgaria presents
Media International
Media Development
Media Promotion, Festivals and Training
and
Leading training programmes
Mediterranean Film Institute Script 2 Film by Apostolia Zakariadou and Giovanni Robbiano
Scripteast by Violeta Kaminska
Primepackaging by Frank Stehling
Tosmi by Petko Durmana
Discovery Campus by Charlotte Meyer
Open Class by Patrick Sandrin
The Balkan Screenings programme will present more than 35 new and work-in-progress
Bulgarian and Balkan films to directors and programmers from various international film festivals.
Best Balkan Shorts Programme
I Know by Jan Cvitkovic
Blackberries by Nicolas Panoutsopoulos and Ishai Setton
One Man Note by Daghan Celayir
Good Day For a Swim by Bogdan Mustac
Balastiera # 186 by George Chiper and Adina Pintilie
Life is Hard by Gabriel Sârbu
Megatron by Marian Crisan
Sofia Meetings, supported by the MEDIA and MEDIA International Programme
is an event that aims to promote new projects from young European filmmakers and new films from Bulgaria and the Balkan region
to European film festivals, sales agents and distributors.
Sofia Meetings is one of the key spots of the festival.
WELCOME!
Mira Staleva
Head of Sofia Meetings
and Sofia Meetings Team
