The second edition of SOFA, taking place in Tbilisi, opens on 22 April and runs through 28 April 2018.

Participants of the 2017 edition: Agnieszka Sękowska (Poland), Nikolai Lavreniuk (Belarus), Liina Maria Lepik (Estonia), Nino Chichua (Georgia), Angelos Tsaousis (Greece), Gitit Wainer (Israel) and Tara Karajica (Serbia), will continue developing their projects.

The workshop programme includes two public events. The first takes place during the presentation of the European Film Promotion. The second one is dedicated to young filmmakers and covers the subjects of macro budgeting and guerilla filmmaking.

Tara Karajica, a former FNE correspondent, began with the idea of developing an institution that would focus on supporting women in Serbian film industry, and created the online magazine “Fade to Her”.  The website was launched two on 13 February 2018.