30-10-2017

FESTIVALS: Box Office Hits and Lauded Directors Compete at Cottbus

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    COTTBUS: The Slovak box office hit The Line by Peter Bebjak, Georgian director George Ovashvili’s Khibula and Slovenian director Jan Cvitkovic’s The Basics of Killing are among the 12 films selected for the main competition of the 27th Cottbus Film Festival, running 7 – 12 November 2017.

    The festival devotes a special section to films from Poland and its partner festival there, T-Mobile New Horizons in Wroclaw, and will have two focus sections, one on Vietnamese immigrants living in Central Europe and a second on Belarus. Czech and Polish films figure prominently in the festival’s National Hits Section.

    The list of competition films follows:

    Black Level (Ukraine)
    Directed by Valentyn Vasyanovich

    Breaking News (Romania)
    Directed by Iulia Rugină
    Produced by Hai–Hui Entertainment
    Coproduced by Libra Film Production
    Supported by the Romanian Film Centre

    Daybreak (Albania, Greece)
    Directed by Gentian Koçi

    Head. Two Ears (Russia)
    Directed by Vitaly Suslin

    I’m A Killer (Poland)
    Directed by Maciej Pieprzyca
    Produced by RE Studio
    Coproduced by the National Audiovisual Institute, TVP, Agora S.A., Monternia
    Supported by the Polish Film Institute

    Khibula (Georgia, Germany, France)
    Directed by George Ovashvili
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    Coproduced by 42film, Arizona Productions
    Supported by the Georgian National Film Center

    Omnipresent (Bulgaria)
    Directed by Ilian Djevelekov
    Produced by Miramar film
    Supported by the Bulgarian National Film Center

    Out (Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic)
    Directed by György Kristóf
    Produced by sentimentalfilm, KMH Film Productions, endorfilm, Mirage, Punkchart films, RTVS, FAMU
    Supported by Audiovizuálny fond, Magyar Nemzeti Filmalap, Státní fond kinematografie

    Pomegranate Orchard (Azerbaijan)
    Directed by Ilgar Najaf

    The Basics of Killing (Slovenia, Serbia)
    Directed by Jan Cvitkovič
    Produced by Perfo Production
    Coproduced by Pilon Media, RTV Slovenija
    Supported by the Slovenian Film Center, FS Viba,  Film Center Serbia

    The Line (Slovakia, Ukraine)
    Directed by Peter Bebjak
    Produced by Wandal Production
    Coproduced by RTVS, Garnet International Media Group
    Supported by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund, Creative Europe Media, the Ukrainian State Film Agency, the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic and Bratislava Self-Governing Region

    Wild Roses (Poland)
    Directed by Anna Jadowska
    Production Alter Ego Pictures
    Supported by Polish Film Institute