6th
SOFIA MEETINGS
12th, 13th and 14th
of March 2009
within the frame of the
13th Sofia
International Film Festival
23 Projects of European directors
will be presented at Pitching
Sessions
More than 35
films and works-in-progress
will be presented
at the
Balkan Screenings programme
Selected
projects for the 6th Sofia Meetings
Second Film Projects
Programme
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 Muldowney
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 Programme
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 Programme
Kirill
Mikhanovsky presents
Fuga Mortis (Ukraine, Russia), producers Oleg Kokhan and Yevgenii
Gindilis
Edmond
Budina presents
The Dance of Flags (Albania), producer Robert Budina
Kakha
Kikabidze presents
Cold Clouds (Georgia, Russia), producer Yelena Yatsura
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 Ounapuu
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
Sarajevo
Talent Campus presents Sarajevo City of Film Shorts
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! continue discussions at the
6th 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 Programme, Bulgarian National Film Center,
Sofia Municipaliry and MEDIA International Preparatory Action, 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.
WELCOME!
Mira Staleva
Head of Sofia Meetings
Stefan Kitanov
Director of Sofia International Film Festival
