Sarajevo’s co-production market’s first batch of projects includes new films by Erol Mintas, Ivana Mladenovic
The Sarajevo Film Festival has announced first eight selected projects for this year’s edition of CineLink.
They have been chosen from the first call for entries which was intended for projects from first- and second-time directors interested in the preparatory workshop, set for April 3-7.
The selection includesx Crows by director Erol Mintas and producer Asli Erdem from Turkey, who return to Sarajevo one year after winning the Heart of Sarajevo for best film with The Song Of My Mother, and best actor for Feyyaz Duman.
Serbian-born and Romanian-based director Ivana Mladenovic, whose film Turn off the Lights won the Heart of Sarajevo for best documentary in 2012, teams up with producer Ada Solomon for her first fiction feature, Soldiers.
Greece’s Dimitris Bavellas whose Runaway Day was in competition in 2013, is coming with the project In the Strange Pursuit...
The Sarajevo Film Festival has announced first eight selected projects for this year’s edition of CineLink.
They have been chosen from the first call for entries which was intended for projects from first- and second-time directors interested in the preparatory workshop, set for April 3-7.
The selection includesx Crows by director Erol Mintas and producer Asli Erdem from Turkey, who return to Sarajevo one year after winning the Heart of Sarajevo for best film with The Song Of My Mother, and best actor for Feyyaz Duman.
Serbian-born and Romanian-based director Ivana Mladenovic, whose film Turn off the Lights won the Heart of Sarajevo for best documentary in 2012, teams up with producer Ada Solomon for her first fiction feature, Soldiers.
Greece’s Dimitris Bavellas whose Runaway Day was in competition in 2013, is coming with the project In the Strange Pursuit...
- 4/1/2015
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
Dimitris Bavellas's unusual and ponderous sci-fi drama is set in Athens during the outbreak of a bizarre phenomenon which sees people inexplicably fleeing the city en masse, and follows three characters as they wander around the empty streets interacting with strangers and attempting to forget their various troubles. Shot in black and white, it's a beautifully made little film which takes an admirably creative approach to a social and political commentary of the current financial crisis in Greece. Unfortunately I found it almost unwatchably slow and boring.
Runaway Day starts with a mock '60s newsreel advertising the benefits of life in Athens, showing period scenes of modernist architecture, cheerful citizens and bustling streets, before cutting to footage of the more recent rio [Continued ...]...
Runaway Day starts with a mock '60s newsreel advertising the benefits of life in Athens, showing period scenes of modernist architecture, cheerful citizens and bustling streets, before cutting to footage of the more recent rio [Continued ...]...
- 6/23/2014
- QuietEarth.us
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