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20th Sofia Meetings Projects Selection



Second Fiction Feature Film Projects


DREAM BIRD
– Director Murat Pay, Producer Halil Kardaş/Film Code Production (Turkey)

JAUNE ET BLEU – Director Giulia Grandinetti, Producers Riccardo Neri, Vincenzo Filippo/Lupin Film (Italy)

JUGOSLAVA – Director Ivan Bakrač, Producers Ivan Bakrač, Nikolina Vucetic Zecevic, Guillaume de Seille/Quadrifolium Films (Montenegro), Arizona Films (France), Biberche (Serbia) 

DROWNING DRY - Director Laurynas Bareisa, Producer Klementina Remeikaite/Afterschool (Lithuania), Co-producer Matiss Kaza/Trickster Picutres (Latvia)

THE LAST SLAP – Director Matteo Oleotto, Producer Miha Černec/Staragara IT (Slovenia, Italy), Spok (Italy), Propeler Film (Croatia)




Plus Minus One Film Projects

DISSONANCE – Director Elitza Petkova, Producer Veselka Kiryakova/Red Carpet (Bulgaria), Co-producer Wood Water Films (Germany)

MARIO – Director Guillem Miró,  Producer Ana Inés Fernández/Somera Films, Corte y Confección de Películas (Spain) (in partnership with MFI)

RESONANCE – Director Yordan Petkov, Producers Victoria Mitreva, Vanya Raynova/ Garti Films, Portokal (Bulgaria)

SŁOŃCE – Director Anna Zamecka, Producers Klaudia Smeja, Bogna Szewczyk - Skupien /MADANTS (Poland)

THE HOSTESS – Director Eric Nazarian, Producer Eric Nazarian, Panos Papahadzis, Maria Laskaridou /Argonauts Productions S.A./Voyager Pictures (Armenia, Greece, Turkey)

THE LAST SUMMER – Director João Nuno Pinto & Fernanda Polacow, Producer Andreia Nunes/Wonder Maria Filmes (Portugal), Grifa Filmes (Brazil)

THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED – Director Tyagi Pallava, Producer Viktoria Petranyi/Proton Cinema (Hungary)

TRAVELLERS – Director Pierre Filmon, Producers Pierre Filmon, Sonal Sehgal / Almano Films (France), Sonal Sehgal Films (India)

WORKER – Director Giorgi Kobalia, Producers Nika Gugushvili, Vako Kirkitadze/Film Asylum (Georgia)

Y – Directors Maria Popistașu, Alexandru Baciu, Producer Anamaria Antoci/Tangaj Production (Romania) (in partnership with CROSSROADS)




Projects in Bank

ANIMAL – Director Milada Těšitelová, Producer Julie Žáčková / Unit and Sofa Praha (Czech Republic)

END POINT - Director Maria Dauza, Producer Michael Sarantinos / STEFICON (Greece)

BECAUSE I LOVE BAD WEATHER – Director Yana Lekarska, Producer Kalin Kalinov / Invictus Ltd. (Bulgaria)

JULIO’S VISION – Director Raul Garcia, Producer Raul Garcia / Solaris Dreams Films (Colombia)

MEMENTO NON MORI – Director Şeyhmus Altun, Producer Fevziye Hazal / Jurnal Kolektif Production (Turkey)

POTION – Director Natalka Vorozhbyt, Producer Iryn Kostyuk, Sergiy Demidov, Anna Eliseeva / FILM AU PRODUCTION (Ukraine)

RADICAL - Director Kenneth Mercken, Producer Maarten D'Hollander / Kreter Films (Belgium) (in partnership with EAVE)

THE VIOLATION – Director Kate Cragg, Producer Daniel Landin / Art Practice (United Kingdom)

THINGS WASHED ASHORE – Director Janis Abele, Producer Marta Romanova-Jekabsone / GESTA FILMS (Latvia)




First Films First

40, MARIA LOUISA BOULEVARD,
Director Kristina Spassovska, Producer Maya Vitkova / Viktoria Films (Bulgaria)

BEASTS, Director Maja Križnik, Producer Vlado Bulajić, Lija Pogačnik / December (Slovenia)

BEFORE I FALL ASLEEP, Director Senka Domanović, Producer Marija Stojanovic / SENSE Production (Serbia)

NOTHING WILL BE NAMED AFTER ME, Director Đorđe Vojvodić, Producer Miljan Vučelić / Bitter Frames Production (Montenegro)

LIONFISH, Director Thanasis Trouboukis (Greece)

LONG WEEKEND, Director Katarina Koljević, Producer Natasa Damjanovic & Vladimir Vidic / DART FILM (Serbia)

SHIBBOLETH, Director Alexandra Matheou, Producer Tonia Mishiali / Bark Like a Cat Film (Cyprus)

PIETÀ, Director Andra Chiriac Hera (Romania)




Works In Progress Selection


AXIS OF LIFE – Director Atanas Hristoskov, Kalinov Brothers/ Invictus (Bulgaria)

BLAZING – Director Balázs Dudás, Producer Patricia D’Intino/ CineSuper (Hungary)

BREATHERS – Director Lech Kowalski, Producer Maison Mariou/ Revolt Cinema (France), David Dávila Herrera/Living On Film (Mexico)

DAD – Directors Dimitris Georgiev, Mariy Rosen, Producers Lyubo Yonchev, Rosen Savkov, Elena Doroshenko, Teodora Mladenova/ Four Elements
(Bulgaria)

DIE LIKE A MAN – Director Eric Nazarian, Producer Eric Nazarian/Voyager Pictures, Confluential Fims / Mucho Mas Media (USA)

DYAD – Director Yana Titova, Producers Vanya Rainova, Aleksandar Aleksiev, Nikolay Stoichkov/ Portokal, NoBlink (Bulgaria)

EVERYBODY DIES ON THE NEWS – Director Victor Ivanov, Producer Konstantin Vasilev/ B2Y (Bulgaria, Croatia)

LOVE OFF – Director Ivaylo Hristov, Producer Orlin Ruevski/ Moviemento (Bulgaria)

MEDIUM – Director Christina Ioakeimidi, Producers Yorgos Noussias, Louizos Aslanidis/Ekso Productions (Greece), Red Carpet Films (Bulgaria)

NOBODY LIKES ME – Directors Tomas Weinreb, Petr Kazda, Producer Guillaume de Seille/ Arizona Films (Czech Republic, Slovakia, France)

NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN – Director Murad Zaloğlu, Producer Halil Kardaş/Film Code Production (Turkey)

PLAGUE – Director Ivan Vladimirov, Producer Mila Voinikova/ Miramar Film (Bulgaria)

RESCUERS – Director Ilina Perianova, Producers Ilina Perianova, Mila Voinikova/ Uga Buga Art, Miramar Film (Bulgaria)

SCIROCCO - Director Yassine Marco Marroccu, Producer Andrea Taschler/Mirage Film, Eclipse Films (Hungary, Morocco)

THAT’S IT FOR TODAY – Director Marko Đjordjević, Producer Miloš Pušić/Film Center of Serbia (Serbia)

THE ANSWER TO ALL QUESTIONS – Director Dimitar Kotzev-Shosho, Producers Alexander Stanishev, Dimitar Kotzev-Shosho/ Kontraplan (Bulgaria)

THE BACKSTAGE – Director Hovhannes Galstyan, Producers Hovhannes Galstyan, Laura Clever/ Anso Films; Parallels Film production; Clever Production; Wady Films; One Man Studio Production; GreyMark-45 Studio (Armenia, Germany, Luxembourg)

THE CIRCUS FANTASY – Director and Producer Raul Garcia/ Solaris Dreams Films (Columbia)

THE PLATFORM – Director Nikolay Sotirov, Producer Nikolay Mutafchiev/ Premierstudio Plus (Bulgaria)

TROPHIES – Director André Chandelle, Producer Vera Chandelle/Fabrikata (Bulgaria, Belgium)

WEDLOCK – Director Magdalena Ralcheva, Producer Magdalena Ralcheva/ Nuance Film (Bulgaria)

WIESENWOOD – Director Jannis Alexander Kiefer, Producers Philipp Kreuzer, Katja Kuhlmann, Chris Degenhart, Lotte Ruf/ Maze Pictures (Germany)

WINDLESS – Director Pavel Vesnakov, Producer Veselka Kiryakova/ Red Carpet Films (Bulgaria)

YASMEEN'S ELEMENT – Director Amman Abbasi, Producer Kamen Velkovski/ Alaz Film (Portugal, Pakistan)

Short Film Selection:

ACROSS THE NAKED HILLS - Director Dimitar Kutmanov, Producer Veselka Kiryakova/
Red Carpet Films (Bulgaria

LYUBIMA - Director Maya Vitkova-Kosev, Producer Maya Vitkova-Kosev, Emil Vitkov/ Viktoria Films (Bulgaria, Romania, Sweden)

THE ENGINEER – Director Jordan Chichikov, Producers Y. Seu Castor (Jordan Chichikov), Irmena ChichikovaOld School Gemini Productions (United Kingdom, Bulgaria)

TWO TIMES TWO – Director Andrey M. Paounov , Producers Andrey M. Paounov, Elitza Katzarska, Herbert Schwering, Samuel Finzi/Chicken Milk FarmCoin Film (Bulgaria, Germany)