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ORGANIZER CONTACTS

Rita Stanelytė Ieva Malikėnaitė Viktorija Cook Head of Industry Event Coming Soon Project Scout Industry Guest Manager Meeting Point - Vilnius [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] +370 611 41656 +370 647 95414 +370 688 84863 Dear Friends,

Welcome to Vilnius! We meet here for the 8th Industry Event Meeting Point – Vilnius. During three conference days you will visit industry screenings, seminars, inspiring talks, discussions, 3 Coming Soon presentations and networking gatherings.

5 Film marketing and promotion have always been the focus of this event. We are therefore motivated as well as privileged 7 to join forces with the European Film Forum – a conference 13 initiated by the European Commission. We wish to continue increasing promotion and building audiences, as these are 14 key to a sustainable and competitive European industry. We also intend to draw attention to the smaller, low production 15 capacity and non-hegemonic language European countries, so their voice would be heard and considered when discussing 25 visibility and accessibility of European audiovisual content across the continent.

However, promotion alone will not work without suitable ALGIRDAS RAMAŠKA content and entrepreneurial creators full of initiative, ideas, Vilnius International Film Festival and eagerness to innovate. Nurturing new talents is another Executive Director big issue. We see it as our mission to help young creators in any way possible – to get them started, encourage them to believe in themselves and to provide a platform where they can advance their filmmaking careers.

Meeting Point – Vilnius is that platform. With the newly introduced COMING SOON NEW TALENTS, young creators from Eastern and Central Europe will be able to present their first or second film projects to international film industry professionals, with the possibility to take their works on a journey across Europe. With Vilnius IFF Goes to Cannes, a joint Marché du Film and Vilnius IFF project, these films have the opportunity to be screened at the Cannes industry market and to be noticed by an even larger audience. The upcoming films included in COMING SOON FROM BALTICS will also compete to be shown at Cannes, as we believe that Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have a lot of potential. Furthermore, producers selected for the Vilnius IFF Goes to Cannes project will receive the Marché du Film accreditation and will be able to take part in the Producers Workshop – an intensive course to start on the international film market. It is the ideal opportunity to connect with fellow professionals, put forward the next project and learn how to achieve your goals! RITA STANELYTĖ Head of Industry Event As you can see, we have a lot of activities planned, but do not Meeting Point - Vilnius forget to also have fun. We encourage you to find some free time, step outside your hotel and get lost in the cobbled streets of Vilnius Old Town. Believe us, this multicultural historic city has a lot to offer. Do not be misled by the frequently gloomy sky – you will not forget the charm of Vilnius and your experiences here will make you a fan of our festival as well as the city.

Enjoy!

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April 4 April 5 Zero Day Presidential Hall Presidential Hall Moderated by Michael Gubbins Moderated by Michael Gubbins 9:45–10:00 Registration 9:45–10:00 Registration 10:00–11:00 Coming Soon from Baltics. 10:00–10:30 Creative Europe Media News by Eva Presentation of Baltic projects Brazdžionytė 11:00–11:30 Presentation of Belarusian 10:30–12:00 Panel. How to nurture your skills documentary projects and build your network – learning opportunities for the talents of the industry Nikolaj Nikitin, School of Film Agents SOFA 11:30–12:00 Coffee break Katarina Tomkova, Midpoint Duncan Carson, Developing Your Film Festival 12:00–13:30 Coming Soon New Talents. Ieva Bužinskaitė and Domantė Urmonaitė, Art Presentation of European debut projects Departament Masterclass 13:30–15:00 Networking lunch at Restaurant 12:00–13:30 Networking lunch at Restaurant Grey (Pilies str. 2, Vilnius) Grey (Pilies str. 2, Vilnius) (Entrance with festival accreditation) 15:00–17:00 One on one meetings with Coming Soon projects, Student Competition, Belarusian 13:30–14:15 Baltic cooperation – are we stronger projects together? Rolandas Kvietkauskas, Lithuanian Film Center 15:00–16:00 Digital Distribution - is this the Uldis Dimiševskis, National Film Center of Latvia Eda Koppel, Estonian Film Institute future? Mitch Mallon, Stadium Media, USA

14:15–15:00 Production, distribution and 16:.00–16:30 Unforeseen risks in film production. promotion of Baltic works in Baltic countries – Loss examples of leading film insurer by Anthony how could we all benefit from that! Osterrieth, Head of Sales and Gaetan Stephenne, Baltic producers, distributors, TV buyers Underwriter, Circles Group, Luxemburg

15:00–16:00 Short story long. Inspiring talk by 16:30–17:30 Storytelling in a postmodern world. Gediminas Šiaulys (GED SIA) Inspiring talk by director Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland

20:00 Industry opening reception at Gallery UMI 17.30–18.00 Networking drink, powered by Kalnas (Krivių str. 10, Vilnius) Circles Group (All participants) In partnership with Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian Creative Europe MEDIA Offices 19:00 Reception with Remigijus Šimašius, Mayor (Entrance with festival accreditation) of Vilnius, at Vilnius Town Hall (Didžioji str. 31) (Entrance with festival accreditation)

5 April 6 European Film Forum Edith Sepp, CEO, Estonian Film Institute, Estonia Promotion and prominence of Arben Zharku, Director, Kosovo Cinematography European audiovisual content Center, Kosovo Moderated by Michael Gubbins 11:50–12:10 Coffee break 10:00–10:10 Opening speeches by Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson, Minister of Culture of Republic 12:10–12:30 Keynote speech. New trends in of Lithuania and Antanas Guoga, Member of the finding audiences for European films EVENT PROGR A MME European Parliament by Joanna Solecka, Alphapanda, Poland

10:10–10:20 Keynote speech by Lucia Recalde, 12:30–13:30 Panel 2. Roadmaps to success: new Head of the Audiovisual Industry and Media directions in talent development Some of the most compelling voices in global Support Programmes Unit, DG CONNECT, cinema have emerged from the countries of New European Commission Europe, and a focus on talent development is creating a new generation of filmmakers with huge 10:20–10:40 Scene setting presentation: Film in potential. However, the challenges are also growing New Europe: Progress and obstacles in the oversupplied European film market, where Martin Blaney, Screen International Eastern established brands have a strong advantage. Europe correspondent Other options may be emerging, though they The opening presentation will set the context for may require fresh thinking, determination and an developments in the region, assessing the current entrepreneurial spirit. In particular, new ways of state of cinema in terms of audiences, market and thinking about the relationship between audience industry. It will offer statistics of production levels, and content are needed. This panel will look at the box office, audience demand, theatrical reach state of the ‘career ladder’ today, and consider and other key analytics, including piracy and film a range of new opportunities, beginning at the exports. It will also look at the growth of VOD and earliest stages of development. other new forms of digital exploitation, on which new opportunities may be built. The analysis will Speakers look at differences between bigger and smaller Karolis Kaupinis, Young Film Director, Lithuania countries, and between so-called New Europe and the rest of the EU. Tereza Nvotova, Young Film Director, Slovakia

10:40–11:50 Panel 1. Breaking barriers: how Erwin M. Schmidt, Propellor Film Tech Hub, films from smaller scale markets can make an Germany impact at home and abroad The region’s film industries have reasserted Kristina Trapp, CEO of EAVE, Luxembourg themselves over the last quarter of a century and, to a greater or lesser extent, have created strong Fernando Vasquez, Artistic Director, FEST – New platforms on which to build. But Hollywood still Directors Film Festival, Portugal has a powerful hold over the box office in many countries, and the most successful European films that travel beyond their borders tend to come 13:30–13:40 Wrap-up by Martin Blaney, Screen from the biggest European countries. However, a International Eastern Europe correspondent changing environment might offer new ways for the voices of so-called New Europe, and particularly of 13:40–15:00 Networking lunch at Kempinski smaller nations, to be heard, at a time when cultural Grand Dukes Hall diversity is more essential than ever. This panel will (Entrance with festival accreditation) look at strategies for increasing the cultural and commercial impact of films at home, and making voices heard beyond borders. It will consider how 19:00 Festival closing ceremony to build sustainable businesses through promotion, (Invitation only) while retaining identity and diversity.

Speakers Aitziber Atorrasagasti, Director of Culture Promotion for the Basque Government, Spain Lara Bommers, Under the Milky Way, France Markéta Hodouskova, Industry Expert, France/ Czech Republic Julie-Jeanne Régnault, Head of European Affairs at the CNC, France

6 SpeakerS in Lithuania and consults on EU financing for the audiovisual sector. In the past, she has worked as project manager at Oskaras Koršunovas Theatre (OKT), Lithuanian Short Film Agency Lithuanian

Shorts, Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius and Sp e ak er S numerous international film festivals and industry events in Lithuania. Eva holds an MA in Culture Management and Cultural Policy from the UNESCO Aitziber department at Vilnius Academy of Arts. Atorrasagasti

Aitziber Atorrasagasti is Director for the Promotion of Culture of the Basque Government and president of Zineuskadi since January, 2017. Aitziber studied Law and Economics at the Deusto University of Bilbao, and at the beginning of her career worked as a manager in industrial business. Lara In 2009, Aitziber joined the Durangoko Azoka (most Bommers important Basque Culture Fair) project, where she was manager. She has also been involved in Lara Bommers began her career in the fields other cultural projects as Gerediaga Association of international security and aid development, manager. As Director for the Promotion of Culture before drifting to cultural diplomacy and film at the Basque Government, Aitziber is in charge distribution. As graduate of Sciences Po Paris, Lara of creation, diffusion of culture, and cultural Bommers coordinated a wide range of international industries, including the support of the audiovisual projects tackling issues of armed conflicts, industry and film festivals. corruption and human rights violations in Asia and Latin America. After serving the United Nations and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Colombia, Mexico and Cambodia, Lara Bommers decided to focus on media’s impact on peace education. Thus, she managed the international deployment of Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s documentary Human before joining the digital distribution company Under the Martin Milky Way to coordinate Creative Europe supported Blaney projects. After completing a PhD on the relationship between German cinema and television, Martin Blaney moved to Germany in 1988. He has worked for the Berlinale, Filmfest München, and various initiatives of the European Union’s MEDIA Programme. In 1990, he became the correspondent for Germany, Austria and Switzerland at the Ieva British trade magazine Screen International, Bužinskaitė and has contributed to German Films Quarterly and Blickpunkt: Film. Dr. Blaney has been a jury Ieva Bužinskaitė has worked as an art department member at numerous international film festivals. coordinator in acknowledged international projects He served as a moderator for various panels at such as the TV mini-series Border Town, 2016; War the Berlinale, as well as Connecting Cottbus, Sofia & Peace, BBC, 2016; feature film The Eichmann Meetings, Nyon‘s Visions du Réel, Moscow Business Show, BBC, 2015; Gentlemen & Gangsters, BReel, Square, Locarno‘s Open Doors, the Nordic Film and more. She is also a production coordinator and Days, the Baltic Event, When East Meets West, and short film producer, having most recently worked the Odessa International Film Festival. on the short film Back (2016), directed by Gabrielė Urbonaitė. She is an alumnus of MAIA Workshops (2014), EAVE Film Marketing Workshops (2014), Berlinale Talent Campus (2013), Digital Production Challenge (2011), IDFA Academy (2011), EURODOC (2011), ART CINEMA = action + management (2010) and Summer Media Studio (2009–2010). Eva Brazdžionytė

Head of the MEDIA sub-programme at the Creative Europe Desk Lithuania, Eva runs the MEDIA Office 7 Gubbins is a regular moderator of leading international conferences, a keynote speaker and the author of influential reports, particularly on digital and audience-driven change. He has been

Sp e ak er S on the advisory board of Europa Cinemas, Power to the Pixel and the Met Film School. Duncan Carson

Duncan Carson joined the ICO having worked as an editor and marketer in the publishing industry. He runs the itinerant screening programme Nobody Ordered Wolves, which shows neglected films in Marketa amazing spaces. He also helped develop Hollywood Hodouskova Spring, a pop-up screen in the heart of Hackney. He has taken his love of film in a lot of different Marketa Hodouskova is a Czech-French film directions, including running a university film industry founder and consultant, specialising society, working with an independent distributor in cultural dialogue, networking, fundraising and lecturing on film. and project development. She was Secretary General of the International Confederation of Art Cinemas after being Central and Eastern European coordinator in Europa Cinemas for over 12 years. She is founder and director of Czech-In, the festival of Czech and Slovak films in France. In 2013, she founded Kino Visegrad – a promotional project for Uldis central European cinema in France. She is secretary Dimiševskis general of the Film New Europe Association.

Uldis Dimiševskis has been an integral part of the activities of the National Film Centre of Latvia (NFC) since 2006, helping to foster and support film culture and its professionals in Latvia for over a decade. In his capacity as the NFC’s Head of Production and Development he is also Latvia’s long-serving national representative at the Karolis European Cinema Support Fund Eurimages. The Kaupinis NFC, as a direct funding mechanism for audiovisual production, grants public support to Latvian films, Born in Vilnius, 1987, Karolis Kaupinis holds including co-productions, preserves the national an MA in Comparative Politics and works as an audiovisual heritage, promotes Latvian films international news editor in Lithuanian National abroad, and is keen on attracting international film TV. His first short fiction film The Noisemaker was and TV production to Latvia, stimulating inward selected to Pardi di domani competition in Locarno investment and creating employment opportunities Film Festival, and has been travelling around for the local industry. festivals ever since, winning several awards in the Baltics. Kaupinis’ second short Watchkeeping is presented at the 2017 Vilnius IFF Kino Pavasaris.

Michael Gubbins (moderator)

Michael Gubbins is an industry analyst, journalist Eda and consultant specializing in film and digital Koppel media. He is the co-founder of international consultancy SampoMedia, which has worked on Eda Koppel started work as the Head of Marketing projects in 25 countries, and he is the chair of for the Estonian Film Institute in March 2015. From the Welsh film body Ffilm Cymru Wales. He was 2002 to 2014, she worked with the international editor of Screen International, Screen Daily and co-production market Baltic Event, coordinating Music Week during a 25-year career in journalism.

8 promotion and public relations, programming screenings, and planning the coming soon programme. Koppel also spent ten years working for the Estonian Television in various positions, such as head of promotion, story editor, programmer and Sp e ak er S producer. She has translated several English books. Nikolaj Nikitin

In 1995, he founded the film magazine Schnitt, initiating the Schnitt Preis in 1999 – an award given out in the Cologne based festival Filmplus, which he heads as artistic director. Since 2001, Rolandas he has been a member of the board of selection Kvietkauskas for GoEast (Wiesbaden). In May 2002, he was appointed Central/Eastern Europe, Central Asia Rolandas Kvietkauskas has worked as the Director and the Caucasus delegate to the Berlinale. of the Lithuanian Film Centre since August, 2012. In Nikitin is a jury member for Coproduction Award 2010–2012, he served as an Adviser to the Minister of the Robert Bosch Foundation, which supports of Culture. He was also the director of Vilnius – short film coproduction between Germany and European Capital of Culture 2009. From 2002 to Eastern Europe. He has worked with the Palic 2009, Kvietkauskas worked as Undersecretary European Film Festival (Serbia) and curated the at the Ministry of Culture of Lithuania, having LOOK! competition at the Oostende Film Festival previously served as a political adviser and press (Belgium). In August 2013, his brain-child SCHOOL officer. He was Chairman of the Board of Culture OF FILM AGENTS – SOFA took place in Wroclaw. Support Foundation (2003–2004; 2006–2008). Nikitin teaches at various workshops and film From 1997 to 1999, he served as a Public Relations schools, he is a member of FIPRESCI and the Officer of Open Society Fund – Lithuania. During European Film Academy. 2004–2006, he was elected Chairman of Ars Baltica Committee (Baltic Sea Regional cooperation network in the field of culture). Kvietkauskas also lectures about culture financing and lobbyism at Kazimieras Simonavičius University in Vilnius.

Tereza Nvotová

Tereza was born and grew up in Bratislava and currently lives in Prague. She is about to graduate Mitch from FAMU with a Master’s in Direction. Filthy is Mallon her feature film debut, which premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival (IFFR). She also directs Mitch Mallon is the founder and CEO of Stadium documentary movies for Czech and Slovak Public Media, a digital content provider that is at the TV, and has recently started working on her second forefront of distribution. Mallon has achieved feature documentary about former Slovak PM tremendous success in the music, home and Vladimir Mečiar, in coproduction with HBO Europe. digital entertainment industries. He has held senior Tereza also writes and works as an actor in feature management positions at Rhino Entertainment, films. Warner Music Group, and Image Entertainment. In 2005, Mallon was a key player in the launch of one of the industry’s first digital content companies, Egami Media, a subsidiary of Image Entertainment. He assisted in building relationships with such accounts as iTunes, Amazon, Netflix, Hulu and Google. In 2007, Mallon helped establish the Lucia Entertainment Merchants Association’s (EMA) Recalde Digital Council and is currently the Chair of the Langarica Steering Committee for Digital EMA. Mallon is also Spanish born Lucia Recalde Langarica is Head a member of the National Academy of Recording of the Audiovisual Industry and Media Support Arts & Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts Programmes Unit in the Directorate General & Sciences. (DG) for Communications Networks, Content

9 and Technology (CONNECT) of the European Commission. Prior to that, she was part of the DG for Education and Culture (EAC) management as Head of Unit for Higher Education, Innovation,

Sp e ak er S Entrepreneurship and the EIT (the European Institute for Innovation and Technology). Ms. Langarica joined the European Commission in 1995 Edith and served the DG for Employment and Social Sepp Affairs in various positions until 2006. She started her career as policy officer at the Directorate of Film and TV producer and director by profession. European Affairs of the Basque Government. Towards the end of the 1980s worked for six years as an Assistant Director at state run studio Tallinnfilm. Studied post-grad level in Lodz, Poland, graduated with an MA in film and TV drama from Northern Film School in 1996, worked mainly in the film industry in the UK and Estonia. In 2010, started working as a film adviser for Estonian Minister of Culture and was in charge of the film Julie-Jeanne development strategy in Estonia until 2020. Since Régnault 2013, CEO of the Estonian Film Institute. Julie-Jeanne Régnault is Head of European Affairs at the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, the French Film Agency. She is member of the Board of the EFADs, the Association of European Film Agency Directors. Régnault coordinates the digital and copyright working group of the association. Specialized in EU matters, she has Joanna previously worked in Brussels as a consultant and Solecka as a policy officer at the European Commission. She has a Masters in EU law and in EU politics, Marketing strategist and Torino Film Lab expert having also graduated in International Relations. in the Audience Design field. Creative producer for short films and documentaries. Lecturer at the international training workshops for fiction and documentary filmmakers. Joanna works for Alphapanda, founded by Mathias Noschis – a film marketing agency based in London, Berlin and Warsaw. She brings to Alphapanda her expertise in international PR and is the Head of Erwin M. Alphapanda’s Polish branch, covering the Eastern Schmidt European market. Before joining Alphapanda, Joanna worked for more than 10 years as the Erwin M. Schmidt has worked in production, Head of PR, Festivals & Sales at Wajda Studio and international sales and film festivals. Until 2015, Wajda School in Warsaw, where she developed he was the 3D producer for Wim Wenders at promotion and distribution strategies for shorts, Neue Road Movies. He has extensive experience features and documentaries. Solecka oversaw two with employing complex technology as a means Oscar campaigns: Rabbit à la Berlin (Documentary for creative expression, and possesses an avid Short Subject Oscar 2009 nominee) and Joanna interest in new narrative formats and new (Documentary Short Subject Oscar 2015 nominee). distribution channels. In 2015, he co-founded Berlin based innovation studio Cinemathon together with Susanne Marian. In 2016, he co- founded the Propellor Film Tech Hub, together with the European Film Market of the Berlinale, the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival. Gediminas Šiaulys

Gediminas Šiaulys (Ged Sia) is an animation director, visual artist and co-founder of creative studio PetPunk (Vilnius, Lithuania). His primary interests lie in animation, tactile crafts and various experiments within these fields. This leads to 10 authentic work that is visually and aesthetically Executive in 2009. During her career, Kristina has challenging, yet peculiarly subtle. Šiaulys’s works closely worked with several European festivals and were recognized by world’s leading art and design production companies. She has been a matchmaker magazines, such as Canadian Boards magazine in at the Berlinale Co-Production Market for the last

2009, and UK’s magazine Computer Arts in 2010. few years. Trapp is a member of the documentary Sp e ak er S Šiaulys and PetPunk are the first Lithuanians to commission of the French regional fund Provence- win the Young Guns prize by the Art Directors Club Alpes-Côte d’Azur and member of the European in New York, and have been invited to numerous Film Academy. international festivals such as the European Design Conference (Stockholm), Visuelt (Oslo), PICTOPLASMA (Berlin), Onedotzero (London), Anima (Brussels), Arsenale (Florence), Holland Animation Film Festival (Utrecht), 5th Istanbul Animation Festival (Istanbul), DesignFLUX 2007 (Paris), and more. Domantė Urmonaitė

Domantė Urmonaitė is developing her debut feature film Pill #1618 and TV Series The Beehive. She works as a lecturer at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. Domantė Urmonaitė is an Katarina alumnus of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab | Italy Tomkova (2015), Frontières International Co-production Market (2015), Berlinale Talents (2015), Closing Graduated from the Comenius University in The Gap (2014), Baltic POWR Stories Exchange Bratislava. Worked as a film reviewer and later (2013), Digital Production Challenge (2012) and a production assistant in commercials. In 2006, Summer Media Studio (2009–2011). Currently, she she started working for one of the largest film is a participant of Torino Serieslab. production companies in Slovakia at the time – ALEF Film & Media Group. In 2007, she coordinated the press department of the Bratislava IFF. During 2008–2015, she worked at the foreign department of the Slovak Film Institute. Here, she focused on the promotion of feature films, organizing the presentation of Slovak cinema at many film Fernando industry events in Europe. She is currently the Vasquez project manager for MIDPOINT workshops based in Prague, working specifically at MIDPOINT TV Portuguese film programmer, festival producer Launch and MIDPOINT Intensive @KVIFF. She is a and critic based in Porto. After graduating in producer and consultant via her Slovak company Film and Media Studies in the UK, he completed kaleidoscope. She is a SOFA 2015 graduate and an his postgraduate studies at the London School EAVE Producers Workshop 2016 participant. of Journalism, focusing on film criticism. He has contributed to various publications, including The Independent on Sunday (UK), The Guardian (UK), Bulb Magazine (UK), Folha de São Paulo (BR) and C7nema (PT). He is currently the Artistic Director of FEST – New Directors Film Festival. From 2012 to 2016, he was Head of the Debate Department Kristina of Nisi Masa – The European Network of Young Trapp Cinema, where he also became Editor-in-Chief of the Film Festival Publication Nisimazine and a Kristina Trapp has worked in the film industry Film Criticism Workshop organizer. Vasquez has in Germany, France, Belgium and Luxembourg been a jury member at various film festivals and since 1999. She has worked with the German labs, and has given several Master Classes on Film regional film fund MFG-Filmförderung Baden- Distribution in the European Festival Circuit. Württemberg, as a freelance producer for ARTE, head of the Film Commission Strasbourg and with the European training programme Masterclass Ludwigsburg / Paris. She joined EAVE in 2004 as Programme Manager. In 2007, she became Deputy Chief Executive and was appointed Chief 11 Sp e ak er S Krzysztof Zanussi

Krzysztof Zanussi is a film director, producer and scriptwriter. He studied physics at Warsaw University and philosophy at Jagiellonian University. Director of many award-winning, internationally acclaimed films, such as The Structure of Crystal (1969), The Illumination (1973), Camouflage (1977), The Constant Factor (1980), A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984), Wherever You Are… (1988), At Full Gallop (1996), Persona Non Grata (2005), Revisited (2009), Foreign Body (2014), awarded in Cannes, Venice, Locarno, Moscow, Chicago, Montreal, Berlin, and Tokyo. Krzysztof Zanussi is also a theatre director, staging productions all around the world. He has authored several books. Member of the European Film Academy Board, has an honorary doctorate from many renowned universities and gives lectures all around the world. He is the President of Tor Film Production, producer of films by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Agnieszka Holland and many others.

Arben Zharku

Arben Zharku is an actor and producer from Kosovo. He is the director of the Kosovo Cinematography Center, one of the founders and former director of SKENA UP International Students Film and Theatre Festival in Pristina. In 2004, he graduated with a degree in acting from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Pristina, and in 2009 he graduated from EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs). During 2003–2014, Arben worked as a manager at the Multimedia Centre in Pristina, which aims to develop contemporary and children’s theatre. As an actor, he has performed in theatre as well as film. He has worked on various films as a producer, and he makes efforts to extend his knowledge by gaining experience from film production experts.

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A GHOST ROAD A LONG DAY Estonia, Lithuania. Representative: director, writer Slovakia. Representative: producer KATARINA ARKO OKK TOMKOVA C o mi n g soon SC H EDU L E

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MEIN DEUTSCHLAND THE INFINITE GARDEN Belarus. Representative: director ALEXANDER Bulgaria. Representative: director, writer SVISHCHENKOV GALIN STOEV

ORDINARY FILM ULTRA *also Industry Screening Belarus. Representative: director LIUBOV Hungary, Greece. Representative: associate ZIAMTSOVA, producer MARYIA YAHORAVA producer LORAND BALAZS IMRE

THE ART OF CENSORSHIP WHEN THE TREES FALL Belarus. Representatives: producer VOLIA Ukraine, Poland, Macedonia. Representative: CHAJKOUSKAYA producer IGOR SAVYCHENKO

TOWARDS THE MIRACLE Belarus. Representative: director, writer EKATERINA MARKAVETS

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Both debuting and experienced directors from the Contacts: Baltic countries – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia – Tauras Films, Lithuania, taurasfilms.com are presented in this category. This is a showcase Producer ŽILVINAS NAUJOKAS of feature-length narrative, documentary and email: [email protected] phone: +370 67345758 animated film projects from the Baltics that will be finished until the end of 2017. This year, Meeting ACME Film, Lithuania, www.acmefilm.lt C o mi n g S oon Point – Vilnius is collaborating with the Marché Distributor ASTA MARTINONYTĖ du Film industry programme Goes to Cannes, and email: [email protected] three projects from both Coming Soon sessions will phone: +37069834446 be selected by the jury to be presented at industry screenings in Cannes 2017.

Baltic New Wave / Baltic New Wave Country: Lithuania, Estonia A Ghost Road / Jäätee veerel Runtime: 75 min. Country: Estonia, Lithuania Completion date: April, 2018 Runtime: 52 min. Directors: Audrius Stonys, Kristine Briede Completion date: August, 2017 Screenwriters: Ramunė Rakauskaitė, Kristine Briede, Director: Arko Okk Arūnas Matelis, Riho Vastrik Screenwriter: Arko Okk Principal cast: Uldis Brauns, Robertas Verba, Andress Principal cast: Priit T Soot Producer: Teresa Rožanovska Producer: Uldis Cekulis

This poetic action documentary tells a story about the A story about a unique phenomenon in the history ice road that erases borders between islands and the of cinema – the Baltic school of poetic documentary Estonian mainland during winter. and its creators. Filmmakers from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia who broke the dogmatic tradition of Contacts: propaganda documentaries in the Soviet Union during Ketvirta versija, Lithuania the 1960s. They created films that were completely Producer: TERESA ROŽANOVSKA different: humane, meaningful and poetic. The story is email: [email protected] told as a poetic road movie with elements of mystery phone: +37061807994 by two filmmakers – contemporary director Audrius Stonys (LT) at the peak of his career, and Herz Frank (LV/ISR), his late friend and mentor. Frank guides Stonys and the audience by following the Map of Ptolemy – a symbolic cinematographic code-book that suggests new discoveries both in poetic filmmaking and its meaning.

Contacts: VFS Films, Latvia, www.vfs.lv Ashes in the Snow / Tarp pilkų debesų Producer ULDIS CEKULIS Country: Lithuania, United States, United Kingdom email: [email protected] Runtime: 110 min. phone: +37129298077 Completion date: September, 2017 Director: Marius Markevičius Studio Nominum, Lithuania Screenwriter: Ben York Jones www.arunasmatelis.com Principal cast: Bel Powley, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Peter Producer ARŪNAS MATELIS Franzen, Sophie Cookson, Martin Wallström, Jonah email: [email protected] Hauer-King, Aistė Diržiūtė, Ramūnas Cicėnas, Darius phone: +37069870337 Meškauskas Producer: Žilvinas Naujokas Vesilind In 1941, an aspiring artist and her family are deported Producer RIHO VASTRIK to Siberia amidst Stalin's brutal dismantling of the email: [email protected] Baltic region. In a seemingly hopeless place, love is phone: +3725078067 the only means of survival. This World War II drama is based on Ruta Sepetys' New York Times bestseller Between Shades of Gray.

15 It is 1992 and Lithuania has shifted from communism to capitalism, leaving the small collective pig farm managed by Irena in dire straits. Irena struggles to keep the farm and her workers afloat when Bernardas arrives. The handsome American pledges to save the struggling enterprise, turning Irena’s family life and the village’s daily routine upside-down. As Irena begins to fall for his charms, she realizes that his intentions Bille / Bille

oon C o mi n g S oon may not be entirely innocent… Country: Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic Runtime: 90 min. Contacts: IN SCRIPT, Lithuania, www.inscript.lt Completion date: December, 2017 Producer LUKAS TRIMONIS Director: Inara Kolmane email: [email protected] Screenwriter: Arvis Kolmanis, Evita Sniedze phone: +37069914913 Principal Cast: Elina Vane, Arturs Skrastins, Ruta Kronberga, Sofija Juska Geopoly Film, Bulgaria, www.geopoly-film.com Producer: Marta Romanova-Jekabsone, Producer PAVLINA JELEVA Janis Juhnevics, Kęstutis Petrulis Orka Post Production Studio, Poland, www.orkafilm.pl On the eve of World War II, six-year-old Bille lives in Producers: RADOSŁAWA BARDES, MAGDALENA a world where the rich and the poor walk separate ZIMECKA streets. Bille has learned to put up with poverty, but not with the lack of her mother’s love. Relatives who take care of the girl constantly point out how nothing good will come of her. Their remarks deeply hurt Bille, who dreams of no longer feeling inferior. Confronted by the weird and ruthless adult world, Bille tries to find an escape in her vivid imagination. After many unfulfilled dreams and disappointments, she eventually finds her way, proving that dreams can come true. This People, Animals and Things / Apie autobiographical family drama is a poignant yet witty and hopeful story about the development of a žmones, žvėris ir daiktus great personality. Based on the bestselling and widely Country: Lithuania translated book by Latvian author Vizma Belševica, Runtime: 60 min. Tomas Tranströmer Prize winner and candidate for Completion date: November, 2017 the Nobel Prize in Literature. This project is supported Director: Aistė Žegulytė by the National Film Centre of Latvia grant program Screenwriter: Aistė Žegulytė Latvian Films for Latvia's Centennial, the State Culture Principal cast: Kęstutis Bybartas Capital Foundation of Latvia and the Lithuanian Film Producer: Giedrė Burokaitė Centre. There are two main criteria in the art of taxidermy: the Contacts: animal’s posture and its gaze. In 1995, two Lithuanian Film Studio DEVINI, Latvia, www.devini.lv taxidermists made the largest mount in the country. Producer MARTA ROMANOVA-JEKABSONE Right after that, the men had a falling out and stopped email: [email protected] speaking to each other. In 2015, Vasilijus found phone: +37126475178 out that Kęstutis had participated in the European Producer JANIS JUHNEVICS Taxidermy championship and won the Grand Prix. This email: [email protected] year, Vasilijus has decided to compete there himself. phone: +37129250275 The taxidermist’s hypnotic routine and celebrations reveal our outlook on nature and the animal itself. In Studija 2, Lithuania their world, everything that is real lies in meat and Co-producer KĘSTUTIS PETRULIS blood, while everything else is just an escape from email: [email protected] reality. phone: +37068741669 Contacts: Meno avilys, Lithuania, www.menoavilys.org Producer GIEDRĖ BUROKAITĖ email: [email protected] phone: +37067521161

Miracle / Stebuklas *also Industry Screenings Country: Lithuania, Bulgaria, Poland Runtime: 91 min. Completion date: May, 2017 Director: Eglė Vertelytė Screenwriter: Eglė Vertelytė To Be Continued / Turpinājums Principal cast: Eglė Mykulionytė, Vyto Ruginis, Andrius Country: Latvia Bialobžeskis, Daniel Olbrychski Runtime: 90 min. Producer: Lukas Trimonis Completion date: January, 2018 16

Director: Ivars Seleckis shots to give viewers a closer look at the reality of the Screenwriter: Dace Dzenovska four main characters: Sandra, who loves Ronaldinho Principal cast: Kārlis Pūce and soccer; Alena, who is scared to have children Producer: Antra Gaile because she fears they would be deaf; Patrícia, who can’t hear because she doesn't have batteries in her This documentary captures Latvia’s future as seen hearing aid; and Bajaja, who dreams of becoming both by children, while observing how children's lives are a train driver and Van Damme. shaped by the situation in their country. Shot over the Contacts: course of two years, the film follows seven children C oming S oon from all around the country who started attending Partisan film, Slovakia school in 2015. Each of them leads different lives. Director, writer PAVOL PEKARČÍK One resides in the Latvian countryside, with parents email: [email protected] who hope their child will become a farmer, another is staying with their grandmother while their mother kaleidoscope, Slovakia, www.kaleidoscope.sk works in the UK, the third child, whose grandparents Producer KATARINA TOMKOVA came to Latvia after World War II, dreams of becoming email: [email protected] a businessman. They are seven children at the phone: +421908281407 intersection of various historical, social and economic processes.

Contacts: Mistrus Media, Latvia, www.mistrusmedia.lv Producer ANTRA GAILE email: [email protected] phone: +37129195876 ASKANIA / Аскания Producer GINTS GRŪBE Country: Ukraine email: [email protected] Runtime: 52 min. phone: +37129455252 Completion date: February, 2017 Director: Andrii Lytvynenko Screenwriter: Andrii Lytvynenko Coming Soon New Talents Principal cast: Andrii Lytvynenko Producer: Ana Palenshuk, Denis Strshnii Coming Soon New Talents focuses on debuting filmmakers presenting their first or second This documentary musical follows the lives of animals feature films. Participants come from Central and and humans. The film is about the biggest nature Eastern Europe: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, reserve in Europe, located in the Ukrainian village of Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Albania, Askania Nova. The reserve was founded by German Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, colonist Friedrich von Falz-Fein more than 100 years and Serbia, as well as Eastern partnership ago, who created a system that functions to this day. The action unfolds in the ruins of pompous Soviet countries: Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, infrastructure that marks the historic past of Askania Armenia, and Azerbaijan. Feature-length narrative, as one of the gems of the Soviet Union. The reserve is documentary and animated film projects should be in danger, but the remaining caretakers cannot come completed and premiere until the end of 2017. This to an agreement about its preservation. Infighting, year, Meeting Point – Vilnius is collaborating with distrust and differing opinions tear these people apart, the Marché du Film industry programme Goes to making them unable to work for a common cause. Cannes, and three projects from both Coming Soon Contacts: sessions will be selected by the jury to be presented DOCUTOLKA, Ukraine at industry screenings in Cannes 2017. Producer DENIS STRSHNII email: [email protected] phone: +380632025004 435films, Ukraine Producer ANNA PALENSHUK email: [email protected] phone: +380673237515

A Long Day / Dlhý deň Country: Slovakia Runtime: 80 min. Completion date: November, 2017 Director: Pavol Pekarčík Screenwriter: Pavol Pekarčík Producer: Katarina Tomkova FALLING / STRIMGOLOV Country: Ukraine An observational documentary about hearing impaired Runtime: 90 min. children living on the fringe of society. The film uses long Completion date: July, 2017 17 Director: Marina Stepanska Gavrilovic, Stefan Bundalo, Boris Pingovic, Nebojsa Screenwriter: Marina Stepanska Rako Principal cast: Darya Plahtiy, Viktor Sedletskyi Producer: Ivica Vidanovic Producer: Olena Yershova Falling is a story about the post-revolutionary generation A dysfunctional family lives under one roof in an of young Ukrainians looking for their place in modern unnamed rural area. Milan is in his early sixties, full of Ukraine. It follows two bewildered people who meet at wrath, egoism and jealousy, while Zoran, his younger a crucial moment in their lives and experience seven brother, is confused, stubborn and emotionally crippled. Milan has a child, sixteen-year-old Slobodan,

oon C o mi n g S oon days of happiness together. Marina Stepanska’s first feature delivers the message that you should learn whose mother and Milan’s wife passed away many to live in the moment, which is the only way to find years ago. Slobodan unintentionally gets involved in yourself and your inner power. a mangled web of poor relationships that lead to fatal decisions. Jovanka, Zoran’s second wife, is more than Contacts: twenty years younger than him. She has a different way Tatofilm, Ukraine, www.tatofilm.com of experiencing and expressing love and emotion. Zoran Producer OLENA YERSHOVA also has a child from his first failed marriage – ten- email: [email protected] year-old Goran, the most innocent of them all, who phone: +905373008702 witnesses an event that leaves an indelible mark.

InsightMedia, Ukraine Contacts: Producer VOLODYMYR FILIPOV Cinnamon production, Serbia email: [email protected] Producer IVICA VIDANOVIC email: [email protected]

GogolDoc / GogolDoc Country: Ukraine Yet to Rule / In pronuntare Runtime: 90 min. Country: Romania Completion date: July, 2017 Runtime: 100 min. Director: Alisa Pavlovskaya Completion date: August, 2017 Screenwriter: Alisa Pavlovskaya Director: Mihaela Popescu Principal cast: Vlad Troitskij, Maksym Demskyi, Screenwriter: Mihaela Popescu Evgeny Bal Principal cast: Dorothee Petre, Cuzin Toma, Olimpia Producers: Valeriy Kalmykov, Alona Fedorova Melinte September, 2016. At Art Platform, during the annual Producer: Alexandru Teodorescu Kiev festival of contemporary art GogolFest, we meet a group of creative people from different fields Yet to Rule is an allegorical depiction of a 40-year- who wish to realize humanity’s centuries-old dream old criminal court judge with a dying father, an of building the Tower of Babel. The tools of this unhappy marriage and petty cases to solve, shown as construction are multinational cultural traditions, a struggle between ANDI, the animal within, and K, his namely music, painting, theatre, cinema, sculpture and rational side. more. Their dream is a year-long creative collaboration in the Platform’s territory. Contacts: Saga Film, Romania, www.sagafilm.ro Contacts: Producer ALEXANDRU TEODORESCU Trueman Production, Ukraine email: [email protected] www.truemanproduction.com phone: +40744331111 Producer VALERIY KALMYKOV email: [email protected] phone: +38064855089

Scary Mother / Sashishi deda Country: Georgia Runtime: 110 min. Horizons / Horizonti Completion date: March, 2017 Country: Serbia Director: Ana Urushadze Runtime: 96 min. Screenwriter: Ana Urushadze Completion date: November, 2017 Principal cast: Nato Murvanidze, Ramaz Ioseliani, Avto Director: Svetislav Dragomirovic Makharadze, Dimitri Tatishvili Screenwriter: Svetislav Dragomirovic Producer: Lasha Khalvashi 18 Principal cast: Gojko Baletic, Slobodan Bestic, Jovana 50-year-old housewife Manana decides to realize Petkova, Dimitar Nikolov her dream of becoming a writer – a dream she had Producer: Martichka Bozhilova abandoned to take care of her family. Manana fears that the contents of her book will provoke troubles and The dreamlike drama revolves around Philip who has aggression, at first from her own family and later from it all – a successful career and a beautiful girlfriend. society. Despite her trepidation, Manana reads the However, he is still taking care of Victor, his sensitive book to her family and instantly realizes that her fears brother, years after the death of their parents. Victor were valid. From this moment on her life changes works at a flower shop with a mystical garden model in radically. the back, created by the slightly autistic Emma. Thanks oon C o mi n g S oon to her garden, Philip realizes that he never felt so real Contacts: until he met this otherworldly girl who he has fallen Artizm, Georgia for. Philip’s life is transforming – until Victor confesses Producer Lasha Khalvashi that he, too, is in love with Emma. Torn between the email: [email protected] love for his brother and for Emma, Philip feels the pain phone: +995595926206 of loss for the first time.

Contacts: AGITPROP LTD, Bulgaria, www.agitprop.bg Producer MARTICHKA BOZHILOVA, email: [email protected] phone: +359886123544

Stories from the Chestnut Woods / Zgodbe iz kostanjevih gozdov Country: Slovenia, Italy Runtime: 90 min. Completion date: September, 2017 Director: Gregor Božič Screenwriters: Gregor Božič, Marina Gumzi Ultra / Ultra *also Industry Screenings Principal cast: Massimo De Francovich, Ivana Roščić, Country: Hungary, Greece Giusi Merli, Tomi Janežič Runtime: 83 min. Producer: Marina Gumzi Completion date: April, 2017 Director: Balazs Simonyi An old photographer recounts an event that happened Screenwriter: Balazs Simonyi after World War II in Benečija, a forested valley that Principal cast: Bela Szabo, Annett Bahlcke, Angel stretches across the border of former Yugoslavia and Pallaruelo, Gilles Pallaruelo, Francoise Pallaruelo, Italy. The story revolves around a chance encounter Balazs Simonyi between two strangers – a stingy widower Mario and a Producers: Laszlo Jozsa, Balazs Simonyi young chestnut seller Marta. After being abandoned by her husband, who travelled to Australia for work, Marta Year after year, runners from around the world decides to leave the valley for good. Marta’s departure participate in one of the most prestigious and foreshows a new, darker period for the entire valley. challenging races – the Spartathlon. It covers the In a dreamy collage of memories and fantasies, a historic distance of 246 km from Athens to Sparta sentimental fairy-tale of loss and the strength of within 36 hours. Bela from Hungary, Annett from imagination unfolds. Germany, Gilles and Angel from France, and the Hungarian director Balazs Simonyi all have their Contacts: reasons for joining the extreme run. None of them know NOSOROGI, Slovenia if they will succeed, they only know that it is crucial for Producer MARINA GUMZI them to try and maybe do the impossible. They are email: [email protected] everyday athletes who test their limits, heal their souls phone: +38631482637 and release their demons. Ultra is a unique journey into the pasts, hearts and minds of runners. Simonyi, who has finished the race four times, tells a touching and at times humorous story about the runners and their universe of cathartic self-discoveries, voluntary suffering and hypnotic state of mind.

Contacts: SpeakEasy Project, Hungary, Germany www.speakeasyproject.com The Infinite Garden / Bezkrainata Producer LASZLO JOZSA Gradina email: [email protected] Country: Bulgaria phone: +36209208831 Runtime: 95 min. Completion date: June, 2017 Director BALAZS SIMONYI Director: Galin Stoev email: [email protected] Screenwriters: Galin Stoev, Yana Borissova phone: +36209749532 Principal cast: Martin Dimitrov, Elitsa Mateva, Gloria 19 point of view of a medical team. We see how cyclists spend their days and nights, how they crash, rise and race again. We witness their massage appointments and time spent in hospital wards. Discover and share their human strengths and weaknesses, pride and self-sacrifice, essential values, major discoveries and losses.

When The Trees Fall / Коли Падають Contacts: oon C o mi n g S oon Дерева Studio Nominum, Lithuania, www.arunasmatelis.com Country: Ukraine, Poland, Macedonia Producer ALGIMANTĖ MATELIENĖ Runtime: 122 min. email: [email protected], phone: +37061241012 Completion date: May, 2017 Director: Marysia Nikitiuk Director, writer ARŪNAS MATELIS Screenwriter: Marysia Nikitiuk email: [email protected], phone: +37069870337 Principal cast: Anastasiia Pustovit, Maksym Samchik, Sonya Halaimova, Maria Snizhynska, Ieavgen Grigoriev, Aelita Nazarenko, Petro Pastuhov, Maria Trepikova, Ivan Blindar Producer: Igor Savychenko

In a godforsaken village in Ukraine, a rebellious little girl learns about life by watching her teenage cousin’s romance with a young criminal. But when he flees after a murder, her cousin is forced to marry someone else, Hello, Dear Granny! / Liebe oma, guten and the little girl has to understand how important it is tag! *invitation only to fight for your dreams. Country: Lithuania, Germany Runtime: 83 min. Contacts: Completion date: March, 2017 Directory Films, Ukraine Director: Jūratė Samulionytė, Vilma Samulionytė Producer IGOR SAVYCHENKO Screenwriters: Jūratė Samulionytė, Vilma Samulionytė email: [email protected] Principal cast: Jūratė Samulionytė, Vilma Samulionytė phone: +380503304471 Producer: Ieva Norvilienė In the creative documentary Hello, Dear Granny! Industry Screenings two sisters from Lithuania – one a filmmaker, the other a photographer, journey into their German Industry Screenings will showcase completed grandmother’s past. Their grandmother lived in films from Central and Eastern Europe, as well Lithuania until she was expelled by Nazi policy Heim ins Reich to Germany during World War II. She spent as the Baltic countries. Industry Screenings will 5 years in Germany and nobody could explain why only be open to film professionals. During closed and how she came back to the Soviet Union without screenings, filmmakers will have the chance her family. While searching for reasons behind her to show their new films for the first time to an decision, the filmmakers encountered her love story, audience of acclaimed film festival programmers, discomfort with being German in Soviet Lithuania, and sales agents, and distributors for a chance to the chain of suicides in their family. This documentary, screen their films in cinemas all over the world. driven by the filmmaking duo, was inspired by the need to address unspoken topics, look for answers and hopefully break taboos.

Contacts: UAB TREMORA, Lithuania, www.tremora.com Producer IEVA NORVILIENĖ email: [email protected] phone: +370686897584

About Stops, Runs and Bananas / About Stops, Runs and Bananas *invitation only Country: Lithuania, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Spain Runtime: 85 min. Completion date: April, 2017 Director: Arūnas Matelis Kharms / Kharms *invitation only Screenwriter: Arūnas Matelis Country: Russia, Macedonia, Lithuania Producer: Algimantė Matelienė Runtime: 95 min. Completion date: January, 2017 This documentary film is like an odyssey that looks Director: Ivan Bolotnikov inside the magnificent world of racing, as seen from the Screenwriters: Ivan Bolotnikov, Sergei Solovyov 20 Principal cast: Wojciech Urbanski, Aistė Diržiūtė, Darius Gumauskas Producer: Ieva Norvilienė

This film follows the life of Daniil Yuvachev, known to the world as Daniil Kharms. Kharms, the brilliant master of the absurd, battles with himself, his flaws, his passions and the world around him in his shabby apartment, the offices of the Soviet children’s Namme / ნამე **15 minute excerpt oon C o mi n g S oon magazines Chizh and Yozh, and on the streets, river Country: Georgia, Lithuania banks and roofs of early 20th century Saint Petersburg. Runtime: 90 min. The biopic, filled with references to Kharms’s works, Completion date: December, 2017 veers into surrealism. Director: Zaza Khalvashi Screenwriter: Zaza Khalvashi Contacts: Principal cast: Mariska Diasamidze, Aleko Abashidze UAB TREMORA, Lithuania, www.tremora.com Producer: Sulkhan Turmanidze Producer IEVA NORVILIENĖ email: [email protected] Ali’s family has inherited a mission – taking care of phone: +370686897584 a local healing water source and using it to treat sick villagers. Three sons are sceptical about the water, only the young daughter Namme stays to guard family traditions. The village has a mixed Muslim and Christian heritage. Namme meets Merab, with whom she develops closeness and sympathy. Construction of a hydro power station is underway nearby, which might cause environmental changes. One day, the spring water starts to disappear. Namme manages to save the lone fish that lived in it. Her father remembers Magic Kimono / Maģiskais kimono an old tradition, according to which the water will not Country: Latvia, Japan return unless a sacrifice is made. Namme takes the Runtime: 95 min. fish and enters the foggy forest. Soon, others start to Completion date: April, 2017 look for her. She releases the fish in the lake water Director: Maris Martinsons and disappears… Screenwriter: Maris Martinsons Principal cast: Kaori Momoi, Issey Ogata, Arturs Contacts: Skrastins, Alise Polacenko BAFIS, Georgia Producer: Linda Krukle Producer SULKHAN TURMANIDZE email: [email protected] Modest and at times enigmatic Japanese woman phone: +995595961800 Keiko has been closed-off for decades, unable to bid farewell to her past following a family tragedy UAB TREMORA, Lithuania, www.tremora.com in Kobe. The modest act of eating and its sensations Co-producer IEVA NORVILIENĖ provide Keiko a means to survive. She joins a group email: [email protected] of Japanese women traveling to Northern Europe phone: +370686897584 to participate in a kimono show in the fairy tale-like art nouveau world of Riga. During her performance, Keiko suddenly comes face to face with her husband, who disappeared twenty years ago. It's an enigmatic encounter, as Husband appears mysterious and almost otherworldly. Confused and despaired, Keiko walks through the city and has chance meetings with various people who seem drawn to this curious, kimono-clad woman from Japan and her culinary sensibility. Food becomes a language between the different cultures of The End of The Chain / Keti lõpp Japan and Europe, and with Husband at her side once *invitation only again, Keiko's experiences gradually help her realize Country: Estonia the inner strength she's had all along. Runtime: 81 min. Completion date: April, 2017 Contacts: Director: Priit Pääsuke Krukfilms, Latvia Screenwriter: Paavo Piik Producer LINDA KRUKLE Principal cast: Maiken Schmidt, Hendrik Toompere Jr., email: [email protected] Tiit Lilleorg, Evelin Võigemast, Ott Aardam phone: +37122051060 Producer: Marianne Ostrat

The film is set in a secluded fast food joint next to an empty parking lot that’s good to visit because nobody recognizes you there. On a rainy autumnal day, people show up one after the other — all of them on the verge of a breakdown, or perhaps a breakthrough? The main

21 character, the Waitress, sees and absorbs it all. One by one, through their personal drama, the clients push the B2B Doc – Documentary Waitress towards her own edge. Projects

Contacts: B2B Doc is a platform for documentary filmmakers Alexandra Film, Estonia from Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Producer MARIANNE OSTRAT Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and Armenia email: [email protected] to meet and find partners for co-production of phone: +3725233577

oon C o mi n g S oon interesting projects in the early stage of production. In partnership with Meeting Point – Vilnius, B2B Doc is integrating skilled documentary filmmakers from the post-Soviet countries into the Nordic and European financial markets and facilitating networking opportunities. As a result of this cooperation in 2017, five documentary projects from Belarus will be presented in Meeting Point – The Man Slayer. The Virgin. The Shad- Vilnius to further develop their international career. ow / Mehetapja. Süütu. Vari Country: Estonia, Lithuania, Sweden Runtime: 140 min. Completion date: April, 2017 Director: Sulev Keedus Screenwriter: Sulev Keedus Principal cast: Rea Lest Producer: Kaie-Ene Raak, Rasa Miškinytė

Shades, breaths, whispers, hunches, mystery – they Babushka. Lost in Translation / are all fading away, but broken souls remain. The Бабушка и пространство Man Slayer employs a theme from Scandinavian and Country: Belarus Estonian folklore. The story starts in the early morning Runtime: 72 min. of a wedding day and ends early the following day. Completion date: January, 2018 The characters are driven by force majeure – the local Director: Alexander Mihalkovich customs and rituals which were common a hundred Screenwriter: Alexander Mihalkovich years ago. The leading character Maara is a young Principal cast: Babushka Zina bride who is about to start a life in her new family. Producer: Volia Chajkouskaya The Virgin, set in the spring of 1949, tells the story of Elina, a young woman who has been deported from The story about an old woman trapped in Crimea, Ingria to Estonia during the previous war. In fear of between Ukraine and Russia. The film shows how harsh being deported to Siberia, she enters a sham marriage political events affect the life of ordinary individuals. with an Estonian man Heino. The wedded couple The director, who is the main character’s grandson, live in a veranda at Heino's uncle’s flat, sleeping in observes and explores the social abandonment, family separate beds. Someone informs the NKVD (Soviet relations and political controversies that surround law enforcement agency) that their marriage is a Babushka. The film is an attempt to find a solution for sham, and the couple are called in for questioning. The an aging woman who doesn’t fit in. Should Babushka Shadow is set in the present, between real life and stay or leave? fantasy. The main character, Luna Lee, has decided to run away from home in search of a more meaningful Contacts: life. As luck would have it, she witnesses the failing Volya Films, Belarus, www.volyafilms.com relationship between an unemployed actor and his Producer VOLIA CHAJKOUSKAYA wife. By contrast, Pastor Theophilus offers Luna Lee email: [email protected] a contract with God. Even so, Theophilus remains phone: +375297168171 helpless as a helper.

Contacts: F-Seitse OÜ, Estonia Producer KAIE-ENE RÄÄK email: [email protected] phone: +3726015983

UAB ERA FILM, Lithuania Mein Deutschland / Моя Германия Producer RASA MIŠKINYTĖ Country: Belarus email: [email protected] Runtime: 52 min. phone: +37068296128 Completion date: August, 2017 Director: Alexander Svishchenkov Screenwriter: Elsa Ringhoeven Principal cast: Andrei Schimanski

22 Andrei Schimanski, an ethnic German, is tormented by Principal cast: Maksim Shved the past. During Soviet times, he was discriminated Producer: Volia Chajkouskaya because of his nationality, as the son of the World War II enemy. Trying to get rid of this shadow, he turns to In the capital of Belarus, on the walls of the archives and discovers the secret past of his father, townhouses, shops and office buildings of public which makes him eligible for German citizenship. He institutions, mysterious geometric shapes start abandons the “public enemy’s son” label in Belarus, appearing. Oleg and Maxim, two 30-something but is not recognized by Germans, who classify him as friends, find in these intriguing rectangles and squares Russian. The failure to establish his authentic national a contemporary artistic phenomenon – a continuation identity in Germany causes even greater suffering. of the avant-garde art of Kazimir Malevich. They come C o mi n g S oon The man with no homeland lives in Belarus, but up with a bold idea: to make street art the national associates himself with the non-existent Germany of brand of Belarus and promote it internationally. his ancestors. In his illusion, this Germany of the past They start investigating who is behind this incredible is supreme and he wants to revive it, simultaneously phenomenon. Where will it take them? Will they rejecting the Germany of the present. Andrei seeks manage to find the artists? And, more importantly, understanding and support from his family, but cannot what will they learn about present-day Belarus during find it. After his divorce and retirement he tries to right their journey? How do their compatriots live? What do himself and suddenly finds a new love. Can love save they desire? What are they dreaming of? Things take him from the demons inside? a surprising turn. Nothing is quite as it first seems...

Contacts: Contacts: Director ALEXANDER SVISHCHENKOV Volia Films, Belarus, www.volyafilms.com email: [email protected] Producer VOLIA CHAJKOUSKAYA email: [email protected] phone: +375297168171

SQUARE Film Studio Ltd., Belarus Producer MAGDALENA BOROWIEC

Ordinary Film / Обычное кино Country: Belarus Runtime: 60 min. Completion date: February, 2018 Director: Liubov Ziamtsova Screenwriter: Liubov Ziamtsova Towards the Miracle / Навстречу чуду Principal cast: Tanya Povarova, Olya Vishnevskaya Country: Belarus Producer: Maryia Yaharova Runtime: 60 min. Completion date: September, 2018 Ordinary Film is a romantic drama about two totally Director: Ekaterina Markavets different women who love one man. This is a story Screenwriter: Ekaterina Markavets of ordinary love, pain, anger and passion, but our two Principal cast: Aleksander Avdevich, Vasilij Bartlov main characters – Olya and Tanya – are anything but ordinary. They live in Bobruisk, a small Belarusian Sasha Avdevich is a social media phenomenon in town, and visit the Social Centre to spend their free Belarus. He became paraplegic after a motorcycle time with other unordinary people. That is where they accident. But now he is the most famous wheelchair meet Denis – their love. user in Belarus. The guy still enjoys road trips and speed. He took a few trips around Europe on his Contacts: handbike, but he still dreams about being able to Illusion Film Company walk again. Sasha is trying to answer the question Producer MIKHALAI LAURENIUK “Why did I become disabled?” and undergoes various email: [email protected] experiments to feel his feet. During his handbike phone: +375296065831 journeys, he became friends with a cameraman, who filmed Sasha’s road trip. His name is Vasia and he believes in God. He convinced Sasha to find God and ask for a miracle.

Contacts: Director, writer EKATERINA MARKAVETS email: [email protected]

The Art of Censorship / Па слядах ЖЭС-арта Country: Poland, Belarus Runtime: 37 min. Completion date: January, 2018 Director: Maksim Shved Screenwriters: Maksim Shved, Lukash Chajka 23

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Who is here

BELARUS W h o i s ere

LIZAVETA BOBRYKAVA VOLIA CHAJKOUSKAYA Kiryl Halitski MARYIA YAHORAVA Head of Industry Babushka. Lost in Translation Director Ordinary film Minsk International Film The Art of Cencorship [email protected] Producer Festival Listapad Producer [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

NIKOLAI LAVRENIUK EKATERINA MARKAVETS ALEXANDER RAISA ROZUM National Competition Towards the miracle MIHALKOVICH Deputy Director coordinator Director, Writer Director Minsk International Film Minsk International Film [email protected] [email protected] Festival Listapad Festival Listapad [email protected] [email protected] BELGIUM

IGOR SOUKMANOV ALEXANDER Liubov Ziamtsova BÉNÉDICTE DUHAUT Programme Director SVISHCHENKOV Ordinary film Project Manager Minsk International Film Mein Deutschland Director, Writer [email protected] Festival Listapad Director [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

MAGDALENA DZBIK CHRISTOPHER MILL LUCIA RECALDE Julie-Jeanne R égnault Project Officer Project Manager Head of MEDIA Unit Head of European Affairs European Commission Cecoforma European Commission Centre national du cinéma [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] et de l‘image animée CNC [email protected]

25 BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA BULGARIA CZECH REPUBLIC W h o i s ere

ARMIN HADZIC RADA SESIC GALIN STOEV Ales Fuchs CineLink Coordinator Film Critic The Infinite Garden Chief Developer Sarajevo Film Festival Sarajevo Film Festival Director, Writer EVENTIVAL [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

DENMARK ESTONIA

Markéta Hodouskova Lenka Tyrpáková Simon Drewsen Katre Kajamäe Associated General Manager Programmer Holmberg MEDIA Office Manager Film New Europe Karlovy Vary International Director Estonian Film Institute [email protected] Film Festival The Danish Cultural Institute Creative Europe Desk Estonia [email protected] in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania [email protected] [email protected]

Andres Kauts Eda Koppel Marge Liiske Arko Okk General Manager Head of Marketing Managing Director A GHOST ROAD Tartu Elektriteater Estonian Film Institute Baltic Event Director, Writer [email protected] [email protected] Tallinn Black Nights Film [email protected] Festival [email protected] Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

Marianne Ostrat Kristi Porila Kaie-Ene Rääk Edith Sepp The End of The Chain Head of Distribution The Man Slayer. The Virgin. Director Producer MTÜ Must Käsi/ Cinema The Shadow Estonian Film Institute [email protected] Sõprus Producer [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

26 FINLAND FRANCE W h o i s ere

Ales Fuchs Kerstin Degerman Milja Mikkola Lara Bommers Eglė Čepaitė Chief Developer Head of Office Creative Programme Manager Project Manager Coordinator EVENTIVAL Europe Desk/Media Midnight Sun Film Festival Under the Milky Way Festival Scope [email protected] The Finnish Film Foundation [email protected] lara.bommers [email protected] [email protected] @underthemilkyway.eu

GEORGIA

Keiko Funato Guillaume de Seille Marie Pierre Valle Zaza Khalvashi CEO- Sales & Acquisitions Producer Head of Acquisitions Namme Alpha Violet [email protected] Wild Bunch Director, Writer [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

GERMANY

Sulkhan Turmanidze Ana Urushadze Simone Baumann Bernd Buder Namme Scary Mother Producer Programme Director Producer Director, Writer German Films Cottbus Film Festival [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Joerg Bundschuh Sandra Anne Jung Nikolaj Nikitin Erwin M. Schmidt Producer Project Manager SOFA Founder and Director Producer Kick Film Production Nordic Film Days Lubeck Berlin IFF Delegate for Propellor Film Tech Hub [email protected] [email protected] Eastern Europe [email protected] Palic IFF Programmer [email protected]

27 HUNGARY ITALY W h o i s ere

Lorand Balazs Imre Sergio Fant Renata Santoro Francesca Tiberi Ultra Programmer Film Research and Sales Assistant Associate Producer Locarno Film Festival Programming True Colours [email protected] [email protected] Venice Days [email protected] [email protected] KOSOVO LATVIA

Arben Zharku Amanda Boka Kristine Briede Sonora Broka Director Industry events curator Baltic New Wave Director and Programmer Kosovo Cinematography Riga International Film Director, Writer International Centre for Cinema Center Festival [email protected] Riga International Film Festival [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Antra Gaile Janis Kalejs VIKTORIJA KASPEROVICA Ināra Kolmane To Be Continued Producer Project Manager Bille Producer [email protected] Riga IFF Director [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Linda Krukle Šarlote Liduma Maris Martinsons Sergey Moosatov Magic Kimono Head of Film Acquisitions Magic Kimono Founder Producer Latvian Television Director, Writer Spektrs [email protected] Film Festival Riga [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

28 W h o i s ere

Lelda Ozola Marta Romanova- Ivars Sileckis Sergejs Timonins MEDIA Office Manager Jekabsone To Be Continued Founder Creative Europe Desk Bille Director Spektrs Latvia Producer [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Sonora Broka Liene Treimane ‚ Guntis Trekteris ROBERTS VINOVSKIS ELVISS ZANTS Director and Programmer Director Producer Producer Head of Communication International Centre for Cinema Riga IFF Ego Media [email protected] department Riga IFF Riga International Film Festival [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

LITHUANIA

Agnese Zapane Greta Akcijonaitė Patricija Andrijaitytė Karolis Bernotas Senior Officer CEO Cinematographer, Artistic Manager National Film Centre of Latvia Cinema Theatre Pasaka Director [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Gintarė Brazauskienė Eva Brazdžionytė Gabija Budreckytė Giedrė Burokaitė Film Director Head of MEDIA Distributor People, Animals and Things [email protected] sub-programme [email protected] Producer Creative Europe Desk [email protected] Lithuania [email protected]

29 W h o i s ere

DOVILĖ Butnoriūtė Ieva Bužinskaitė Ieva Černiauskaitė Rimantė Daugėlaitė Film Programming and Producer Producer Managing Director Promotion [email protected] [email protected] Lithuanian Short Film Agency Lithuanian Film Center LITHUANIAN SHORTS [email protected] [email protected]

Inesa Daugintaitė Eglė Deltuvaitė Ieva Dirvonskaitė Aistė Diržiūtė Company Director Head of Creative Europe CEO Actress [email protected] Desk in Lithuania LOGIN conferences [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Vilma Dzienaitė Laura Gaigalienė Raminta Gecevičienė Jolanta Programmer Marketing Manager Cultural Attache Germanavičiūtė [email protected] Forum Cinemas [email protected] Marketing Manager [email protected] Theatrical Film Distribution [email protected]

Aistė Gramantaitė Daiva Ivanauskaitė Giedrius Gudaitis Jolanta Gužaitė- Actress Distributor Cinema Theatre Pasaka Kvintus [email protected] Baltic Film Society Ltd [email protected] Director [email protected] Scanorama [email protected]

30 W h o i s ere

Rimantė Daugėlaitė Ernestas Jankauskas Ida Janušauskaitė DAIVA JOVAIŠIENĖ Paulius Juočeris Managing Director Film Director Assistant Project Manager Producer Producer Lithuanian Short Film Agency [email protected] LOGIN conferences [email protected] [email protected] LITHUANIAN SHORTS [email protected] [email protected]

Giedrė Kriščiūnaitė Miglė Križinauskaitė Evaldas Kubilius Audrius Kuprevičius Distributor Film Director Director, Producer Producer A-One flms VšĮ Medijų ir edukacijos [email protected] Lithuanian Film Center [email protected] centras [email protected] [email protected]

Jolanta Rolandas Daiva Laskauskienė Andrius Lekavičius Vilma Levickaitė Germanavičiūtė Kvietkauskas Distributor Film Director Cinema Theater Marketing Manager Director Garsų pasaulio įrašai Prime Field Skalvija Theatrical Film Distribution Lithuanian Film Centre [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

ASTA LIUKAITYTĖ Asta Martinonytė Arūnas Matelis Jovilė Milerytė Producer Ashes in the Snow About Stops, Runs and Producer [email protected] Distributor Bananas [email protected] Acme Film Director, Writer [email protected] [email protected]

31 W h o i s ere

Ieva Misiulaitytė Rasa Miškinytė Kornelija Morkytė Lina Murinaitė Film Marketing The Man Slayer. The Virgin. Project Manager Producer Vabalo Filmai The Shadow LOGIN conferences [email protected] [email protected] Producer [email protected] [email protected]

Ieva Norvilienė Laura Pašilytė Jūratė Pazikaitė Gintaras Plytnikas Hello, Dear Granny!, Namme, Producer Director Forum Cinemas Kharms [email protected] Vilnius Film Office [email protected] Producer, Co-Producer [email protected] [email protected]

Aurimas Pukevičius Dagnė Puodžiūnaitė Irma Pužauskaitė Kristina Ramanauskaitė Film Producer Producer Director Producer [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Arnoldas Rogoznyj Jūratė Samulionytė Vilma Samulionytė Gabija Siurbytė LOGIN Hello, Dear Granny! Hello, Dear Granny! Actress, Producer [email protected] Director, Writer Director, Writer [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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Eglė Sparnaitytė Audrius Stonys GYTIS ŠAPRANAUSKAS Rūta Švedkauskaitė Writer Baltic New Wave Producer Planner and Programmer [email protected] Director [email protected] Cinema Theatre Pasaka [email protected] [email protected]

Gintaras Plytnikas Lukas Tarasevičius Lukas Trimonis Gabrielė Urbonaitė Domantė Urmonaitė Forum Cinemas Columnist Miracle Film Director Art Department Masterclass [email protected] [email protected] Producer [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Kristina Ramanauskaitė Gabrielė Vaičiūnaitė Milda Vakarinaitė Eglė Vertelytė Romas Zabarauskas Producer Producer Officer at the Department Miracle Director [email protected] [email protected] of Film Production Director, Writer [email protected] Lithuanian Film Center [email protected] [email protected]

Gabija Siurbytė Justė Zavišaitė Lina Zlatkutė Sonata Aistė Žegulytė Actress, Producer Human Rights Film Festival Acme Film Žalneravičiūtė People, Animals and Things [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Cinema Theatre Skalvija Director, Writer [email protected] [email protected]

33 LUXEMBOURG NETHERLANDS POLAND W h o i s ere

Kristina Trapp Raymond van der Ewa Bojanowska Marzena Cieslik CEO Kaaij Festival Coordinator International Relations EAVE CEO / Executive producer New Europe Film Sales Polish Film Institute [email protected] Revolver [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

PORTUGAL ROMANIA

Agnieszka Oryl JOANNA SOLECKA Fernando Vasquez Mihai Chirilov Programmer International Marketing & Film Programmer Artistic Director Warsaw Film Festival / Festivals Alphapanda Fest New Directors/ Transilvania IFF Warsaw Film Foundation [email protected] New Films Festival [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] RUSSIA

Oana Giurgiu Dorina Oarga Mihaela Popescu Roman Dorofeev Executive Director Guest Office Manager Yet to rule Acquisitions Executive Transilvania IFF Transilvania IFF Director, Writer Russian Report [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Yevgeny Gindilis Igor Gouskov lena Gromova Evgeny Gusyatinsky Producer Film Critic Director Programmer [email protected] Quinzaine des Réalisateurs Territorium Film Film International Film Festival [email protected] Festival Rotterdam [email protected] e.gusyatinskiy@ filmfestivalrotterdam.com

34 SERBIA W h o i s ere

Asya Kolodizhner Pyotr Shepotinnik Svetislav Miroslav Mogorovic Head of Communication Head of Communication Dragomirovic Producer, Program Director Department Moscow International Film Horizons [email protected] Moscow International Festival Director, Writer Film Festival [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] SLOVAKIA SLOVENIA

Mihai Chirilov Tijana Visnjic Imelda Selkova Katarina Tomkova Marina Gumzi Artistic Director Managing Director Project Manager- Film A Long Day Stories from the Chestnut Transilvania IFF Soul Food Distribution Promotion Producer, Project Manager Woods [email protected] [email protected] Slovak Film Institute Midpoint Producer, Managing Director [email protected] [email protected] Nosorogi [email protected] SPAIN

Roman Dorofeev Alberto Alvarez Aitziber Roberto Cueto Javier Garcia Puerto Acquisitions Executive Aguilera Atorrasagasti Member of Selection Programmer Latin Cinema Russian Report Head of Festivals Director of the Promotion Committee Tallinn Black Nights Film [email protected] Reel Suspects of Culture at the Basque San Sebastian International Festival [email protected] Government Film Festival Tarragona IFF REC [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] SWEDEN

Evgeny Gusyatinsky Cia EdstrÖm Johannes Glaumann Urlika Nisell FELIX SCHEYNIUS Programmer Head of Nordic Film Market Sales Executive Head of Office, Creative Assistant Acquisitions International Film Festival Göteborg Film Festival Nonstop Entertainment Europe Desk MEDIA Executive Rotterdam [email protected] johannes.glaumann@ Coordinator [email protected] e.gusyatinskiy@ nonstopentertainment.com Swedish Film Institute filmfestivalrotterdam.com [email protected]

35 UNITED KINGDOM W h o i s ere

Ignas Scheynius Alex Shiriaieff Duncan Carson Michael Gubbins Head of Acquisitions Director / Producer Marketing, Communications Film Analyst and Consultant Edge Entertainment B2B Doc and Events Manager Sampo Media [email protected] [email protected] Independent Cinema Office [email protected] duncan.carson@ independentcinemaoffice.org.uk UNITED STATES

Diane Henderson Xavier Henry-Rashid Sarah Rutterford Mitch Mallon Deputy Artistic Director Managing Director Operations Officer Founder/CEO Edinburgh International Film Film Republic Independent Cinema Stadium Media Festival [email protected] Office [email protected] [email protected] sarah@ independentcinemaoffice.org.uk UKRAINE

Alona Fedorova Philip Illienko Valeriy Kalmykov Anna Palenchuk GogolDoc Head of Ukrainian State GogolDoc ASKANIA Producer Film Agency Producer Producer [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Alisa Pavloskaya Igor Savychenko Julia Sinkevych Marina Stepanska GogolDoc When The Trees Fall Executive Director FALLING Director, Writer Producer Odessa International Film Producer [email protected] [email protected] Festival [email protected] [email protected]

36 Michael Gubbins Film Analyst and Consultant Sampo Media [email protected]

Anna Palenchuk ASKANIA Producer [email protected]

Marina Stepanska FALLING Producer [email protected]

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