20 22 WHEN 01 EAST 19 MEETS WEST organized by 2019 partners with the support of 20 22 0119 under the patronage of in partnership with LST partners in collaboration with WHEN EAST MEETS WEST Polish Film Institute In collaboration with JANUARY 20/22, 2019 Screen Brussels Dox Consulting Screen Flanders Confartigianato Udine organized by Slovak Film Commission Estonian Film Institute Fondo Audiovisivo Friuli Venezia Giulia Slovak Film Institute EWA European Women’s Audiovisual Trieste Film Festival/Alpe Adria Cinema Ukrainian State Film Agency Network Wallimages Festival Scope with the support of Creative Europe Desk Belgium Flow Postproduction (Wallonie-Bruxelles) Creative Europe - MEDIA Programme Heretic Asterisk Creative Europe Desk Czech Republic MiBAC - Direzione Generale per il Hot Docs Creative Europe Desk Flanders Cinema Italian Film Commissions Creative Europe Desk Italy CEI (Central European Initiative) Laser Film Creative Europe Desk Luxembourg Film Center Serbia Lithuanian Film Centre Creative Europe Desk Netherland Regione Autonoma del Friuli Venezia MIA Creative Europe Desk Poland Giulia National Film Centre of Latvia Creative Europe Desk Serbia OLFFI under the patronage of Producers Network - Marché du Film LST partners Eurimages BDC Discoveries by Balkan database Documentary Center in partnership with Eventival Baltic Sea Docs EAVE Docu Rough Cut Boutique at Sarajevo with the technical support of database with the technical support of Maia workshops Film Festival Starhotels Savoia Excelsior Palace MIDPOINT Ex Oriente Film – Institute of Urban Hotel Design Documentary Film Savoia Excelsior Palace NH Trieste 2019 partners HBO Europe Grand Hotel Duchi d’Aosta Czech Film Fund ZagrebDox PRO LOFT Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles DRAW Film Industry Association of Ukraine FCL partner Flanders Audiovisual Fund-VAF Polish Film Institute Luxembourg Film Fund Netherlands Film Fund-Filmfonds 4 FOREWORD WEMW PROJECTS 2 TS 6 96 WEMW GUEST PROJECTS N 106 LAST STOP TRIESTE 120 THIS IS IT TE 140 FIRST CUT LAB N 150 INDEX PARTICIPanTS 292 WEMW PARTNERS CO 314 TEam 3 A “bridge” between Western and Eastern I know that those who come to WEMW do Europe: this is how our region, Friuli Venezia so in the belief that Trieste, in these winter 4 Giulia, likes to define itself. It is a metaphor, days, offers the opportunity to meet people however, that has been used so often (by who may be very different from each other, us, too) that it has become a kind of cliché, but who all share the same values regarding a bit obvious, for some even obsolete. cinema. Therefore they see the city as the Yet, despite this, we happen to be living perfect place to meet other like-minded in an era in Europe, in which walls are people ready to share their stories and find being preferred to bridges. This is why new collaborations. our identity as a bridge between cultures It’s a concept that’s rather popular too: has regained relevance, as well as all the applications this year totalled 299 from 49 initiatives which aim to unite and facilitate countries. These are significant numbers mutual knowledge and understanding. that remain stable year on year. We all hope that 2019 is the year that However, our wish is, above all, that will mark a renaissance in the idea of everyone comes to Trieste because they are Europe. But we all know that in order to convinced that only by working together, achieve that, we need to find new roads and staying united as Europeans, we have to overcome those forces that have been a future ahead of us, a future that looks REWORD pulling countries apart from each other, radically different from the one which those driving us towards a return to the tragic who love walls are preparing for us. divisions of the past. Welcome to Trieste, welcome to WHEN If we look at WHEN EAST MEETS WEST, we EAST MEETS WEST. realise that this small ‘bridge’ here in Trieste – this year in its ninth edition – can be part FO of the solution. PAOLO VIDALI FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA AUDIOVISUAL FUND 5 6 W The WEMW international committee led Along these awards, EAVE will give away by Danijel Hocevar (Vertigo) and Leena a scholarship for the European Producers Pasanen (Dok Leipzig), and composed by Workshop and Asterisk will offer the Visual Manuela Buono (Slingshot Films), Didar Marketing Prize. Moreover, all fiction M Domehri (Maneki Films), Alessandro projects will be in the running for the Gropplero (WEMW), Joanna Szymanska Pop Up Film Residency Award and the (Shipsboy) and Jozko Rutar (SPOK) has European Women’s Audiovisual Network selected 22 projects in development from will deliver the EWA Network Best Woman 14 different countries. The 2019 final line- Director Award. up includes 11 fiction feature films and 11 documentaries selected amongst 299 Lastly, Italy-Baltic Development Award applications from 49 territories. for Co-Production will be granted to the best project in development co-produced WE The WEMW 2019 jury, including Lorenzo between Italy and one of the Baltic States. Esposito (KVIFF and CINÉMA DU RÉEL The Award is granted by MiBAC-Ministero programmer), Georges Goldernstern per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Estonian (CINÉFONDATION), Peter Kerekes, Simon Film Institute, Lithuanian Film Centre, Ofenloch (ZDF) and Jacobine van der Vloed National Film Centre of Latvia. (ACE) will deliver the Film Center Serbia Development Award, Flow Postproduction PROJECTS Award and Cannes Producers Network Prize. 7 10 ALL-IN 52 PRISON MAMA 12 BIGGER THAN TRAUMA 56 PURE UNKNOWN 16 BLACK SALT 60 THE LAST NOMAD 20 BROTHERHOOD 64 THE MIRACLE 24 DANIELS INFERNO 68 THE PalaCE 28 HER/HIS 72 THE SILENT TREATMENT 32 JUMP OUT 76 THE ZIMOV HYPOTHESIS 36 LE PARADIS C'EST ICI 80 VICTIM 40 LIVING 84 WHAT WILL THE TITLE BE? 44 METHUSALEM 88 WHO DO YOU LOVE THE MOST, BABY? 48 ONE OF US 92 YEAR OF A WIDOW 8 9 GENRE Documentary with the Russian tourists. Is it at all possi- DIRECTOR / WRITER LOGLINE COMPANY PROFILE DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY ble to set your identity aside for the sake of Volkan Üce Cassette for timescapes is an independent ALL-IN (2020, 75' & 52') Two shy young men start to work in an money? Who can be an example to whom? In 2005, Volkan Üce obtained his master’s PRODUCERS Belgian production company that produces all-inclusive hotel. A new, absurd world While losing all the values they have been degree in Political and Social Sciences at Emmy Oost, Magalie Dierick films and cross-media projects with social DISPLACED (2017, 71’, docu) opens up to them. Colourful bikinis, an brought up with, Hakan and Ismail find the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He BUDGET and political engagement. The company Produced by Cobra Films with the support abundance of food and the management’s ways to no longer serve, but to be served. decided to continue as a self-taught film- € 414.645 (€ 295.021 in place) demands ensure they will never be the was founded in 1997 by Emmy Oost, who maker before completing his PhD. of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) ALL-IN By following Ismail and Hakan during 2 COMPANY was awarded the Flanders Cultural prize for and Canvas. World premiere at DOK Leip- same again. summers in the hotel, ALL-IN explores Volkan completed his first full-length docu- Cassette for timescapes film in 2016, for producing and distributing mentary DISPLACED (71’, 2017) with the zig 2017 LOOKING FOR the coming of age within the European a slate of three migration films that are still support of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund Financing, Sales Agents, Festivals SYNOPSIS dream. In ALL-IN, the hotel functions as being screened around the world. and VRT. The film had its world premiere Ismail and Hakan start working in Nashira a microcosm for a more universal story at DOK Leipzig 2017 and was received with Resort, a gigantic all-inclusive hotel at the about the loss of innocence, when new- PRODUCER'S PROFILE great enthusiasm by both the international Turkish Riviera. Ismail is 17 and dropped comers try to adapt to our capitalistic first out of school to earn money for his family. world societies. Emmy Oost studied Germanic Literature and the Belgian public. DISPLACED shows Hakan is 25 and the youngest of 12 chil- & Linguistics and started working as a film the identity crisis of third-generation Turks producer for Johan Grimonpez, an inter- growing up in Belgium and the Nether- dren. Both have come to the hotel business DIRECTOR STATEMENT to move ahead in life and to learn English. nationally acclaimed filmmaker and artist lands. At the same time the film tells a lot I lived in Anatolia for two years. When I from Belgium who directed a.o. DOUBLE At first the newcomers are very shy and about current Turkish and Western Euro- returned to Belgium, at the age of eight, TAKE (premiered in Berlinale & Sundance) Magalie Dierick avoid all contact with the hotel guests. They pean society. Raised with oriental values I sometimes had trouble understanding & SHADOW WORLD. Since 2009, within have learned to be respectful to others. and standards, Volkan deliberately chooses the Western values. Getting to know Bel- her company Cassette for timescapes, And they understand their position. Gradu- themes that are related to his life. As a gium, changed and shaped my identity. she mainly focuses on documentary and ally, they observe the colourful bikini’s, the filmmaker, he wants to avoid telling exotic Sometimes I wonder what kind of a person crossmedia projects with social or politi- un-emptied plates, the different ways of stories. Informing and creating empathy for I would have been if I had just grown up cal engagement.