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COTTBUS 2020 Connecting Cottbus

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- La 22e édition du marché de la coproduction invite 13 projets est-européens en développement, plus six works in progress

connecting cottbus passe en ligne et annonce son programme
Le réalisateur Roman Bondarchuk, qui a été sélectionné à cocoPITCH avec The Editorial Office

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The 22nd edition of the connecting cottbus co-production market once again confirms that creativity continues to blossom in the Eastern European film industry. Taking place online from 4-6 November, during FilmFestival Cottbus, the East-West co-production market has selected 13 new projects in development and six works in progress, hailing from 13 countries in Eastern Europe.

Among the projects selected for cocoPITCH, which are mostly by first-time directors, are the upcoming works by Svetla Tsotsorkova (Sister [+lire aussi :
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interview : Svetla Tsotsorkova
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), who also received the Special Pitch Award at FilmFestival Cottbus 2019; Gjorche Stavreski (Secret Ingredient [+lire aussi :
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interview : Blagoj Veselinov
interview : Gjorce Stavreski
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); Roman Bondarchuk (Volcano [+lire aussi :
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interview : Roman Bondarchuk
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); and Robert Budina (A Shelter Among Clouds [+lire aussi :
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interview : Robert Budina
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). Furthermore, two projects were selected at coco’s partner events, and they are the debut features by Romanian filmmaker Paul Cioran, the winner of the Transilvania Pitch Stop - coco Award in August (see the news), and Ukrainian writer-director Yelizaveta Smith, who won the MIDPOINT - coco Award (MIDPOINT Feature Launch) at Karlovy Vary Eastern Promises 2020 (see the news).

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The cocoWIP selection welcomes back two coco alumni projects by first-time filmmakers: Sister [+lire aussi :
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interview : Dina Duma, Antonia Belazel…
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by Macedonian director Dina Duma and Stop-Zemlya [+lire aussi :
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interview : Kateryna Gornostai
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by Ukraine’s Kateryna Gornostai. Also, Russian filmmaker Maria Ignatenko’s sophomore feature, Fire!, is included, after her debut, In Deep Sleep, premiered in this year’s Berlinale Forum, and Montenegro’s Nemanja Bečanović (The Ascent) is also presenting her sophomore feature, Supermarket.

All of the projects are competing for various awards, and in the cocoLAB, the participating producers and directors will receive in-depth feedback from industry experts, who will join in with proceedings online. A handful of coco alumni projects were also released this year, including Servants [+lire aussi :
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interview : Ivan Ostrochovský
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by Ivan Ostrochovský (Berlinale Encounters) and Conference [+lire aussi :
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interview : Ivan I. Tverdovsky
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]
by Ivan Tverdovskiy (Venice Days), and there are premieres set to take place imminently for I Never Cry [+lire aussi :
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interview : Piotr Domalewski
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by Piotr Domalewski, in San Sebastián’s New Directors, and for The Campaign [+lire aussi :
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interview : Marian Crişan
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by Marian Crișan, in Moscow in October.

Here is the full list of projects participating in the 22nd connecting cottbus:

cocoPITCH

Only When I Laugh [+lire aussi :
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 – Vanja Juranić (Croatia)
Producer: Damir Terešak (Maxima film)

The Editorial Office [+lire aussi :
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interview : Roman Bondarchuk
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Roman Bondarchuk (Ukraine)
Producers: Darya Bassel (Moon Man), Darya Averchenko (South Films)

FloodMartin Gonda (Slovakia)
Producers: Katarína Krnáčová, Tomáš Gič (Silverart)

Fortune TellerSvetla Tsotsorkova (Bulgaria) (FilmFestival Cottbus’ Special Pitch Award)
Producer: Svetoslav Ovcharov (Omega Films)

Honey BunnyIgor Jelinović (Croatia)
Producer: Rea Rajčić (Eclectica)

Kiril’s LuckMilena Andonova (Bulgaria)
Producers: Katya Trichkova, Rali Ralchev (Contrast Films)

Norwegian DreamLeiv Igor Devold (Norway/Poland)
Producers: Håvard Wettland Gossé (Spætt Film), Bartek Glinski (Impakt Film)

Parade [+lire aussi :
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interview : Titas Laucius
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Titas Laucius (Lithuania)
Producer: Klementina Remeikaite (afterschool production)

Sep & AnaPaul Cioran (Romania) (Transilvania Pitch Stop - coco Award recipient)
Producer: Claudiu Mitcu (We are Basca)

SwapsGjorche Stavreski (North Macedonia)
Producers: Gjorche Stavreski, Ivana Shekutovska (Fragment Film)

VacuumYelizaveta Smith (Ukraine) (MIDPOINT – coco Award winner)
Producer: Aleksandra Kostina (Bosonfilm)

WaterdropRobert Budina (Albania)
Producer: Sabina Kodra (Erafilm)

When You Are 17Giorgi Mukhadze (Georgia)
Producer: Nato Sikharulidze (Terra Incognita Films)

cocoWIP

EvictionMáté Fazekas (Hungary)
Producers: Gábor Osváth (Filmfabriq), Péter Fülöp (FP Films)

Fire!Maria Ignatenko (Russia)
Producers: Egor Odintsov, Konstantin Fam, Ekaterina Mikhailova (Ark Pictures)

Sister [+lire aussi :
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interview : Dina Duma, Antonia Belazel…
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Dina Duma (North Macedonia/Kosovo/Montenegro/France)
Producers: Marija Dimitrova (List Production), Liridon Cahan (Added Value Films), Biljana Vušović (Videa Production), Guillaume De Seille (Arizona Productions)

Stand by MeTamara Dondurey (Russia)
Producer: Katia Filippova (Pan-Atlantic Studio)

Stop-Zemlia [+lire aussi :
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interview : Kateryna Gornostai
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Kateryna Gornostai (Ukraine)
Producers: Vitaliy Sheremetiev, Vika Khomenko, Natalia Libet, Olha Beskhmelnytsina (Esse Production House)

SupermarketNemanja Bečanović (Montenegro/Serbia)
Producers: Milena Charan (VHS), Jelena Angelovski (Tri Osmine)

Producers, sales agents, commissioning editors and other industry representatives active in the field of East-West European co-production can apply to attend without a project by 7 October 2020. connecting cottbus is supported by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Creative Europe - MEDIA, MDM Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung and Land Brandenburg.

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