A total of 17 new feature-film projects will be presented at the upcoming 37^th edition of CineMart, which is due to run from 26-29 January. Taking place during the IFFR PRO Days (25-29 January), International Film Festival Rotterdam’s (IFFR) world-renowned co-production market has invited projects from around the globe and will offer this year’s participants tailor-made one-to-one meetings as well as presentations that will be open to the industry guests.

Regarding the selection, Marit van den Elshout, head of IFFR Pro, commented: “We are proud to present a fresh and exciting line-up of titles by both emerging and established filmmakers from a record number of nearly 400 submissions. We strongly believe in collaboration between co-production markets in helping filmmakers reach their project’s potential. We are therefore pleased to share the fact that, as part of a longstanding partnership, two of the selected projects will travel to the Berlinale Co-Production Market after attending CineMart. Another project will attend Trieste prior to CineMart as part of a new collaboration with When East Meets West (WEMW).”

Some of the most highly anticipated projects are acclaimed Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude’s upcoming feature, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Radu Jude
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intervista: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
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Furthermore, in collaboration with VR Days, four virtual-reality projects will be presented at CineMart 2020, and nine projects will be included in the BoostNL programme, the joint effort between IFFR and the Nederlands Film Festival, all of which will be presented on 28 January.

Here is the complete selection of projects for CineMart 2020:

All We Imagine as Light - Payal Kapadia
Producers: Petit Chaos (France), Chalk and Cheese (India)

Celosos hombres blancos - Iván Granovsky
Producers: Frutacine (Argentina), O som e a fúria (Portugal)

Electric Sleep - Zeynep Dadak
Producers: Fenafilm (Turkey), unafilm (Germany)

Followers - Dornaz Hajiha
Producers: Chinese Shadows (Hong Kong), KinoKabul (Iran/Afghanistan)

The Garden of Earthly Delights - Morgan Knibbe
Producers: BALDR Film (Netherlands), Cinematografica (Philippines)

Infanta - Natalia Garagiola
Producer: Rei Cine (Argentina)

Jilah and the Man with Two Names - Yosep Anggi Noen
Producer: KawanKawan Media (Indonesia)

The Patron - Julia Thelin
Producer: Grand Slam Film (Sweden)

Princess - Karine Teles
Producers: Bubbles Project, Filmes de Plástico (Brazil)

A Shadow Creeps in Silver Trees - John Trengove
Producer: Urucu Media (South Africa)

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn [+leggi anche:
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Producer: microFILM (Romania)

Something You Said Last Night [+leggi anche:
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Producer: JA Productions (Canada)

This Is the Country - Mark Noonan
Producer: Feline Films (Ireland)

Who Is Sleeping on My Pillow - Zhu Xin
Producer: Midnight Blur Films (China)

The Wolf, the Fox & the Leopard - David Verbeek
Producer: Lemming Film (Netherlands)

Women Do Cry [+leggi anche:
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Producer: Activist38 (Bulgaria)

The Young Arsonists - Sheila Pye
Producer: Borrowed Light Films (Canada)

IFFR Pro x VR Days 2020

Doubt - Matteo Lonardi
Producer: ReframeVR (Italy)

Floating With Spirits - Juanita Onzaga
Producer: Cassette for Timescapes (Belgium/Colombia/Mexico)

Odd & Ity - Ricardo Laganaro
Producer: ARVORE Immersive Experiences (Brazil)

Shock the Monkey - Blies Brothers
Producer: a_BAHN (Luxembourg/France)

BoostNL 2019/2020

The Dumped - Malu Janssen
Producer: IJswater Films (Netherlands)

Detours [+leggi anche:
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From Guiné - Caroline Leone
Producer: Vulcana Cinema (Brazil)

The Great Orator - Daniël Ernst
Producer: Submarine Channel (Netherlands)

Groundswell - Daniel Bruce
Producer: New Amsterdam Film Company (Netherlands/South Africa)

The Idyll and Other Exotics - Aaron Rookus
Producer: Studio Ruba (Netherlands)

Rapture [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Dominic Sangma
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Producer: Anna Films (India/China)

The Station - Sara Ishaq
Producer: Screen Project (Yemen/Jordan)

Wild Gleaming Space - Mauro Colombo
Producer: Apertura Films (Panama)