Organised by the Sarajevo Film Festival and the Balkan Documentary Center, CineLink’s Docu Rough Cut Boutique is a regional platform dedicated to documentary projects in the advanced phase of the editing process. The programme is organised in three modules: Budapest, Sofia, and Sarajevo. This new set-up brings a greater opportunity to participants for them to explore their creative possibilities, and to have a longer, more in-depth mentoring process. This year’s novelty is the inclusion of one Ukrainian project on top of the five films previously selected.

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This year’s winner of two awards given by the jury consisting of Margje de Koning (Movies That Matter), Hanka Kastelicova (HBO Europe), Eugen Kelemen (Avanpost), Catherine Le Clef (Cat&Docs) and Marcel Maiga (DOK Leipzig), is Gergő Somogyvári’s Fairy Garden [+leggi anche:
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The Soldier, directed by Aleksandar Nikolić, bagged the Cat&Docs’ award of €2,000. The DOK Leipzig Preview Award went to Giorgi Parkosadze’s Requiem to the Hot Days of Summer [+leggi anche:
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Here is the complete list of awarded projects:

Avanpost Award
Fairy Garden [+leggi anche:
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Producer: Nora Somogyvári
Production company: New Retina Productions Kft.

HBO Max Award
Fairy Garden – Gergő Somogyvári

Cat&Docs Award
The Soldier – Aleksandar Nikolić (Serbia/Germany/UK)
Producer: Miloš Ivanović
Production company: Set Sales Film

DOK Leipzig Preview Award
Requiem to the Hot Days of Summer – Giorgi Parkosadze (Georgia/Greece)
Producers: Tamta Tvalavadze, Angelos Tsaousis
Production companies: Attic Production, Filmgrafik Productions

Movies That Matter Award
My Muslim Husband [+leggi anche:
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Producer: Daniel Barnuti
Production Company: Two Doc