SARAJEVO: The government of Sarajevo Canton has announced it will allocate approximately 1 m EUR / 2 m BAM of its budget for film and television production grants starting in 2020. The new initiative will work as a rebate of an as yet unspecified share of qualified production costs to the local producer, co-producer or executive producer from the government budget. The amount of the rebate will be calculated using a clearly defined formula and could be as much as 30% for some projects.

SARAJEVO: Romanian director Emanuel Pârvu, who won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Director for his debut feature Meda or The Not So Bright Side of Things / Meda sau Partea nu prea fericită a lucrurilor  (FamArt, 2017), returns with his new project Trust / Încredere to the CineLink Co-production Market (20-22 August 2019) in the framework of Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Industry Days.

SARAJEVO: Macedonian director Teona Strugar Mitevska, whose last film God Exists, Her Name is Petrunija won the Ecumenical Jury Prize and Guild Film Prize at the 2019 Berlinale, is presenting her next film project The Happiest Man in the World or Lessons in Love at the CineLink Co-production Market (20-22 August 2019) in the framework of Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Industry Days.

SARAJEVO: Croatian writer/director Goran Kulenović will present the dark humour thriller Death of the Little Match Girl, based on Zoran Ferić’s novel, at the CineLink Co-Production Market (20-22 August 2019) in the framework of Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Industry Days.

SARAJEVO: Famous Serbian actress Mirjana Karanović, whose previous film Good Wife (This and That, 2016) won the CineLink Co-production Arte Prize, is back to CineLink (20-22 August 2019) with her new project Mother Mara. The event is held in the framework of Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Industry Days.

SARAJEVO: Pavle Vučković, Serbian director whose debut film Panama (Plan 9, 2015) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, will present his new project Frost at the CineLink Co-Production Market (20-22 August 2019), organised in the framework of Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Industry Days.

SARAJEVO: Romanian writer/director Andrei Tănase is preparing his first feature film Victus, after the success of his short film First Night (2016), which premiered in Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti. The Romanian/Czech coproduction has been selected for CineLink Co-Production Market (20-22 August 2019), running in the framework of Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Industry Days.

SARAJEVO: Montenegrin director Ivan Marinović, whose previous film Black Pin (Adriatic Western, 2016) won the Living Pictures Award at CineLink in 2014, returns to CineLink Co-Production Market with his new project Forever Hold Your Peace. The event will be held from 20 to 22 August 2019 in the framework of Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Industry Days.

SARAJEVO: Tunç Davut, whose debut feature Entanglement premiered at the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival, is returning to Sarajevo with his second film project Like A Limbless Tree, which has been selected for CineLink Co-Production Market (20-22 August 2019), organised in the framework of Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Industry Days.

SARAJEVO: Greek director Sofia Georgovassili will present her coming-of-age debut Mignon at CineLink Co-Production Market (20-22 August 2019), organised in the framework of Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Industry Days. The film is a Greek/Romanian coproduction.