31-05-2022

Ex Oriente Film Announces Documentary Projects Selected for 2022

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    PRAGUE: The Prague based Institute of Documentary Film has announced the 12 documentary projects that have been selected for the 20th edition of the Ex Oriente Film workshop. The workshop's focused on documentaries from central and eastern Europe.

    The first session will take place at Sunny Side of the Doc, La Rochelle, France 17-22 June, in cooperation with Sunny Side of the Doc. Further sessions will take place 24-28 October 2022 at the Ji.hlava IDFF, Czech Republic, the East Doc Forum: Market, Here I Am! 24-30 March 2023 in Prague, Czech Republic, within the East Doc Platform, and One World IHRDFF.

    The selected projects are:

    60 Seconds Until the End (Czech Republic, USA)
    Director: Bara Jichova Tyson
    Production: Alice Tabery (CINEPOINT), Kristina Škodová (CINEPOINT), Alexandra Nikolchev

    Beautiful Void (Latvia, Estonia, Switzerland)
    Director: Andris Gauja
    Production: Elza Gauja (Riverbed), Andris Gauja (Riverbed)
    Co-production: Margus Õunapuu (Filmtower)

    Chasing Stumps (Romania)
    Director: Mihai Gavril Dragolea, Radu Mocanu
    Production: Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan (Manifest Film), Elena Martin (Manifest Film)

    December (Poland)
    Director: Grzegorz Paprzycki
    Production: Piotr Śmiechowski (Telemark)

    European Union Wolf (Croatia)
    Director: Jadran Boban
    Production: Dana Budisavljević (Hulahop Film & Art Production)

    Iron Man (Ukraine)
    Director: Maryna Nikolcheva
    Production: Oleksandra Kravchenko

    May It Be a Girl (Austria, Kazakhstan)
    Director: Katerina Surovova
    Production: Aruan Anartayev

    Mothership (Romania, Portugal)
    Director: Ana Vijdea
    Production: Horatiu Curutiu (Numa FIlm)

    Searching for Pokemon (Ukraine)
    Director: Roman Blazhan, Mikhail Volkov
    Production: Roman Blazhan (Minimal Movie)

    War on Women (Estonia, Poland, Slovakia)
    Director: Maris Salumets
    Production: Maris Salumets, Volia Chajkouskaya (Allfilm)

    Young Blood (Poland)
    Director: Agata Baumgart
    Production: Grzegorz Pacek (Wytwórnia Filmów)