CineLink Industry Days
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Docu Rough Cut Boutique announces 2025 lineup of regional documentaries
Docu Rough Cut Boutique, the program for documentaries in post-production from Southeast Europe and the Caucasus, has announced its selection for the 2025 edition. Known for its boutique format, the program selects only five projects each year. Organized by the Sarajevo Film Festival and the Balkan Documentary Center, the initiative unfolds across three working sessions:…
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Spotlight on Poland at Sarajevo Film Festival 2025
The 31st Sarajevo Film Festival (15–22 August 2025) will shine a light on one of Europe’s most dynamic film industries with its «Spotlight on Poland» programme, presented in partnership with the Polish Film Institute. Celebrated for its bold storytelling, technological innovation, and evolving production models, Poland has emerged as a continental leader in audiovisual creativity.…
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Docu Talent From the East Awards 2024, Emerging Producers 2025 announced
The Sarajevo Film Festival‘s CineLink Industry Days spotlighted eight exceptional documentaries from Central and Eastern Europe, culminating in the Docu Talent from the East Awards 2024. This year’s standout, Baltic UXO, a Lithuanian-German-Latvian co-production, directed by Agnė Dovydaitytė and Alexander Belinski, emerged victorious. The film’s potential to influence contemporary dialogues on environmentalism, militarism, and opaque…
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Docu Talents From the East to showcase eight film projects at 2024 Sarajevo Film Festival
The Sarajevo Film Festival’s Cinelink Industry Days will once again host Docu Talents from the East, an annual Ji.hlava IDFF event that has been a beacon for showcasing documentary projects from Eastern Europe since 2005. The event will see directors and producers presenting their documentary projects, currently in post-production, to a discerning audience of festival…
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Report: Sarajevo Film Festival 2023
SARAJEVO FF: Modern Times Review wraps up the 2023 Sarajevo Film Festival with our report on its doc selections, CineLink Industry Days, and more.
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29th Sarajevo Film Festival honours filmmaking talent at CineLink awards ceremony
The 21st edition of CineLink Industry Days concluded at the Sarajevo Film Festival, where an array of promising projects from Southeast Europe and the MENA region were spotlighted. CINELINK CO-PRODUCTION MARKET AWARDS: EURIMAGES CO-PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT AWARD: My mother, the monster – Hungary (€20,000) FILM CENTER SERBIA CINELINK AWARD: Primavera – Montenegro (€10,000) FILM CENTER MONTENEGRO…
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Docu Talents from the East announces 2023 winners
The Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Industry Days recently unveiled a selection of documentaries set for theatrical release within the next year as part of the Ji.hlava IDFF Docu Talents From the East programme. These eight films, hailing from Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine, collectively showcased the cinematic brilliance…
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Ji.hlava IDFF announces 2023 Docu Talents From the East projects
On August 13, the Sarajevo Film Festival will feature «Docu Talents from the East», a presentation showcasing remarkable documentary films in post-production from Central and Eastern Europe. The event, part of CineLink Industry Days, will present eight new and creative documentary projects exploring themes of family roots, cultural identity, and a pursuit for a fairer…