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CineLink Industry Days

Shaping the future of the film business in Southeast Europe

Over the 18 years since its launch, the Sarajevo Film Festival's industry section has become a major hub for Southeast European film professionals, and has played a crucial role in the expansion of cinematic co-production in the region.  It has also become a key destination for professionals from across Europe who are in search of talent and co-production possibilities, or who simply wish to obtain in-depth knowledge about this dynamic region’s business development.
The Festival's industry offering attracts almost 1,200 professionals to its annual event in late August and includes activities for people from all spheres of the business through its interlinked CineLink Industry Days sections:
 
•         CineLink Co-Production Market (18 – 20 August 2020)
•         CineLink Work-in-Progress (17 – 19 August 2020)
•         CineLink Drama (15 – 20 August 2020)
•         Docu Rough Cut Boutique (14 – 19 August 2020)
•         True Stories Market (15 – 18 August 2020)
•         Talents Sarajevo Pack&Pitch  (18 – 19 August 2020) 
•         Avant Premiere (16 – 20 August 2020)
•         CineLink Talks (15 – 20 August 2020)
 
Additional activities are organized in cooperation with partners’ organizations:
 
•       Docu Talents from the East/ Ji.hlava IDFF (16 August 2020)
•       Documentary Campus Masterschool 
 
Our vision is both to serve the current needs of the business and to shape its future. We see more films than ever being made outside the existing value chain, as well as the former borders between cinema and television blurring in terms of quality of content – and there are so many more screens on which all of this can be seen. Everything is converging, and we continue assembling our programme to reflect this. 
 
In addition to our flagship selection of quality projects in development at the CineLink Co-Production Market, screenings of fiction and documentary films in post at CineLink Work-in-Progress, Docu Rough Cut Boutique, the CineLink Drama section features new, exciting high-quality drama projects by established filmmakers from the region. The True Stories Market presents film and TV professionals with cases from the archives of key organisations documenting the Yugoslav wars of the 90's, while young talents pitch their short film projects at Talents Sarajevo Pack&Pitch. Everything in one place; everything connected. 
 

CONTACT

Armin Hadžić
Industry Coordinator
Sarajevo Film Festival
Zelenih beretki 12
71 000 Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina
armin.hadzic@sff.ba
industry@sff.ba