Selection:
AIN’T NO CINDERELLAS
Director: Emel Celebi
Production company: ZeZe Film
Turkey
I AM LOOKING FOR A BRIDE
Director: Marija Dzidzeva
Production company: Award Film & Video
Macedonia
NAKED / BASIL IN THE STONE
Director: Tiha Gudac
Production company: Factum
Croatia
THE SECOND BEST
Director: Vesela Kazakova, Mina Mileva
Production company: Activist 38
Bulgaria
TOTONEL
Director: Alexander Nanau
Production company: Strada Film
Romania
Mentors
Eyal Sivan is a Paris based filmmaker. He is Associate Professor at the University of East London. He’s the founder and Chief Editor of South Cinema Notebooks. Sivan has directed over ten full-length political documentaries, for which he received a number of prestigious awards.
Audrius Stonys is an independent film director, member of European Documentary Network and European Film Academy, who has made 19 films. His film EARTH OF THE BLIND was awarded by EFA as the Best European Documentary. He has worked as a teacher in European Film College.
Pola Rapaport is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and winner of numerous grants & awards. She is writer, director and editor of many award winning films, including: HAIR: LET THE SUN SHINE IN. She edited: HERE ONDE DAY (work-in-progress), GRACE PALEY. She is sound editing Emmy nominee.
Thomas Imbach is an independent filmmaker based. With his production company Bachim Films he produced his own work. He founded Okofilm. His films HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN (nominated for the Golden Leopard at Locarno), LENZ and I WAS A SWISS BANKER premiered at Berlin Film Festival.
Namik Kabil studied film in Los Angeles. He wrote several screenplays: DAYS AND HOURS, THE LAST DAY. In 2007 his documentary INTERROGATION won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary, Sarajevo Film Festival. Film NIGHTGUARDS had a world premiere at Venice Film Festival.
