The Sarajevo Movie Pageant has unveiled the winners of its 2025 CineLink Business Days Awards, together with the Locations Half Empty, a portrait of a queer relationship in Hungary beneath far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, which acquired the Eurimages Co-Manufacturing Improvement Award.
Amongst different winners is Gorilla, recipient of the TV Drama Imaginative and prescient Pitch Award, which is about in Nineteen Sixties Paris, the place a French film star and his Yugoslav bodyguard’s brotherhood is threatened by a Hollywood homicide.
Tasks in several codecs and phases of improvement from Southeast Europe and the Center East and North Africa (MENA) area have been introduced in its twenty third version. And now, prizes have been handed out within the CineLink Co-Manufacturing Market, CineLink Work in Progress, and CineLink Drama sections.
The thirty first version of the Sarajevo competition wraps up immediately, Friday.
Beneath is a have a look at the CineLink winners.
CINELINK CO-PRODUCTION MARKET AWARDS
Eurimages Co-Manufacturing Improvement Award
Locations Half Empty
Synopsis: “A controversial and intimate portrait of a queer relationship within the context of Orbán’s Hungary.”
Director: Dorka Vermes
Author: Sára Törley-Havas
Producers: Evelyn Balogh, Botond Lelkes
Manufacturing Firm: Non Lieu Kft.
Nation: Hungary
Award within the quantity of €20,000
Movie Heart Montenegro Cinelink Award
Stone Over Stone
Synopsis: “Shams and her husband arrive from their village and settle into an unfinished development web site the place he works to repay playing money owed. He’s lured again into his dependancy, so Shams, who’s pregnant, is left to float among the many outcasts dwelling on the margins, till the collapse round her forces an unthinkable choice concerning the life she carries inside her.”
Director: Hilal Baydarov
Writers: Hilal Baydarov, Georg Tiller
Producers: Maéva Ranaïvojaona, Georg Tiller, Hilal Baydarov
Manufacturing Firm: Subobscura Movies
Co-production Firm: Ucqar Movie
Nations: Austria, Azerbaijan
Award within the quantity of €10,000
Movie Heart Serbia Cinelink Award
Pogana
Synopsis: “On a faraway Dalmatian island within the Nineteen Twenties, Pogana, a girl from the inlands, is offered to be the brand new spouse of a widower sailor with 5 youngsters. When the sailor is misplaced at sea, Pogana is left on the mercy of the merciless villagers and their customs.”
Director: David Kapac
Writers: Andrija Mardešić, David Kapac
Producers: Rea Rajčić, Tina Tišljar
Manufacturing Firm: Eclectica
Co-Manufacturing Corporations: Vertigo
Nations: Croatia, Slovenia
Award within the quantity of €10,000
Artekino Worldwide Prize
Two Little Nightmares
Synopsis: “Thirty years after his father’s suicide wiped a yr from his reminiscence, Matija returns residence. As he items collectively the previous, he finds a long-buried betrayal, a haunting secret, and the terrified boy he as soon as was.”
Director: Nebojša Slijepčević
Writers: Nebojša Slijepčević, Nađa Petrović
Producers: Danijel Pek, Katarina Prpić
Manufacturing Firm: Antitalent
Co-Manufacturing Corporations: Sense Manufacturing, Studio Virc, Distinction Movies, Les Movies Norfolk
Co-Producers: Milan Stojanović, Boštjan Virc, Katya Trichkova, Noelle Levenez
Nations: Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, France
Award within the quantity of €6,000
CINELINK CO-PRODUCTION MARKET & CINELINK DRAMA
Feminine Voices Cinelink Award
Rain Nation
Synopsis: “In early 2000s Istanbul, highschool senior Gül’s secret is uncovered after her classmate’s suicide, turning her life the other way up. Gül embarks on a journey to search out her interior energy for independence and development.”
Director: Zeynep Köprülü
Writers: Zeynep Köprülü, Haziran Düzkan
Producers: Utku Zeka, Zeynep Köprülü, Cansu Menlikli
Manufacturing Firm: Periferi Movie
Nation: Türkiye
Award within the quantity of €20,000
CINELINK DRAMA
Council of Europe Sequence Co-Manufacturing Improvement Award
Purple Water
Synopsis: “In 1989, on the Croatian seaside, a household is shattered when their daughter disappears. Her darkish secrets and techniques disintegrate the neighborhood over 20 years till the return of the previous investigator unveils the reality.”
Creator: Ljubica Luković
Writers: Ljubica Luković, Jurica Pavičić
Director: Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
Producer: Danijel Pek
Manufacturing Firm: Antitalent
Nation: Croatia
Award within the quantity of €50,000
Croatian Audiovisual Heart Drama Award
Fantastic
Synopsis: “Dissatisfied with the way in which her life has turned out, a girl begins waking up on the mornings when she made among the key choices that formed it. She takes alternate paths in the direction of totally different lives that would have been.”
Creators and Writers: Katarina Mitrović, Isidora Veselinović, Vladimir Tagić
Administrators: Vladimir Tagić, Isidora Veselinović
Producer: Marija Stojanović
Manufacturing Firm: Sense Manufacturing
Nation: Serbia
Award within the quantity of €15,000
TV Drama Imaginative and prescient Pitch Award
Gorilla
Synopsis: “Within the decadent world of Nineteen Sixties Paris, a French film star and his Yugoslav bodyguard’s highly effective brotherhood shatters when a Hollywood homicide threatens to destroy them each.”
Creator: Gabor Krigler
Writers: Eszter Angyalosy, Cyril Tysz
Director: Christian Gudegast
Producer: Ivana Miković
Manufacturing Firm: Firefly Productions
Nation: Serbia
CINELINK WORK IN PROGRESS AWARDS
HBO Award
Who Are We
Synopsis: “After a pupil’s suicide, a college journey exposes the haunting path to tragedy. Because the journey unfolds, the bullies are the identical, the victims are new, and the shadow of the lifeless pupil looms over all of them.”
Director: Miroslav Terzić
Producer: Snežana van Houwelingen
Manufacturing Firm: This and That Productions
Co-Manufacturing Corporations: Nightswim, Invictus, PTD, Kinorama
Nations: Serbia, Italy, Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Croatia
Award within the quantity of €30,000
Turkish Nationwide Radio Tv Award
Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep
Synopsis: “In a valley veiled by fog and tribal codes, two sisters stroll into the night time not as daughters, however as choices — the place blood, reminiscence, and silence try and hold the hearth from spreading.”
Director: Rakan Mayasi
Producer: Jennifer Ritter, Rakan Mayasi
Manufacturing Firm: Atata
Nations: Belgium, Palestine, Lebanon
Award within the quantity of €10,000
Put up Republic Award
The place To?
Synopsis: “The totally different taxi rides throughout the town of Berlin between Hassan, a middle-aged Palestinian Uber driver, and younger Israeli who will get misplaced within the metropolis, inform a tragic-comic story about shifting ahead.”
Director: Assaf Machnes
Producers: Tomer Mecklberg, Haim Mecklberg, Oren Rogovin, Mohamad Babi
Manufacturing Firm: 2 Group Productions
Co-Manufacturing Corporations: Lev Cinema, Rogovin Brothers, Iconoclast Germany
Nation: Israel, Germany
Award within the quantity of €30,000 in type
Avanpost Media Award
17
Synopsis: “After having a threesome along with her classmates, Sara, 17, will get pregnant and tries to cover it from everybody, which turns into particularly tough in the course of the commencement tour.”
Director: Kosara Mitić
Producer: Tomi Salkovski
Manufacturing Firm: Black Cat Manufacturing
Coproduction firms: Artwork&Popcorn, December
Nations: North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia
Award within the quantity of €30,000 in type
CINELINK WORK IN PROGRESS AND DOCU ROUGH CUT BOUTIQUE AWARDS
Suppose-Movie Affect Manufacturing Award
Misplaced and Discovered: Romania’s Hidden Adoption Market
Synopsis: “When a younger Canadian lady who was offered as an toddler in post-Ceaușescu Romania returns to reclaim her identification, she uncovers the equipment that trafficked the sister she by no means knew, certainly one of 30,000 youngsters ‘exported’ for adoption.”
Director: Laurentiu Garofeanu
Producer: Laurentiu Garofeanu
Editor: Iulian Ghervas
Manufacturing firm: Mekanism Media (RO)
Nation: Romania
Size: 90 min
Award within the quantity of €20,000 in type
Eave + Award
Marija Stojanović