Pack & Pitch

Since 2010, Pack & Pitch has supported emerging directors and producers in preparing their projects for the marketplace. Participants learn how to analyse and prepare their projects for effective written and oral presentation. Talents are mentored in groups and one-on-one sessions by pitching trainers Gabriele Brunnenmeyer and Nicholas Davies, who instruct them in the creation of one-pagers and the analysis of their projects, and provide insight into the all-important subjects of how to pitch, and to whom. Over the course of several days of intensive sessions, Talents prepare written and oral presentations of their projects, which they pitch at the end of the programme to a jury and an audience made up of their peers and industry professionals. The Talent who makes the most successful pitch is invited to participate at next year’s edition of CineLink Industry Days as an observer.

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Projects

Noura Al Kadri
Bulgaria

SPY PASSIONS

Original title: Шпионски страсти

Documentary (Hybrid)

Bulgarian filmmaker Roman investigates his late father’s past, blending fact and fiction to reimagine him as a secret agent in the tradition of the spy films they watched together. The film explores the Soviet bloc’s ties to post-colonial Mozambique.

Director
Roman Pessarov

Screenwriter
Angel Radev

Producer
Noura Al Kadri

Evgenia Evtimova
Bulgaria

HEADS OR TAILS

Original title: Ези, тура

Drama

When corruption and complacency bury a murder, two opposite 12-graders rely on a coin toss ritual - heads speak, tails look away. But in a world built on silence, the truth is a weapon that can kill.

Director
Tonya Atanakova

Screenwriters
Tonya Atanakova

Producer
Evgenia Evtimova, Nia Marinova

Semih Sağman
Türkiye

MY FATHER’S DEATH ON A WINTER’S DAY

Original title: Bir Kış Günü Babam Öldüğünde

Drama

A fire lit for a funeral forces Burak to confront the buried past in his frozen village.

Director
Semih Sağman

Screenwriters
Semih Sağman

Producers
A.Halil Oğuz

Ádám Miklós
Hungary

IS ANDRÁS ALRIGHT?

Original title: Is András Alright?

Documentary

After their troubled cousin’s mysterious death, a filmmaker and his ballet-dancer cousin uncover their family’s buried traumas through a haunting performance, racing to break a cycle of madness before a new life is born.

Director
Ádám Miklós

Screenwriter
Anti Naulainen, Ádám Miklós

Producer
Edina Csüllög, Agnes Berecz

Adem Tutić
Serbia

WINDING ROAD

Original title: Serpentine

Coming-of-age

At the very moment when boys are expected to become men, young Hasan undergoes a harsh Muslim initiation experience that exposes the fragility of inherited customs, the weight of growing up and the burden of patriarchy.

Director
Adem Tutić

Screenwriters
Adem Tutić, Mario Nikolić

Producers
Tamara Tomašević, Milica Miliković

Katerina Tzourou
Greece

VOLTA

Original title: Volta

Drama

At the end of the tourist season, a man arrives in Crete with his elderly dog. There, he meets a woman who becomes part of their final journey together.

Director
Alexander Stamatiadis

Screenwriters
Alexander Stamatiadis, Evgenios Chasiotis

Producer
Katerina Tzourou

Vivian Barbullushi
Albania

JELLYFISH

Original title: Medusa

Documentary

Thirty years after arriving in Italy illegally, I return to Shkodër to collect my Albanian passport. A journey to rebuild my memory and my identity, retracing the same route I took in 1997.

Director
Vivian Barbullushi

Screenwriter
Vivian Barbullushi

Producer
Walter De Majo

Mentors

Gabriele Brunnenmeyer

Nicholas Davies

Participants