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\n\tThe Sarajevo Film Festival has unveiled the winners of its 2025 CineLink Industry Days Awards, including the Places Half Empty<\/em>, a portrait of a queer relationship in Hungary under far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n, which received the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award.<\/p>\n \n\tAmong other winners is Gorilla<\/em>, recipient of the TV Drama Vision Pitch Award, which is set in 1960s Paris, where a French movie star and his Yugoslav bodyguard\u2019s brotherhood is threatened by a Hollywood murder.<\/p>\n \n\tProjects in different formats and stages of development from Southeast Europe and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region were presented in its 23rd edition. And now, prizes have been handed out in the CineLink Co-Production Market, CineLink Work in Progress, and CineLink Drama sections. <\/p>\n \n\tThe 31st edition of the\u00a0Sarajevo festival wraps up today, Friday.<\/p>\n \n\tBelow is a look at the CineLink winners.<\/p>\n \n\tCINELINK CO-PRODUCTION MARKET AWARDS\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tEurimages Co-Production Development Award<\/strong> \n\tFilm Center Montenegro Cinelink Award<\/strong> \n\tFilm Center Serbia Cinelink Award<\/strong> \n\tArtekino International Prize<\/strong> \n\tCINELINK CO-PRODUCTION MARKET & CINELINK DRAMA<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tFemale Voices Cinelink Award \n\tCINELINK DRAMA<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tCouncil of Europe Series Co-Production Development Award<\/strong> \n\tCroatian Audiovisual Center Drama Award<\/strong> \n\tTV Drama Vision Pitch Award<\/strong> \n\tCINELINK WORK IN PROGRESS AWARDS<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tHBO Award \n\tTurkish National Radio Television Award<\/strong> \n\tPost Republic Award<\/strong> \n\tAvanpost Media Award<\/strong> \n\tCINELINK WORK IN PROGRESS AND DOCU ROUGH CUT BOUTIQUE AWARDS<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tThink-Film Impact Production Award<\/strong> \n\tEave + Award<\/strong> The Sarajevo Film Festival has unveiled the winners of its 2025 CineLink Industry Days Awards, including the Places Half Empty, a portrait of a queer relationship in Hungary under far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n, which received the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award. Among other winners is Gorilla, recipient of the TV Drama Vision Pitch Award, which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[2483,10320,546,1540,1171,1545,10319,1550],"class_list":{"0":"post-17167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-awards","9":"tag-cinelink","10":"tag-days","11":"tag-festival","12":"tag-film","13":"tag-industry","14":"tag-sarajevo","15":"tag-unveiled"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Places Half Empty<\/em>\u202f
Synopsis: \u201cA controversial and intimate portrait of a queer relationship in the context of Orb\u00e1n\u2019s Hungary.\u201d
Director: Dorka Vermes\u202f
Writer: S\u00e1ra T\u00f6rley-Havas\u202f
Producers: Evelyn Balogh, Botond Lelkes\u202f
Production Company: Non Lieu Kft.\u202f
Country: Hungary
Award in the amount of \u20ac20,000<\/p>\n
Stone Over Stone\u202f<\/em>
Synopsis: \u201cShams and her husband arrive from their village and settle into an unfinished construction site where he works to repay gambling debts. He is lured back into his addiction, so Shams, who is pregnant, is left to drift among the outcasts living on\u00a0the margins, until the collapse around her forces an unthinkable decision about the life she carries inside her.\u201d
Director: Hilal Baydarov\u202f
Writers: Hilal Baydarov, Georg Tiller\u202f
Producers: Ma\u00e9va Rana\u00efvojaona, Georg Tiller, Hilal Baydarov\u202f
Production Company: Subobscura Films\u202f
Co-production Company: Ucqar Film\u202f
Countries: Austria, Azerbaijan
Award in the amount of \u20ac10,000<\/p>\n
Pogana\u202f<\/em>
Synopsis: \u201cOn a faraway Dalmatian island in the 1920s, Pogana, a woman from the inlands, is sold to be the new wife of a widower sailor with five children. When the sailor is lost at sea, Pogana is left at the mercy of the cruel villagers and their customs.\u201d
Director: David Kapac\u202f
Writers: Andrija Marde\u0161i\u0107, David Kapac\u202f
Producers: Rea Raj\u010di\u0107, Tina Ti\u0161ljar\u202f
Production Company: Eclectica\u202f
Co-Production Companies: Vertigo
Countries: Croatia, Slovenia
Award in the amount of \u20ac10,000<\/p>\n
Two Little Nightmares<\/em>
Synopsis: \u201cThirty years after his father\u2019s suicide wiped a year from his memory, Matija returns home. As he pieces together the past, he unearths a long-buried betrayal, a haunting secret, and the terrified boy he once was.\u201d
Director: Neboj\u0161a Slijep\u010devi\u0107
Writers: Neboj\u0161a Slijep\u010devi\u0107, Na\u0111a Petrovi\u0107
Producers: Danijel Pek, Katarina Prpi\u0107
Production Company: Antitalent
Co-Production Companies: Sense Production, Studio Virc, Contrast Films, Les Films Norfolk
Co-Producers: Milan Stojanovi\u0107, Bo\u0161tjan Virc, Katya Trichkova, Noelle Levenez
Countries: Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, France
Award in the amount of \u20ac6,000<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Rain Country<\/em>\u202f
Synopsis: \u201cIn early 2000s Istanbul, high school senior G\u00fcl\u2019s secret is exposed after her classmate\u2019s suicide, turning her life upside down. G\u00fcl embarks on a journey to find her inner strength for independence and growth.\u201d
Director: Zeynep K\u00f6pr\u00fcl\u00fc\u202f
Writers: Zeynep K\u00f6pr\u00fcl\u00fc, Haziran D\u00fczkan\u202f\u202f
Producers: Utku Zeka, Zeynep K\u00f6pr\u00fcl\u00fc, Cansu Menlikli\u202f
Production Company: Periferi Film\u202f\u202f
Country: T\u00fcrkiye
Award in the amount of \u20ac20,000<\/p>\n
Red Water\u202f<\/em>
Synopsis: \u201cIn 1989, at the Croatian seaside, a family is shattered when their daughter disappears. Her dark secrets disintegrate the community over two decades until the return of the former investigator unveils the truth.\u201d
Creator: Ljubica Lukovi\u0107\u202f
Writers: Ljubica Lukovi\u0107, Jurica Pavi\u010di\u0107\u202f
Director: Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovi\u0107\u202f
Producer: Danijel Pek\u202f
Production Company: Antitalent\u202f
Country: Croatia
Award in the amount of \u20ac50,000<\/p>\n
Wonderful\u202f<\/em>
Synopsis: \u201cDissatisfied with the way her life has turned out, a woman starts waking up on the mornings when she made some of the key decisions that shaped it. She takes alternate paths towards different lives that could have been.\u201d
Creators and Writers: Katarina Mitrovi\u0107, Isidora Veselinovi\u0107, Vladimir Tagi\u0107\u202f
Directors: Vladimir Tagi\u0107, Isidora Veselinovi\u0107\u202f
Producer: Marija Stojanovi\u0107\u202f
Production Company: Sense Production\u202f
Country: Serbia
Award in the amount of \u20ac15,000<\/p>\n
Gorilla\u202f<\/em>
Synopsis: \u201cIn the decadent world of 1960s Paris, a French movie star and his Yugoslav bodyguard\u2019s powerful brotherhood shatters when a Hollywood murder threatens to destroy them both.\u201d
Creator: Gabor Krigler\u202f
Writers: Eszter Angyalosy, Cyril Tysz\u202f
Director: Christian Gudegast\u202f
Producer: Ivana Mikovi\u0107\u202f
Production Company: Firefly Productions\u202f
Country: Serbia<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Who Are We<\/em>
Synopsis: \u201cAfter a pupil\u2019s suicide, a school trip exposes the haunting path to tragedy. As the journey unfolds, the bullies are the same, the victims are new, and the shadow of the dead pupil looms over them all.\u201d
Director: Miroslav Terzi\u0107
Producer: Sne\u017eana van Houwelingen
Production Company: This and That Productions
Co-Production Companies: Nightswim, Invictus, PTD, Kinorama
Countries: Serbia, Italy, Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Croatia
Award in the amount of \u20ac30,000<\/p>\n
Yesterday the Eye Didn\u2019t Sleep<\/em>
Synopsis: \u201cIn a valley veiled by fog and tribal codes, two sisters walk into the night not as daughters, but as offerings \u2014 where blood, memory, and silence attempt to keep the fire from spreading.\u201d
Director: Rakan Mayasi
Producer: Jennifer Ritter, Rakan Mayasi
Production Company: Atata
Countries: Belgium, Palestine, Lebanon
Award in the amount of \u20ac10,000<\/p>\n
Where To?<\/em>
Synopsis: \u201cThe different taxi rides across the city of Berlin between Hassan, a middle-aged Palestinian Uber driver, and young Israeli who gets lost in the city, tell a tragic-comic story about moving forward.\u201d
Director: Assaf Machnes
Producers: Tomer Mecklberg, Haim Mecklberg, Oren Rogovin, Mohamad Babi
Production Company: 2 Team Productions
Co-Production Companies: Lev Cinema, Rogovin Brothers, Iconoclast Germany
Country: Israel, Germany
Award in the amount of \u20ac30,000 in kind<\/p>\n
17<\/em>
Synopsis: \u201cAfter having a threesome with her classmates, Sara, 17, gets pregnant and tries to hide it from everyone, which becomes especially difficult during the graduation excursion.\u201d
Director: Kosara Miti\u0107
Producer: Tomi Salkovski
Production Company: Black Cat Production
Coproduction companies: Art&Popcorn, December
Countries: North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia
Award in the amount of \u20ac30,000 in kind<\/p>\n
Lost and Found: Romania\u2019s Hidden Adoption Market<\/em>
Synopsis: \u201cWhen a young Canadian woman who was sold as an infant in post-Ceau\u0219escu Romania returns to reclaim her identity, she uncovers the machinery that trafficked the sister she never knew, one of 30,000 children \u2018exported\u2019 for adoption.\u201d
Director: Laurentiu Garofeanu
Producer: Laurentiu Garofeanu
Editor: Iulian Ghervas
Production company: Mekanism Media (RO)
Country: Romania
Length: 90 min
Award in the amount of \u20ac20,000 in kind<\/p>\n
Marija Stojanovi\u0107<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"