KFF INDUSTRY: CEDOC MARKET ANNOUNCED THE PROJECT SELECTION
26 projects have been selected to take part in CEDOC Market – the only international co-production market in Poland for documentary producers looking for Polish and foreign partners. They include documentaries from Poland, Great Britain, Estonia, Italy, Norway and Portugal. This year's CEDOC Market starts on 2 June and will last until 4 June 2021. The event is organised as part of DOC LAB POLAND by the Władysław Ślesicki Film Foundation, in cooperation with KFF Industry during the Krakow Film Festival.
The selected projects include films about family relations, spirituality, Italian gangs, a search for identity, abortion, the realities of life in an authoritarian state and the coronavirus pandemic. Their creators are renowned filmmakers who have won awards all over the world, backed up by experienced producers. The selection includes such documentaries as Blix by Greta Stocklassa, produced by Radovan Síbrt, who was also the producer of the film Touch Me Not by Adina Pintilie, which won the Golden Bear in 2018. Similarly, the producer of Velvet Generation, directed by Ivana Hucikova, is Jakub Viktorin from nutprodukcia – the company that co-produced Agnieszka Holland's Spoor. Another selected project, Tommy Gulliksen's Sound of Ice, was produced by Norwegian producer Thomas Robsahm of Oslo Pictures, co-creator of such high profile films as Joachim Trier's Louder Than Bombs, starring Isabelle Huppert, and last year's European Film Award nominee Hope by Maria Sødahl, starring Stellan Skarsgård. This year's CEDOC Market selection is comprised of 12 Polish and 14 foreign projects.
"We received very diverse and extremely interesting projects. Some of them raise very hot topics, such as ‘5 Pills Away’ by Karolina Domagalska (prod. Anna Stylińska – My Way Studio) about four women running the Abortion Dream support group who overnight become the leaders of a revolution. Another example is ‘Shaman vs Putin’, directed by Beata Bubenec and Mikhail Bashkirov (prod. Nicolaï Iarochenko – Les Steppes Productions), about the Yakut shaman Alexander Gabyshev’s trek across Russia on foot to expel Vladimir Putin – the ‘Demon’ – from society. The selection also includes draft documentaries on a risky experiment undertaken together by a seemingly happy couple (‘Trust Me’, dir. Joanna Ratajczak, prod. Stanisław Zaborowski, Oliver Stoltz – Silver Frame), or on a group of young men giving up their everyday lives to join the Dominican novitiate (‘The Novice’, dir. Łukasz Woś, prod. Anna Gawlita – Kijora Film), or an unusual story about a deaf girl who starts working as a taxi driver in Moscow to take her closer to her dream of becoming a professional handball player (‘Don't Cut Me Off’, dir. Marina Potapova, prod. Max Tuula, Maria Gavrilova – Marx Film)," says Agnieszka Rostropowicz-Rutkowska, the market manager.
CEDOC MARKET (Central European Documentary Market, formerly DOC LAB POLAND Co-Production Market) aims to enable documentary producers and directors to establish contacts with partners in other countries, with whom, or thanks to whom, they will be able to make their films. This year’s edition with be the seventh time the event has been held. "During the CEDOC Market, producers have the chance to meet potential co-producers and present their projects to one another – with each producer thus playing a double role. This significantly increases the possibilities of expanding their network of contacts and allows multi-track activities aimed at developing creative collaborations between creators and producers from all over Europe," adds Katarzyna Ślesicka, head of CEDOC and deputy director of Doc Lab Poland. In previous editions, the market was attended by leading European production companies and over 60 decision makers from around the world. During this three-day event, there will be individual one-on-one meetings as well as the presentation of projects participating in the DOC LAB POLAND's Docs to Start programme.
CEDOC MARKET is organised by DOC LAB POLAND in cooperation with KFF Industry during the Krakow Film Festival. Earlier editions of the event featured productions such as Wika! by Agnieszka Zwiefka, Diagnosis by Ewa Podgórska, Pollywood by Paweł Ferdek, Village of Swimming Cows by Katarzyna Trzaska, An Ordinary Country by Tomasz Wolski, Opera About Poland by Piotr Stasik and The Last Expedition by Eliza Kubarska.
CEDOC MARKET 2021 PROJECT LIST:
5 PILLS AWAY (5 tabletek stąd)
Director: Karolina Domagalska
Producer: Anna Stylińska – My Way Studio
Poland
ARCTOWSKI
Director: Katarzyna Dąbkowska
Producer: Ewa Żukowska – Studio Żuk
Poland
ARIA DI BRAVURA
Director: Bartosz Blaschke
Producer: Wojciech Karubin – Movie Mates Sp. z o.o.
Poland
BLIX
Director: Greta Stocklassa
Producer: Radovan Síbrt – PINK
Czech Republic, Sweden
DON'T CUT ME OFF (Громкое такси)
Director: Marina Potapova
Producer: Max Tuula – Marx Film
Estonia
DREAMERS FROM SALLY (Marzyciele z Sally)
Director: Julia Groszek
Producer: Justyna Kluczewska – Raban Foundation
Poland
ISLAND OF LOVE
Director: Svetlana Strelnikova
Producer: Frank Müller – Doppelplusultra Filmproduktion GmbH
Germany
ISOLATION (Izolyatsia)
Director: Igor Minaev
Producer: Iurii Leuta – Trempel Films
Ukraine
IUS SANGUINIS
Director: Laura Plebani
Producer: Giada Mazzoleni – Paguro Film
Poland, Italy, Great Britain
MAOMI
Director: Judith Olah
Producer: Annika Mayer – Majmun Films
Hungary, Germany
PROJECT UTOPIA
Director: Nicolas Muñoz, Frederick Bernas
Producers: Rocio Pichirili, Ana Gonzalez – Eye Rise Films / Groncho Estudio
Argentina, Spain, France
QUEENS OF POLAND
Director: Sebastian Franke
Producer: Jürgen Kleinig – Neue Celluloid Fabrik
Germany
RAP. STORIES (Rap. Historie)
Director: Adrian Borowski
Producer: Kinga Mielnik
Poland
SHAMAN VS PUTIN (Shaman protiv Putina)
Director: Beata Bubenec, Mikhail Bashkirov
Producer: Nicolaï Iarochenko – Les Steppes Productions
France, Russia
SOUND OF ICE (Lyden av is)
Director: Tommy Gulliksen
Producer: Thomas Robsahm – Oslo Pictures
Norway
THE IMPERISHABLE MAN (Nieprzemijalny)
Director: Kamil Napierski
Producer: Kamila Klimowicz – Foundation for Underwater Archaeology
Poland
THE NOVICE (Nowicjusz)
Director: Łukasz Woś
Producer: Anna Gawlita – Kijora Film
Poland
THE SEA WARRIOR
Director: Sohel Rahman
Producer: Sohel Rahman – Green Meadows Pictures / Vila Do Cinema
Portugal
THE ULTIMATE JOKER
Director: Krzysztof Dzięciołowski
Producer: Agata Jujeczka – Vision House Productions Sp. z o.o.
Poland
THIN PLACES
Director: Inesa Kurklietytė
Producer: Paul W Nethercott – AMMI / Studio Nethercott
Ireland
TOWARDS THE SUN (W stronę słońca)
Director: Agnieszka Kokowska
Producers: Sławomir Richert, Michał Zamencki – Warsaw Production Team Sp. z o.o.
Poland
TRAP LORD RISING
Director: Gianluca Orru
Producer: Gianluca De Angelis – Tekla Films
Italy
TRUST ME
Director: Joanna Ratajczak
Producers: Stanisław Zaborowki, Oliver Stoltz – Silver Frame
Poland
VELVET GENERATION
Director: Ivana Hucikova
Producers: Monika Lostakova, Jakub Viktorin – nutprodukcia
Slovakia
WELCOME TO NEW KARABASH
Director: Olga Delane
Producer: Marta Kowalska – Arkana Studio
Poland, Russia, Germany
WHEN THE WIND BECOMES SILENT (Kiedy umilknie wiatr)
Director: Mateusz Gołębiewski
Producer: Małgorzata Prociak – ZK Studio Sp. z o.o.
Poland
The organiser of DOC LAB POLAND and CEDOC MARKET is the Władysław Ślesicki Film Foundation, and the co-organiser is the Krakow Film Festival. The confirmed Partners of the event in 2021 include: HBO Europe, Telewizja Polska SA, Mazowiecki Instytut Kultury, Mazovia Warsaw Film Commission, Krakow Festival Office, Krakow Film Commission, MKZ Partnerzy law firm, Institute of Documentary Films, DOK Leipzig and Warsaw Film Festival. The media patrons of DOC LAB POLAND 2021 are: Polish Docs, Film Pro Magazine, Film & TV Kamera, TVP Kultura, SFP Film Magazine, Cinema.pl, Film Festival Centre and Film New Europe.