SELECTED PROJECTS
MEDITERRANEAN COPRODUCTION FORUM
2nd edition
BARBARIANS (Serbia)
Production Company: SENSE Production
Director: Ivan Ikic
- Total Budget: €613.800
- Secured financing: €378.715
- Percentage of Secured Financing: 61.7%
- Logline: A depiction of Serbian youth brought up in a time of economic and moral demise. Told through the character of Luka, a small town football hooligan, the film tells a story about manipulation of this troubled youth using hatred and deception, which result in the culmination of their hopelessness and display of rage during Kosovo protest in Belgrade 2008.
BOTA (Albania)
Production Company: i’s continuum
Director: Iris Elezi
- Total Budget: €586.890
- Secured financing: €200.000
- Percentage of Secured Financing: 34,6%
- Logline: Three young Albanians, the son and daughters of political exiles, work in a small café at the edge of a swamp and find their destinies forever altered with the arrival of a modern highway.
CABBALE (France)
Production Company: Sedna Films
Director: Charles Najman
- Total Budget: €2.268.955
- Secured financing: €900.000
- Percentage of Secured Financing: 40%
- Logline: Julien Schulmann is a comedian. He's just lost his father, a Polish Jew who survived the concentration camps. Before dying, Julien's father had drawn up a will stipulating this his other son, Pierre, should be the one to spread his ashes over his homeland. The problem is, Pierre has been missing for two years. The family preference for Pierre opens a deep wound in Julien that gradually sheds light on an unspeakable secret, to be unveiled at the film's climax.
CLASH! (Germany)
Production Company: Weydemann Bros
Director: Jakob D. Weydemann
- Total Budget: €1.795.970
- Secured financing: €160.000
- Percentage of Secured Financing: 7,24%
- Logline: On the 7th of January 2010 two immigrants are shot at in the small southern Italian town of Rosarno. "CLASH!" tells the story of Eric, Saikou, Giuseppe and Michele, who's lives meet in the following days of violent riots.
CYRIL AND METHODIUS (Czech Republic)
Production Company: Three Brothers
Director: Petr Nikolaev
- Total Budget: €1.800.000
- Secured financing: €1.600.000
- Percentage of Secured Financing: 83%
- Logline: This is an adventurous documentary drama (serial/movie) about the legacy and lives of Cyril and Methodius two Byzantine Greek brothers credited with devising of the Glagolitic alphabet, the first alphabet used to transcribe Old Church Slavonic, who received the title "Apostles to the Slavs" and "equal-to-apostles".
DEVOTION (Germany)
Production Company: cine plus Filmproduktion
Director: Martin Gypkens
- Total Budget: €1.500.000
- Secured financing: €100.000
- Percentage of Secured Financing: 6,6%
- Logline: Devotion is a hymn to physical as well as spiritual love and to the courage that love needs. It is a story about love and lust, where the ordinariness of erotic is told and the happy, playful and ancient power of sex is allegorised.
LIMASSOL (Israel)
Production Company: INDY Film Productions
Director: Eitan Green
- Total Budget: €1.000.000
- Secured financing: €150.000
- Percentage of Secured Financing: 15%
- Logline: An Israeli secret agent must take writing lessons from a peace activist writer in order to become a friend to her old Palestinian lover so he can catch his terrorist son.
RAINY DAYS (Spain)
Production Company:
Aquelarre Servicios Cinematográficos
Director: Maria Salgado Gispert
- Total Budget: €1.488.443
- Secured financing: €696.133
- Percentage of Secured Financing: 50%
- Logline: Memories are tracks that block the path for tomorrow. RAINY DAYS will be a re-enactment of past memories through a group of characters that live immersed in their own remembrances. Present time, for all of them, is a reflection of their own emotional instability.
THE HIGH SUN (Croatia)
Production Company: Kinorama
Director: Dalibor Matanic
- Total Budget: €980.000
- Secured financing: €115.056
- Percentage of Secured Financing: 11,74%
- Logline: The story of The High Sun is an original take on a classic Romeo and Juliet story. As in every Romeo and Juliet story the premise is the same – two young people from two neighbouring villages of different religions and ethnicities fall in love. But the people around them do not consider their love to be appropriate, and are deadly set against their union. The same stories repeats from one decade to the other (as well as from one century to the next) – it is difficult to overcome a deeply-rooted hatred. By speaking about the inter-ethnic hatred so well known on our shores, our story aims to speak of hatred in general, which is the hatred and mistrust of the OTHER.
THIRST (Switzerland)
Production Company: Hugofilm Productions
Director: François Bovy
- Total Budget: €1.985.400
- Secured financing: €371.400
- Percentage of Secured Financing: 20%
- Logline: THIRST tells the story of Batista, a policeman who works for the criminal investigation department in Bari. After he killed a man for no reason, he has to investigate his own crime. He meets the victim's wife and torn between guilt and desire, a fatal attraction begins.
WHERE WE’LL NEVER GROW OLD (Ireland)
Production Company: Ripple World Pictures
Director: Ivan Kavanagh
- Total Budget: €3.500.000
- Secured financing: €2.588.924
- Percentage of Secured Financing: 27%
- Logline: An undertaker profits when outlaws take over a peaceful town, but eventually has to fight them himself.
ZAGREB CAPPUCCINO (Croatia)
Production Company: Maxima Film
Director: Vanja Svilicic
- Total Budget: €531.590
- Secured financing: €322.147
- Percentage of Secured Financing: 60,6%
- Logline: Sometimes losing your way of life is the best thing you can do.
