Cinelink Drama, the flagship program of the Sarajevo Film Festival’s Cinelink Industry Days, which specializes in supporting drama series in development, has announced seven projects from southern Europe that have been selected for this year’s production. Both films will be directed by Danis Tanovic, who directed the Oscar-winning No Man’s Land.
Head of Industry Masha Markovic said: “For the 10th edition, CineLink Drama’s selection reflects a southern European series landscape that is becoming more confident, more articulate and more fluent thinkers across genres, audiences and markets.
“By bringing together filmmakers who are transitioning from auteur-driven films to series, along with new voices already shaped by episodic storytelling, the series continues to maintain a space where continuity and renewal meet. It strengthens international visibility and helps shape a regional industry that pays greater attention to the strategic value of intellectual property, including how local stories circulate and generate adaptations beyond their original markets.”
Selected project:
chain reaction
Author: Grega Shubavich
Screenplay: Grega Švavić, Mirta Švavić Seitz, Jaka Shrigoy
Director: Jaka Shurigoji
Producer: Peter Pernovi
Production company: E75
Country: Slovenia
Genre: Action comedy
snow. speed. radiation. At a mountain resort, rebellious snowboarders uncover a nuclear conspiracy at a uranium mine. To expose the truth, they set off a chain reaction of deadly violence.
hedgehog in the haze
Creator/Writer: Ermin Bravo, Džana Pinjo
Director: Danis Tanovic, Nermin Hamzagić
Producer: Ishak Jarimam, Lara Grozdanic
Production company: Real Stage
Co-production companies: Brand Vision DOO, Agitprop, Para Film & Theater AS
Countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Bulgaria, Norway
Genre: Dramady
3 women. Best friend. And there are men around them too. Everything is in a struggle for survival. A box enters their lives. Pandora’s box? Or is it the solution to all problems?
little yugoslavia
Creator/Writer: Teona Struga Mitevska, Sonya Proszenska
Producer: Lavina Mitevska
Production company: Sisters and Brother Mitevski, Entre chien et loup
Country: North Macedonia, Belgium
Genre: Horror comedy
In a modernist apartment complex where the residents have disappeared without a trace, two vampire queens, mother and daughter, both over 50 and addicted, are on a mission to cleanse the world.
stringer
Creator/Writer: Nikola Kupreshanin
Director: Danis Tanovic
Producer: Sinisa Juricic
Production company: Nucleus Film
Country: Croatia
Genre: Political thriller
When a translator is murdered in Riga, three independent journalists – a desperate local fixer, a bankrupt British investigator, and a compromised American veteran – find their separate investigations coming together.
valley
Creator/Director: Ozcan Alper
Screenplay: Ozkan Alper, Erman Bostan
Producer: Soner Alper
Production company: Na film production
Country: Türkiye
Genre: Crime thriller
A brutal murder occurs in a foggy Black Sea village. Inspector Ismet, Detective Kenan, and Educator Eisun uncover a dark truth hidden in the silence of a town where fear and guilt protect a murderer.
9th border
Author: Vitali Ye
Author: Vyacheslav Yushkov
Director: Valentin Shpakov
Producer: Vitali Ye
Production company: Starlight Films
Country: Ukraine
Genre: Crime thriller
When a woman’s burned corpse is discovered in the Carpathian Mountains, an Austrian investigator teams up with a Ukrainian detective. As more victims emerge, they come face to face with a transnational killer who defies logic.
you can come back anytime
Author: Tena Godzic
Writer: Hana Jusic
Producer: Milienka Chogelya
Production company: Pipser, Dinaridy Films
Country: Croatia
Genre: Family drama
As Yugoslavia is torn apart by war, a mother leaves her three daughters and heads to the other side of the continent in search of a better life.
