English (UK)
Polski
CEDOC MARKET – the only international co-production market in Poland for documentary producers who are looking for Polish and foreign partners starts on June 3rd. The event is organized as part of DOC LAB POLAND by Wladyslaw Slesicki Film Foundation, in cooperation with KFF Industry during the Krakow Film Festival. 30 projects were selected for the market – 12 among them are polish and the other 18 is foreign.
The selection includes „Atonal Glow” by Alexander Koriga (produced by Alexander Koriga; Spark) telling about Tsotne Zedgenidze, a brilliant 10-year-old composer from Georgia, „The Plague” by Monika Kotecka (produced by Paweł Kosuń; Centrala) for which the starting point is the last epidemic of black pox in Wrocław in 1963, „Nanga Dream” by Jarosław Wszędybył (produced by Karolina Śmigiel; Uni-Solo Studio), the authentic history of mountaineers Tomek Mackiewicz and Marek Klonowski, „Forest. Simona” (produced by Natalia Koryncka-Gruz; Eureka Studio Sp. z o.o.) by acknowledged director Natalia Koryncka-Gruz, which is an intimate portrait of the Simona Cossack’s family, „AKS ZŁY – Born To Be Bad?” by Tomasz Knittel (produced by Maciej Ostatek; Raban Foundation), story about alternative sports.
„This year, almost 70 projects have been submitted for the market. The level of all of them was very high and the choice was not easy. Selected projects are very diverse in terms of content and form. Among them there are biographical, historical, political and social documents. The artists want to face themes that are extremely current, e.g. ecology („Broken Heroes” by Oliwia Tonteri; produced by Pauliina Punkka; Ida Productions), religious crisis („The Taste Of Celibacy”, directed and produced by Libuše Rudinská) or the shape of modern cities („Who Owns The City” by Petra Kacirk, produced by Jan Hubacek; Gnomon Production sro) but also with myths from the past: the phenomenon of Jerzy Grotowski („The Last Lesson” by Andrea Mura and Federico Savonitto, produced by Chiara Andrich; Ginko Film) or the personal history of Alice Miller („Alice By Miller”, dir. Peter Moers, Edward Porembny, produced by Edward Porembny, Peter Moers; AMP Polska). The selected projects are created by recognized directors and complete debutants. We believe that participation in CEDOC MARKET will enable them to establish fruitful cooperation in the process of creation of their films” – says Agnieszka Rostropowicz-Rutkowska, who has been the market manager since this year. Selected projects come from Poland, the Netherlands, Estonia, Italy, France, Ukraine and Norway, among others.
CEDOC MARKET (Central European Documentary Market, formerly DOC LAB POLAND Co-Production Market) aims to enable documentary producers and directors to find international partners for their films. Market focuses primarily on building creative cooperation between European filmmakers. The event will take place for the sixth time, but this time it has been moved to the virtual space and will last 3 days. „When we organized the first documentary co-production market at KFF in 2015, we invited a group of producers who we knew had interesting projects and are open to international co-productions. I am very proud that after 5 years this event has grown and gained importance, and at this point we have to make difficult choices from among great projects from around the world. This year is special for us – the online version generates new challenges, because it is easier to talk at a real rather than a virtual table, but also gives new opportunities – for example even intercontinental meetings with our experts „- emphasizes Katarzyna Ślesicka, Head of CEDOC and Deputy Director of Doc Lab Poland.
First day of the market is planned for one-on-one meetings, the second will be a presentation of projects participating in the DOC LAB POLAND Docs to Start program, and on the third day individual meetings with market projects and documentary films developed at DOC LAB POLAND will be continued. This year, selected projects will also be invited to participate in additional round tables on topics such as #KIDS, #WOMEN, # BIOGRAPHIES / ARCHIVES.
The list of decision makers who meet with representatives of selected projects include Adriek van Nieuwenhuijzen (head of IDFA Forum), Tereza Šimíková (head of CPH: FORUM at the CPH: DOX), Yoko Imai (NHK), Erkko Lyytinen (YLE), Mehdi Bekkar from Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, Hanka Kastelicová – Vice President and Executive Producer of Documentary Films for HBO Europe; Joanna Szymańska, consultant for documentary projects at HBO Poland, Lisa Kleiner Chanoff (Catapult Film), Jhava Chikli and Melanie Rozencwajg (Archive Valley) and Biljana Tutorov (Circle Doc Woman Accelerator).
CEDOC MARKET is organized by DOC LAB POLAND in cooperation with KFF Industry during the Krakow Film Festival. Previous editions of the event featured productions such as „Wika” by Agnieszka Zwiefka, „Diagnosis” by Ewa Podgórska, „Pollywood” by Paweł Ferdek, „The Village of Floating Cows” by Katarzyna Trzaska, „The Ordinary Country” by Tomasz Wolski, „Opera about Poland” by Piotr Stasik and „The Wall of Shadows” by Eliza Kubarska.
CEDOC MARKET 2020 PROJECTS
Aks Zły – Born To Be Bad?
Director: Tomasz Knittel
Producer: Maciej Ostatek; Raban Foundation
A film about an extraordinary alternative sports club awarded by UEFA, showing a different side of sport – based on tolerance, respect and community. A tale of players and fans, about the club’s struggles against the ruthless world around it.
Alice By Miller
Director: Peter Moers, Edward Porembny
Producer: Edward Porembny, Peter Moers; AMP Polska
Alice Miller has shown convincingly that violence around the world has its roots in the fact that children are beaten, especially in early years when their brains structure. But her son shockingly reveals what abuse he had to suffer from his parents.
Atonal Glow
Director: Alexander Koridze
Producer: Alexander Koridze; Spark
As times goes by, most events are buried in the past. But some of them stand the test of time and space. A shining star has been born in Georgia, and his name is Tsotne Zedgenidze. He is a 10-year-old child-prodigy composer…
Boylesque
Director: Bogna Kowalczyk
Producer: Tomasz Morawski, Katarzyna Kuczyńska; Haka Films
Following the suicide of his best friend, 80-year-old drag queen Lula decides to take matters in his own hands and search for love.
Broken Heroes
Director: Oliwia Tonteri
Producer: Pauliina Punkki; Ida Productions
A documentary film about climate change, a power plant in Belchatow Poland and one nations Identity crisis.
Converting Spaces, Converting Reveries
Director: Helin Celik
Producer: Rebeca Sánchez López; Kepler Mission Films S.L.
Verborgene Raeüme is a portrait of “Dar Amneh” the alternative to the imprisonment of the women persecuted to being killed in the name of honor. The film is a poetical approach to the secret location and the story of the women protected by the house.
Cotton 100%
Director: Michael Borodin
Producer: Julia Shaginurova; Einbahnstrasse Productions
Elena is an activist fighting for the rights of cotton pickers in Uzbekistan. Muhabbat is a farmer struggling with the hardships of rural life… COTTON 100% is a story of two women facing the challenges of a society where forced labor is a norm.
Elevation
Director: Max Rudenko
Producer: Max Rudenko, Melinda Boros; Paradox Film
A ski jumping trainer uses a unique technique to raise a new sports star at the end of his career.
Expedition 49
Director: Alisa Kovalenko
Producer: Stephane Siohan, Valery Kalmykov; East Roads Films
Five Ukrainian teens are struggling to escape the war and the collapse of their coal mining towns, threatening families with social despair. One day, an old mountaineer invites them on a great adventure to the Himalayas to allow them to break free.
Home Is Where The Films Are
Director: More Raça
Producer: More Raça, Sunaj Raça; Arena
The story of how film transformed a refugee camp into a home.
Khamsin
Director: Zvika Gregory Portnoy
Producer: Maria Krauss; Plesnar & Krauss Films
The story of „Khamsin” takes place in Israel in the late 1950s. The Israeli state was founded two years earlier and enthusiastic Zionism overfilled the new citizens. At the same time Marek Hłasko arrived to Israel.
King Matt The First. Documentary For Children
Director: Jaśmina Wójcik
Producer: Marta Dużbabel; Pinot Films
“King Matt the First. Documentary For Children” is a hybrid with documentary and fiction elements that draws a collective portrait of contemporary children and presents an issue of alternative education.
Lagoons. A Battle For Paradise
Director: Serhii Lysenko
Producer: Anna Kapustina, Oleksandra Kravchenko; Albatros Communicos Ukraine
During one year, the wheel of wildlife at Tuzly Lagoons National Nature Park in Ukraine comes full circle, as people who want to live as a part of the Nature, fight those who only want to use it.
Moved Land
Director: Monika Bulaj
Producer: Erika Rossi, Lorenzo Cioffi; Ghirigori
The film explores the permanence of the myth and the sacred where communities have suffered the eradication and abandonment, through the story of the radical and solitary choices of the protagonists, the last guardians of the Ark.
My Time Dances With Me
Director: Józef Romasz
Producer: Janusz Skałkowski, Kamil Skałkowski; Kalejdoskop Film
How does my time dance with me, how do I „dance” my life?
A story of time, of existence in time and coping with its passing.
Nanga Dream
Director: Jarosław Wszędybył
Producer: Karolina Śmigiel; Uni-Solo Studio
Two friends try to conquer winter one of the most dangerous summit in the world. Despite the difficulties, they strive until one day their paths diverge. For one it means death and for the other life with the question – did it have to end this way?
No Place For You In Our Town
Director: Nikolay Stefanov
Producer: Ralitsa Golemanova; Smarty Pants Shooter Ltd.
*DETAILS ON THE PROJECT ARE CONFIDENTIAL DUE TO SAFETY OF ITS HEROES*
Petrozavodsk, Kirkenes
Director: Leiv Igor Devold
Producer: Leiv Igor Devold; Aurora Film AS
*DETAILS ON THE PROJECT ARE CONFIDENTIAL DUE TO SAFETY OF ITS HEROES*
Polymers
Director: Denis Shabaev
Producer: Max Tuula, Maria Gavrilova; Marx Film
An uncommon story of the common villagers that started a manufacture of sex toys in the notoriously conservative south of Russia.
Riding With Ghosts
Director: Piotr Malecki, Maciek Nabrdalik
Producer: Piotr Małecki; Short Docs Media
A world-famous war photographer has PTSD, but despite its dramatic outcome, he keeps going to the dangerous front lines. The situation gets even more complicated when his son, also a photographer, announces his plans to photograph the war.
The Barrier
Director: Masha Novikova, Joakim Demmer
Producer: Joakim Demmer; Joakim Demmer Filmproduktion
A tiny remaining minority of lawyers in Russia refuses to submit to the authoritarian regime and keeps on, in spite of the danger,
fighting for the rights of their clients.
The Forest. Simona
Director: Natalia Koryncka-Gruz
Producer: Natalia Koryncka-Gruz; Eureka Studio Sp. z o.o.
The grandniece of Simona Kossak, a famous Białowieża Forest protector, is following her remarkable life and uncovers family secrets through sorting old pictures. A story about the power of nature and meaning of ecosystem in our lives.
The Last Lesson
Director: Andrea Mura, Federico Savonitto
Producer: Chiara Andrich; Ginko Film
Ewa Benesz is one of the last witnesses of the Grotowski theatre experience. Now she decided to abandon her role of theatre Master, and to come back to her motherland Poland, to write her memories. What will remain of 60 years of artistic research?
The Plague
Director: Monika Kotecka
Producer: Paweł Kosuń; Centrala
A film essay about emotions that appear when the virus distorts our perception of the reality. The epidemics – that of smallpox from 1963 Wrocław and the contemporary coronavirus pandemic – are a backdrop for talking about fear and anxiety.
The Taste Of Celibacy
Director i Producer: Libuše Rudinská
A young priest stood up against the hypocrisy of life in the Catholic church and clergy, and he single-handedly raised the revolutionary banner calling for the consecration of married men.
Two Sisters
Director: Lee Nechushtan
Producer: Anath Kandell, Tanja Georgieva-Waldhauer, Stella Wejchert; Panas Boded Hafakot, Elemag Pictures GmbH
While her sister in Berlin wants to marry a Nigerian refugee 30 years her junior, Shula, an Israeli Holocaust survivor, questions her 60-year arranged marriage. Together and individually, the two sisters embark a journey of self-discovery.
White Queen
Director: Grzegorz Piekarski
Producer: Anna Gawlita; Kijora Film
The white wife of a black king from Togo is planning a trip to Africa to exercise power on behalf of her husband who has been sentenced to exile.
Who Owns The City
Director: Petr Kacirek
Producer: Jan Hubacek; Gnomon Production s.r.o.
What cities do we want or should we want? People make cities, cities make people. Four stories from Brno, Bratislava, Budapest and Krakow discuss the factors which affect the changes in town’s appearance and have a major impact on lives of residents.
Writing On The Wall
Director: Aditi Sharma
Producer: Soniya Kirpalani, Aditi Sharma; Sprocket Science Films
The series looks at seven contemporary street artists in the backdrop of their local socio-political conflicts and investigates how provocative street art in these countries is giving rise to a new form of resistance.
Yyaa. Wojciech Bruszewski
Director: Elwira Kozłowska
Producer: Marika Kuźmicz; Fundacja Arton
A requiem for Voytek Bruszewski the forgotten Polish rebel art explorer who made traps for the ambiguous reality behind the Iron Curtain, composed by a group of international experts, ranked artists, his friends and opponents.
