Following up on the enhanced Central-European co-production focus announced earlier this month, the KVIFF Film Industry Office has just unveiled the films selected for this year’s brand-new KVIFF Central Stage showcase. The 14 projects from 8 different countries of Central Europe, seeking co-production and financing opportunities, sales, distribution or festival premieres, come from established filmmakers with extensive festival pedigrees, including Andreas Horvath, Nader Saeivar, Sonja Prosenc or László Csuja.
The selected projects, which are currently in various stages of development, production or postproduction, will be showcased through interactive conversations about the filmmakers' career paths and co-production possibilities across the participating countries. The participating projects will also gain access to exclusive post-production advantages through a generous partnership with industry-leading studios UPP and Soundsquare, while also being eligible for the €20,000 Eurimages Co-Production Development Award.
Another recently established showcase, KVIFF Talents, focused on seeking out and supporting talented Czech and Slovak filmmakers and innovative audiovisual genres, will be joined by a guest project by István Kovács. This established Hungarian filmmaker will pitch the feature-length version of his Student Academy Award-winning short film A Siege (Ostrom) in Karlovy Vary.
In total, this year’s KVIFF Eastern Promises will spotlight 40 promising films and series in the making: 14 feature films in KVIFF Central Stage, 9 treatments in Works in Development – Feature Launch and 5 in Works in Development – Focus Queer, 3+1 feature film and 3 series projects in KVIFF Talents and 5 original series projects in Pop Up Series Incubator.
KVIFF Industry Days are supported by the PPF Foundation and CME. The media partner is Deadline.
