Eight films have been selected at C EU Soon, the film work-in-progress program dedicated to European films in post-production looking for international sales agents at the MIA.
The 2023 C EU Soon finalists (among them, two debuts and two sophomores) have been chosen by an international selection committee composed of Aranka Matits, founder of Featurette, Jaume Ripoll, co-founder and editorial director of Filmin, and Pape Boye, founder of Black Mic Mac.
The selected films will be presented before an audience of sales agents, distributors, and professionals, followed by sessions of one-on-one meetings.
The films compete for the Screen International Award, consisting of a dedicated press coverage on Screen International.
The final selection shows the vitality of European cinema, balanced between more established and renowned filmmakers and producers and new talents working on their debut or second feature.
Antonin Svoboda, founder of the renowned Austrian collective Coop99 filmproduktion together with fellow directors and producers Jessica Hausner, Barbara Albert, directs Persona non grata a drama on a remarkable woman who deals with the demons of a past of abuses in the wake of the #MeToo era.
Guido Chiesa, the veteran Italian director able to successfully master different genres is back to drama with For The Love Of A Woman, the journey to Israel of an American woman who discovers unexpected family secrets. The film is based on the bestselling novel The Loves of Judith by celebrated Israeli writer Meir Shalev.
Ringo Media returns to the C EU Soon after winning the Screen International Award in 2022 with Matrìa by Álvaro Gago (selected at Berlinale Panorama in 2023) with En vigília the debut feature by Vigília Collective, Clara Serrano Llorens and Gerard Simó Gimeno who tell us the story of young Bruno struggling with the decision of leaving her grandmother in a nursing home.
With Lioness produced by the multi-awarded Estonian production company Allfilm, director Liina Trishkina-Vanhatalo follows the journey between the sanity and madness of a mother dealing with a rebellious teenage daughter.
The third feature of promising Portuguese filmmaker and producer André Gil Mata, The Flame Of a Candle is a poetic take on the self-determination of a woman.
Southern Chronicles by Ignas Miskinis is a fun comedy on the many lessons of first love on the 17 yo rugbyist Rimants.
Bluish by Lilith Kraxner & Milena Czernovsky casts a soft gaze on two disoriented characters dealing with their everyday lives.
With The answer to all questions producer and director Dimitar Kotzev signs his third feature film with a mystery dramedy about three young women and their search for happiness.
BLUISH (bläu) by Lilith Kraxner & Milena Czernovsky, produced by Lixi Frank & David Bohun (Panama Film, Austria).
FOR THE LOVE OF A WOMAN (Per amore di una donna) by Guido Chiesa, produced by Iginio Straffi and Alessandro Usai (Colorado Film Production, Italy) and Marta Donzelli and Gregorio Paonessa (Vivo film, Italy).
LIONESS (Emalovi) by Liina Trishkina-Vanhatalo, produced by Ivo Felt (Allfilm, Estonia), Sebastian Weyland (Heimathafen Films, Germany), Guntis Trekteris (Ego Media, Latvia).
PERSONA NON GRATA directed and produced by Antonin Svoboda (Coop99 Filmproduktion, Austria) in co-production with Albolina Film (Italy).
SOUTHERN CHRONICLES (Pietinia Kronikas) by Ignas Miskinis, produced by Lukas Trimonis (IN SCRIPT, Lithuania and NAFTA FILMS, Estonia).
THE ANSWER TO ALL QUESTIONS (Oтговор на всички въпроси) directed and produced by Dimitar Kotzev (Kontraplan, Bulgaria).
THE FLAME OF A CANDLE (Sob a chama da candeia) directed by André Gil Mata, produced by André Gil Mata and Marta Lima (Rua escura, Portugal) and Clémentine Mourão-Ferreira (so-cle, France).
THE IMMINENT AGE (En vigília) by Vigília Collective, Clara Serrano Llorens & Gerard Simó Gimeno, produced by Vigília Collective, Laura Serra Solé, Pau Vall Capdet & Mireia Graell Vivancos (Ringo Media, Spain).
