Agora Works in Progress: November 5 - 9
The AGORA Works in Progress selects projects in post-production stage, which have a link to the Mediterranean regions and Southeastern Europe, and presents them to sales agents, distributors, producers, streaming platforms and festival programmers with the objective to raise finishing funds, secure sales agents, festival premieres and book meetings with potential partners.
This year’s AGORA Works in Progress presents 10 powerful films from 7 countries that challenge contemporary issues and gaze upon the human condition through gripping imagery, sometimes painfully beautiful storytelling and creative cinematic language. Their common compass navigates us through the subjects of social injustice, exploration of human relationships and common desires and choices people make to treat one another and the environment they inhabit.
AGORA Works in Progress Films:
Director: Aristotelis Maragkos, Scriptwriters: Aristotelis Maragkos, Chrysoula Korovesi Production: Konstantinos Koukoulis - ΠLANKTON, Greece
Director: Sunay Terzioğlu, Scriptwriter: Ferit Karahan, Production: Timur Harzadın - Denge Yapim ve Danışmanlık, Türkiye
Director / Scriptwriter: Paulo Filipe Monteiro, Production: Pandora da Cunha Telles, Pablo Iraola - Ukbar Filmes, Portugal
Director: Bálint Dániel Sós, Scriptwriters: Bálint Dániel Sós, Gergő Nagy V., Production: Ádám Farkas - CineSuper, Hungary
Director / Scriptwriter: Sophie Artus, Production: Yochanan Kredo, Linor Lavi - July August Productions, Israel
Director: Filip Peruzović, Scriptwriters: Filip Peruzović, Nikolina Bogdanović, Production: Tena Gojić - Dinaridi Film, Croatia
Director / Scriptwriter: Stergios Paschos, Production: Nicholas Alavanos, Christina Stavropoulou - Filmiki Productions, Marni Films, Co-production: Ready2Cast, Prosenghisi, Balthazar Films, Greece
Director / Scriptwriter: Daniel Bolda, Production: Nicholas Alavanos, Christina Stavropoulou - Filmiki Productions Co-production: Daniel Bolda - Edelweiss, Greece
Director / Scriptwriter: Dimitris Nakos, Production: Thanos Anastopoulos - Fantasia Ltd, Co-production: Foss Productions, Greece
Director / Scriptwriter: Yuval Shani, Production: Efrat Cohen, Kobi Azran - Gaudeamus Productions, Co-production: Dominique Welinski - DW, Israel, France
AGORA Works in Progress Jury:
Rémi Bigot | Head of the film department, Semaine de la Critique - France
Anna Germanidi | Director of Exhibition & Programming, Modern Films - United Kingdom
Markéta Šantrochová | Head, Czech Film Center - Czech Republic
AGORA Works in Progress - Presentation and Pitching Tutors:
Isabelle Fauvel, Hakim Mao | Development consultants, Initiative Film - France
