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Works in Progress51st Thessaloniki IFF-2010 - Agora/Market ManualAMNESTYAlbania/ Greece/ France, 2010Production Company: 90 ProductionDirector: Bujar AlimaniScreenwriter: Bujar AlimaniCast: Luli Bitri, Karafil Shena,Todi Llupi, Mirela NaskaProducer: Bujar AlimaniCo-producers: Thanos Anastopoulos /Fantasia Audiovisual - GreeceGuillaume de Seille/ Arizona Films - FranceProduction Stage: Post-productionDuration: 90 minBudget: 800.000 euroSecured Financing: 75%Looking For: World SalesSYNOPSISAlbania 2008. Elsa, a 35-year-old woman who lives in the country with her two kids and Shpetim a 50-year-oldman who works nights at a printer’s are united by the fact that both have spouses in jail. Once a month, bothElsa and Shpetim visit them. In the small café across from prison a relationship is born between the two. ForElsa, the journey to Tirana is an opportunity to escape from the life she has been living so far. When her fatherin-lawthrows her out of the house, Elsa arrives in Tirana with her two children, unemployed and homeless.Maya, a 20-year-old, helps her find a job as a cleaning lady in the kitchen of a hospital. Despite the difficultiesher relationship with Shpetim grows stronger. On New Year’s Eve, and just when the two of them realize thatthe basis of their relationship is clearly love, the government announces that it is pardoning 200 prisoners.Shpetim’s wife and Elsa’s husband are on the list.Amnesty participated in the Crossroads Co-production Forum in 2008 and was also presented in Greece: GenerationNext event, an initiative of the Greek department with the collaboration of Agora / Market.Director’s filmography:The Compass, 2007, shortCine Cinecourts Award, Mediterranean Intl Film Festival MontpelierSpecial Jury Prize, Sienna Intl Film FestivalJury Special Mention, Mediterranean Intll Film Festival TetouanGas, 2006, shortBest Director, Special Mention, Greek Film Critics Association, Drama Intl Film FestivalBest Fiction, Tirana Intl Film FestivalThe Kennel, 2002, shortBest Balkan Film, Drama Intl Film Festival2nd Award, Auburn Intl Film FestivalBest Albanian Film, Tirana Intl Film FestivalContact Person:Thanos AnastopoulosFantasia Audiovisual:T. +30 2109210882M. +30 694905220anastato@gmail.com69
Agora/Market Manual - 51st Thessaloniki IFF-2010Works in ProgressDO NOT FORGET ME ISTANBULTurkey / Greece, 2010Production Company:Unutma Beni Istanbul Ltd. Sti. - TurkeyDirector: Hany Abu Assad,Stefan Arsenijevic, Aida Begic,osefina Markarian,Eric Nazarian, Stergios Niziris,Omar ShargawiScreenwriters:A Hüseyin Karabey concept,Petros Markaris script consultantCast: Alma Terzic, Ayça Damgacı,Mira Furlan, Liraz Tzerchi, Serra YılmazSvetozar Cvetkovic, Ali Sulieman,Giorgios Symeonidis, Jacky NercessianProducers: Hüseyin Karabey,Sevil Demirci, Emre YeksanCo-producer:2010 Istanbul Capital of CultureProduction Stage: Post-productionDuration: 100 minBudget: 2.100.000 euroSecured Financing: 81%Looking For:Post-production Financing,International Sales, Film FestivalsSYNOPSISA joint effort of six talented directors from the Balkans and the Middle-East, Do Not Forget Me Istanbul is a workon memory and the city. The directors are blending their personal history and memories of Istanbul into alarger, timeless picture of the Metropolis. Our principal desire is to dig into the cultural influence that Istanbul,a great city and a historical capital for the region, had left in the collective memories of many nations throughsix touching and inspired short films. In other words, talking with the city’s past in the cinematic present tense.Contact Person:Hüseyin KarabeyUnutma Beni Istanbul Ltd. Sti.:T. +90 212 225 39 44M. +90 549 225 39 51info@donotforgetmeistanbul.comwww.donotforgetmeistnabul.comDirector’s filmography:Snow, 2008 by Aida Begic – Director’s Fortnight - Cannes Film FestivalLove and Other Crimes, 2008 by Stefan Arsenijevic – Berlin Film FestivalGo with Peace, Jamil!, 2008 by Omar Shargawi – Intl Film Festival RotterdamPartners, 2008, short by Josefina Markarian – Istanbul Intl Film FestivalThe Blue Hour, 2007 by Eric Nazarian – San Sebastian Intl Film FestivalParadise Now, 2005 by Hany Abu Assad – Berlin Film FestivalLike Chef Like God, 2004 by Stergios Niziris – International Competition, Thessaloniki Intl Film Festival70
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