"Kurak" was selected to Meeting Point of Vilnius film festival 2022

Dates of the festival: 24.03 - 03.03.2022

Dates of Meeting Point: 30.03 - 01.04.2022

"Kurak" - new project by Erke Dzhumakmatova & Emil Atageldiev, Kyrgyzstan-Switzerland, fiction

"The Lake" - their's first film

Meeting Point - Vilnius 2022

The 2022 edition of MPV will be held in hybrid form March 30 - April 1

International industry event Meeting Point – Vilnius 2022

Meeting Point – Vilnius is the work-in-progress audiovisual industry event to discover, develop and support European talents and upcoming debut films. It aims to build a network between different European macro-regions: from the Baltic to the South East, from the Caucasus to Western Europe.

MPV includes four main events:

• The Work in Progress pitching session COMING SOON

20 selected debut films from late development to post production will have the opportunity to pitch their project & set individual meetings to a large audience of decision makers.

Feature films, documentaries and animated feature films that are scheduled to be completed and premiered between 2022 and early 2023 are strongly invited to apply!

• Industry Screening Platform

A platform entirely dedicated to festival programmers, distributors, sales and commissioning editors, who will have at their disposal reserved screenings of the finest upcoming Baltic projects.

• ToT - TALKS ON TOMORROW

Framework programme of panels & inspirational talks

A series of panels dedicated to contemporary and future trends of the audiovisual industry.

• Talents Nest

The talent development initiative aiming to explore and nurture emerging professionals from the Baltic countries, ex-Soviet and Caucasian countries.

Selected emerging authors, directors, producers and film critics coming from Baltic, ex-Soviet and Caucasian countries will be offered the possibility to enter the film industry through dedicated lectures, meetings with decision makers and networking events.

Meeting Point Selection

The 2022 edition of MPV will be held on hybrid form March 30 - April 1

The official projects selection of 2022 "Coming Soon" pitching session:

1. VARVARA by Anatol Durbala / Moldova, Romania | fiction
2. KURAK by Erke Dzhumakmatova, Emil Atageldiev / Kyrgyzstan, Switzerland | fiction
3. WHEN WE WERE 15 by Anna Buryachkova / Ukraine | fiction
4. THE GOLDEN SPOT by Liene Linde /  Latvia | fiction
5. DAD by Dimitris Georgiev & Mariy Rosen / Bulgaria | fiction
6. COLD AS MARBLE by Asif Rustamov / Azerbaijan, France | fiction
7. SOMETHING LIKE LUCY by Renátó Olasz / Hungary | fiction
8. PARADE by Titas Laucius / Lithuania | fiction
9. REVOLUTION by Marcis Lacis /  Latvia | hybrid
10. CHRISTINA by Nikola Spasić Serbia | hybrid
11. TRACES by Dubravka Tulic fiction / Lithuania, Croatia | fiction
12. PENSIVE by Jonas Trukanas / Lithuania | fiction
13. VENECIA by Rusudan Chkonia / Georgia | fiction
14. A HAWK AS BIG AS A HORSE by Sasha Kulak / France | documentary
15. THE STONE by Mariam Khatchvani / Georgia  | documentary
16. ROBERTA by Elena Kairytė / Lithuania  | documentary
17. THE FLOATING WORLD by Fernando Suoza / Japan  | documentary
18. THE ULTIMATE JOKER by Krysztof Dzieciolowski / Poland | documentary
19. SWEET MILKY CORN by Aizhan Kassymbek / Kazakhstan | documentary
20. I DON’T WANT by Hanis Bagashov / Macedonia | documentary

Coming Soon in numbers:

20 projects

7 documentaries

2 hybrid

11 fiction

18 countries represented (Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Switzerland, Serbia, Romania, Poland, Moldova, Lithuania, Macedonia, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Japan, Hungary, Georgia, France, Croatia)

10 female directors

Info about project "Kurak" here