Hungarian queer drama Places Half Empty led the winners at Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Industry Days, receiving the €20,000 Eurimages co-production development award.
The project will be the second feature for Hungarian filmmaker Dorka Vermes, written by Sara Torley-Havas and produced by Evelyn Balogh and Botond Lelkes for Non Lieu Film Productions. It depicts two women – one working as an illegal cab driver, the other an affluent suburban woman trying to escape her family – who meet and fall in love.
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The film team previously attended the CineLink Workshop at Slano Film Days in Croatia in June.
Stone Over Stone , the 12 th feature from Azeri filmmaker Hilal Baydarov, won the €10,000 Film Center Montenegro Award. It centres on a man