This session is organised in collaboration with the Doc Around Europe festivals network: Biografilm (Italy), DOK.fest München (Germany), DocsBarcelona (Spain), Makedox (North Macedonia), Verzió (Hungary). It gathers six first or second documentary film projects.
The selected projects teams benefit from a pitching preparation session and from a tutor, Agathe Berman.
Following the pitching session, during which each project holder presents its project to a panel of professionals, the selected projects teams take part in one-on-one meetings, in order to meet with potential partners.
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2025 SELECTED PROJECTS
Cordon
Anton MEZULIC
In a small, nationally divided town, Nikola, born into a mixed marriage family, is approaching manhood while dealing with a chaotic past and an uncertain future trying to realize his real identity.
Glorious Utopia
Marek MOUČKA
GLORIOUS UTOPIA is a documentary essay exploring the citizens and kings of the unofficial micro-state Elgaland-Vargaland, founded in 1992. What begins as a parody of a state turns serious when it confronts the realities of today, revealing that borders and walls are once again gaining significance.
Limbs of one body
Kaspar PANIZZA
After fleeing Afghanistan sisters Fariba and Yuldoz have gained a place in the world of cycling. But the bigger their success, the harsher the repressions on the part of the family that had to stay.
Miki Zoo
Camille HOLTZ et Pierre TREMEREL
In Serbia, Miki has been sharing his home with many birds for about 30 years. But this Noah's Ark, on which history, wars and exoduses seem to have slipped, could also be seen as a refuge for humans.
THE LAST RIDE
Valerio FILARDO
Traveling by train is the only human way to travel.
Semicolon
Elia Ramon FERRER et Gala DÍAZ
Ariadna and Salva will never meet. But for a year, they will be connected by a notebook they exchange, pouring out the words left to them after the suicide of a family member.
This pitching session is moderated by Agathe Berman.
Agathe Berman trains international film industry PITCHING SESSIONS with SeriesMania Coproduction forum, Unifrance TV events, Transylvania Pitch Stop, Torino Fim Lab, Haifa Film Festival, MIA, Cine Ventana Madrid, Balkan Film Market, Odessa Film Festival, La Sodec, and PITCHING WORKSHOPS with Eureka SeriesMania Institute, MidPoint programme, Torino Series Lab, La Femis…
Clarity and playfulness are her goals in pitch-training film people, whether they write, direct, produce, distribute, study or publish – in the field of features, series, documentary, animation, VR.
He production track records include over sixty films as a partner of high-end Paris-based Films d’Ici and boutique Legato Films, with award-winning talents such as Cédric Klapisch, Richard Copans, Louise Hémon, Gilles Bannier and Christophe Honoré.
Since 2018, with her own company, she has been broadening her “pitchology” expertise, along with mixed-media projects and exhibitions’ scripts.
