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WIP Europa will take place on September 20, 21 and 22
A total of six productions from Georgia, Republic of Moldova, Russia, Spain, Turkey and Ukraine make up the selection for WIP Europa, an initiative by the San Sebastian Festival for European majority productions at the post-production stage, to run on September 20, 21 and 22.
Misión a Marte / Mission to Mars, by Amat Vallmajor del Pozo, Didi Shesveneba / A Long Break, by Davit Pirtskhalava, CARBON, by Ion Borș, Nina, by Oksana Bychkova, Zamanımızın Bir Kahramanı / A Hero of Our Time, by Mirac Atabey and Ya, Nina / Lucky Girl by Marysia Nikituk are the six titles programmed for presentation to an audience of professionals and competing for the WIP Europa Industry and WIP Europa Awards.
WIP Europa will run on September 20, 21 and 22 and will coincide with WIP Latam and the X Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum. The films will be available in the Festival Film Library, operated by CinandoVL, following their cinema screening and until Saturday, September 25.
The Basque Misión a Marte / Mission to Mars is the first work from the Catalan Amat Vallmajor del Pozo, a former Filmmaking student at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola. In the film, set in a post-apocalyptic Basque Country, two brothers set out on a mission to Mars; but first of all they will meet up with their sister.
Didi Shesveneba / A Long Break is the first feature film from the Georgian Davit Pirtskhalava, who participated in Locarno Festival with his short films Sahsleli (2018) and Mama (2015), winner of the Pardino d’Oro. The film follows a reunion between former college students thirteen years after their graduation whose organiser conceals his true intentions.
CARBON is similarly the feature film debut from the Moldovan Ion Borș, a story tainted with dark humour set in the late 90s during the Transnistria War.
The Russian filmmaker Oksana Bychkova, who has participated in festivals including Rotterdam, Shanghai, Sochi and Moscow with her previous films, presents the Russian-Georgian co-production Nina, her fifth feature film. Nina takes its name from the lead character, an attractive and wealthy woman forced to face the consequences of her decision to return to a former lover.
Zamanımızın Bir Kahramanı / A Hero of Our Time is the first film from the Turkish director Mirac Atabey. Livadi / Yard (2018), closing his short film trilogy on the subject of homeless people, premiered at Rotterdam Festival. The film opens with Mert’s journey from Istanbul to a small village in Anatolia to bury his father.
The selection closes with Ya, Nina / Lucky Girl, directed by the Ukrainian filmmaker Marysia Mikituk. Her previous feature, When the Trees Fall (2018) participated in the Panorama section of the Berlinale. In Ya, Nina the lead character, a famous TV star, has cancer and must reinvent herself.
Two of the participants in last year’s WIP Europa will compete for this year’s Kutxabank-New Directors Award: Inventura / Inventory by Darko Sinko, and Iki Şafak Arasında / Between Two Dawns by Selman Nacar, winner of the WIP Europa Industry and WIP Europa Awards. More information on the success stories of participants in this initiative in this link.
AWARDS
The WIP Europa Industry Award is granted by the companies Ad Hoc Studios, BTeam Pictures, Deluxe Spain, Dolby Iberia, Laserfilm Cine y Video, Nephilim Producciones and No Problem Sonido. The prize consists of the post-production of a film until obtaining a DCP (Digital Cinema Package) subtitled in English and Spanish and its distribution in Spain.
The WIP Europa Award consists of 10,000 euros gross for the majority producer of the same film as wins the WIP Europa Industry Award.
One screening at the Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes 2022 for the winner of the WIP Europa Industria Award.
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The WIP Europa initiative is possible thanks to the backing of the Basque Government Department of Economic Development, Sustainability and Environement and Creative Europe MEDIA, in addition to collaboration of, Ad Hoc Studios, BTeam Pictures, Deluxe Spain, Dolby Iberia, Laserfilm Cine y Vídeo, Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes, Nephilim Producciones and No Problem Sonido.
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Moldova in the early 90s: Dima, a tractor driver, want to enlist for the military troops taking part in the local war on the Transnistrian border. Vasea, an Afghan war veteran, joins him. While on their way to the front, they find a carbonised body. The authorities ignore them and won't help them to identify the body. Dima and Vasea decide to bury the corpse according to the proper Christian rituals, but not before setting out, together with the body, on an absurd journey to discover his identity.
After 13 years, Tsitsi initiates a reunion of his former classmates with a seemingly harmless cause: they haven't seen each other since graduation and the reason for the gathering is to remember school and have a drink. However, Tsitsi has a secret motivation: he wants to punish his former classmate, Guga, who used to make life difficult for the entire class at school. Several male classmates gather at the school to drink and talk; as their time together progresses, Tsitsi gets drunk and tries to accomplish his goal.
In a post-apocalyptic Basque Country, two brothers leave on a mission to Mars. A futuristic road trip through a family past. Txomin, an unemployed Basque archaeologist, receives a commission to provide an expert’s report on Mars. With his brother Gene at the wheel, they leave from Eibar on an adventure through northern Spain. When Gene’s frail health and a mysterious sudden toxic mist makes them lose their way, they turn to their sister Mila. The reunion between the three awakens old family reproaches as Gene’s health continues to decline. With the help of a few ghosts and of Jesus Christ himself, the two brothers decide to complete their mission and make it to Mars.
Nina is almost 40. She’s attractive and successful: she has a stable marriage, a trustful relationship with her husband and son and a job she loves. A call from the past breaks this pleasant stability. Nina's ex-boyfriend Ruslan is seriously ill and asks her to come to Tbilisi to see him, perhaps for the last time. Her husband doesn't mind it, he’s aware of their relationship in the past. Nina goes to the city, where she was happy, to support Ruslan like a friend. She is sure that she loves her husband and that she will return home soon. But this short journey will be her last.
Ya Nina / Lucky Girl is a realistic drama based on true events: the sudden change of life experienced by successful TV star Nina following cancer diagnosis and the loss of her arm. The storyline takes the main character from the highest peak of her beautiful life to the darkest place possible. Nina discovers a whole new world, a world she doesn’t accept but is forced to live in. Finally, she loses all hope of recovery and rejects treatment after the death of one of her friends, also a cancer patient. But the love of those closest to her will convince her to fight for her life and to accept experimental treatment.
While continuing his middle-class life with his cat in a family-owned apartment in Istanbul, Mert loses his father. Relying on the help of his relatives, he decides to hold the funeral ceremony in a small Anatolian village surrounded by hills, forests, and tea farms in northeastern Turkey. However, rather than preparing for an ordinary funeral ceremony, the three days Mert spends in the village turn into a chain of tragic events that confront him like chapters of a video game as he discovers, to his rapidly steepening dismay, that the already existing cracks in his life are growing wider and deeper by the hour.
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