A Hollywood Murder and Queer Life in Hungary: Sarajevo’s Cinelink Award Winners Unveils

The Sarajevo Film Festival Has Unveiled the Winners of Its 2025 Cinelink Industry Days Awards, Including ther Places Half EmptyA Portrait of A Queer Relationship in Hungary Under Far-Right Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, WHICH RECEIVED The EURIMages CO-PRODUCTION OF DEVELOPMENT AWARD.

Among Other Winners is Gorillarecipient of the tv Drama Vision Pitch Award, Which Is Set in 1960s Paris, WHERE A FRINCH MOVIE STAR AND HIS YUGOSLAV BODYGUARD’S BROTHERHORHOOD IS THREATED BY A HOLLYWOOD.

Projects in Different Formats and Stages of Development from Southeast Europe and the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) Region Were Presented In ITS 23rd Edition. And now, prizes have been Handed Out in the Cinelink CO-Production Market, Cineelink Work in Progress, and Cineering Drama Sections.

The 31st Edition of the Sarajevo Festival Wraps Up Today, Friday.

Below is a look at the Cinelink Winners.

Cinelink Co-Production Market Awards

Eurimages Co-Production Development Award
Places Half Empty 
Synopsis: “A Controversial and Intimate Portrait of A Queer Relationship in the Context of Orbán’s Hungary.”
Director: Dorka Vermes
Writer: Sára Törley-Havas
Producers: Evelyn Balogh, Botond Lelkes
Production Company: Non Lieu Kft.
Country: Hungary
Award in the Amount of € 20,000

Film Center Montenegro cinelink Award
Stone Over Stone
Synopsis: “Shams and Her Husband Arrive from Their Village and Settle Into An Unfinished Construction Site WHERE HE WORKS TO REPAY GAMBLING DEBTS. HUSHID BACK. is Left to Drift Among the Outcasts Living on the Margins, Until The Collapsse Armund Her Forces an Unhinkable Decision About the Life She Carries Inside Her. ”
Director: Hilal Baydav
Writers: Hilal Baydarov, Georg Tiller
Producers: Maéva Rana.com
Production Company: SubobsCura Films
Co-Production Company: UCQAR FILM
Countries: Austria, Azerbaijan
Award in the Amount of € 10,000

Film Center Serbia Cinelink Award
Pogana
Synopsis: “On a Faraway Dalmatian Island in the 1920s, Pogana, A Woman from The Inlands, Is Sold to Be The New Wife of A Widower Sailor with Mercy of the Cruel Villagers and Their Customs. ”
Director: David Kapac
Writers: Andrija Mardeset, David Kapac
PRODUCers: rea rajčić, tina tišljar
Production Company: Eclectica
Co-Production Companies: Vertigo
Countries: Croatia, Slovenia
Award in the Amount of € 10,000

Artekino International Prize
Two Little Nightmares
Synopsis: “Thirty Years After his Father’s Suicide wipede aear from his memory, matja returns home. Terrified Boy He Onnce Was. ”
Director: NebojSa slijepache
Writers: NebojSa slijepachević, nađa petrović
Producers: Danijel Pek, Katarina Prpigraphy
Production Company: Antitalent
Co-Production Companies: Sense Production, Studio Virc, Contrast Films, Les Films Norfolk
Co-reprodukers: Milan stojanović, boŠtjan virc, katya Trichkova, Noelle Levenez
Countries: Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, France
Award in the Amount of € 6,000

Cinelink Co-Production Market & Cinelink Drama

Female voices cinelink Award
Rain Country 
Synopsis: “In Early 2000s Istanbul, High School Senior Gül’s Secret Is Exrained AFTER HER Classmat’s Suicide, Turning Her Life Upside Down. Independence and Growth. ”
Director: Zeynep köprülü
Writers: Zeynep Köprülü, Haziran Düzkan
Producers: Utku Zeka, Zeynep Köprüllü, Cansu Menlikli
Production Company: Periferi Film
Country: Türkiye
Award in the Amount of € 20,000

Cinelink Drama

Council of Europe Series Co-Production Development Award
Red Water
Synopsis: “In 1989, at the Croatian Seaside, A Family Is Shattered When Their Daughter Disappers. Her Dark Secrets Disintegrate The Community Over -Decdes Until the act.
Creator: ljubica luković
Writers: ljubica luković, jurica pavihyć
Director: Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
Producer: Danijel Pek
Production Company: Antitalent
Country: Croatia
Award in the Amount of € 50,000

Croatian Audiovisual Center Drama Award
Wonderful
Synopsis: “Dissatisfied with the Way Her Life Has Turned Out, A Woman Starts Waking Up On The Mornings When She Made of the Key Decisions that Shaped It. She Takes Alternate Pathn. have been. ”
Creates and Writers: Katarina Mitrović, Isidora Veelinović, Vladimir Tagić
Directors: vladimir tagić, isidora veselinović
Producer: Marija stojanović
Production Company: Sense Production
Country: Serbia
Award in the Amount of € 15,000

TV Drama Vision Pitch Award
Gorilla
Synopsis: “In the Decadent World of 1960s Paris, A French Movie Star and His Yugoslav Bodyguard’s Powerful Brotherhood Shatters Wen A Hollywood Murder Threatens to Destroy.
Creator: Gabor Krigler
Writers: Eszter Angyalosy, Cyril Tysz
Director: Christian Gudegast
Producer: ivana miković
Production Company: Firefly Productions
Country: Serbia

Cinelink Work in Progress Awards

HBO Award
Who are we
Synopsis: “After a pupil’s suicide, a school trip exposes the haunting path to tragedy. As the journey unfolds, the bullies are the same, the victims are new, and the same.
Director: Miroslav Terzić
Producer: Snenama Van Hoowelingen
Production Company: This and that Productions
Co-Production Companies: Nightswim, Invictus, PTD, KINORAMA
Countries: Serbia, Italy, Luxemburg, Bulgaria, Croatia
Award in the Amount of € 30,000

Turkish National Radio Television Award
YESTERDAY The EYE DIDNN’T SLEEP
Synopsis: “In a valley veiled by fog and tribal codes, Two Sisters Walk Into the Night not as Daughters, But As Offerings – Where Blood, Memory, Anrece Att.
Director: Rakan Mayasi
Producer: Jennifer Ritter, Rakan Mayasi
Production Company: Atata
Countries: Belgium, Palestine, Lebanon
Award in the Amount of € 10,000

Post Republic Award
WHERE TO?
Synopsis: “The Different Taxi Rides Across The City of Berlin Between Hassan, A MIDDLE-AGED Palestinian Uber Driver, and Young Israeli Whoth.
Director: assaf machnes
Producers: Tomer Motberg, Haim Mecklberg, Oren Rogovin, Mohamad Babi
Production Company: 2 Team Productions
Co-Production Companies: Lev Cinema, Rogovin Brothers, Iconoclast Germany
Country: Israel, Germany
Award in the Amount of € 30,000 in Kind

Avanpost Media Award
17
Synopsis: “After Having a Threesome with Her Classmates, Sara, 17, Gets Pregnant and Triers to Hide It From Everyone, Which Becomes Especialy Difficult Durying.
Director: kosara mitić
Producer: Tomi Salkovski
Production Company: Black Cat Production
COPRODUCTION Companies: Art & Popcorn, December
Countries: North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia
Award in the Amount of € 30,000 in Kind

Cinelink Work in Progress and Docu Rough Cut Boutique Awards

Think-Film Impact Production Award
Lost and Found: Romania’s Hidden Adoption Market
Synopsis: “WHEN A Yong Canadian Woman Who Was Sold As An Infant in Post -ceaușesCu Romania Returns to Reclaim Her Identity, She Uncovers The Machinery Sister Trafficked Theater Children ‘Exported’ For Adoption. ”
Director: Laurenti Garofeanu
Producer: Laurentiu Garafeanu
Editor: Iulian Ghervas
Production Company: Mekanism Media (RO)
Country: Romania
Lemm: 90 min
Award in the Amount of € 20,000 in Kind

Eave + Award
Marija stojanović