A total of 29 projects qualified this year’s CEDOC Market – the only international co-production market in Poland for documentary producers who are looking for Polish and foreign partners. The list includes documentaries from Poland, Great Britain, Romania, the Czech Republic, Serbia, and Hungary.az Węgier.
This year’s CEDOC Market begins on 1 June and will last until 6 June 2022. The event is organised during the Krakow Film Festival as part of DOC LAB POLAND by the Władysław Ślesicki Film Foundation in cooperation with KFF Industry.
Among the projects selected this year at CEDOC Market there are films created in Jamaica, Ukraine, Vietnam, and Italy. Their creators follow the most important historical events, current problems, or individual stories of seemingly ordinary people. Many of them are socially conscious films and try to show that the world can be changed, but the fight is difficult, long, and unequal. Regardless of geography, the directors take their cameras into the most dangerous or forgotten areas to understand the modern world, show it, and ask what our future will look like.
KFF Industry podczas Krakowskiego Festiwalu Filmowego.
PROJECTS SELECTED TO CEDOC MARKET 2022
- Beyond the Red Light, dir. Pauline Blanchet, Sabrina Jones, Milla Lewis, prod. Pauline Blanchet – Aral Sea Productions LTD. | UK
- Birth of a Woman (Narodziny), dir. Weronika Mliczewska, prod. Weronika Mliczewska – YA MAN STUDIO SP. Z O.O. | Poland
- Deaf Can! Coffee – The Silent Revolution (Deaf Can! Coffee – Rewolucja w ciszy), dir. Zofia Kowalewska, prod. Michał Stec, Rafał Kłoczko – Unima Films | Poland
- Do Painters Die Elseways? (Czy malarze umierają inaczej?), dir. Michał Pietrak, prod. Wiesław Łysakowski – Orient Film Sp. z o.o. | Poland
- Fakir (Pokiaľ ja žijem), dir. Roman Ďuriš, prod. Simo Bago Móciková – Bright Sight Pictures | Slovakia
- Female Priests (Ženské farářky), dir. Libuše Rudinská, prod. Libuše Rudinská – Libuse Rudinska | Czech Republic
- Flowers of Ukraine, dir. Adelina Borets, prod. Natalia Grzegorzek – Koskino Sp. z o.o., Glib Lukianets – Gogol Film | Poland
- Galina is an Ageless Artist, dir. Veranika Zuyeva, prod. Veranika Zuyeva – Mariaglobal | Poland
- House of Ants (Mrowisko), dir. Katarzyna Kultys, prod. Marta Szymanowska – Fundacja Filmowa im. Władysława Ślesickiego | Poland
- Isabella, dir. Joanna Janikowska, prod. Anna Gawlita – Kijora Film sp. z o.o. | Poland
- Just Hear Me Out (Posłuchaj co chcę Ci powiedzieć), dir. Małgorzata Imielska, prod. Barbara Ławska – Studio Filmowe Kalejdoskop | Poland
- Love and Capitalism, dir. Bára Jichová Tyson, prod. Alice Tabery – CINEPOINT | Czech Republic, USA
- Love Generals (Miluj generály), dir. Vít Janeček, prod. Vít Janeček – D1film | Czech Republic, Slovakia, Mjanmar
- Matylda, dir. Konrad Szołajski, prod. Małgorzata Prociak – ZK Studio Sp. z o .o. | Poland
- Moscow Nights, dir. Irina Maldea, prod. Brendan Culleton, Sorin Manu – akajava films | Ireland
- Mothership (Nava mamă), dir. Ana Vîjdea, prod. Horațiu Curuțiu – numa film | Romania
- Radio Power, dir. Michał Bolland, prod. Misia Pawłowska – Passion Pictures |Poland
- Searching For Lotika (U potrazi za Lotikom), dir. Irena Skoric, prod. Predrag Jakovljevic – Peca – Oktobar film | Serbia
- Tango, dir. Aleksandra Mulier, prod. Aleksandra Mulier – M4 Sp. zo.o. | Poland, Italy, Romania
- The Confession of a Mole, dir. Mo Tan, prod. Shanshan Li – Beyond Frozen Films | China, Poland
- The Forest (Las), dir. Michał Bielawski, Zvika Gregory Portnoy, Zuzanna Solakiewicz , prod. Maria Krauss – Plesnar & Krauss FILMS | Poland
- The Legacy, dir. Ioann Maria Stacewicz, prod. Paweł Ziemilski – MX35 | Poland
- The Spirit of the Chinese Quarter (Duh Kineske četvrti), dir. Nenad Mikalacki, prod. Nenad Mikalacki-Druid | Serbia
- The Stepmother (A pótanya), dir. Dorottya Zurbó, prod. Noémi Veronika Szakonyi – Match Frame Productions | Hungary
- Tomorrow, dir. Khosro Khosravi, prod. DocNomads (Film School) – Film School Project (DocNomads) |Hungary
- Waiting for Miracle (Čekání na zázrak), dir. Vít Zapletal, prod. Radim Procházka – Kuli Film | Czech Republic
- Wajda, dir. Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz, Liliana Komorowska, prod. Stanisław Zaborowski, Daria Maślona – Silver Frame | Poland
- “What the… Hen!” („Wściekła kura, czyli bajka o Podlasiu”), dir. Joanna Deja, prod. Maciej Ostatek, Justyna Kluczewska, Kacper Jaroszyński – Raban | Poland
- You Have To Go, The Others Stay (Musisz iść, reszta zostaje), dir. Aleksandra Potoczek, prod. Anna Gawlita – Kijora Film sp. z o.o. | Poland
CEDOC MARKET (Central European Documentary Market) aims to enable producers and documentary directors to establish contacts with partners in other countries with whom or thanks to whom they will be able to make their films. The event will be held for the eighth time this year. During previous editions, the market was attended by leading European production companies and over 60 decision makers from around the world. Individual one-on-one meetings and presentation of projects participating in DOC LAB POLAND Docs to Start program will be held during this three-day event.rt.
CEDOC MARKECEDOC MARKET is organised by DOC LAB POLAND in cooperation with KFF Industry during the Krakow Film Festival. This year, CEDOC begins a co-operation with PITCH THE DOC – an online platform for filmmakers, investors and professionals that supports the international promotion of documentary film projects. This collaboration will bring the opportunity to conveniently learn about the projects to both CEDOC guests and people who cannot personally participate in meetings in Krakow.
CEDOC Market is organised by the Władysław Ślesicki Film Foundation in cooperation with the Krakow Film Festival. In 2022, DOC LAB POLAND partners, as part of which CEDOC MARKET is organised, include: the Polish Film Institute, HBO MAX, Mazovian Institute of Culture, Mazovia Warsaw Film Fund, Krakow Festival Office, Krakow Film Commission, The Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, MX35, Cafe Ole, Orka, Fixafilm, Warsaw Film Festival, Smakjam, DoK Leipzig, Institute of Documentary Film, and media patrons this year include: DAFilms, FilmPro Magazine, Polish Docs, TVP Kultura, siłanauki.pl, Cinema.pl, Screen Magazine and the SFP Film Magazine.
Onsite CEDOC Market will be held in Krakow on 3rd June 2022, while online meetings will be organised on June 6th.