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Introducing the MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2025 Selection!
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Introducing the MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2025 Selection!
februára 06, 2025
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This year’s selected writers, directors, and producers will embark on an intensive development process starting in March 2025, refining their scripts and strengthening their projects with expert guidance. Alongside them, three script consultant trainees will join the program, gaining hands-on experience in story development.
Selected project and participants:
DXing / Poland
Tomasz Habowski, writer, director
Marta Szarzyńska, producer / Kinhouse Studio/Watchout Studio
History of Illness / Croatia
David Gašo, writer, director
Marta Eva Mećava, producer / Eclectica
In Good Faith / Czech Republic
Anna Wowra, writer, director
Alžbeta Gertli, writer
Julie Soffer, producer / Perfilm
Restless / Czech Republic
Albert Hospodářský, writer, director
Ondřej Lukeš, producer / Beginner’s Mind
Soyboy / United Kingdom
Raphael von Blumenthal, writer, director
Michelle Brøndum, producer / Jante Films
The Last Game / Romania
Andrei Redinciuc, writer, director
Eliza-Maria Ceprăzaru, producer / Point Film
Battalion Records / Romania
Stefan Bîtu-Tudoran, writer, director
Diana Caravia, producer / microFILM
Carla’s Enzo / Germany
Elmar Imanov, writer, director
Adel Oberto, writer, director
Eva Blondiau, producer / Colour of May
Sailing Close to The Wind / Croatia
Ivana Marinić Kragić, writer, director, producer
Dalibor Jakus, writer
Selected script consultant trainees:
Karol Marczak / Poland
Juraj Lerotic / Croatia
Lina Luzyte / Lithuania
Leading participants through this journey are experienced group leaders Anne Gensior, Ivo Trajkov, and Pavel Jech, with Gyula Gazdag mentoring the script consultant trainees. Producers will receive insights from mentor Danijel Hocevar, along with numerous guest tutors and industry professionals contributing throughout the program.
The program kicks off with a two-day Online Preparatory Seminar for Script Consultant Trainees on February 24, followed by the first residential workshop in Prague, Czech Republic (March 3-9). After online consultations, the second workshop will take place also in Prague (July 2-9), leading directly into the Works in Development – Feature Launch showcase at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
As part of KVIFF’s Eastern Promises Industry Days, one outstanding project will be awarded the KVIFF & MIDPOINT Development Award of €10,000.
Moreover, Feature Launch 2025 projects will be in the running for the Eurimages Co-production Development Award, which grants €20,000 to one outstanding project presented within KVIFF’s Eastern Promises Industry Days.
The program continues with a third residential workshop in partnership with Finále Plzeň Film Festival (September 16-22), focusing on final project development and market positioning.
Moreover, selected producers will be invited to Thessaloniki in November 2025 for the Company Time follow-up workshop. Organized in collaboration with the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and EAVE, this session is dedicated to supporting producers in company sustainability and long-term business strategy.
Stay tuned as we follow the journey!
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Soyboy
A London street at dusk. Masked perpetrators film progressive teacher Gabe licking a shoe in exchange for his phone. When the incident goes viral and he discovers the aggressors were his own ...
The Last Game
Marius (14) fills the absence of his father by engaging in mischief with a group of older boys from his poor neighborhood. But when a reckless game of throwing rocks from a rooftop leaves a man in a ...
Sailing Close to the Wind
Roko (24), a sailor from the Mediterranean town of Split, is imprisoned for killing three drug dealers with an automatic rifle in broad daylight on the town’s promenade. Yet the public hails him as ...
MIDPOINT účastníci:
Milica Jokic, Ivana Marinic Kragic, Ivana Marinic Kragic, Ivana Marinic Kragic, Ivana Marinic Kragic, Dalibor Jakus
History of Illness
In the midst of hospital renovations, Jošt, a sensitive young man, is spending the day trying to find out more about the tic of his left eye. Frustratingly, the tic won't show itself in front of ...
In Good Faith
Hanna (15), a devout and selfless Catholic, lives a simple life with her feisty sister Paula (17) and their single mother in a small Polish town. As Hanna prepares for confirmation, her world is ...
Carla`s Enzo
Enzo (47) is a good-hearted yet lonely worker living in an ordinary city. Carla (15), similarly unhappy and self-aware, desperately craves for the love that her parents, humanoid robots, are not ...
Battalion Records
A group of young artists hijack Romania’s oldest music studio to stage a cultural revolution: masked and armed, they take the staff hostage to film a musical manifesto against Romania’s cultural ...
RadioAmateur
Krzysztof, a lonely widower forced into retirement, faces an ordinary last day at work—until his beloved dog dies. The loss triggers a health crisis and a stay at a faded post-Soviet sanatorium, ...
Restless
Nothing seems to calm LOLA’s (27) increasingly restless heart - neither the marriage to her down-to-earth husband SLÁVA (26), nor an ambitious fashion show she throws to make a countryside community ...
Meet MIDPOINT alumni—writers, script consultants, and development executives ready to bring stories to life!