Docu Talents from the East

Docu Talents from the East is a presentation of newest documentary crop from the region Central and Eastern Europe.

Each year since 2005, ten documentary projects in the stage of production and post-production are selected by representatives of the Ji.hlava IDFF.

Docu Talents is held as part of CineLink Industry Days at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Directors and producers of the selected feature-length documentaries introduce their projects during eight-minute presentations and the most promising project receives the Docu Talent Award accompanied by a financial prize in the amount of 5,000 USD.

Since 2005, Docu Talents has been a launch pad for a number of documentaries, including Rabbit a la Berlin, Blind Loves, Matchmaking Mayor, The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories, Cooking History, René, Fortress, Pipeline, Daniels´s World, Under the Sun, FC Roma, Close Relations, The Road Movie and Honeyland.