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Ex Oriente Film 2023 projects revealed!
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Ex Oriente Film
Ex Oriente Film 2023 projects revealed!
We are thrilled to announce the 12 feature docs and 5 docuseries projects selected for this year's Ex Oriente Film workshop. The 1st session will take place in La Rochelle during Sunny Side of the Doc from 17th until 21st of June.
About Ex Oriente
Ex Oriente Film 2023 consists of two parallel training programs – Ex Oriente Film and Ex Oriente Series and includes 12 creative feature length projects and for the first time also 5 docuseries projects in development and early production stage from filmmakers of Central and Eastern Europe, which challenge genres, format and media boundaries and reflect our reality.
Ex Oriente Film 2023 Feature Docs projects
Check out the 12 feature docs projects selected for the Ex Oriente Film workshop!
Acting Classes
Produced by FilmFilmFilm (Kazakhstan)
Directed by Sasha Shegai | (90 min)
Armenia Phantom
Produced by TS Productions (France, Armenia)
Directed by Tamara Stepanyan | (70 min)
Becoming Roosi
Produced by Tiny Desk Productions (Estonia)
Directed by Margit Lillak | (85 min)
Do Magic
Produced by Golden Girls Film (Austria, Slovakia)
Directed by Vera Lacková | (90 min)
How I Became a Hijacker
Produced by Aleksandra Szczesna (Poland, Germany)
Directed by Andrew Carter | (75 min)
Letters
Produced by Sofiia Zadorozhna (Poland, Belarus)
Directed by Andrei Kutsila | (90 min)
Lights
Produced by Marcus Lenz (Germany, Ukraine)
Directed by Mila Teshaieva | (90 min)
Man Under the Ice
Produced by Analog Vision (Czech Republic)
Directed by Eva Tomanová | (80 min)
The Poor Cry Too
Produced by Just a Moment (Lithuania, Mexico)
Directed by Viktorija Mickute, Ieva Balsiunaite | (80 min)
What About Little Peter?
Produced by Gnomon Production S.R.O. (Czech Republic)
Directed by Martin Trabalík | (82 min)
Birdie
Produced by Staron Film (Poland)
Directed by Aneta Ptak | (70 min)
Keepers of the Ruins
Produced by New Kyiv (Ukraine, Poland)
Directed by Mariia Shevchenko | (80 min)
Ex Oriente Film 2023 Series projects
Discover the 5 docuseries selected for the Ex Oriente Film workshop!
Exit Only
Produced by Hypermarket Film (Czech Republic, Austria)
Directed by Timo Novotny | (6x26 min)
She Is Not in the Business of Making Friends
Produced by Manifest Film (Romania)
Directed by Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan | (4x45 min)
Tito. The West's Favorite Dictator
Produced by Looks Filmproduktionen GmbH (Germany, Austria, Croatia, Italy)
Directed by Bence Máté | (4x45 min, 2x90 min)
UNHERO or a Falling Star
Produced by Agitprop Ltd. (Bulgaria)
Directed by Georgi Tenev | (6x45 min)
The Murderers of Anna Labancz
Produced by Balázs Dudás (Hungary)
Directed by Balázs Dudás | (5x45 min)
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