Romanian mission Battalion Data and Ukrainian characteristic In Vacuo had been among the many winners at Japanese Guarantees, the trade part of the 2025 Karlovy Differ Worldwide Movie Pageant (KVIFF).
Stefan Bitu-Tudoran’s Battalion Data acquired the €20,000 ($23,438) Eurimages co-production growth award. The movie, produced by Diana Caravia for Romania’s microFILM, is an absurdist satire a few group of younger artists who stage a cultural revolution by hijacking Romania’s oldest music studio.
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A jury of Goteborg Movie Pageant head of trade Josef Kullengard, Netherlands Movie Fund head of worldwide division Ilse Ronteltap and producer Zuzana Mistrikova described it as “a daring debut that confronts the decay of tradition.”
The jury awarded a Eurimages particular co-production growth award value €20,000 to Yelizaveta Smith’s In Vacuo, produced by Eugene Rachkovsky for Tabors. The movie sees a younger archaeologist return to her hometown to promote her lacking father’s house, just for the previous and current to alter her plans.
“The movie explores the common impression of loss and the way absence shapes each identities and communities, highlighting the significance of remembering earlier than it’s too late,” famous the jury.
The €10,000 ($11,719) Midpoint & KVIFF growth award went to David Gaso’s Historical past of Sickness, a Croatian comedy about human unease set inside a hospital.
Michelle Brondum Hauerbach, producer of UK characteristic Soyboy, acquired a Marche du Movie Producers Community award, permitting her to take part in subsequent yr’s Marche. Written and directed by Raphael von Blumenthal and produced by Brondum’s London-based Jante Movies, Soyboy follows a trainer pressured to decide on between turning into the person the world expects him to be, or dealing with the results of accepting himself.
An extra Marche award went to Genoveva Petrovits for Hungary-Czech Republic-Germany title Democracy: Work In Progress.
The inaugural Pop Up Collection Incubator programme offered 5 collection throughout the KVIFF Business Days, together with Cristina Grosan’s Angelmaker from Romania, primarily based on the true story of The Angel Makers of Nagyrev, a gaggle of suspected poisoners in early 20th century Hungary.
Forty movie and collection initiatives had been showcased at this yr’s Japanese Guarantees. “The help buildings listed here are nonetheless comparatively fragile,” mentioned Hugo Rosak, head of the KVIFF Movie Business Workplace. “Our hope is that by curating initiatives in shut collaboration with nationwide movie institutes, we will provide producers and buyers a variety they will belief, and finally assist unlock co-financing with better confidence.”
KVIFF runs till Saturday, July 12.
KVIFF 2025 Japanese Guarantees trade winners
Eurimages co-production growth awards
Battalion Data (Rom) dir. Stefan Bitu-Tudoran, prod. Diana Caravia
In Vacuo (Ukr) dir. Yelizaveta Smith, prod. Eugene Rachkovsky
Midpoint & KVIFF growth award
Historical past of Sickness (Cro) dir. David Gaso, prod. Marta Eva Mecava
Connecting Cottbus award
RadioAmateur (Pol) dir. Tomasz Habowski, prod. Marta Szarzynska
Rotterdam Lab award
Ondrej Lukes, producer of Stressed (Czech)
Marche du Movie Producers Community award
Michelle Brondum Hauerbach, producer of Soyboy (UK)
Genoveva Petrovits, producer of Democracy: Work in Progress (Hun-Czech-Ger)
KVIFF Skills
Options
Anonymous (Czech)
Spirit Moose (Czech-Slovakia)
Burnout (Czech)
Collection
Mould (Czech)
Misplaced Boys (Czech)
Remake (Czech)
Visitor mission
A Siege (Hun)
Pop Up Collection Incubator initiatives
Angelmaker (Rom)
Erotic Lives Of The Superheroes (Fr)
The Evening Of The Beguines (Fr)
The Three Burials Of Irma (Gr)
Therapies (Lith)