Koji Fukada, Théo Court Topline Rotterdam’s CineMart Co-Production Market
variety.comChristopher Vourlias New feature films from Japanese auteur Koji Fukada, Spanish-Chilean filmmaker Théo Court, and rising Georgian director Elene Naveriani are among the 28 projects selected for this year’s CineMart co-production market, which takes place online Jan.
30-Feb. 2, alongside the Rotterdam Film Festival.One of Europe’s leading confabs for new and established filmmakers, CineMart will host a virtual 2022 edition after a dramatic rise in COVID-19 cases in the Netherlands in December forced organizers to scrap plans for a physical event.
The Rotterdam Film Festival, which was planning to hold screenings in Dutch cinemas, also announced it was going virtual after concerns about the fast-spreading Omicron variant shuttered the country’s movie theaters.
Though the last-minute reversal came as a disappointment to organizers, IFFR Pro, CineMart and Rotterdam Lab manager Inke van Loocke remains upbeat about this year’s edition of the market, which in previous years has offered a launching pad for titles such as Taika Waititi’s “Jojo Rabbit,” Adina Pintilie’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner “Touch Me Not,” and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Lobster.”Van Loocke described it as a “huge challenge” to winnow down the selection from a huge pool of deserving submissions. “We always want this balance of more household names in the independent field,” she says, “but also new, first-, second-feature filmmakers.”Along with 16 feature films currently in development, there are five Immersive projects and seven BoostNL projects, presented as part of a development program that began at last year’s Netherlands Film Festival.Among the more anticipated works to launch this week is “Love on Trial,” Fukada’s pulled-from-the-headlines story of a.
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