Director: Lilit Movsisyan

Producer: Sona Margaryan

Country: Armenia

Status: Work-in-progress

Logline: 15-year-old Karine dreams of becoming a veterinarian, but for her conservative Armenian family “it’s not a feminine job”. She needs to choose to follow her dreams or listen to patriarchal family.

Director: Giorgi Parkosadze

Producers: Tamta Tvalavadze, Angelos Tsaousis & Giorgi Parkosadze

Country: Georgia

Status: Work-in-progress

Logline: Mother and Son – unbreakable bond defined by the invisible burden of care, silence, tenderness and solitude in an isolated remote mountainous gorge. But what happens when a third person - a young lady - appears in the harmony of their peaceful life?

Director: Angela Frangyan

Producer: Sona Margaryan

Country: Armenia

Status: Work-in-progress

Logline: A filmmaker and a soldier who both experienced the war in Armenia, set off on a road trip, returning to the war-torn areas of their country, towards a common search for a renewed, mulberry-infused taste of life.

Director: Ana Barjadze

Producer: Irina Gelashvili

Country: Georgia

Status: Work-in-progress

Logline: Nika, Gika, and Levan - three brothers from a small, dying Georgian town - navigate life, only relying on each other, while their absent mother provides for the family from abroad.

Director: Oksana Kazmina

Producer: Yulia Serdyukova

Country: Ukraine

Status: Work-in-progress

Logline: Suppressed and kept secret for years, childhood traumas can turn into killing monsters.

Underwater is a story about three unconventional Ukrainian women who are able to turn these monsters into art – uncompromising and shocking, but also vital and healing.

Director: Max Rudenko

Producer: Max Rudenko & Viktoria Slopitska

Country: Ukraine

Status: Work-in-progress

Logline: A story of an old ski jumper who does not know how to land.

Director: Yulia Hontaruk

Producers: Ivanna Khitsinska, Alexandra Bratyschenko, Uldis Cekulis

Country: Ukraine, Latvia

Status: Work-in-progress

Logline: After enduring the horrors of the war in Eastern Ukraine since 2014, three young veterans return home. As they struggle to find their place in daily life as civilians, the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 throws them right back into the trauma they have tried so hard to escape.

Director: Olha Zhurba

Producer: Darya Bassel, Viktoria Khomenko

Country: Ukraine

Status: Work-in-progress

Logline: Sound-driven, immersive cinema where the body of war-torn Ukraine is the main character.

Director: Rusudan Gaprindashvili

Editor: Elene Asatiani

Producer: Hans Gralke, Anna Dziapshipa

Country: Georgia, Germany

Status: In production

Logline: Linguistic and acoustic qualities of German speaking technology – a Warehouse AI system by the name of “Lydia” - feed the frustrations of everyday working life of migrant workers from Moldova.

Director: Kseniya Golubovich

Country: Belarus

Status: Work-in-progress

Logline: Due to the misleading promises by the president of Belarus, this film sees Kurdish refugees being trapped in a country where its own population are fleeing political repression and the consequences of the Ruso-Ukrainian war. A story of the clash of cultures where people facing the same problems attempt to help one another.

Director: Parvana Rahimova

Country: Azerbaijan

Status: In production

Logline: Set in a village in the Greater Caucasus mountains, this film sees a strong 13 year old tomboy rebel against the patriarchal traditions of society, particularly forced upon her by her own grandmother.

Director: Pavel Braila

Producer: Lilia Braila

Country: Moldova

Status: In production

Logline: One country, one journey, one poetical logbook of Moldova - a country that for many people of the world probably didn’t exist, until Russia unfolded the war in Ukraine. Moldova, as the closest and most vulnerable neighbour of the armed conflict, started regularly appearing in the headlines of the world press.

Director: Mdmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuck

Producer: Karina Kostyna, Eugen Rachkovsky

Country: Ukraine

Status: In production

Logline: Set by a beautiful river canyon in Western Ukraine, a pacifist community with unique religious beliefs, sees their peaceful way of life gradually distressed by regular floods and eventually an unexpected war.

Director: Inna Sahakyan

Country: Armenia

Status: In production

Logline: The daily strains of old age seem to fade as the residents of a retirement home in Armenia lose themselves in the timeless world of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’.

Director: Lala Aliyeva

Country: Azerbaijan

Status: In production

Logline: A medley of a childish fantasy along with dreams and fears around the Caspian Sea explores the characters’ experience hinged on the Caspian’s status as an “Oil sea”.