Israel, U.S., U.K., Germany, Bangladesh Projects Selected at India’s Film Bazaar Co-Production Market
26.10.2023 - 14:45
/ variety.com
Naman Ramachandran India’s Film Bazaar, South Asia’s largest film market, has selected a range of projects from around the world for its annual co-production market. The 20 selected projects are from 11 countries, most are already structured as co-productions, and they are all South Asian-themed.
From Israel, the Hebrew-language “Raju” by Dror Sabo (“Dead End”), will be produced by Lee Yardeni for MY TV Productions (“Nevelot”). Rafael Kapelinski, director of Berlinale winner “Butterfly Kisses,” is at the market with English, German and Hindi-language Germany-India-France-Poland-U.K.
co-production “The Distant Near,” produced by Katharina Suckale for Bombay Berlin Film Production (“Loev”). Hindi-language Germany-Luxembourg-France co-production “Kohinoor,” by Udita Bhargava (Berlinale selection “Dust”), will be produced by Martin Lehwald for Schiwago Film (Berlinale winner “Styx”).
Fresh off Busan’s Asian Project Market, feature debutant Aakash Chhabra’s Hindi-language “I’ll Smile in September” will be produced by Sanjay Gulati for India’s Crawling Angel Films and Fran Borgia for Singapore’s Akanga Film Asia. Another feature debutant, Bangladesh’s Golam Muntakim Fahim, has Bengali-language “Khekshiyal” (“The Jackal”), being produced by Rezwan Shahriar Sumit (“The Salt in Our Waters”) for mypixelstory, in the market.
Also from Bangladesh is Maksud Hossain’s Bengali-language “Raya’s Wedding,” to be produced by Maksud, Barkat and Trilora Hossain for Fusion Pictures. Sachin Dheeraj Mudigonda (“Testimony of Ana”) directs Telugu- and English-language “Mouna” Tharangam” (“A Silent Wave”), produced by Praveena Paruchuri (“C/o Kanchrapalem”) for Paruchuri Vijaya Praveena Arts and Janani Vijayanathan for Kinostreet (“Testimony of
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