Writers’ Vision Pitch

This session spotlights eight promising series projects in early development, selected with the support of our jury of industry experts. Presented by their creators to an audience of industry professionals — including producers, distributors, investors and potential partners — the pitch offers an early look at standout stories in the making.

For the first time this year, the session also includes two additional projects selected in cooperation with CineLink Industry Days // Sarajevo Film Festival and European Writers Desk Hamburg.

CREATIVE SOLUTIONS
→ by Raquel Stern (Writer)

When an undervalued employee witnesses her boss’s fatal heart attack, she strikes a deal with his underestimated trophy wife: Hide the body, take his power, split the spoils... But the longer they keep him ‘alive’, the harder it gets to let him die.

I DEPRESS YOU NOT
→ Presented by Katharina Dietl, Maren Heyn (Writers)

When Lasse’s (44) life is quietly overtaken by depression, it not only alters his own life but also reshapes the world of his wife Yara (44) and their daughter Karlotta (7).

MELIKA SAVING THE WORLD
→ Presented By Ed Wiles (Writer)

When nuclear war breaks out in 2039, an irreverent immigrant cleaner at a secret NATO time-travel lab is sent back to 2019 to prevent it — but repeatedly sabotages the mission as she prioritises fixing her own life first.

OHUN
→ Presented by Maja Costa, Anne-Maryse Makon (Writers)

Trapped between timelines after a lunar accident, a scientist discovers that an ancient instrument lost in space is accelerating the planet’s collapse, and must decode its transmissions before a ruthless mogul uses them to auction off the future.

PARALEGAL
→ Presented by Lia Berger (Writer), Iuliia Mamaeva (Producer)

After her parents are turned into zombies in Prague, a young lawyer seeks justice through the absurd and underregulated world of paranormal law.

THE CALL OF THE FOX CHILD
→ Presented by Rebecca Ingram (Writer)

When two fox cubs appear at the house where her children vanished three years earlier, Tessa Bainbridge becomes convinced they’re her missing children, returned home — as foxes. But her husband fears she’s slipping further from reality, refusing to face the truth the police have just uncovered.

THE SHIFT
→ Presented by Susan Gordanshekan (Writer, Director)

ROYA and NASSIMA are best friends, but at the same time they are increasingly being excluded by other students in their class. One day, Roya portrays herself as the victim and Nassima as the perpetrator in order to regain her status in the class community.

VENUS
→ Presented by Maria Hinterkoerner (Writer)

Venus follows three former schoolmates who team up to heist the Venus of Willendorf from the State Museum. Along the way they must contend with the asswipe chief investigator, a handsome FBI agent, and a bunch of idiots, all while grappling with their own self-worth and general inaptitude for all things criminal.

WONDERFUL (Cinelink)
→ Marija Stojanovic (Producer)

Unsatisfied with how her life has turned out, forty year old Divna magically starts waking up each morning to a new existence. Changing key life decisions, she takes alternate paths towards different lives that could have been.

EUROPEAN DREAMERS (European Writers Desk)
→ Presented by Kerstin Höckel (Writer), Rahel Dietze (Writer)

A young woman from abroad joins the crew of a European night train. As it glides through
the dark – connecting Lisbon, Marseille, Berlin, Copenhagen and Budapest – strangers are thrown together in tight compartments, sharing secrets, absurdities and small crises.