Final conference (in Uzhhgorod, Ukraine)

The conference will be organized in hybrid (offline and online); the experts will summarise the steps taken by Ukraine and best practices in the cross-border cooperation, a as well as in EU integration process; partner experts will summarise the best practices in the cross-border cooperation of V4 countries; representatives of the local stakeholders of CBC - local self-government, representatives of regional development agencies, think tanks, NGOs, students, etc also will have a possibilities to provide speeches. About 60 participants of the conference will be present live and about 40 - online. https://www.uzhnu.edu.ua/en/cat/projects-cbc_in_ukr

International Pitching Forum – V4 Commissioning editors and one to one meetings

VISEGRAD countries are active territories when it comes to documentary creation, and their national broadcasters are key players in this ecosystem. Every year, we pay close attention to securing their presence as decision makers for our International Coproduction Forum. The 48 directors and producers will present their projects to selected decision-makers (commissioning editors, distributors, sales agents and funders) among which we expect 4 will be from V4 countries. In our 2025 edition, we could count on the presence of 5 commissioning editors from VISEGRAD: - Marketa Stinglova (Czech Republic, Czech TV) - Ondrej Starinsky (Slovakia, Radio and Television Slovakia) – Anastassia Proinina (Czech Republic, Current Time TV) - Magdalena Borowska (Telewizja Polska, Poland) and Hanka Kastelicova (HBO Europe, Czech Republic). https://www.fipadoc.com/en/international-pitches

International Pitching Forum

Presentation of documentary projects from V4 and other European countries. Over the course of two days, 24 projects with high international potential will be presented to a large professional audience (commissioning editors, distributors and sales agents, producers, funders. Around 150/200 people). The whole forum is coordinated by a well-known and widely recognized professional, Ove Rishøj Jensen. We gather a special selection committee, composed of experienced and diverse professionals still active in the industry at a European level. The sessions are moderated and animated by two highly experienced and recognized profiles from the industry: Margje de Koning (Movie that Matter, Netherlands) and Gitte Hansen. Inside this selection, we plan on receiving quite a few projects from VISEGRAD (thanks to the free waiver we will hand to the professionals who request it). We pay close attention to the representation of VISEGRAD projects within our selection every year. Therefore, we plan on having between one and three V4 projects in the final selection. As for comparison, we presented 4 V4 projects which pitched last year (January 2024) : • FROZEN OCEAN (Hungary) • VALLEY OF THE WIDOWS / ÚDOLIE VDOV (Slovakia) • NEW ADAM (Hungary) • THE FIRST SWALLOW / PIERWSZA JASKÓŁKA (Poland) For our 2025 edition, we have selected the following VISEGRAD projects: • WALTZ FROM THE WELL by Tymon NogalskiI (Warsaw Production Team, Poland) • WORLD OF WALLS by Lucia KAŠOVÁ (Guča films, Slovakia) For our 2026 edition, we have selected the following VISEGRAD projects: • INNERLANDSCAPES by Zofia SAWICKA (Telemark, Poland) • VALLEY OF THE HEART by Theodora REMUNDOVÁ (Endorfilm, Czech Republic) https://www.fipadoc.com/en/international-pitches