At the CineLink Industry Days, the Sarajevo Film Festival's industry section, the CineLink Co-Production Market jury (comprising Uldis Dimisevskis, Georges Goldenstern, Behrooz Hashemian, Čedomir Kolar, Annamaria Lodato, Tomi Salkovski and Jani Thiltges) has decided to honour Slovenian filmmaker Damjan Kozole’s new project, Half-Sister [+lee también:
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The project, developed through production company Vertigo, tells the story of two estranged sisters who are, after 25 years of barely seeing each other, forced by circumstances to share an apartment.

The Macedonian Film Agency Award, worth €10,000, went to the Greek project Holy Emy [+lee también:
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The Arte International Relations Award and €6,000 went to the Bulgarian-UK project Cat in the Wall [+lee también:
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Serbian director Slobodan Šijan’s The Great Tram Robbery won a Special Mention. The return of one of the greatest filmmakers from the Yugoslav era attracted a lot of interest, and the co-production between Marko Paljić of Serbia's Gargantua Films, Damir Terešak of Croatia's Maxima Film, Srdjan Šarenac of Bosnia's Novi Film, and Boštjan Virc of Slovenia's Studio Virc already has financing from the Film Center Serbia and the Croatian Audiovisual Centre.

The Film Center Serbia CineLink Drama Award, worth €10,000, went to All Panthers Are Pink by creators and producers Miroslav Mogorović of Serbia's Art&Popcorn and Titus Kreyenberg of Germany's Unafilm. The story by writer Dimitrije Vojnov (The Samurai in Autumn [+lee también:
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A Special Mention went to Glycerin by Serbian tandem Miloš Pušić (Withering [+lee también:
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Here is the complete list of prize winners:

CineLink Co-Production Market Awards

Eurimages Co-Production Development Award
Half-Sister [+lee también:
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entrevista: Damjan Kozole
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(Director: Damjan Kozole; writers: Damjan Kozole, Urša Menart; producer: Danijel Hočevar – Vertigo)

Macedonian Film Agency CineLink Award
Holy Emy [+lee también:
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entrevista: Araceli Lemos
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(Director: Araceli Lemos; writers: Araceli Lemos, Gulia Caruso; producers: Elina Psykou, Giulia Caruso, Konstantinos Vassilaros – StudioBauhaus)

Arte International Relations CineLink Award
Cat in the Wall [+lee también:
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entrevista: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
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(Directors: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova; writer: Mina Mileva; producers: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova - Activist38)

Special Mention
The Great Tram Robbery (Serbia)
(Director: Slobodan Šijan; writers: Slobodan Šijan, Biljana Maksić, Vladimir Mančić; producer: Marko Paljić - Gargantua Films)

MDM Scholarship
Konstantinos Vassilaros (Holy Emy)

Work-in-Progress Awards

TRT Award
Honeyland [+lee también:
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(Directors: Ljubo Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska; producers: Ljubo Stefanov, Atanas Georgiev - Apollo Media, Trice Films)

Post Republic Award
The Day After I’m Gone (Israel)
(Director: Nimrod Eldar; producer: Eitan Mansuri; production company: Spiro Films Ltd)

Restart Award
What Comes Around [+lee también:
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(Director: Reem Saleh; producers: Reem Saleh, Konstantina Stavrianou; production company: Mazameer Productions)

CineLink Drama Awards

Film Center Serbia CineLink Drama Award
All Panthers Are Pink (Germany/Serbia)
(Creators: Titus Kreyenberg, Miroslav Mogorović; writer: Dimitrije Vojnov; producers: Titus Kreyenberg, Miroslav Mogorović; production companies: Unafilm, Art & Popcorn)

Special Mention
Glycerin (Serbia)
(Creators: Ivan Knežević, Miloš Pušić; writers: Ivan Knežević, Miloš Pušić; director: Miloš Pušić; producers: Ivan Knežević, Miloš Pušić – Altertise)