The Open Doors jury has awarded the following prizes to projects in the Open Doors Hub, to support their development and production.
Open Doors Grant
An award financed by the Swiss film production support fund visions sud est (backed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC) together with the City of Bellinzona.
Development grant CNC – Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (€ 8,000)
SAND CITY by Mahde Hasan, Bangladesh
ARTE Kino International Prize Open Doors (€ 6,000)
A YEAR OF COLD (CHISO BARSA) by Min Bahadur Bham, Nepal / France
Open Doors – Sørfond Award
For the first time the Norwegian South Film Fund Sørfond has awarded a prize allowing one of the Hub projects to take part in its platform "Pitching from the South".
THE WOMEN (MA) by The Maw Naing, Myanmar
Open Doors – TorinoFilmLab Award
For the second year in a row, the TorinoFilmLab (TFL) offers a grant allowing one of the producers to take part in the TFL Meeting Event in Turin on November of this year, as part of a group of non-European producers, under the label “Up and Coming”.
Sumudu Malalagama, Film producer, Green Pictures, Sri Lanka
Residency Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur @ Villa Sträuli
The Winterthur International Short Film Festival, in partnership with Villa Sträuli, offers a two-month residency to a participant in the sections Open Doors, Pardi di domani and Filmmakers Academy, from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe or Latin America.
Mahde Hasan, Bangladesh, director of SAND CITY (Open Doors Hub selection)
