CineLink Drama, a flagship program of Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Industry Days, dedicated to supporting drama series in development, has unveiled seven projects from Southeast Europe selected for this year’s edition. Two are directed by Danis Tanović, the helmer of Oscar winner “No Man’s Land.”

Maša Marković, head of industry, said, “In its 10th edition, CineLink Drama’s selection reflects a series landscape in Southeast Europe that is becoming more confident, more defined, and more fluent in thinking across genres, audiences, and markets.

“By bringing together filmmakers moving from author-driven cinema into series alongside new voices already shaped by episodic storytelling, the strand continues to hold a space where continuity meets renewal. It helps shape a regional industry that is strengthening its international profile and becoming more attentive to the strategic value of IP, including the ways local stories can circulate and generate adaptation beyond their original market.”

Selected Projects:CHAIN REACTIONCreator: Grega ŠvabičWriters: Grega Švabič, Mirta Švabič Zajc, Jaka ŠuligojDirector: Jaka ŠuligojProducer: Peter PerunoviProduction Company: E75Country: SloveniaGenre: Action-comedySnow. Speed. Radiation. In a mountain resort, rebellious snowboarders uncover a nuclear conspiracy in a uranium mine. To expose the truth, they trigger a lethal chain reaction of violence.

HEDGEHOGS IN THE HAZECreators/Writers: Ermin Bravo, Džana PinjoDirectors: Danis Tanović, Nermin HamzagićProducers: Ishak Jalimam, Lara GrozdanićProduction Company: RealstageCo-Production Companies: Brand Vision DOO, Agitprop, Para Film & Theatre ASCountries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Bulgaria, NorwayGenre: DramedyThree women. Best friends. And some men around them. All in a struggle for existence. A box enters their lives. Pandora’s box? Or the solution to all their problems?

SMALL YUGOSLAVIACreators/Writers: Teona Strugar Mitevska, Sonja ProsencProducer: Labina MitevskaProduction Companies: Sisters and Brother Mitevski, Entre chien et loupCountries: North Macedonia, BelgiumGenre: Horror comedyIn a modernist apartment complex where residents vanish without a trace, two vampire queens, a mother and a daughter, both over 50, both addicts, are on a mission to purify the world.

STRINGERSCreator/Writer: Nikola KuprešaninDirector: Danis TanovićProducer: Siniša JuričićProduction Company: Nukleus FilmCountry: CroatiaGenre: Political thrillerWhen a translator is murdered in Riga, three freelance journalists – a desperate local fixer, a broke British investigator, and compromised American veteran – find their separate inquiries converging.

THE VALLEYCreator/Director: Özcan AlperWriters: Özcan Alper, Erman BostanProducer: Soner AlperProduction Company: Nar Film ProductionCountry: TurkeyGenre: Crime thrillerBrutal murders haunt a fog-shrouded Black Sea village. Captain İsmet, Detective Kenan, and pedagogue Aysun uncover dark truths hidden in the town’s silence, where fear and guilt protect the killer.

THE 9TH BORDERCreator: Vitalli YeWriter: Vyacheslav YushkovDirector: Valentin ShpakovProducer: Vitalli YeProduction Company: Starlight FilmsCountry: UkraineGenre: Crime thrillerAn Austrian investigator teams up with a Ukrainian detective after a woman’s burned body is found in the Carpathians. As more victims emerge, they face a cross-border killer beyond all logic.

YOU CAN ALWAYS COME BACKCreator: Tena GojićWriter: Hana JušićProducer: Miljenka ČogeljaProduction Companies: Pipser, Dinaridi FilmCountry: CroatiaGenre: Family dramaAs war tears Yugoslavia apart, a mother leaves her three daughters in search of a better life on the other side of the continent.