Connecting Cottbus

Name: Connecting Cottbus
Address: Αm Turm 23, Cottbus, 03046, DE
Telephone: +49 355 4310 70
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connecting cottbus (coco) is an East West co-production market during FilmFestival Cottbus focussing on Eastern European cinema.

connecting cottbus is the East-West co-production market at the FilmFestival Cottbus for fiction feature film projects in development (cocoPITCH) and works in progress (cocoWIP) from broader Eastern Europe. This years edition takes place from the 3rd-5th of November 2021. We select ten feature film projects and four Work in Progress that are presented to a professional audience of experienced producers, buyers, commissioning editors, world sales, and financiers. coco supports many exciting East West co-productions and offers a network between Eastern and Western Europe.

27/10/2026

cocoPITCH
WHITE GYPSY
director: Katarína Gramatová
producer: Katarína Gramatová & Rasťo Šesták
production company: džanes / DNA Production
country: Slovakia, Czech Republic

Katarína Gramatová presents WHITE GYPSY: Kristián (19), an albino Roma boxer, and his sister Niky (17) grew up in poverty, fighting as a team. But while Kristián leaves to chase his boxing dream in Las Vegas, Niky discovers that lying about one’s misfortune can be a more effective way to survive. The project is the follow-up to Katarína's acclaimed debut PROMISE, I’LL BE FINE and received the Special Pitch Award at FilmFestival Cottbus.

27/10/2026

cocoPITCH
VIRGIN MARY
director: Lilit Movsisyan
producer: Inesa Mkrtchyan
production company: Motif Films
country: Armenia

Director Lilit Movsisyan and producer Inesa Mkrtchyan co-wrote the comedy drama VIRGIN MARY: Mary, a 26-year-old manicurist in Yerevan, needs to restore her virginity before her engagement because she knows that otherwise she’ll be disgraced. Regardless of how she lost it in the first place.

26/10/2026

cocoPITCH
TONGUES
director: Tīna Zariņa
producer: Alise Gelze
production company: White Picture
country: Latvia

Tīna Zariņa’s debut feature TONGUES is a gothic coming-of-age comedy: Rebellious teenage punk Karolīna (14) is willing to do anything to escape the sanatorium where she is forced to spend her summer vacation with her grandmother – but then she meets a mysterious boy, and all signs point to him being a vampire.

26/10/2026

cocoPITCH
TERESA
director: Jan Bujnowski
producer: Marcin Malatynski
production company: Studio Filmowe Indeks
country: Poland

Jan Bujnowski’s magical realist comedy drama TERESA is set in 1980s Poland: An old state farm worker, inspired by the goods sent to him by his daughter from West Berlin, builds his own inventions in his cellar. One of them turns out to have magical powers – and eventually contributes to the fall of communism.

25/10/2026

cocoPITCH
SVETLANA
director: Vera Pirogova
producer: Evelin Penttilä & Kristen Aigro
production company: Stellar Film
country: Estonia

A dramedy set in the Estonian town of Narva, courtesy of writer/director Vera Pirogova: Following a tumour diagnosis, a 55-year-old cashier rejects her doctor’s advice and familial pressure for surgery, believing it will disappear if she falls in love.

25/10/2026

cocoPITCH
SOMETHING WILD
director: Zsuzsanna Konrad
producer: Patricia D'Intino, Maya Korn, Lili Horvát & Dóra Csernátony
production company: Good Kids GOOD KIDS / MHK Productions / Poste Restante
country: Hungary, Ireland

Based on her award-winning short, SOMETHING WILD is an absurdist pseudo-documentary by Zsuzsanna Konrád: By making a documentary, film student Ábris (20) tries to come to terms with the fact that his older sister is slowly becoming a bear.

24/10/2026

cocoPITCH
REMINISCENCE
director: Anastasiia Tykha
producer: Darya Bassel Darya Bassel
production company: Moon Man
country: Ukraine

REMINISCENCE by Anastasiia Tykha won this year's MIDPOINT coco Award at Karlovy Vary: Trapped by grief over her brother’s disappearance in the war, a young woman returns to their hometown, where old memories and family tensions force her to reshape the meaning of everything she tried to leave behind."

24/10/2026

cocoPITCH
PURPLE SUN
director: Dana Alimjanova
producer: Aruzhan Dossymkozha & Julia Kim-von Den Driesch
production company: Art East Films
country: Kazakhstan

Dana Alimjanova's PURPLE SUN blends psychological drama, mysticism and horror: A young teacher comes to work at a village school near a former nuclear test site. Soon she starts seeing the ghosts of triplet children who are stuck between worlds and need her help.

23/10/2026

cocoPITCH
NO PLACE FOR ME IN HEAVEN
director: Viktorie Novotná
producer: Lara Stoilova & Eva Váchová
production company: Produkce Bratři
country: Czech Republic

Viktorie Novotná's NO PLACE FOR ME IN HEAVEN is set in the subculture of trainhopping: Teenage girl Hell is raised on the move by her free-spirited mother, trainhopping across borders. When an unlucky turn separates them, Hell finds belonging and first love in a remote underground community and begins to imagine a different kind of life.

23/10/2026

CARGO TO THE SOUTH
director: Veno Mušinović
producer: Aleksandar Arsovski
production company: Wolfgang&Dolly
country: Croatia

Veno Mušinović mixes road movie and comedy in his debut feature CARGO TO THE SOUTH: After a fatal hit-and-run, two estranged brothers are forced to drive a stolen truck to Split – chased by rival mafias, a runaway masseuse, and 350 endangered tortoises waking from hibernation.

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