Venice Gap-Financing Market (1 – 3 September, 2017) is organised as part of the Venice Production Bridge (31 August – 5 September, 2017) during the 74th Venice Film Festival. During the three days of the Venice Gap-Financing Market will be shown 47 projects in the final stages of development and funding from all over the world. 

Cook F**k Kill (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia) by Mira Fornay describes one day in the life of a perpetrator of domestic violence Jaroslav K. (45). Jaroslav is a handsome and seemingly good-natured son, father and decent husband. But in fact, he is pathologically jealous of his wife Blanka and very much afraid that she will leave him one day with their three children. Jaroslav K. does not hesitate to employ violence, deceit and terror against others, which ultimately leads to a family tragedy.

Director Mira Fornay graduated in film directing at Prague's FAMU and at the UK's NFTS. Her debut Foxes premiered at the 2009  Venice FF International Film Critics' Week. Her second feature My Dog Killer won the Hivos Tiger Award at the 2013 International Film Festival Rotterdam. Cook F**k Kill was already presented at Czech Film Springboard (Finále Plzeň, 2017) and Pitch & Feedback (KVIFF, 2014), both organized by the Czech Film Center.

„The main question is, as in my previous film My Dog Killer, the responsibility for one's individual actions and attitudes, and the extent to which responsibility for a family tragedy lies with society and with the family itself,“ director Mira Fornay says. „The family is the most aggressive group in society, except for the police and the army. In the Czech Republic and Slovakia alone, domestic violence occurs in every fourth family. As with my previous film about racism, My Dog Killer, I've chosen the most absurd situation to show the absurdity of domestic violence as a significant socio-political issue of contemporary Europe.“

Producer: Cineart TV Prague (Czech Republic)
Coproducers: MiraFox (Slovakia), Kinorama (Croatia), Synergia Film (Czech Republic)
Partners: PubRes (Distributor)
In development, shooting to be commenced in autumn 2017.

Upcoming documentary When the War Comes (Czech Republic, Croatia) directed by Jan Gebert is about a paramilitary group in Slovakia, which is recruiting hundreds of teenage members. The group's goal is simple – to create a model society and to prepare for the final clash of civilizations… The main character of the movie is Peter, who lives a seemingly happy life. He received an SUV for his graduation, has a pretty girlfriend, enrolled in college and gets along with his parents. However, his real life is elsewhere – as the head of a paramilitary group called "Slovenskí branci" that meets in the hills and mountains of Slovakia. At 15, Peter travelled to Russia to train with the Cossacks and went through the same course as the separatist units in East Ukraine. Back at home, he established a paramilitary group with a few hundred members, who see it as an island of order in a world filled with fear and danger. According to Peter, his paramilitary group represents a model for what European society should be.

„I consider the topics of nationalism and fear of 'the different' to be the core topics that I examined in my last film Stone Games (2012), as well as, in my profession as a journalist. Currently these topics are as relevant as never before. Europe is going through a crisis, the wave of nationalism and hatred pours out like dirt from a badly sealed drainage. Totalitarian and undemocratic tendencies are receiving increasing support in society and their leaders speak from podiums to eager audiences. Slovenští Branci, a Slovak youth militia, truly demonstrates the increase in the dark powers: young people at the threshold of their life are going one step further than their parents and form their totalitarian community, a presage of a future totalitarian Europe,“ says director Jan Gebert.

Producer: Pink Productions (Czech Republic)
Coproducers: HBO Europe, Hulahop (Croatia)
Partners: Czech Film Fund, Croatian Audiovisual Centre
In production.