Documentary project "Balkan Maestro" directed by Altinaj Petrovic Njegos i François Fluria, produced by AJ AJ AJ Films, has been selected for the Docu Rough Cut Boutique 2026 program. This is a platform dedicated to documentary projects in the advanced editing phase, organized by the Sarajevo Film Festival - CineLink Industry Days and the Balkan Documentary Center, which is celebrating its seventeenth edition this year, the Film Center of Montenegro (FCCG) announced yesterday.
The film "Balkan Maestro" follows a French conductor of Montenegrin origin, Marko Korovitć which takes over the Montenegrin National Orchestra and reconnects with its roots. On the eve of the country's entry into the European Union, he dreams of conducting adaptations of Don Giovanni. The project's producers are Altinai Petrović Njegoš and Dominik Mugs (Dominique Chaudier), I'm mounting Luka Đikanović, and the film is a Montenegrin-French co-production by the companies AJ AJ AJ Films and Bienvenue Productions.
The project was previously supported by the Film Center of Montenegro in a competition for co-financing the development of the project.
For this year's edition of the program, five projects from the Southeast Europe and Caucasus region have been selected, whose author teams will go through three work modules: in Sofia (May 2026), an online module (July 2026) and in Sarajevo (August 2026). In addition to the "Balkan Maestro" project, the projects "Kind of Adults" (Hungary), "No Offence" (Croatia, Czech Republic), "Rana" (Bulgaria) and "Women of Akbelen Forest" (Turkey, Netherlands) have also been selected.
Docu Rough Cut Boutique provides selected teams with intensive mentoring aimed at improving the editing and finishing of documentary films, with the opportunity to present projects to the international film industry during the Sarajevo Film Festival, the FCCG statement said.
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