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At the bye, the Chiefs had one of the league’s worst punt return subunits.

Much of that was due to the inexperience of rookie receiver/returner Skyy Moore who had trouble tracking the ball, fumbling twice. He also averaged just seven yards per return.

It looked like the Chiefs were trying to mold their punt returner of the future in Moore, but that plan didn’t seem to work out. In Week 9, the Chiefs called an audible and put experienced receiver/returner, Mecole Hardman, back in the punt returner spot.

That proved to be a good idea, as Hardman averaged 10.5 yards per return on four punt returns. He had two returns that went 20 or more yards. His fourth return was his best of the day:

There was only 18 seconds left in the fourth quarter when this return came, game tied at 17. Linebacker Jack Cochrane shedding the personal protector’s block and coming inches away from blocking the punt was wildly impressive. A punt block there would’ve likely won the game for the Chiefs.

Kansas City decided to use vice (double) jammers on each side to cover Tennessee’s gunners, which was a good decision in a late-game situation. Sometimes it’s better to focus less on the punt block and more on acquiring a good field position, which is why doubling up on coverage was best.

I think this punt showed the difference between an experienced returner like Hardman and a rookie returner like Moore. Hardman tracked and fielded the punt with ease (at the :07-second mark) and immediately noticed an overload of defenders to his right. It took quick instincts to realize that he needed to cut to his left, as well as pure speed to move up the sideline without getting caught. The fact that Hardman got up to the 40-yard line on this return was impressive.

But, despite Hardman taking back over punt returns, is Hardman still the Chiefs’ only option at returner? Maybe not. The Chiefs actually used a different receiver to return the first punt of the game: Justin Watson.

Special teams coordinator Dave Toub used a fun and unique strategy on Watson’s return. Moore was actually the designated returner on the play, while Watson lined up behind the trenches. Right as the ball was snapped, Watson sprinted back to field the punt while Moore acted as a decoy:

This is a classic technique that Toub ran with Devin Hester and Johnny Knox back in 2011 when he was the coordinator for the Bears. It’s a tough play to run successfully, but Watson did a good job of tracking the ball, fielding it at the end of his run and taking it upfield for 17 yards.

Unfortunately, Titans linebacker Joe Jones (No. 42) identified the direction of the punt before Watson fielded it. Jones pointed it out to his teammates mid-coverage, so the decoy aspect didn’t work. Still, it was an interesting concept that raises a few questions: first, will Toub ever run this again? Maybe, but it might be years before he does.

The second question is whether Toub will allow Watson or anyone else to return punts this season. Watson did a great job on that return, so why not let him try more? And what other options do the Chiefs have at punt returner? Plenty, actually: they have Moore, obviously, but also newly-acquired receiver Kadarius Toney, rookie cornerback Trent McDuffie, or maybe even running back Isiah Pacheco. It’s clear that Hardman will be the team’s returner in important situations moving forward, but don’t be surprised when Toub experiments with other options this season.

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Pure vegetable soup is so simple, quick to make and satisfying. What’s more, there’s no chicken stock, milk or cream. Instead, it’s made with some good French butter and extra fresh seasonal vegetables. It’s chunky, healthy, low in calories and the ultimate flavour is fresh aromatic herbs added at the end of cooking.

What are the Main Classifications of French Soups?

According to Larousse Gastronomique, there are a few major classifications under soup. However, over time, things have simplified in modern French cooking and so both soupe and potage are used to mean the same thing.

In English, there are National soups too – such as Cullen Skink in Scotland. For more French soups, I have more to come!

This is such a French classic. Apart from a few different vegetables, there’s no need to change anything from Raymond Blanc’s original recipe for fresh vegetable soup in my favourite cookbook, “Mange“. When I first received a signed copy of it as our engagement present in 1996, I was secretly terrified at French cuisine, as the French gourmet recipes for guests all looked complicated.

Years later, however, I realised with a little bit of confidence, the gourmet French recipes were much easier than they looked – and this pure vegetable soup can’t be any easier!

sweat the earthy vegetables first in good quality butter

What is Pure Soup Made Of?

Unlike soups that use chicken or vegetable stock (such as this pumpkin and ginger soup), this pure soup relies on the fresh vegetables themselves with the addition of just water. It’s very like my sweetcorn soup with bell pepper, as I use only the cobs to make the natural stock. Here the root vegetables are sweated first in good quality unsalted butter with salt and pepper added. There is no milk or cream used.

There are two secrets to this recipe:

Chunky Vegetable Soup

These days, I normally blend soups to a smooth consistency (see all my soup recipes). So serving this soup to the family as chunky seems almost D-A-R-I-N-G. Is this perhaps life in the fast lane?

I served this to my French (Corsican) parents-in-law recently, as they’re total soup addicts like myself. Madeleine gave it a confirmed nod of approval but she seemed surprised.  They had soup with chunks in it growing up in Corsica. You know what? Me too! I remember the chunky Scotch Broth (Janice has a good recipe at Farmersgirl Kitchen) with lamb and good old Lentil Soup (Christina has another good recipe with barley at Christina’s Cucina) with a large ham shank, when I was growing up in Scotland.

Somehow, going back to the “bits in it” is somehow satisfying and, while not a thick, hearty soup, the freshness of the herbs makes this a welcome starter.

Mise en place of chopped tomatoes, herbs and shelled peas to add at the last minute

What is the Secret to Making Good Soup?

In a nutshell, the secret to making good soup is to use only good, fresh ingredients. Make your pure vegetable soup fresh and vibrant.

What Can I Add to Vegetable Soup to Make it Taste Better?

As I say above, the secret to this soup is using good quality and the freshest ingredients. However, if you feel it still lacks a bit of flavour, then here are some ideas. Just add at the end of cooking:

What Herbs Go Well in Soup?

I love fresh parsley in this vegetable soup, along with chervil or tarragon. However, other fresh herbs that are great to add at the end of cooking are freshly chopped chives, basil, lovage and sorrel.

Low Calorie Vegetable Soup

This vegetable soup is healthy and low in fat with only 54 calories a bowl. Although that’s before we add ripped off hunks of crispy French baguette and lightly salted Normandy butter!

Enjoy this at any time of year using the freshest vegetables in season. Check the vegetables from the French market produce guide for inspiration.

Pure Vegetable Soup

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Sharm El Sheikh — They were on the brink of shipwreck and did not leave happy, but did feel satisfied that they got the best they could. The countries of the global South achieved something decisive at COP27: the creation of a special fund to address the damage and loss caused by climate change in the most vulnerable nations.

The fund, according to the Sharm El Sheikh Implementation Plan, the official document approved at dawn on Sunday Nov. 20 in this Egyptian city, should enable “rehabilitation, recovery and reconstruction” following extreme weather events in these vulnerable countries.

Decisions on who will provide the money, which countries will benefit and how it will be disbursed were left pending for a special committee to define. But the fund was approved despite the fact that the issue was not even on the official agenda of the summit negotiations, although it was at the center of the public debate before the conference itself.

“We are satisfied that the developed countries have accepted the need to create the Fund. Of course, there is much to discuss for implementation, but it was difficult to ask for more at this COP,” Ulises Lovera, Paraguay’s climate change director, told IPS, weary from a longer-than-expected negotiation, early Sunday morning at the Sharm El Sheikh airport.

“This COP has taken an important step towards justice. I welcome the decision to establish a loss and damage fund and to operationalize it in the coming period,” said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. He also described as an achievement that a “red line” was not crossed, that would take the rise in global temperature above the 1.5-degree limit.

More than 35,000 people from nearly 200 countries participated in the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) on Climate Change in Sharm El Sheikh, an Egyptian seaside resort on the Red Sea, where the critical dimension of global warming in the different regions of the world was on display, sometimes dramatically.

Practically everything that has to do with the future of the modes of production and life of humanity – starting with energy and food – was discussed at a mega-event that far exceeded the official delegations of the countries and the great leaders present, such as U.S. President Joe Biden and the Brazilian president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Hundreds of social organizations, international agencies and private sector stakeholders came here to showcase their work, seek funding, forge alliances, try to influence negotiations, defend their interests or simply be on a stage that seemed to provide a space for all kinds of initiatives and businesses.

At the gigantic Sharm El Sheikh International Convention Center there was also a global fair with non-stop activities from morning to night in the various pavilions, in stands with auditoriums of between 20 and 200 seats, where there was a flurried program of presentations, lectures and debates, not to mention the more or less crowded demonstrations of activists outside the venue.

In addition, government delegates negotiated on the crux of the summit: how to move forward with the implementation of the Paris Agreement, which at COP21 in 2015 set global climate change mitigation and adaptation targets.

On the brink of failure

Once again, the nine-page Sharm El Sheikh Implementation Plan did not include in any of its pages a reference to the need to abandon fossil fuels, but only coal.

The document was the result of a negotiation that should have ended on Friday Nov. 18, but dragged on till Sunday, as usually happens at COPs. What was different on this occasion was a very tough discussion and threats of a walkout by some negotiators, including those of the European Union.

But in the end, the goal of limiting the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius, established in the Paris Agreement, was maintained, although several countries tried to make it more flexible up to 2.0 degrees, which would have been a setback with dramatic effects for the planet and humanity, according to experts and climate activists.

“Rapid, deep and sustained reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions (are) required – lowering global net greenhouse gas emissions by 43 percent by 2030 relative to the 2019 level – to limit global warming to 1.5°C target,” reads the text, although no mention is made of oil and gas, the fossil fuels most responsible for those emissions, in one of the usual COP compromises, since agreements are reached by consensus.

The priorities of the South

Developing countries, however, focused throughout the COP on the Loss and Damage Fund and other financing mechanisms to address the impacts of rising temperatures and mitigation actions.

“We need financing because we cannot deal with the environmental crisis alone. That is why we are asking that, in order to solve the problem they have caused, the rich nations take responsibility,” Diego Pacheco, head of the Bolivian delegation to Sharm El Sheikh, told IPS.

Environmental organizations, which showed their power in Egypt with the presence of thousands of activists, also lobbied throughout COP27 for greater commitments, including mitigation actions.

“This conference cannot be considered an implementation conference because there is no implementation without phasing out all fossil fuels,” the main cause of the climate crisis, said Zeina Khalil Hajj of the international environmental organization 350.org.

“Together for implementation” was precisely the slogan of COP27, calling for a shift from commitments to action.

“A text that does not stop fossil fuel expansion, that does not provide progress from the already weak Glasgow Pact (from COP26) makes a mockery of the millions of people living with the impacts of climate change,” said Khalil Hajj, head of global campaigning at 350.org.

The crises that came together

Humanity – as recognized by the States Parties in the final document – is living through a dramatic time.

It faces a number of overlapping crises: food, energy, geopolitical, financial and economic, combined with more frequent natural disasters due to climate change. And developing nations are hit especially hard.

The demand for financing voiced by countries of the global South thus takes on greater relevance.

Cecilia Nicolini, Argentina’s climate change secretary, told IPS that it is the industrialized countries, because of their greater responsibility for climate change, that should finance developing countries, and lamented that “the problem is that the rules are made by the powerful.”

However, 80 percent of the money now being spent worldwide on climate change action is invested in the developed world, according to the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the world’s largest funder of climate action, which has contributed 121 billion dollars to 163 countries over the past 30 years, according to its own figures.

In this context, the issue of Loss and Damage goes one step further than adaptation to climate change, because it involves reparations for the specific impacts of climate change that have already occurred, such as destruction caused by droughts, floods or forest fires.

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“Those who are bearing the burden of climate change are the most vulnerable households and communities. That is why the Loss and Damage Fund must be established without delay, with new funds coming from developed countries,” said Javier Canal Albán, Colombia’s vice minister of environmental land planning.

“It is a moral and climate justice imperative,” added Canal Albán, who spoke at a press conference on behalf of AILAC, a negotiating bloc that brings together several Latin American and Caribbean countries.

But the text of the outcome document itself acknowledges that there is a widening gap between what developing countries need and what they actually receive.

The financing needs of these countries for climate action until 2030 were estimated at 5.6 trillion dollars, but developed countries – as the document recognized – have not even fulfilled their commitment to provide 100 billion dollars per year, committed since 2009, at COP15 in Copenhagen, and ratified in 2015, at COP21 which adopted the Paris Agreement.

It was the absence of any reference to the need to accelerate the move away from oil and natural gas that frustrated several of the leaders at the COP. “We believe that if we don’t phase out fossil fuels there will be no Fund that can pay for the loss and damage caused by climate change,” Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s environment minister, who was at the two-week conference in Sharm El Sheikh held Nov. 6-20, told IPS.

“We have to put the victims first in order to make an orderly and just transition,” she said, expressing the sentiments of the governments and societies of the South at COP27.

IPS produced this article with support from Climate Change Media Partnership 2022, the Earth Journalism Network, Internews, and the Stanley Center for Peace and Security.

SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt — As politicians, activists and journalists celebrated the historic breakthrough to create a loss and damage fund at COP27 and bemoaned the failure to call for a phase-down of fossil fuels, few noticed that the summit took a step — albeit a very controversial one — toward preserving forests and other ecosystems via pledges made by carbon-polluting countries and companies trying to meet their climate goals.

Decisions issued at COP27 set a timeline to implement all parts of Article 6 of the Paris agreement, which regulates carbon trading between the parties, as well as non-market investment in conservation. Also included in those decisions is a verification mechanism that could see countries sell “sovereign carbon credits” for preserving ecosystems. With an area the size of Ireland deforested globally last year, it’s a pressing issue.

Many COP participants now see carbon markets as the best way to amp up investments in ecosystem preservation to benefit the climate, especially carbon-rich rainforests in the global south. Others worry the carbon trading focus could encourage dubious carbon accounting and offsetting, and argue instead for “non-market approaches,” which also got a step closer to reality at COP27.

“It is too optimistic to say that this is a victory for forests,” said Diego Pacheco Balanza, Bolivia’s lead negotiator and a key voice on Article 6. “We are opening several venues for supporting forests financially to help keep them alive, but those are resisted by developed countries. They only want to push the commodification of forests, which of course is a fatal scenario.”

First time inclusion of “Nature-based solutions”

COP27’s incremental achievements reflect a growing recognition that ecosystems provide vital carbon sinks as well as havens for wildlife, and that protecting them simultaneously addresses the global climate and biodiversity crises. Primary forests, for instance, both absorb carbon from the atmosphere and store it in a way that enhances resistance to wildfires and disease. So, say negotiators, countries and companies deserve rewards for conserving them.

This year’s COP cover text enshrined the import of “ensuring the integrity” of forests, the ocean, and the cryosphere, and underlined a need for “protecting, conserving and restoring nature and ecosystems” to meet the Paris agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5° C.

The final text also included a dedicated section on forests for the first time, which referenced “nature-based solutions” — actions to protect ecosystems while easing global warming.

A similar reference to “nature-based solutions” was rejected at COP26 in 2021 in Glasgow. But the final cover decision text approved at COP27 in Egypt, reflects only a partial victory, say campaigners. That’s because the final text only “encourages” signatories to consider such solutions. In the jargon of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, this is a weaker signal to a country or company updating its climate policies than “invites,” “urges,” “strongly urges,” “requests,” or “instructs.”

New life for underperforming REDD+

The other item addressed in the forest section, though controversial, has been hailed by some as a win for climate justice. It quoted a section of the Paris agreement that urged parties to implement REDD+, or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, enshrining a mechanism for sustainable management of forests in developing countries.

The REDD+ framework was originally designed to evaluate, quantify, and support avoided emissions via the preservation, rather than the exploitation, of carbon-storing ecosystems including forests. The COP27 text could allow developing nations to sell vetted sovereign carbon credits, making it more profitable to keep ecosystems intact rather than disrupting them for timber, minerals or agriculture.

Honduras negotiator Malcolm Stufkens told Mongabay and other journalists during a break in the late-night overtime talks in Sharm El Sheikh on Saturday that his country, which is 48% covered by forest, was pushing for a REDD+ reference to be included in the text so that his nation’s trees would have “more value standing than not standing.”

“We’ve been working a lot on protection and conservation, so we’re here to see that the mechanism has to build up also to [nations getting] paid for all the [preservation] activities we’re doing, and [for] protecting our forest,” he said.

Kevin Conrad, director of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations and a negotiator for Papua New Guinea who was instrumental in developing the framework back in 2005, held up the negotiations in Glasgow in 2021 in a failed push for REDD+ to be included in the text. This year it also seemed REDD+ would get left out. Ève Bazaiba, the deputy prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, even flew into Sharm El Sheikh at the last minute to rally parties for its inclusion.

Ultimately, the nod to REDD+ made it into the final COP27 text, as did a significant footnote stipulating that not only countries, but also private companies, could buy sovereign carbon credits.

“What developing countries are concerned about is being trapped into commitments that the poorest countries can’t implement,” Conrad said. “They didn’t cause the [climate] problem, but they’re willing to help, as long as there’s sufficient finance, and that’s the [private corporate] link we need.… We don’t want just to rely on some public finance.”

Projects implemented under the framework so far have shown mixed results, and academics have even wondered if “REDD+ is dead.” But some forest activists see it as the lesser evil.

“We compromise on REDD+ with results-based payment to keep it outside of carbon markets,” said Souparna Lahiri of the Global Forest Coalition.

Climate financing or offsetting?

Article 6 of the Paris agreement is meant to help countries cooperate to reach their climate targets, and COP27 took steps toward finally putting it into action.

The first item — outlined in Article 6.2 — allows one country to pay for an emissions reduction in another country and count it towards its own net zero goal. Article 6.2 working rules were agreed to at COP26, and are beginning to be implemented. At this year’s summit, Ghana and Switzerland authorized the first-ever “internationally transferred mitigation outcome” under Article 6.2.

In that landmark agreement, Switzerland installed efficient lighting and cleaner stoves in Ghana so up to five million households there will no longer need to burn carbon-polluting wood for cooking. Switzerland can now count those emission cuts in Ghana toward its own goal of halving Swiss greenhouse gas output by 2030. It has signed similar agreements  with 10 other low-income countries.

The next key section, Article 6.4, allows the trading of carbon credits on an open market, rather than under an agreement between two countries. A text issued at COP27 moves that process forward, asking a technical committee to issue recommendations before the next COP on what qualifies to be sold as carbon credits. It also requests parties to weigh in on whether those credits can be applied to countries’ net zero targets.

At issue is “emission avoidance,” an ill-defined term that applies when nations keep carbon-storing ecosystems intact, “regardless of any evidence that such carbon would [ever] be released to the atmosphere,” said Caroline Prolo of LACLIMA, a Brazilian network of climate law experts.

A supervisory body has not yet finished its recommendations on how to address the risk of carbon storage reversals, such as when a forest already sold as a carbon credit burns down. This lack of detail has left critics complaining that elements of Article 6.4, as agreed to at COP27, feel rushed and may “fail on delivering the high level of integrity that is expected,” Prolo said.

Big emitters like the United States have pushed for the creation of carbon markets, arguing that they make the fight against climate change profitable and add incentive, rather than just relying on public-minded donors to invest in mitigation in another country.

However, these kinds of markets have long been criticized for shoddy accounting. Eighty percent of credits traded on an early carbon market under the Kyoto Protocol climate agreement were ”almost completely bogus,” undermining a third of the European Union’s claimed emission cuts. There’s also the fear of double counting: Experts feel that the Article 6 rules discussed at COP27 could allow both the country that sold a carbon credit, and a company that bought it, to count it toward their net-zero goal.

Carbon markets are ultimately a form of offsetting, say some critics, which can allow bad actors to pay their way to net zero, never reducing their own high emissions, while buying credits for reductions elsewhere. The voluntary carbon markets that already exist are contributing to “net-zero greenwashing” by countries and companies due to a lack “standards, regulations and rigor,” a report commissioned by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said this month.

Non-market approaches

“At the very best, [with carbon markets] you just get a cancellation of emissions, just a balancing out, but that rarely happens in practice because you have so many issues, so many assumptions that have to happen for that to be real,” said Catalina Gonda of FARN, an environmental law NGO based in Argentina.

To head off that problem, Balanza and others demanded during the Paris agreement negotiations that Article 6 also include Article 6.8, which affords emission reductions through “non-market approaches.” These are essentially grants rather than credits.

The CLARA network of conservation and land rights groups, for instance, has suggested placing levies on oil drilling, stock trading and air travel that could fund projects to protect and restore forests.

Article 6.8 remains the ugly stepchild of Article 6, given little shrift by carbon polluters focused on offsets, as well as activists focused on big-picture issues like loss and damage. Opponents say the forces of supply and demand will do better at creating value for climate action. But forest campaigners argue 6.8 can effectively match donors to promising mitigation and adaptation initiatives, all without creating incentives for shady accounting.

COP27 offered a major breakthrough on Article 6.8, analysts said. Decisions in Egypt finally put it on a timeline for implementation in 2023-24, by asking experts to start identifying non-market approaches and who can participate.

“6.4 is creating a trading mechanism that Shell and Total and [big] airlines can continue,” said Peter Riggs of Pivot Point, an NGO. “Whereas with 6.8, 100% of the benefit will accrue to the developing country that hosts the activity.”

Once implemented, Article 6.8 could be a way of regulating the many international investments in preserving ecosystems announced annually, including those under the Glasgow Forest Declaration. At COP27, the UK said $2.7 billion had been paid out under that forest pact, with a total $12 billion pledged.

But, say analysts, a lot of international finance has failed to make it to the places where deforestation is occurring on the ground, such as in the Democratic Republic of Congo. To avoid that fault, the funds should be vetted and monitored under a UNFCCC mechanism like Article 6.8, proponents say.

Asked why he supports voluntary carbon cuts over the quid pro quo carbon markets for climate mitigation, Balanza pointed out that significant political will has already emerged to protect the Amazon rainforest through initiatives like the Amazon Fund, by which Germany, Norway and Brazil finance inspectors to fight agriculturally driven deforestation.

“There is a pathway, a real pathway, to start working seriously on how we should address the climate crisis,” he said, “with cooperation of parties, and opening an alternative to mercantilism.”

Mongabay contributor Alec Luhn is on assignment at COP27 in Egypt.

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08/11/2022 – A total of 20 films in production or post-production will be presented at the three sections of the Estonian gathering’s Works in Progress sessions in November

Running from 20-25 November, Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, the summit for film and audiovisual industry professionals, is held during the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. A total of 20 films in production or post-production, that are looking for sales agents or festivals for international premieres, will be presented at three Works In Progress showcases. The projects taking part in Works in Progress will be presented on 22-24 November at the Coca-Cola Plaza cinema hall, the presentations can also be followed on the industry.poff.ee website.

The selection includes new projects from award-winning directors as well as debuts from different genres. The Baltic Event Works in Progress, which is celebrating its 20^th edition, will present eight projects. According to Maria Ulfsak, the Programme Manager of Baltic Event Works in Progress, “the selection gives a good overview of the region’s current state of forthcoming films.”

Three projects are hailing from Estonia, Rain Rannu’s ‘NFT-expanded’ comedy drama, Free Money (read the news); Miguel Llanso’s Infinite Summer and the Estonian-Finnish co-production, complex magical-realist ensemble tragedy, 8 Views of Lake Biwa by Marko Raat (read the news). Meanwhile, representing Finland will be the dark comedy Death is a Problem for the Living by Teemu Nikki. The selection also includes three Latvian-Lithuanian co-productions: Black Velvet by Liene Linde, Life Interrupted by Ilze Kunga-Melgaile and Lotus by Signe Birkova which centres on German-Baltic Countess Alice Von Trotta (read the news), while Anna LOL by Ivars Tontegode from Latvia wraps the selection.

The 8^th International Works in Progress section will host six projects, with Spanish debutant Estibaliz Urresola presenting a coming-of-age story exploring the relationship between body, gender, and identity in 20 000 Species of Bees (read the news), while conflict and hope reflect inter-generational cohabitation in Waltzing Matilda by veteran Czech documentary filmmaker Petr Slavík (read the news). Jatla Siddartha returns to Tallinn with his sophomore feature drama In The Belly of the Tiger, co-produced by India, China, the United States, France and Taiwan. Brazilian awarded film director Heitor Dhallia presents the drama The Ballad of a Hustler, while debutant Puerto Rican writer-director Edgar De Luque Jácome is featured with The Fisherman’s Daughter. Also, this year’s Industry@Talinn & Baltic Event Focus Country Israel is represented with the family drama Ruth directed by social activist and filmmaker Esty Shushan.

For the fourth time, projects in the children’s and youth film category are featured in the Just Film Works in Progress section, with six selected films. Amongst them are the debut feature film Jonja by Anika Mätzke from Germany and Raw Material by emerging film director Martin Boross from Hungary. Romania is represented with the drama Government of Children, directed by Ioana Mischie, while Finland’s Teemu Nikki has another project, Snot and Splash.

Here is the full list of selected projects:

Baltic Event Works in Progress

8 Views of Lake Biwa – Marko Raat (Estonia/Finland)
Producers: Ivo Felt (Allfilm), Dora Nedeczky (Bufo)

Anna LOL – Ivars Tontegode (Latvia)
Producers: Guna Stahovska (Mojo Raiser Production), SIA KMVKP

Black Velvet – Liene Linde (Latvia/Lithuania)
Producer: Guntis Trekteris (Ego Media)

Death is a Problem for the Living – Teemu Nikki (Finland)
Producer: Jani Pösö (It’s Alive Films)

Free Money – Rain Rannu (Estonia)
Producers: Tõnu Hiielaid (Tallifornia), Rain Rannu

Infinite Summer – Miguel Llanso (Estonia)
Producer: Tõnu Hiielaid (Tallifornia)

Life Interrupted – Ilze Kunga- Melgaile (Latvia/Lithuania)
Producers: Aija Bērziņa (Tasse Film), Marija Razgute

Lotus – Signe Birkova (Latvia/Lithuania)
Producers: Dominiks Jarmakovičs, Roberts Viniovskis

International Works in Progress

20 000 Species of Bees – Estibaliz Urresola (Spain)
Producers: Lara Izagirre (Gariza Films), Valérie Delpierre (Inicia Films)

The Ballad of a Hustler – Heitor Dhalia (USA/Brazil)
Producer: Bernardo Barreto (Berny Films)

The Fisherman’s Daughter – Edgar De Luque Jácome (Puerto Rico/Colombia/Brazil)
Producer: Annabelle Mullen Pacheco (Belle Films)

In The Belly of A Tiger – Siddhartha Jatla (India/China/USA/France/Taiwan)
Producers: Patrick Mau Huang, Sarada Uma, Bhavana Goparaju, Esther Lee (JATLA PICTURES)

Ruth – Esty Shushan (Israel)
Producers: David Silber, Sivan Cohen (Metro Communications)

Waltzing Matilda – Petr Slavík (Czech Republic/Slovakia)
Producers: Nataša Slavíková (Phoenix Production), Vít Janeček (VIRUSfilm)

Just Film Works in Progress

Empire of The Rabbits – Seyfettin Tokmak (Turkey/Mexico/Lebanon/France)
Producer: Zeynep Koray (ZKF)

Government of Children – Ioana Mischie (Romania)
Producer: Irina Petrescu (Studioset Production)

Jonja – Anika Mätzke (Germany)
Producers: Norman Bernien, Christoph Holthof, Daniel Reich (kurhaus production)

Kissing Bug – Luis Zorraquin (Argentina/Brazil)
Producers: Esteban Lucangioli (Pelicano Cine), Bruno Autran (Labuta Filmes)

Raw Material – Martin Boross (Hungary)
Producer: Gábor Osváth (Filmfabriq)

Snot and Splash – Teemu Nikki (Finland)
Producers: Jani Pösö, Ari Matikainen (It’s Alive Films)

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Boyadjieva joins PFL after spearheading global management of live events and activations at Formula 1 and WWE.

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