Ciconia Film
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Ciconia Film

A way of seeing

Ciconia Film is an award-winning production company founded by Academy Award® and Emmy®-nominated filmmakers Tamara Kotevska and Jean Dakar.

We create authored documentary and fiction films that explore human behavior through the forces that shape our lives: landscape, nature, migration, memory and survival. From intimate lives to larger worlds around them, Ciconia develops visually distinctive stories shaped by curiosity, close observation and long-term collaboration.

About Ciconia Film

Director, writer, producer, co-founder

Tamara Kotevska

Two-time Academy Award nominee. Director of Honeyland and The Tale of Silyan.

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Cinematographer, producer, co-founder

Jean Dakar

IDA award-winning cinematographer and producer of The Tale of Silyan.

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Ciconia Films

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Close night portrait of farmer Nikola in a beaded, coin-hung headdress, a white stork resting against his shoulder in warm lamplight.

Completed · In distribution

The Tale of Silyan

A farmer nurses an injured stork back to health, and the two become inseparable.

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A figure carrying a mammoth tusk in silhouette against an orange sunset.

In development

The Mammoths that Escaped the Kingdom of Erlik Khan

In the Siberian Arctic, Vladik and his father Roma enter a dangerous mammoth-tusk trade as their community struggles to survive.

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In production

All That Remained Was a Story

A film taking shape. Images to follow.

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