Projects
Projects
We are Zombies
Category: Buyers Showcase
Directed by: RKSS
Produced by: Laurent Baudens, Christian Larouche, Fabrice Giger, Pierre Spengler (Kinology)
Country of production: France, Canada
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Language: English
In a city infested with the “living-impaired” (non-cannibal zombies victims of a capitalist and corporate-driven society), three slackers after easy money must fight rednecks and an evil megacorporation to save their kidnapped grandma.
Upiro
Category: Proof of Concept
Directed by: Óscar Martín
Produced by: Elena Muñoz (El Ojo Mecanico)
Country of production: Spain
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Language: Spanish
A rebel young woman struggles to survive in a cloistered monastery where novices mysteriously bleed to death.
Restore Point
Category: Fantastic 7
Directed by: Robert Hloz
Produced by: Jan Kallista
Country of production: Czech Republic
Original title: Bod Obnovy
Genre: Science-fiction
Language: Czech
Tallinn Black Nights Festival
2041. All people have a constitutional right to experience one whole life. If someone dies an unnatural death, they are revived. All you need to do is to regularly create a restore point –a backup where your memory is saved to. Murder is nearly impossible. Trochinowska has to solve a murder-mystery.
Special Treat
Directed by: Antonio Lukich
Produced by: Volodymyr Yatsenko & Anna Yatsenko (FOREFILMS) | Co-producer: Jessie Fisk (FELINE FILMS)
Country of production: Ukraine, Ireland
Original title: Особливе Cтавлення
Language: Ukrainian, English
Runtime: 100'
Budget: 2 500 000 Eur
Completed in: 2025
On the way to her dream of becoming an actress, Sasha cannot be stopped by her mother, war and poverty. Will Sasha be stopped by the spear that accidentally stabbed her on a stupid shootings?
Silent Flood
Original title: Тиха Повінь
Directed by: Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
Produced by: Karina Kostyna, Eugene Rachkovsky (TABOR, Ukraine)
Country of production: Ukraine
Runtime: 80'
Expected release: November, 2024
Production stage: Late development
Budget: €233.496 (12% in place)
1st feature: No
Looking for: Distributors, co-producers, gap financing, strategic guidance
Synopsis:
Set by a beautiful river canyon in Western Ukraine, a pacifist community with unique religious beliefs, sees their peaceful way of life gradually distressed by regular floods and eventually an unexpected war.
Director’s profile:
Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk is a Ukrainian author and filmmaker, graduated from the Kyiv National I.K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. Participant of the Berlinale Talents, Locarno Film Academy, he is the founder of the script platform Terrarium. He was first noticed with his short film «WEIGHLIFBTEuRd»g,eat 1E9F5A9c5o5neteunroder, winner of the Best Short Film Award in Angers and Grand Prix of the Warsaw IFIFn. pHlaisce fi1r7st00f0eaeturoe, «PAMFIR», was developed by TorinoFilmLab, Midpoint and Cannes’ Cinefondation and achieve a selection at Cannes Film Festival Directors’ Fortnight in 2022 as well as Nomination at European Film Award, European Discovery Prix Fipresci.
Producer’s profile:
Karina Kostyna is a Ukrainian film producer. Graduated from Institute of International Relationships, National University of Taras Shevtchenko. Master of international business. After 10 years in advertising, followed her heart and left for film. Karina has a number of successful, ambitious and award-winning film projects in her background, both doc and fiction. Alumni of the School of Young Producers by Mannheim Meeting Place 2021, Talents Nest at Meeting Point Vilnius 2021, EAVE Change workshop 2021-2022, EWA Mentoring program 2022. Executive producer of Pamfir, feature film, by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, 2022 Cannes Film Festival, Directors’ Fortnight premiere.
Kidnapping Inc
Category: Buyers Showcase
Directed by: Bruno Mourral
Produced by: Promenades Films, Péripheria Productions Inc, BHM Films
Country of production: France, Canada
Genre: Dark Comedy
Language: Creole, French
Two hapless kidnappers, tasked with what seems like a simple job discover it’s anything but, and find themselves in the middle of a political conspiracy in Haiti.
The Portal
Category: Proof of Concept
Directed by: Chadi Abo
Produced by: Ruba El-Khesh Khair, Lilas Wahbe, May Odeh, Zorana Musikic, Chadi Abo
Country of production: France, Syria, Germany
Genre: Fantasy, Science-fiction
Language: Arabic, French, English
In a war zone, a little girl prays for salvation. A cosmic power comes to help her. From now on, Sana will resurrect dead children.
The Portal
Category: Fantastic 7
Directed by: Chadi Abo
Produced by: Ruba El-Khesh Khair, Lilas Wahbe, May Odeh, Zorana Musikic, Chadi Abo
Country of production: France - Syria
Original title: The Portal
Genre: Fantasy, Science-fiction, War
Language: Arabic - French - English
Cairo International Film Festival
In a war zone, a little girl prays for salvation. A cosmic power comes to help her. From now on, Sana will resurrect dead children.
Area Man Lives
Genre: Comedy
Produced by: Michael Perrotto, Numinous Games in association with Cyan Ventures and City Lights
Directed by: Amy Noel Green, Ryan Green
Original title: Area Man Lives
Lead artist: Amy Noel Green, Ryan Green
Runtime: 120-300 minutes of gameplay (Variable length)
Language: English
Completed in: 2022
Synopsis:
AREA MAN LIVES. Or does he? A quirky radio drama unfolds around you in VR while you do your best to keep the radio station humming along as its new DJ. You speak out loud to produce commercials, interview callers and have conversations with your producer. Try your best to piece together how your actions inside the station impact your listening audience. And when things get super weird, don’t forget to save the Area Man.
Director’s statement:
AREA MAN LIVES is a hilariously absurd VR adventure that uses unique storytelling to reveal what we believe about our place in the world and surface questions of destiny, examining how those beliefs connect us to others or drive us apart. We believe that everyone wants to be seen and that when we choose to connect with others we discover all the profound ways that we matter.
Origin: US
Devices: Oculus Quest series
Platform: VeeR
U are the Universe
Category: Buyers Showcase
Directed by: Pavlo Ostrikov
Produced by: ForeFilms
Country of production: Ukraine
Genre: Sci-Fi Comedy
Language: Ukrainian, French
After the explosion of the Earth, the Ukrainian space trucker Andriy becomes the only human in the Universe until French woman Catherine calls him from the faraway space station. Andriy decides to see her despite all the obstacles.