Projects

Projects

Goes to Cannes

Those Were The Days

Category: Málaga Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Bernabé Bulnes

Produced by: Enrique Guzmán (Rakia Films)

Country of production: Spain

Original title: Fueron los días

Language: Spanish with English subtitles

Runtime: 86'

Completed in: 2023

Alma, an actress who works as a waitress, receives an offer to audition for the next film by Gabino Robles, a prestigious film director with whom she had an intense relationship seven years ago. The former lovers will meet again and try to find answers to questions that are difficult to respond.

Goes to Cannes

Who Were We?

Category: HAF Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Tomina Tetsuya

Produced by: Hatanaka Mina, TETSUYA to MINA film

Country of production: Japan

Original title: Who Were We?

Language: Japanese

Runtime: 101'

Completed in: 2023

A woman who has no memory of her past falls in love with a man who also has no memory. Who were they before they met?

Goes to Cannes

The Queen of My Dreams

Category: Queer Screen Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Fawzia Mirza

Produced by: Andria Wilson Mirza + Fawzia Mirza for Baby Daal Productions; Jason Levangie and Marc Tetreault for Shut Up & Colour Pictures, Executive Producer Damon D'Oliveira

Country of production: Canada, Pakistan

Original title: The Queen of My Dreams

Language: English, Urdu

Runtime: 95'

Completed in: 2023

It’s 1999. In TORONTO, 22-year-old Pakistani, Muslim AZRA MALIK shows her girlfriend her favourite Bollywood film – ARADHANA, the 1969 hit starring Sharmila Tagore. Meanwhile, across the country in SYDNEY, NOVA SCOTIA, Azra’s mother, MARIAM (52), conservative, watches a similarly-labelled VHS (except Mariam’s recorded over her Bollywood movie with religious teachings) as she and her husband HASSAN pack for a trip back home to Pakistan. An awkward phone call between mother-daughter makes it evident that their relationship is strained. Two nights later, Azra gets another call from her mother: Hassan’s had a heart attack on the trip and died. This film takes place over the next 48 hours, as Azra flies to Pakistan and buries her father. Azra’s journey back to Pakistan incites memories and flashbacks to her – and her mother’s – past, to two OTHER life-altering time periods.

Ukraine in Focus

Inheritance

Directed by: Stanislav Bytiutskyi

Produced by: Inna Lastochkina, Valeria Sochyvets |`Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema

Country of production: Ukraine

Original title: Spadok

Language: Ukrainian

Runtime: 90'

Budget: 670 000 Eur

Completed in: 2025

Katya and Anton are a young couple who have just moved into their own flat. They are madly in love with each other, but one day everything changes. Katya and Anton rip off the old wallpaper and notice a small crack in the wall. The bigger this crack becomes, the more their relationship breaks down.

Cannes Docs

Click The Link Below

Original title: Click The Link Below

Directed by: Audun Amundsen

Produced by: Audun Amundsen (GonzoDocs, Norway)

Country of production: Norway, UK, Germany

Runtime: 52', 90'

Expected release: April, 2024

Production stage: In production

Budget: $452.071 (25% in place)

1st feature: No

Looking for: Gap financing, buyers, distributors

Synopsis:

Click The Link Below is about the murky world of money-making gurus online. Some people are living in extravagant luxury while others are lost in broken dreams. The Norwegian filmmaker Audun Amundsen looks behind the facade of their business, while he himself tries to escape the 9-5, and join the new online riches. He spends thousands of dollars on online programs. What does it take to succeed?

Director’s profile:

Audun Amundsen is an award winning Norwegian Documentary Filmmaker and an online marketing consultant at GonzoDocs (www.gonzodocs.com). He has received governmental and non-governmental grants several times for his films, which have sold to major TV-channels, and screened on festivals worldwide. Amundsen is known for submerging deep into long duration projects and making participatory documentaries (Newtopia and Help, I’ve gone Viral!). Favourite topics are our human nature and future prospects with the goal of raising awareness for the better.

 

Goes to Cannes

The Barbaric

Category: SANFIC Industria Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Andrew Sala

Produced by: Nicolás Grosso, Sebastián Muro, Claire Lajoumard

Country of production: Argentina

Original title: La Barbarie

Genre: Feature film

Language: Español

Runtime: 90min

Completed in: 2022

Nacho flees the violence of his home in Buenos Aires and looks for a home under the protection of his father, a rancher with whom he barely has a relationship. Nacho will have to fight to understand his place as a patron.

Goes to Cannes

Follower

Category: Film Bazaar Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Harshad Nalawade

Produced by: Vinay Mishra, Jaideep Varma, Saket Gyani, Maulik Sharma

Country of production: India

Original title: Follower

Genre: Feature film

Language: Marathi, Kannada and Hindi

Runtime: 99min

Completed in: 2022

In a territorially disputed town, a radicalized journalist believes in exposing the atrocities faced by his community. But as the line between his professional and personal life blurs, an inconvenient truth makes him reflect back on a simpler time when he had not yet succumbed to radicalization.

Goes to Cannes

The Editorial Office

Category: Tallinn Black Nights Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Roman Bondarchuk

Produced by: Darya Bassel (Moon Man) Darya Averchenko (South Films) Tanja Georgieva-Waldhauer (Elemag pictures)

Country of production: Ukraine, Germany

Original title: Редакція

Genre: Feature film

Language: Ukrainian, English

Runtime: 120 min (rough cut)

Completed in: 2023

Yura, working at a local nature museum, looking for a rare species, witnesses an arson in the forest. He brings the photos to a local newspaper, and gets a job there. With his new profession it dawns to him that the reality around him is a far cry from what is written in the newspaper.

Goes to Cannes

The Sunny Side of the Street

Category: HAF Goes to Cannes

Directed by: LAU Kok Rui

Produced by: Peter YAM, 70 Plus Production Company Limited, Vinod SEKHAR, Winnie TSANG, Soi CHEANG

Country of production: Hong Kong

Original title: 白日青春

Genre: Feature film

Language: Cantonese, Urdu

Runtime: 105min

Completed in: 2022

A young refugee boy is helped by a taxi driver to flee Hong Kong. They develop a father-son relationship until the boy discovers that the driver is his father’s murderer.

Goes to Cannes

Octopus Skin

Category: Thessaloniki Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Ana Christina Barragan Carrion

Produced by: Isabella Parra, Konstantina Stavrianou, Santiago Ortiz Monasterio, Titus Kreyenberg, Rena Vougioukalou + CALEIDOSCOPIO CINE, GRAAL FILMS, DESENLACE, UNAFILM

Country of production: Ecuador, Greece, Mexico, Germany, France

Original title: La Piel Pulpo

Genre: Feature film

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 90min

Completed in: 2022

Iris and Ariel are twins, who live with their mother and older sister on a rocky island covered with mollusks and birds, in a sibling relationship that surpasses the limits of normal intimacy. Iris decides to go alone to the city for the first time.