Projects
Projects
One Person Protest
Category: Queer Screen Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Christopher Amos
Produced by: Christopher Amos | Chrysaor
Country of production: Australia, UK, Russia
Original title: One Person Protest
Language: English
Runtime: 80'
Completed in: 2024
One Person Protest is an observational undercover documentary following 73-year-old human rights activist Peter Tatchell’s daring mission to protest at the 2018 FIFA World Cup to raise awareness of LGBTQ+ injustice in Russia and Chechnya.
Fucking Sensitivity
Directed by: Tetiana Symon
Produced by: Alexandra Bratyshchenko | Eleron Pictures
Country of production: Ukraine
Original title: Грьобана Чутливість
Language: Ukrainian
Runtime: 100'
Budget: 365 000 Eur
Completed in: 2025
Yasya, a journalist, can not pull out of the mess her life has become. She must admit to herself that she can’t continue working due to professional burnout. By researching the stories of people from the social sector, Yasia decides to find out what helps these people to keep on doing their work.
Written in Bones
Original title: Escrito em Ossos
Directed by: Tainá Muhringer Tokitaka
Produced by: Angelo Ravazi (Massa Real Filmes, Brazil)
Country of production: Brazil
Runtime: 90'
Expected release: April, 2024
Production stage: In production
Budget: €110.000 (22% in place)
1st feature: Yes
Looking for: Gap financing, co-producers, strategic guidance, festivals
Synopsis:
One thousand five hundred bodies were buried at an illegal mass grave created by Brazil’s military dictatorship in the 70’s. Decades later, a group of forensic anthropologists try to uncover their identities, but a radical political change threatens their work. During the last five years, we’ve been following the path of these bones. Hidden at a laboratory, they await to tell the story of a Country.
Director’s profile:
Tainá Muhringer Tokitaka is a Brazilian filmmaker. She works as a screenwriter, making films regarding violence, crimes and human rights. She co-wrote the feature film “Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter” which won the Teddy Award at Berlinale 2022. In the same year, the TV series that she worked as a screenwriter, “Evandro’s Case: a Devilish Plot” was nominated for the International Emmy Awards and received a prize from brazilian’s screenwriter association (ABRA) for best screenplay. She also wrote documentaries, such as “God Has AIDS”, that premiered at IDFA and won best film at Queer Porto, and TV series for streaming channels. She graduated both in Film Studies and language and literature. She’s currently writing her Masters Degree, where she studies the use of documents produced by the Brazilian dictatorship in recent films. Written in Bones is her first film as a director.
Producer’s profile:
Angelo Ravazi has worked since 2008 as an executive producer. He graduated in Film Studies and in History. He created his production company, “Massa Real”, based in Sao Paulo, to foment the work of new filmmakers and to produce films that have a social impact. He has produced feature films and documentaries that were exhibited at international festivals. Amongst them, films like “The Arrow and the Uniform », about indigenous populations and the military dictatorship in Brazil, “The Revolution of the Year », about the Arab Spring, and “Us” about people who were killed by the state.
History and Geography
Category: SANFIC Industria Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Bernardo Quesney
Produced by: Pablo Calisto, Tomás Alzamora (Equeco)
Country of production: Chile
Original title: Historia y Geografía
Genre: Feature film
Language: Español
Runtime: 90min
Completed in: 2022
Gioconda Martínez, a well-remembered comic television actress, decides to return to her hometown to put on a play about the conquest of Chile, to regain the artistic recognition she thought she had lost, but never had.
Bailadila
Category: Film Bazaar Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Shailendra Sahu
Produced by: Raju Biswas
Country of production: India
Original title: Bailadila
Genre: Feature film
Language: Hindi and Chhattisgarhi
Runtime: 93min
Completed in: 2022
In the slumbering mining town of Bailadila is home to 10 year old Rinku’s elder brother Jiten, a passionate artist caught in a miserable teaching job. Rinku finds himself at the threshold of boyhood after losing his mother, moving in with his brother and experiences many things for the first time.
Do you love me?
Category: Tallinn Black Nights Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Tonia Noyabrova
Produced by: Anastasiia Bukovska, Danylo Kaptyukh (Family Production)
Country of production: Ukraine
Original title: Do you love me?
Genre: Feature film
Language: Ukrainian
Runtime: 90min
Completed in: 2023
One has to be brave enough to accept loosing old self for the sake of growing up. Kira becomes adult briskly, watching her family and soviet childhood smashing into pieces. So does Ukraine in the early 90th, launching painful process of transformation into an independent country.
The Spark
Category: HAF Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Rajesh S. JALA
Produced by: Rajesh S. JALA (Principal Producer-The Elements), Prayas DEEPTI (Co-Producer-Inquilab Studio)
Country of production: India
Original title: CHINGARI
Genre: Feature film
Language: Hindi
Runtime: 105min
Completed in: 2022
A filmmaker on assignment follows a cremator and an old woman in the ancient city of Banaras with his camera. Soon, hidden realities emerge and the filmmaker’s real mission unfolds.
NEW CONTINENT
Category: Thessaloniki Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Pandelis Pagoulatos
Produced by: Nikos Moustakas + Bad Crowd, Bandur Films, Arizona Productions
Country of production: Greece, France, Serbia
Original title: ΝΕΑ ΗΠΕΙΡΟΣ
Genre: Feature film
Language: Greek
Runtime: 90min
Completed in: 2023
« New Continent » is a love drama about the people who wander without a compass. The ones who are constantly trading without rules, wear the role of « evil », but in reality they survive by sulking between the most infamous streets of the capital. Above all, though, it’s a dead-end love story.
Falling Stars
Category: Buyers Showcase
Directed by: Richard Karpala, Gabriel Bienczycki
Produced by: Richard Karpala, Gabriel Bienczycki
Country of production: USA
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Language: English
On the first night of harvest, three brothers set out for the desert to see a witch’s corpse.
Requiem for a Robot
Category: Proof of Concept
Directed by: Christoph Rainer
Produced by: Loredana Rehekampff, Andreas Schmied // Samsara Filmproduktion and Josef Redinger // Pharos (former ARRI Media)
Country of production: Austria, Germany
Genre: Science-fiction
Language: English
A thrilling sci-fi fairytale about a misfit robot struggling to find his purpose. When the life of his god-like brother is in danger, our clumsy hero embarks on an existential journey to save him.