Projects

Projects

Goes to Cannes

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.

Ukraine in Focus

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.

Cannes Docs

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.

Goes to Cannes

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.

Goes to Cannes

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.

Goes to Cannes

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.

Goes to Cannes

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.

Goes to Cannes

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.

Frontières

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.

Frontières

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.