Cannes Docs

Original Title: Sueños Antípodas

Runtime: 85'

Expected Release: November 2027

Production Stage: Post-Production

1st Feature: Yes

Looking for: Co-Producers, Gap Financing, Sales Agents, Festivals

Synopsis:

A young Colombian dancer carries her brother’s death in her body, killed during the historic uprising of 2021, silenced by state violence. With her friends, through the memory of the body, dreams and collective creation they open a portal of sound, which leads them to their antipode in Thailand, finding a ritual for the youth who never returned.

Director/Producer’s Profile:

Juanita Onzaga (1991) is a Colombian filmmaker and artist based between Mexico, Bogotá and Brussels. In her films, Juanita combines fiction and non-fiction, touching the importance of memory, death and imagination, creating poetic tales that reflect different ways of perceiving reality within strong political contexts. Her films move from intimate, sensorial and emotional landscapes to the crossroads with ancestral futurism, transformation of trauma from violent conflict, mysticism, the dreamworlds, the poetics of nature and perception of the real through the lens of ancestral knowledge and rituals.
Her short films have been presented at Cannes Directors Fortnight, Venice Film Festival, Berlinale, IFFR, the MoMA of New York, the Museum of Modern Art of Paris, Eye Film Museum and more festivals and venues, being awarded internationally.

Juanita Onzaga is also the founder of Llamas Etéreas (formerly Rana Films), a production company with a radical vision that fuels hope in the future, in the possibilities for change, and in the healing of the trauma of violence and the land, crafting sensory cinematic rituals. Seeking out what connects us, the company creates flashes of critical and poetic thought, essential for rebuilding hope within our realities. 

Original Title: Papito Corazón

Runtime: 80'

Expected Release: September 2026

Production Stage: Editing

1st Feature: No

Looking for: Festivals, Sales Agents / Distributors, Buyers, Gap Financing

Synopsis:

Camila and her family reconstruct the image of her swindler father through photographs, court records and memories fractured by his violence. A charismatic man who promised limitless success. When the fantasy crumbled, intimacy became fear and silence a way to endure. The film traces the dismantling of a father shaped by neoliberal illusion, and the fragile rebuilding of those who survived his fiction

Director’s Profile:

Tana Gilbert is a filmmaker graduated from the University of Chile with a Master’s degree in Documentary Cinema. Her work focuses on the representation of the domestic and the political, exploring family archives and the lives of women in Latin American contexts.
Her first feature film, Malqueridas (2023), received the Grand Prize for Best Film at the Critics’ Week of the Venice International Film Festival and has earned over 30 awards and 60 official selections at international festivals. Her short films — Rest, Zulema (2013), I’m Still Here (2017) and No Star (2022) — were screened and awarded at festivals such as Hot Docs, Chicago and the Valladolid International Film Week.
She is currently pursuing a PhD in Communication at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, within the research line in Cinema. Her work has established her as one of the new voices in contemporary Chilean cinema.

Producer’s Profile:

Paola Castillo Villagrán is a director and producer of award-winning documentaries, including Beyond My Grandfather Allende (Golden Eye Prize, Cannes Film Festival, 2015), Malqueridas (Best Film, Venice International Critics’ Week, 2023), The Lifeguard, Cielo and Relentless Memory, among others. She has also directed Frontera, Genoveva and 74m².
She is co-founder and Executive Director of the Chilean Documentary Corporation (CCDoc) and Deputy Director of the Chiledoc sector brand, both non-profit organisations supporting the national and international distribution of Chilean documentaries. She has served as a jury member at film festivals, a mentor for documentary labs, and an evaluator for international funding programs.
She is a professor in the Film and TV programme at the University of Chile and in the Audiovisual Direction programme at the Catholic University.

Original Title: Muchachita Chilapa

Runtime: 90'

Expected Release: January 2028

Production Stage: Editing, Production

1st Feature: Yes

Looking for: Sales Agents / Distributors, Buyers, Co-Producers, Impact Producer

Synopsis:

Yulieth (11–15), a brave and rebellious girl grows up in a wild territory where natural beauty coexists with the harshness of machismo. As she becomes a mother, she forms a fragile adolescent family while striving to shape a different path from the one inherited by the women in her family.

Director’s Profile:

Juana Lotero is a Medellín-based filmmaker, lifelong learner, feminist, and economist. She studied directing at EICTV and is co-founder of Noctámbulos Cine. She is currently producing Muchachita Chilapa, winner of the Colombian Film Development Fund (FDC). At the same time, she is distributing Niña Chilapa (2025), selected for the Refresh Vol. 6 catalogue. The film won Best Colombian Short Film at FICCI and MIDBO, as well as the Americana Award at Festival Regard, and has been screened at Durban, Winterthur, Uppsala, Oberhausen, FIPADOC and DOC NYC.
She wrote, directed, and co-produced Wild Strawberries (2022), which premiered at FICCI and received an Honorable Mention for Best Actress at the Libélula Dorada Film Festival, and Sweet Dreams (2020), which premiered at the Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival, received FACIUNI grants, and won Best Fantasy Short Film at the Colombian Women’s Film Festival.

Producer’s Profile:

Anahí Farfán is an Argentine producer based in Colombia and the founder of Fuega Cine. Her work focuses on auteur cinema and feminist and territorial narratives. She has produced or co-produced films such as Las almas (dir. Laura Basombrío, Best Director, Mar del Plata 2023), Transfariana (dir. Joris Lachaise, Berlinale 2023), Al impenetrable (dir. Sonia Bertotti, Best Film and Best Production, Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre 2023), and the short Geografía espectral (dir. Manuel Mateo Gómez, Vision du Reel 2026). She is currently developing the feature documentaries Muchachita Chilapa (dir. Juana Lotero, FDC Development 2022 and Production 2024) and Mujeres públicas (dir. Agustina Comedi, FDC Minority Co-production 2024).