Cannes Docs

Original Title: På Et Splitsekund

Runtime: 90' & 52'

Expected Release: February 2027

Production Stage: Editing

1st Feature: Yes

Looking for: Festivals, Sales Agents, Distributors, Buyers

Synopsis:

Leslie and Thilde stand on the threshold of a new phase in their lives: Leslie’s career as a film composer is taking off, while her wife Thilde is pregnant with their second child. But three weeks before the due date, Leslie is diagnosed with leukaemia. All I Ever Wanted is an intimate love story exploring how trauma reshapes love, family, and the very idea of a future when life changes in an instant.

Director’s Profile:

Christina Martiny Moltke has a background in fine arts as well as media theory. Since 2017 she has worked as editorial director and photographer on several acclaimed Danish documentary series for the Danish broadcasting companies DR and TV2. Her work is characterised by a gentle approach to vulnerable subjects, exploring how trauma affects individuals and their environment.

Producers’ Profiles:

Esther Nissen has worked as a producer, production manager, and as part of the production team on short films, TV series, and feature films since 2014. In 2019 she joined Final Cut for Real. Here, she has been a part of the team behind the Oscar®-nominated films Flee and A House Made of Splinters as well as associate producer on Joshua Oppenheimer’s musical The End. She is an alumni of the international producers programme EURODOC 2025.

Maria Kristensen holds an MA in Film Studies (2010, Copenhagen University), where she wrote her thesis on ethics in satirical documentary film. Since 2011, she has been with Final Cut for Real, working as a production manager, post producer and VR producer, as well as associate producer on the Oscar®-nominated documentaries A House Made of Splinters, The Look of Silence, and The Act of Killing.

Original Title: Den største illusjonen

Runtime: 100'

Expected Release: May 2027

Production Stage: Production

1st Feature: No

Looking for: Festivals, Sales Agent / Distributors, Buyers

Synopsis:

The popular magician Alexx repressed what happened when he was young, when his father killed his mother and was later convicted for it. Alexx’s three siblings were minors, and he took on great responsibility for them in the aftermath. His solution to the pain was to turn to the stage, to the freedom he finds there. With magic as a metaphor, the audience is presented a story of memory, loss and forgiveness.

Director’s Profile:

Benjamin Ree is a Norwegian documentary film director. His newest release is The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (2024). It won the Audience Award and the Directing Award at Sundance Film Festival in 2024 as well as numerous other awards and was shortlisted for an Oscar. After it’s Sundance premiere it was bought by Netflix and released worldwide. In 2020 he directed The Painter and the Thief which sold to 80 countries and won more than 30 awards. The film was named one of 2020’s best films, by BBC, Boston Globe, Washington Post and the New York Times, and it has been named an important film in film history by several media outlets. The film was also shortlisted for an Oscars. Benjamin’s debut feature was Magnus (2016) It sold to 64 countries and won awards at film festivals around the world. It’s a coming of age sports documentary about the world’s best chess player Magnus Carlsen.

Producer’s Profile:

Ingvil Giske has worked in documentaries for more than 25 years. Among her latest releases are the Sundance-winner The Remarkable Life of Ibelin that received a place on the Oscar shortlist in 2024 and the DOX:AWARD-winner 2022 The Eclipse, that later was part of the documentary selection at the European Film Academy and nominated for the EUFA-award. The Painter and the Thief from 2020 received a special jury award for creative storytelling at Sundance, was on the shortlist for an Oscar and won more than 30 film awards, including a Grierson award.
She has produced several docs for younger audiences, Todd & Super-Stella (ECFA-winner 2024), Kid’s Cup (2022), Tongue Cutters (2017) and the short doc The School by the Sea. Ingvil is a Peabody award winner, and the films she has produced have received in total 7 awards and 18 nominations at the national Amanda awards.

Original Title: Eyríki

Runtime: 74'

Expected Release: May 2026

Production Stage: Post-Production

1st Feature: Yes

Looking for: Sales Agents, Festivals, Strategic Guidance, Post-production Funding

Synopsis:

A love letter to a remote Arctic community going through upheaval, depopulation and climate change.

Director’s Profile:

Nikolai Galitzine has worked in Iceland for over 15 years. He previously focused on cinematography and producing. His eclectic background in visual effects and directing award winning commercials led to coming full circle to make his own films and co-produce internationally. Island Nation is his first feature documentary as director/writer/cinematographer/editor.

Producer’s Profile:

Dögg Mósesdóttir is an Edda nominated Icelandic producer and a director and owner of Northern Wave Productions. She has produced documentary series, feature documentaries, shorts and music videos for the past 15 years of her career.

Original Title: Raakkukuningas

Runtime: 100'

Expected Release: January 2027

Production Stage: Post-Production

1st Feature: No

Looking for: Sales Agents, Festivals

Synopsis:

One day, everything went to shits.
A forestry machine driver crossed a river and, without realizing, crushed thousands of highly endangered freshwater pearl mussels. A philosophical crime film with an absurd twist. Lonesome Land paints a cinematic portrait of forestry loggers and other living creatures in a remote area of eastern Finland.

Director/Producer’s Profile:

Virpi Suutari is an acclaimed director and producer in Euphoria Film. She is known for films Once Upon a Time in a Forest (CPH:DOX 2024 premiere, IDFA Signed program), AALTO (2020), Entrepreneur (2018, IDFA Masters), Garden Lovers (Visions du Réel 2014) and the short documentaries A People’s Radio – Ballads from a Wooded Country (2021, IDFA Masters) and Elegance (2016, Oberhausen short film festival).
Her work has earned four national Film Academy Awards and three Best Nordic Documentary Awards at Nordisk Panorama. Her film The Idle Ones (2001) was also nominated for Best European Documentary. In 2025, Suutari received the Lifetime Achievement Apollo Award at the Helsinki Documentary Film Festival.

Euphoria Film Oy is a production company founded in 2012 by documentary film director/producer Virpi Suutari and actor Martti Suosalo. The company produces projects that expand existing genres and have high artistic ambitions. The company and the director/producer Virpi Suutari have produced such acclaimed films as Once Upon a Time in a Forest (premiered at CPH:Dox 2024, IDFA Signed-program), AALTO ( 2020, sold worldwide) and shorts A People´s radio – Ballads from a wooded country (2021, IDFA Masters) and Elegance (2016). Recently Virpi Suutari / Euphoria Film was a minority co-producer for the film Homesick (dir. Tanja In Wol SØrensen, 2026) produced by Tambo film.

Original Title: Untitled Timbuktu Documentary

Runtime: 90'

Expected Release: June 2027

Production Stage: Post-Production

1st Feature: No

Looking for: Festivals, Sales and Distribution, Impact Funding, Funds/Investments for Distribution in the US.

Synopsis:

Swedish rapper Jason « Timbuktu » Diakité prepares for the show of his life in Harlem. His father, Madubuko « Buko » Diakité, refuses to attend. They have a strained relationship, but when Buko nearly dies, Jason realizes his father is his last living link to his African American roots. Determined to understand his heritage, Jason travels to South Carolina to research his family history.

Director’s Profile:

Simon Klose is a documentary producer and director from Malmö, Sweden, with a background in law from Stockholm University. In 2024, he won Best Documentary Feature at Tribeca for Hacking Hate. His earlier work includes TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard (2013), a film about the file-sharing conflict that premiered at the Berlinale and was released online for free, reaching millions around the world. In 2016, he produced and hosted Food Hacking Japan, a short doc series for VICE Munchies exploring food disruptors in Tokyo. Simon’s work often focuses on the intersection of technology, power, and culture.

Producers’ Profiles:

Martin Persson is Executive Producer of feature films, documentaries and tv-series at Anagram. He is one of the founders of the company and was the CEO of Anagram from 2002 until 2014 and Head of Development from 2017-2024. He has extensive training via EAVE, ACE, Media Exchange and Trans-Atlantic Partners. His latest productions include the series To Cook a Bear (Disney+) and Thin Blue Line (SVT) and the co-produced feature films The End and A Silent Story (Final Cut For Real).

Elin Kamlert is a producer with her primary focus on documentary film, producing as a freelancer and in her own company Kamlert Film. Her productions include Hanna Heilborn’s The Village of Roses (2023), Simon Klose’s Hacking Hate (2024) and Emilia Ekman Larsons Memories in Clay – a film about Lisa Larson (2025). Elin is a graduate of EAVE’s European Producers Workshop and Jihlava IDFF’s Emerging Producers.