Cannes Docs

Original Title: Jinwar - Land of Women

Runtime: 90'

Expected Release: April 2027

Production Stage: Production

1st Feature: Yes

Looking for: Co-producers, financing, post production deals, impact and strategic partners

Synopsis:

Jinwar in northeast Syria is not just a village but a living matriarchy, built by women for women to unbind patriarchy and cradle a future born of their hands. Yasemin and her sisters have given all for a life beyond fear. But as the regime falls, an extremist dream would own them and destroy the sanctuary they’ve built. They become shield and sword – mothers, healers, fighters – choosing fierce resistance together over a return to the lives they led before they found freedom within Jinwar’s walls.

Director’s Profile:

Beyan Salah is a Kurdish director whose work foregrounds intimate human stories that often go missing from headline news. She won the Best Pitch award at Edinburgh Pitch 2024 for a bold, empathetic approach to storytelling and impact. Believing that audiences are moved most deeply when they momentarily inhabit another person’s life on screen, she pursues narratives that foster empathy and real-world change. Her credits include producing and co-shooting on the award-winning feature documentary Name Me Lawand, directed by Edward Lovelace.

 

Producer’s Profile:

Fleur Nieddu is an Emmy nominated producer with a background in Impact Producing, working with emerging talent and co-runs Lovelace Films, a UK based production company, with director/producer Edward Lovelace.

Edward Lovelace is a British director and producer. He is the co-founder of Lovelace Films, a London-based production company.

Original Title: Пересікаючі Окс

Runtime: 90'

Expected Release: November 2027

Production Stage: Early production

1st Feature: Yes

Looking for: Funding for production and post-production, TV channels, potential buyers for pre-sales, festivals

Synopsis:

While exploring the scars of the Soviet past, Ukrainian cinematographer Marina meets Vyacheslav, the last Soviet soldier to leave Afghanistan, who preserved a unique personal archive of letters and 8mm films. Immersing herself in his account of the Soviet withdrawal and growing disillusionment, a fragile bond forms between them: distance slowly turning into connection as they search for a way to live with a past that cannot be changed.

Director’s Profile:

Svitlana Lishchynska is a Ukrainian filmmaker whose debut feature-length documentary A Bit of a Stranger premiered at the Berlinale Panorama in 2024.
Before turning to filmmaking, she built a successful career of over 25 years in Ukrainian television. In 2014, she made a decisive and conscious shift, leaving the industry to fully dedicate herself to documentary cinema and screenwriting.Svitlana Lishchynska’s work is marked by philosophical depth and artistic precision. Her films explore complex moral and historical realities, often through intimate, visually expressive storytelling.

 

Producer’s Profile:

Olga Gibelinda is a Ukrainian director and producer, a graduate of the Wajda Film School and the Gdynia Documentary Film School. She was also a participant of EAVE on Demand for Ukrainian Filmmakers (2023) and is a member of the Ukrainian and European Film Academies. She has extensive experience in screenwriting and film production for television, as well as in developing and promoting commercial media projects. She works across both documentary and fiction filmmaking, focusing on international co-productions and auteur-driven projects.
Her filmography includes Queens of Joy (feature documentary, 2025), The Firing Line, Just an Evening (short fiction, director, 2022), Territory (short fiction, producer, 2022), Dacha (feature documentary, producer, 2021), Kyiv. Quarantine (documentary series, director, 2020), Odesa (documentary series, producer, 2025), Ukrainian Grain (documentary, producer, 2024) and Nostos. The Return of Heroes (documentary series, producer, 2025).

Co-Producer’s Profile:

Fredrik Lange is an award-winning Swedish producer and screenwriter based in Gothenburg. He is the founder and CEO of Vilda Bomben Film, a company dedicated to bold creative documentaries and hybrid films with strong artistic and social relevance. Fredrik holds a Master degree in Film Production from the School of Film directing at Gothenburg University/HDK Valand Film School and began his career in theatre before fully transitioning into cinema.
A recipient of support from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee and the EU’s MEDIA Programme as well as Eurimages, Fredrik was behind the first Swedish project (Freak Out!) to receive 60% production funding from MEDIA. He is also an alumnus of Sources 2 (2007 and 2015), EAVE (2020), and the Cannes Producers Network (2021). Since 2010, he has served as an expert for the MEDIA Programme and, since 2021, lectures in film production at and project development at HDK-Valand Film School, his Alma Mater.

Original Title: Rainy Dreams

Runtime: 80'

Expected Release: March 2028

Production Stage: Development

1st Feature: No

Looking for: Sales agents, distributors, buyers, co-producers, gap financing

Synopsis:

In Calais, five exiled children confront their fears and pursue their hopes through their nocturnal journeys. Rainy Dreams explores exile through intimacy : a territory where fears, desires, and memories are transformed and reveal what childhood goes through when borders never sleep.

Director/Co-producer’s Profile:

Alireza Ghasemi is an Iranian filmmaker based in Paris. He studied Cinema at the Art University of Tehran and later continued his training at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Ghasemi’s short films have received international recognition at major festivals. His Lunch Time (2017) premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and went on to win several awards. His later short films, were selected at prestigious festivals including BFI London Film Festival, Palm Springs ShortFest, Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, Aspen Shortsfest, Vancouver International Film Festival, and Torino Film Festival. In 2024, his debut feature film In the Land of Brothers (co-directed with Raha Amirfazli) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Best Directing Award in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition. The film has since received international acclaim and multiple prizes. Ghasemi is an alumnus of the Cannes Cinéfondation Residency (2018) and Berlinale Talents (2022).

Producer’s Profile:

Constance Le Scouarnec is the founder of Anna Films, an independent production company established in 2024. She made her first steps at Les Films Pelléas, where she contributed to digital projects for the 3e Scène de l’Opéra de Paris, before joining Jonas Films and Miyu Productions. Drawing on a strong network of talent and solid collaborations, she puts her experience at the service of an ambitious vision: supporting singular, innovative works and helping a new generation of filmmakers emerge from all horizons, with the conviction that the industry benefits from opening up to more diverse voices. Anna Films is currently developing several short and feature films, both documentary and animated. Constance accompanied filmmaker Anna Buda to the Palme d’Or for Short Films at Cannes 2023 with 27, and remains committed to encouraging greater representation of women in the film industry.

 

Co-Producer’s Profile:

Reza Baastani founded Two Dots in Tehran in 2023. The company grew out of a shared artistic dialogue during their years studying at the Tehran University of Art, evolving into a production company dedicated to supporting bold and formally distinctive filmmaking that moves fluidly between realism and imagination. Two Dots focuses on discovering unique voices, fostering cross-cultural dialogue, and supporting filmmakers in developing their projects with a particular emphasis on visual language and formal innovation. With international collaboration at the core of its vision, the company partners with co-producers and creative teams worldwide to bring to life films that reflect the concerns and aesthetics of contemporary world cinema.

Yasmin Van Deventer is an Iranian-American producer, director, writer, and actress based between Paris and Los Angeles. Founder of One Thousand & One Nights Productions LLC, she develops intimate, character-driven stories shaped by singular voices. She was an associate producer on Ambush by Yassmina Karajah, an executive producer on Day of Fire by Sara Boutorabi, and is currently executive producing Rainy Dreams by Alireza Ghasemi, presented at Cannes Docs 2026. With Pomegranate, adapted from her play Tehran Baby, she makes her directorial debut, continuing her exploration of displacement and the fragile search for love and belonging.

 

Original Title: مُختفي (اسم مؤقت)

Runtime: 90'

Expected Release: 2027

Production Stage: Early production

1st Feature: No

Looking for: Funding, Development workshops, Potential partners, like producers, supporting institutes, distributors, and sales managers

Synopsis:

Five women from Rif Dimashq confront the disappearance of husbands and sons, resisting the erasure of memory. Through everyday acts—repairing homes, sewing, raising grandchildren, planting, recording dreams—they transform grief into resilience and testimony into resistance. The film follows their search for truth, showing how they rebuild meaning, preserve memory, and give form to absence in a fractured reality.

Director’s Profile:

Anas Zawahri is a Palestinian independent filmmaker, editor and producer based in Syria. Born in 1987, he graduated in 2009 with a degree in engineering, specializing in interior design and decoration. After working as an assistant in the field, he shifted his focus to filmmaking, developing his practice by attending a series of workshops. His first feature documentary My Memory is Full of Ghosts (2024) received a special mention at the Visions du Réel festival and the Best Arab Documentary Award at the El Gouna Film Festival in 2024. He was selected to participate in the Berlinale Talents program in 2026.
Anas previously directed the short fiction film An Ordinary Day (2020) and the short documentary Summer, City and a Camera (2022).

 

Producer’s Profile:

Ahmad Alhaj was born in Syria in 1990, he is a filmmaker, producer, distributor, juror, programmer, and the founder of Wind Cinema. He writes for several cultural websites and magazines in the Arab region and supervises film programs in different parts of the world as well as online. He received two diplomas from the Financial Institute and the Faculty of Law in Syria, in addition to a diploma in Literature and Languages, and another diploma in Performing Arts, Cinema, Theater, and Dance from Grenoble Alpes University in France.

Original Title: El Dorado

Runtime: 90'

Expected Release: End of 2027

Production Stage: Late development, pre-production

1st Feature: No

Looking for: Co-producers, funds, gap financing, pre-sales, sales agent

Synopsis:

El Dorado is set in Chiatura, where manganese that powers the modern world returns as dust, broken houses, and erased villages. As open-pit mining spreads, the film follows a nurse crossing the damaged region, women who carry memory through daily life, and Zurab, who searches for a sealed cave said to hold treasure. A deep immersion into a landscape being hollowed out, where care, memory, and belief persist under pressure.

Director/Producer’s Profile:

Rati Oneli is a Georgian filmmaker whose practice moves between documentary and fiction. His work is shaped by a close attention to duration, atmosphere, and sensory soundscapes, and often returns to places where memory, history, myth, and material reality intersect. He directed the feature documentary City of the Sun, which premiered at the Berlinale and screened widely at international festivals and museums. He was the producer and co-writer of the feature film Beginning. His recent work includes the short We Are the Hollow Men and his debut fiction feature Terrestrial Bodies. Across his films, he develops a cinema rooted in proximity, lived experience, and the tension between intimate worlds and larger political and historical forces.

 

Producer’s Profile:

Valérianne Boué began her career in political science and cultural management, working with French producer Anatole Dauman before joining Lazennec Productions, where she oversaw its theatrical distribution division. She subsequently developed the documentary department at TS Productions (France) and in 2006 began her collaboration with Les Films d’Ici. In recent years, she has focused on producing documentary films and series centred on history and human stories, with a particular affinity for hybrid forms, animation and international co-productions. Her work has been screened at festivals and broadcast by television networks worldwide.

Marianna Kaat is an award-winning filmmaker and producer based in Tallinn, Estonia, with over two decades in the industry. She is the founder of Baltic Film Production (BFP), an independent production company specializing in internationally recognized documentaries. Her notable works include « The Last Relic » (2023), « Life of Ivanna » (2021), « Close Relations » (2016), « Pit No 8 » (2010)—all celebrated on the global festival circuit and won numerous awards. She has collaborated with leading directors and contributed to the advancement of creative non-fiction filmmaking. Beyond filmmaking, Kaat is an Associate Professor at Tallinn University’s Baltic Film, Media, and Arts School and curates the Doc@PÖFF International Competition at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Her contributions have earned her the Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award, a European Trailblazer title at MIPDOC Cannes, and multiple international festival awards.

Original Title: Las Noches

Runtime: 83'

Expected Release: November 2026

Production Stage: Post-production

1st Feature: Yes

Looking for: Festivals, sales agents, distributors, gap financing

Synopsis:

As a contemporary Scheherazade, night after night, La Pichi turns her life into stories. Born on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, in a body and a territory pushed to the margins, she uses humor, imagination, and irreverence to reclaim her voice and identity. Built as a cinematic book of nights, the film traces an intimate journey from imposed shame to pride, pleasure, and the possibility of being loved, where storytelling becomes her power to survive.

Director’s Profile:

Ana Bovino is an Argentine director and producer who holds a BA in Political Science and a BA in Film Directing from Universidad del Cine, as well as an MA in Creative Documentary from Pompeu Fabra University. She was selected for the Sundance Institute Latine Scholarship (2025) and the Film Programme at the Torcuato Di Tella University (2024). Her debut feature documentary The Nights has received multiple national and international support, including participation in Visions du Réel WIP section.
She is a partner at Sete Léguas Filmes (Rio de Janeiro) where she is producing the documentary Zicartola: A Alvorada do Samba, recently awarded a production grant. She also co-directs the French documentary À l’ombre de la mine with social scientist Doris Buu-Sao, for which she was selected as artist-in-residence by Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in 2025. She is now developing her second feature film, Silver Bird, awarded a grant by Mecenazgo Cultural (Argentina).

 

Producer’s Profile:

Natalia de la Vega is an Argentine producer with over a decade of experience in documentary and fiction, with a strong focus on international co-productions and festival-driven projects. She studied Image and Sound Design at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and completed training at Talents Buenos Aires and Good Pitch.
As producer and executive producer, she has worked on more than ten feature films, most of them international co-productions supported by INCAA, Ibermedia, ICAA (Spain), ICAU and FONA (Uruguay), and CORFO (Chile). Her work focuses on close collaboration with filmmakers and the development of author-driven projects for international circulation.
Selected films include Mala Reputación (2024, Sheffield Doc/Fest), El Legado (2023, Hot Docs), La Protagonista (2020, Mar del Plata IFF) and El vals de los inútiles (2015, Locarno).
In progress: Las Noches (post-production) and Los Jóvenes (development).

Original Title: Correspondencias para habitar el mundo

Runtime: 70

Expected Release: September 2026

Production Stage: Post-production

1st Feature: No

Looking for: Festivals, sales agents, distributors, buyers, distribution strategic guidance, impact campaign strategist

Synopsis:

On the 30th of May 2019, Melania was the victim of a homophobic attack on a bus in London. The attack went viral in the media around the world. She suggested to her friend Laura that they make a film together. Through contemporary correspondence, they explore trauma and healing. The poems of Cristina Peri Rossi, an Uruguayan poet who went into exile in the 1970s, permeate this story, placing Melania’s quest for meaning within a broader history of exile and resistance.

Director’s Profile:

Laura Gabay is a Swiss-Uruguay film director and producer working between two continents, co-founder of the collective Écran Mobile, where she has been producing films since 2018. She is currently directing her second feature film. In 2023, she directed her first feature film, Para no olvidar, which premiered at Visions du Réel. Her short film Viento dulce salado was screened at Visions du Réel and at IDFA in 2019. In 2016, she won the Audience Award for her Bachelor short film Enquête 62 at the Filmets Festival (Badalona). She has produced the short films Criatura, Carbon which have won awards at Locarno and Winterthur. She teaches Super 8 and 16mm filmmaking at institutions such as HEAD – Geneva, the University of Geneva, Zebra Lab in Switzerland, and elsewhere in spain, Colombia, Brazil and Cuba. After studying economics and social sciences, she studied cinema at HEAD (Geneva), EICTV (San Antonio de los Baños), and EQZE (San Sebastián). She is currently a member of EURODOC.

Producer’s Profile:

Vania Jaikin Miyazaki is a Swiss-Chileanp producer and filmmaker, she has collaborated with Swiss Radio and Television (RTS) as an independent filmmaker and editor since 2010. She co-founded HandMade Films, through which she began producing short documentary and fiction films, as well as music videos.
Since 2019, she has been working with Mnemosyn Films, where she produced two films by Charlie Petersmann: the short fiction Rois Mages (Solothurn, Winterthur) and the feature documentary À Ciel Ouvert (Solothurn), both addressing exclusion and the margins of society. Since 2022, she collaborates with the Écran Mobile collective, producing Laura Gabay’s Correspondences to Inhabit the World.

Original Title: Vieux Kilo

Runtime: 70'

Expected Release: February 2028

Production Stage: Development

1st Feature: No

Looking for: Financing

Synopsis:

Spring 2021, Brussels. As Black Lives Matter reopens debates on colonial memory, a Belgian missionary invites me into his attic, where traces of his past in Congo have remained hidden for decades. Photographs, notebooks, and a hollowed Bible concealing a gun resurface. Through these archives and fragmented memories, I embark on a personal investigation into a shared yet unequal past – confronting inherited narratives, silenced violence, and my position as an African son facing a paradoxical paternal voice.

Director’s Profile:

Nelson Makengo (b. 1990, lives and works in Kinshasa, DR Congo) is a filmmaker working at the intersection of contemporary art and cinema. His short documentary Nuit Debout won the Best Documentary Short Award at IDFA 2019, screened at over 100 festivals worldwide, and was listed among the BFI’s 350 best films of 2020. His film E’ville (2018) received the Sharjah Art Foundation Award at the Videobrasil Biennial.
His first feature documentary, Tongo Saa (Rising Up at Night), premiered at the Berlinale 2024 and screened in over 80 cities. It received multiple awards, including the Special Jury Prize at Visions du Réel and major prizes at IndieLisboa, Astra Film Festival, Carthage, and FESPACO.
He is currently developing two documentaries, Vieux Kilo and Malo Kotra, and writing his first fiction film. His work has been supported by Sundance and Doha Film Institute. In 2026, he will represent the DR Congo at the Venice Art Biennale.

 

Producer’s Profile:

Madeline Robert is a producer and founder of Les Films de la Caravane, established in Lussas, France in 2012. She has since produced around fifteen auteur-driven documentaries, including Malavoune Tango by Jean-Marc Lacaze (IDFA 2021) and Or de Vie by Boubacar Sangaré (Berlinale 2023, with a strong international run). She has been closely collaborating for over a decade with Visions du Réel (Switzerland) and currently heads the Swiss fund Visions Sud Est. She also works regularly as a consultant and mentor, with strong expertise in documentary filmmaking and international co-productions.

Original Title: re:collection

Runtime: 90'

Expected Release: March 2028

Production Stage: Production

1st Feature: No

Looking for: Funds, co-producers, broadcasters, distributors, sales agents

Synopsis:

The ǂKhomani San seek to rebury their ancestors, whose remains are held in South Africa’s national museum. Exhumed for race science at the turn of the twentieth century, these bodies were used to legitimise systems such as apartheid and Nazism, and to justify violence on a global scale. The film follows a contemporary struggle to confront historical injustice, as the ideologies that once shaped these crimes begin to resurface.

Director’s Profile:

Dane Dodds is a multi-award-winning filmmaker from the Karoo, South Africa. His work explores the intersections of science, spirit, land, and the enduring legacy of colonialism. His films are rooted in long-term relationships and a commitment to ethical storytelling, often engaging directly with communities affected by historical injustice.
He is the founder and director of MED CINE, a Danish–South African production company. His debut feature documentary, !AITSA (Best Documentary Feature, SAFTA Awards 2024), premiered at CPH:DOX and has screened internationally at festivals including Encounters South African International Documentary Festival, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and Planet in Focus Film Festival, where it has received multiple awards.

Associate Producer’s Profile:

Brain Miennies (San/Boesman/Saa!) is an Indigenous leader and conservation practitioner based in the Southern Kalahari, South Africa. He is the Managing Director of Kalahari Earth Keepers International (KEKI) and Deputy Secretary-General of CASANR.
His work bridges Indigenous Traditional Knowledge with contemporary legal and conservation frameworks, supporting land restitution, ecosystem restoration, and sustainable livelihoods for the ǂKhomani San and Mier communities. He is involved in large-scale environmental stewardship across the Kalahari and engages international frameworks, including UNESCO World Heritage protections.
A leading voice in the repatriation of ancestral remains, he brings a deeply rooted cultural and spiritual perspective to re:collection, where he serves as associate producer.

Original Title: Allá Donde Nace el Sol

Runtime: 74'

Expected Release: November 2026

Production Stage: Post-production

1st Feature: Yes

Looking for: Festival partners, broadcasters, buyers to support the film’s international circulation and audience outreach, gap financing and strategic guidance

Synopsis:

A Honduran Garifuna dancer estranged from his culture and haunted by loss, returns to his coastal homeland to reclaim his roots. As he retraces childhood landscapes and immerses himself in ancestral traditions, he confronts loss, identity, and belonging. Through ritual, music, and dance, he seeks healing and reconnects with the spiritual rhythms of his people.

Directors’ Profiles:

Laura Bermúdez is a Honduran film director and producer. Her short and mid-length films, including Negra Soy, Dos Ríos, and La Serpiente de Shelmeca, have screened at international festivals such as Sheffield Doc/Fest, Doc NYC, Málaga Film Festival, Ambulante, and New Orleans Film Festival. She has participated in leading industry programs including Locarno Open Doors, Berlinale Talents, Talents Guadalajara, and the Locarno Industry Academy.
She is co-founder and executive director of Tercer Cine, a platform dedicated to the creation, exhibition, and distribution of alternative cinema in Honduras, supported by the Berlinale Talents Mastercard Enablement Program.
She is currently completing her first feature documentary, Where the Sun Is Born, and developing her second feature, Soy Lluvia, recipient of the Ibermedia Development Fund (2023) and the Honduran National Production Fund (2025).

Jorge García is a Garífuna artist, dancer, and musician whose work bridges tradition and contemporary Garífuna expression. He was a member of the National Garífuna Ballet (2005–2015), touring extensively across Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He later founded Tambor Negro, an artistic project that fuses Garífuna music, drumming, and dance with contemporary forms, creating a dynamic platform for cultural preservation and innovation.
Deeply committed to celebrating and safeguarding Garífuna heritage, his work explores identity, memory, and ancestral knowledge. In 2025, he received a grant from the Latin Grammy Foundation. Allá Donde Nace el Sol marks his debut film.

 

Producer’s Profile:

Servio Tulio Mateo is the Producer of the documentary Allà donde nace el sol, winner of the Cannes Docs and Docs Barcelona awards at the 2025 edition of Ventana Sur in Argentina. The feature-length film is set for its world premiere in 2026 and has been supported by the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (IMCINE), the Honduran Institute of Cinematography (IHCINE), the Costa Rica Film Festival, and the Cultural Center of Spain in Tegucigalpa. Co-producer of the documentary in development Pantasma, winner of the Jury Prize at Open Doors Locarno (2023). Honduran producer of the Central American feature film DÍAS DE LUZ, which had its world premiere at the AFI Latin American Film Festival in 2019 and was selected to represent Honduras at the 2021 Academy Awards.
Producer of the project Tan sahsa, Vuelo 414, a documentary feature in pre-production supported by the Honduran Institute of Cinematography and the Ibermedia Program. Professor in the Communication and Animation programs at UNITEC since 2003.

Original Title: Time Hunter

Runtime: 90'

Expected Release: January 2027

Production Stage: Post-production

1st Feature: Yes

Looking for: Gap financing and co-production partners, sales agents, distributors, buyers, festivals, and collaborators across film, tech, XR, gaming, comics, museums and music spaces

Synopsis:

Time Hunter is a sci-fi documentary that blends verité and historical investigation with hip-hop and African Futurism. The film follows Mushiva, a creative technologist and musician, as he migrates to Berlin from Namibia, a former German colony. By day, he uses emergent technologies to investigate Germany’s colonial crimes in Namibia; by night, his music performances summon his alter ego – the Time Hunter, a speculative agitator on a quest to disrupt colonial forces across past, present, and future.

Directors’ Profiles:

Daniel Chein (Director, Writer, Producer) is an independent filmmaker based between Carpinteria and Taipei. Merging ethnographic inquiry, co-creation methodologies, and direct cinema, he is drawn to stories that reveal subtle social dynamics and expressions of diasporic longing in the performative. He has received support from the Princess Grace Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Sundance Institute, and his films have screened at festivals worldwide. His short film About A Home premiered at the 2021 Slamdance Film Festival and is distributed by Argo. His previous film Basha Man won the Student Film Award at CAAMFest. Featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” Daniel is a 2023 Sundance Fellow, a 2024 Berlinale Talent, and a recipient of 2026 Creative Capital Award. He holds a BA in Anthropology and an MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University, and has taught courses in cinematography, editing, and documentary filmmaking.

Mushiva (Director, Writer, Protagonist) is a multidisciplinary creative technologist, inventor, and hip-hop artist from Namibia. A research fellow with Forensic Architecture, he holds a Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction and is a founding member of the award-winning hip-hop poetry group Black Vulcanite. His work integrates computer vision, sound synthesis, and robotics to project Afro-Accelerationist visions – the radical idea that technology’s embrace by African people can counteract racial capitalism. Born in a war camp in Lubango, Angola, where his parents served as freedom fighters during the Namibian liberation struggle, Mushiva’s political upbringing deeply informs his creative work. Influenced by critical race and post-colonial theory, cybernetics, and technology design, his recent project Turbo Summation combined manifesto, hip-hop album, music film, and homemade wearable instruments. Time Hunter is his feature film debut.

 

 

 

Producer’s Profile:

David Felix Sutcliffe is a UK-based Sundance and Emmy Award–winning producer whose films have been distributed by Netflix, Hulu, BBC, Canal+, PBS, and screened at Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, CPH:DOX, and True/False. His debut feature (T)ERROR (Netflix/BBC) won a Sundance Special Jury Prize, an Emmy Award, and an Independent Spirit Award nomination. His producing credits include Songs from the Hole (Netflix, SXSW premiere), For Our Children (Netflix, SFFILM premiere), For Venida, For Kalief (POV, Tribeca premiere), and 499 (Cinema Guild, Tribeca premiere). He has also served as a consulting producer on acclaimed documentaries including Crime + Punishment (Hulu, Sundance premiere) and Quest (POV, Sundance premiere). Sutcliffe is an alum of the Sundance Creative Producing Lab and Edit and Story Lab, a former Soros Equality Fellow and Pew Fellow, and recipient of the IDA’s Emerging Documentary Filmmaker of the Year Award.

 

Co-Producers’ Profile:

Thomas Kaske is a Berlin-based producer with Seera Films whose work has premiered at leading festivals including Berlinale, IDFA, and DOK Leipzig. His producing credits include The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder by Inadelso Cossa (Berlinale Forum), Notes on Displacement by Khaled Jarrar (IDFA Envision Competition), As I Want by Samaher Alqadi (Berlinale Encounters), and Time Before Land by Juliane Henrich (DOK Leipzig). Born near Berlin, Kaske studied Social and Cultural Anthropology and Film Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and later completed an MFA at Bauhaus University Weimar. Before moving into production, he worked with the MA Visual and Media Anthropology program at FU Berlin and directed experimental short films. He has worked as an independent producer since 2016.

Laura Kloeckner is a curator and film producer based in Berlin. She is a producer and partner at SEERA Films, a production company based in Berlin and Cairo. Her recent credits include Ancestral Visions of the Future by Lemohang Mosese (Berlinale). Previously, Laura worked with DOX BOX, an organization dedicated to supporting Arab/African documentary filmmakers, and built extensive expertise in the international documentary industry through her work with the Berlinale/EFM and DOK Leipzig. Since 2018, she has been a part of the Berlin-based art space SAVVY Contemporary – The Laboratory of Form-Ideas, where she co-curated exhibitions for Berlinale Forum Expanded. Laura serves as a senior consultant for the Documentary Association of Europe (DAE) and an EAVE Producer’s Workshop Alumni 2024.