Projects
Projects
Super Sila
Category: Palestinian Showcase
Directed by: Mohammed Alshareef
Produced by: Ala' Abu Ghoush
Country of Production: Palestine
Original Title: سوبر سيلا
Runtime: 72'
Expected Release: March 2027
Production Stage: Post-Production
1st Feature: Yes
Looking for: Festivals, Sales Agents, Distributors, Buyers, Co-Producers, Gap Financing, Strategic Partners, Consultants
Synopsis:
In the heart of the war on Gaza, a father creates an imaginary world where his young daughter becomes a superhero. As war surrounds them, he turns reality into stories to protect her childhood, leaving an open question: does Sila understand what is happening around her, or does she already know more than he thinks?
Director’s Profile:
Mohammad Alshareef is a Palestinian filmmaker from Gaza working across documentary and fiction. His films rely on observation and narratives drawn from lived experience. He began his practice independently in Gaza without a structured production environment, developing his skills through self-learning and hands-on work. He later continued his studies at the Higher Institute of Cinema in Cairo, where he trained in directing, screenwriting, cinematography, and working with actors, shaping a cinematic language based on intimacy and proximity. His films have screened at festivals including Toronto, Cairo, Carthage, and Clermont-Ferrand. One of his works reached the Academy Awards shortlist within the From Ground Zero project. His latest film Hassan won the Youth Jury Award at the Vesoul International Festival of Asian Cinema 2026.
Producer’s Profile:
Ala’ Abu Ghoush is an independent producer working between Palestine and France. He began his career as an artist before moving into cinema, where he worked for several years as a production designer on fiction films screened at international festivals. He holds a Master’s degree from ENSAV (École Nationale Supérieure d’Audiovisuel) in Toulouse, where his interest in cinematic narrative forms developed, leading him toward producing and accompanying auteur-driven projects.
He has directed several films, including Hammurabi, Metro Gaza, and Goldfish. He currently focuses on developing Palestinian auteur cinema and building international partnerships that enable films to reach global platforms and festivals. On Super Sila, he participates as a producer and project developer, as well as a creative partner accompanying the film’s artistic development and international positioning.
Untitled Horse Woman Project
Category: Scotland Showcase
Directed by: Lizzie MacKenzie
Produced by: Emily Copley | Green Ray Films (UK), Lizzie MacKenzie | Of The Wild Productions (UK)
Country of Production: UK
Original Title: Untitled Horse Woman Project
Runtime: 90'
Expected Release: January 2027
Production Stage: Post-Production
1st Feature: No
Looking for: Gap Financing, Private Investors, Sales Agents/Distributors, Buyers, Festivals, Strategic Guidance
Synopsis:
A fiercely independent 80-year-old scientist has spent her life observing wild horses from the edges of human society. Now, as their ecosystem — and ours — faces collapse, she discovers, in their freedom, a path back to a world we’ve all left behind.
Director’s Profile:
Lizzie MacKenzie is a self-shooting Director from the Scottish Highlands with a sensitive and playful approach to exploring human and non-human existence at the edges of (human) society. Her debut feature film, The Hermit of Treig, has won numerous awards both in the UK and internationally, including a Scottish BAFTA in November 2022. Lizzie’s work has been showcased as part of the BFI’s The Camera Is Ours: Britain’s Pioneering Women Documentary Makers strand.
Producer’s Profile:
Emily Copley is an independent producer and a 2025 Sundance Institute Grantee, currently producing her debut feature documentary. She was until recently the Joint Acting CEO of the Documentary Film Council (DFC), the UK’s first democratically run national body for independent documentary, and is also Programmer and Senior Producer of Talks & Sessions at Sheffield DocFest. She works regularly as a consultant and pre-selector for international festivals, markets and funds.
The Path That Walks
Category: Spain Showcase
Directed by: Efthymia Zymvragaki
Produced by: Efthymia Zymvragaki | Gris Medio (Spain), Babet Touw | Witfilm (The Netherlands), Eirini Makedona | Ethereal (Greece)
Country of Production: Spain, The Netherlands, Greece
Original Title: Nar 'hi nan
Runtime: 85'
Expected Release: January 2028
Production Stage: Production
1st Feature: No
Looking for: Buyers, Gap Financing, Strategic Guidance, Sales Agents / Distributors, Festivals
Synopsis:
An ancient story travels ahead of me, from a time before the world had a name. I carry it into a boarding cooking school hidden in the Pyrenees, where fragile young lives speak through whispered instructions and shared meals. Our voices entwine. Words become spells, recipes become memory. In the forest, small rituals and altars made of food quietly appear.
Director’s Profile:
Efthymia Zymvragaki is a filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and cinematographer exploring intimacy, resilience, and human connection. Her feature documentaries include Light Falls Vertical (IDFA Envision 2022, EFA shortlist 2023) and Where the Silence is Heard (CPH:DOX 2026). An alumna of IDFAcademy, dok.incubator, and EURODOC, she merges psychology, fine arts, and photography into a poetic, immersive cinematic language. Efthymia produces, directs, and photographs her work, seeking spaces where words, gestures, and memories shape fragile yet powerful connections.
Producer’s Profile:
Babet Touw is a producer at WITFILM, developing creative documentaries and international co-productions. She has worked as producer and line producer on features and shorts, including Welded Together (2025), My Father, Nour and I (2023), and Letters to Vincent (2023). Babet is drawn to urgent, courageous, and hopeful stories crafted with a strong artistic vision.
Lonesome Land
Category: The Five Nordics Showcase
Directed by: Virpi Suutari
Produced by: Virpi Suutari | Euphoria Film (Finland)
Country of Production: Finland
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.
Sisters
Category: CIRCLE Showcase
Directed by: Tereza Bernátková
Produced by: Dagmar Sedláčková, Natália Pavlove | Masterfilm (Czech Republic)
Country of Production: Czech Republic, Slovakia, France
Original Title: Sestry
Runtime: 90'
Expected Release: February 2027
Production Stage: Production
1st Feature: Yes
Looking for: Gap Financing, Festivals, Sales Agents / Distributors, Buyers, Strategic Guidance
Synopsis:
In a remote institution in former Czechoslovakia in the late 1950s, Catholic nuns care for teenage girls labeled mentally disabled, hidden from society. One nun holds a camera and films their daily lives. Decades later, survivors revisit these images, revealing a powerful story confronting women’s place in society, politics of institutional care, and enduring inequality.
Director’s Profile:
Tereza Bernátková studied International Relations and Media Studies at Masaryk University and Documentary Directing at FAMU in Prague. Her early films, including Solos for Members of Parliament (2018, Special Mention) and Techsquat (2015), were selected for Czech Joy at Jihlava IDFF. She has directed several archival-based films for Czech TV and explores archives as a living source of alternative histories that challenge dominant narratives. Sisters is her debut feature documentary.
Producers’ Profile:
Dagmar Sedláčková graduated in Film Studies and Production from FAMU in Prague. Her films have premiered at prestigious festivals, including Cannes, Locarno, Berlinale, and Annecy. She is an alumna of Eurodoc and EAVE, and a co-founder of Girls in Film Prague, a platform that represents, champions and connects the new generation of female-identifying creatives in the film industry.
Natália Pavlove holds an MA in Producing from FAMU and an MA in International Relations and Management. Her films have screened at festivals such as Venice IFF, Karlovy Vary IFF, Cairo IFF, PÖFF, and SEMINCI and she is a recipient of the Czech National Film Award. An alumna of IDFAcademy, EAVE Puentes, Rotterdam Lab, and EURODOC, Natália fosters long-term creative collaborations with a global and inclusive vision.
The Nights
Category: Spotlighted Projects
Directed by: Ana Bovino
Produced by: Natalia de la Vega | Navega Cine (Argentina), Ana Bovino (Argentina)
Country of Production: Argentina
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.