Projects
Projects
The Chapel
Category: Fantastic 7
Directed by: Carlota Pereda
Produced by: Laura Fernández, Carlos Fernández, Iñaki Gómez and Pablo Echart
Country of Production: Spain
Original Title: La ermita
Genre: Supernatural drama
Language: Spanish
Sitges – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia
A fantastic fable that navigates between past and present, the real world and the paranormal, through the eyes of Emma, a young girl who wishes to keep communicating with her mother, even if that means contacting the other side.
Heirloom
Directed by: Upamanyu Bhattacharyya
Produced by: Otter Studios Odd, Even Pictures
Country of Production: India
Original Title: Heirloom
Language: Hindi, English
Runtime: 90'
Completed in: 2025
« Heirloom » is a period fantasy family story set in Ahmedabad. Kirti spends a fortune to build a collection for a handloom museum. His wife, Sonal, thinks they should instead enter the powerloom business to secure their family’s future.
On the Go
Category: Málaga Goes to Cannes
Directed by: María Gisèle Royo & Julia de Castro
Produced by: María Gisèle Royo & Julia de Castro - Jur Jur Productions, S.L.
Country of Production: Spain
Original Title: On the Go
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Runtime: 72'
Completed in: 2023
Milagros (37) stretches a carefree youth in her last years of fertility while Jonathan (24) seeks solace in Grindr to overcome abandonment issues. Milagros escapes her appointment for single-parent insemination. Jonathan triggers a reunion with a childhood sweetheart. The road and friendship alleviate the disorientation caused to these two friends by the deceptive freedom of the early 21st century. A delirious road movie, full of music, where a mysterious mermaid with a magic crown will set the course of the journey.
Sunflower
Category: Queer Screen Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Gabriel Carrubba
Produced by: Producer(s): Gabriel Carrubba, Zane Borg | Production Compnay: Pancake Originals
Country of Production: Australia
Original Title: Sunflower
Language: English
Runtime: 80'
Completed in: 2023
A seventeen-year-old boy struggles to understand and embrace his sexuality as he comes of age in the working class suburbs on Melbourne’s edge.
Antonivka
Directed by: Kateryna Gornostai
Produced by: Vika Khomenko | Moon Man LLC
Country of Production: Ukraine
Original Title: Антонівка
Language: Ukrainian
Runtime: 90'
Budget: 765 000 Eur
Completed in: 2026
Young couple Aurora and Darko move to live in her grandpa’s house in the post-war de-occupied village. They are taking care of an 88-year-old man, who’s blind. Aurora begins to be tormented by the fear of death. Gradually, it becomes the central theme of their lives and puts everything in its place.
Do You Love Me
Original Title: هدوء نسبي
Produced by: Lana Daher (Lebanon) & Jasper Mielke (Wood Water Films, Germany)
Country of Production: Lebanon, Germany
Runtime: 90'
Expected Release: March, 2024
Production Stage: In Production
Budget: € 364.218,26 (60.39%)
1st Feature: Yes
Looking for: Festivals, sales agents, distributors, buyers, gap financing, strategic guidance, French co-producer
Synopsis:
“Do You Love Me” is Lana Daher’s personal journey through the fractured historical, social, cultural, and political landscapes of Beirut. Using mainly archive footage, the film weaves together the past and the present in a quest to better understand Lebanon’s history and current status today.
Director’s profile:
Lana Daher is a filmmaker living and working in Beirut. She earned her BFA in Graphic Design from the American University of Beirut (2006) and her MA in Filmmaking from Goldsmiths College, the University of London (2012). Since then she has shot & directed music videos, short films and commissioned documentaries. More recently including two short documentaries for Studio Olafur Eliasson. ‘Do You Love Me?’ is her first feature documentary which she is directing as well as co-producing. Drawing from her life in Lebanon, her work explores the current environment and themes of society, memory, history and how we can live in the present.
Producers profile:
Wood Water Films are Jasper Mielke, Karoline Henkel and Arto Sebastian. They got together during their studies at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg and set out in 2015 to fulfill their collective dream of their own production company. Wood Water Films is a feature film production company with a focus on debut films. Their passions are fiction and documentary films with cultural and social-political subjects. Thereby the spectrum ranges from cinema documentary features like BEHIND CLOSED DOORS which won the prestigious Filmprize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung in 2017 to debut fiction features like SNOWBLIND from director Arto Sebastian which had its successful cinema release in 2018 or YOU TELL ME (2019) from director Michael Fetter Nathansky as well as more recently award winning ALASKA by Max Gleschinski (2023).
Ba’s Book
Category: Canada Showcase
Directed by: Ashley Duong
Produced by: Ina Fichman | Intuitive Pictures (Canada)
Country of Production: Canada
Original Title: Ba's Book
Runtime: 105'
Expected Release: September 2026
Production Stage: Post-Production
Budget: €787,000 (95% in place)
1st Feature: No
Looking for: Festivals, Sales Agents, Distributors
Synopsis:
When a filmmaker receives her father’s memoir about the Vietnam War and the Iranian Revolution, she answers with a film. Returning to her ancestral village, she collaborates with her father and relatives to film participatory re-creations of their past. A true hybrid of live-action and documentary, Ba’s Book offers a disarming look at how a family moves forward from divisions caused by displacement and war.
Director’s Profile:
Ashley Da-Lê Duong is a Tiohtià:ke/Montréal-based filmmaker. Her directorial debut, A Time to Swim, earned the Special Jury Prize for Best Feature Documentary at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Ashley notably directed Space Explorers: Moonrise on the ISS, a documentary created from over 300 hours of footage filmed on the International Space Station — the largest production ever filmed in space. Her producing credits include Bedrock (Berlinale 2025). She is currently in post-production on the hybrid feature Ba’s Book. With over a decade of experience as a director and editor, Ashley’s practice spans documentary, hybrid, and live-action cinema with a wry, observational edge. Informed by a background in environmental studies, her work often explores how people and environments shape one another.
Producer’s Profile:
Ina Fichman, Oscar®, BAFTA, Emmy nominated and Peabody Award-winning producer, Intuitive Pictures, has been producing high-profile documentary and fiction films, and interactive projects for close to 30 years. Many of her creative documentaries have been released in theatres in Canada and abroad and have played at festivals including Sundance, Berlin, Hot Docs, Locarno, Karlovy Vary, CPH:DOX, Venice, SXSW, Tribeca, TIFF and others.
Recent films include Coexistence, My Ass!, Uvalde Mom and Everest Dark. Ina produced the Oscar-nominated documentary Fire of Love, which had its world premiere at Sundance 2022. Other films include Adrianne & the Castle, 7 Beats per Minute, The Bones, Stray, The Gig Is Up, Once upon a Sea, Blue Box, The Oslo Diaries, Inside Lehman Brothers, Gift and Laila at the Bridge, Amer Shomali’s The Wanted 18 and Monsoon (Canada’s Top 10).
Antipodal Dreams
Category: Chile-Colombia Showcase
Directed by: Juanita Onzaga
Produced by: Juanita Onzaga | Llamas Etéreas (Colombia)
Country of Production: Colombia, Mexico
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.
Gan
Category: Docs by the Sea Showcase
Directed by: Ruonan Jiang
Produced by: Ruonan Jiang | RuonanJ Films (China), Huihui Lou | Oui Production (France)
Country of Production: China, France
Original Title: 甘
Runtime: 75 - 80'
Expected Release: January 2027
Production Stage: Post-Production
1st Feature: Yes
Looking for: Festivals, Sales Agents / Distributors, Gap-financing, Strategic Guidance
Synopsis:
In the mountains of China, a wildlife ranger Mingdong Gan,once a left-behind child, must learn what it means to be a father when he rescues a baby takin, a rare goat-antelope, that mirrors his own search for home. As the calf is raised up and released back into the wild but returns to caregivers, Gan questions whether he can learn to love and be present as a father.
Director’s Profile:
Ruonan Jiang is a director / producer working across fiction and documentary between China and U.S. Her work is drawn to the tensions between people and their environments, often exploring how emotional and ecological worlds intersect.
Producer’s Profile:
Huihui Lou is the founder of French production company Oui Production. She is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and holds a Master’s degree in directing, producing, and screenwriting from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her work centers on intimate, cross-cultural narratives that examine identity, migration, and memory across both fiction and documentary forms. She is an IDFAcademy alumna and a selected participant in the Berlinale EFM Toolbox Program 2026. Through Oui Production, she champions emerging filmmakers and fosters creative collaboration between Asia and Europe.
Azziza: In a Cherished Land
Category: Palestinian Showcase
Directed by: Tareq Khalaf
Produced by: Bilal Alkhatib
Country of Production: Palestine, Lebanon
Original Title: بأرض عزيزة
Runtime: 85'
Expected Release: October 2026
Production Stage: Post-Production
1st Feature: Yes
Looking for: Gap Financing, Distributors, Co-Producers
Synopsis:
Worried about his safety, Azziza asks Tareq to leave Palestine to join the rest of his family in the US, leaving her and his grandmother alone in a state of war. Tareq takes sanctuary in Azziza’s land, observing her seasonal way of living while confronting the difficult decision to leave.
Director’s Profile:
Tareq Khalaf is a filmmaker, architect, and cultural producer based in Ramallah, Palestine. His research in urbanism focuses on the disappearance of agrarian livelihoods and rooted forms of belonging to place. Tareq has used film, socially engaged art and sculpture to address geographic fragmentation and the alienating impacts of settler colonial violence in Palestine. With experience working in both Palestine and South Africa, Tareq aims to explore settler ecologies and create new collaborative narratives across southern regions.
Producer’s Profile:
Bilal Alkhatib is Palestinian filmmaker working on documentary and fiction films that highlights the ordinary life of people in Palestine. Bilal started his career as a cinematographer in 2007, gradually developing his skills as a writer and director. His documentaries and short films have been screened and won international awards in Cine Palestine Paris, Carthage International Film Festival and Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival, amongst others. His documentary film project has also participated in Cannes Docs and IDFA Form, Bilal is also working on his first feature film and studying a master’s degree in cinema.
