Projects
Projects
Those Were The Days
Category: Málaga Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Bernabé Bulnes
Produced by: Enrique Guzmán (Rakia Films)
Country of Production: Spain
Original Title: Fueron los días
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Runtime: 86'
Completed in: 2023
Alma, an actress who works as a waitress, receives an offer to audition for the next film by Gabino Robles, a prestigious film director with whom she had an intense relationship seven years ago. The former lovers will meet again and try to find answers to questions that are difficult to respond.
Who Were We?
Category: HAF Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Tomina Tetsuya
Produced by: Hatanaka Mina, TETSUYA to MINA film
Country of Production: Japan
Original Title: Who Were We?
Language: Japanese
Runtime: 101'
Completed in: 2023
A woman who has no memory of her past falls in love with a man who also has no memory. Who were they before they met?
The Queen of My Dreams
Category: Queer Screen Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Fawzia Mirza
Produced by: Andria Wilson Mirza + Fawzia Mirza for Baby Daal Productions; Jason Levangie and Marc Tetreault for Shut Up & Colour Pictures, Executive Producer Damon D'Oliveira
Country of Production: Canada, Pakistan
Original Title: The Queen of My Dreams
Language: English, Urdu
Runtime: 95'
Completed in: 2023
It’s 1999. In TORONTO, 22-year-old Pakistani, Muslim AZRA MALIK shows her girlfriend her favourite Bollywood film – ARADHANA, the 1969 hit starring Sharmila Tagore. Meanwhile, across the country in SYDNEY, NOVA SCOTIA, Azra’s mother, MARIAM (52), conservative, watches a similarly-labelled VHS (except Mariam’s recorded over her Bollywood movie with religious teachings) as she and her husband HASSAN pack for a trip back home to Pakistan. An awkward phone call between mother-daughter makes it evident that their relationship is strained. Two nights later, Azra gets another call from her mother: Hassan’s had a heart attack on the trip and died. This film takes place over the next 48 hours, as Azra flies to Pakistan and buries her father. Azra’s journey back to Pakistan incites memories and flashbacks to her – and her mother’s – past, to two OTHER life-altering time periods.
Click The Link Below
Original Title: Click The Link Below
Directed by: Audun Amundsen
Produced by: Audun Amundsen (GonzoDocs, Norway)
Country of Production: Norway, UK, Germany
Runtime: 52', 90'
Expected Release: April, 2024
Production Stage: In production
Budget: $452.071 (25% in place)
1st Feature: No
Looking for: Gap financing, buyers, distributors
Synopsis:
Click The Link Below is about the murky world of money-making gurus online. Some people are living in extravagant luxury while others are lost in broken dreams. The Norwegian filmmaker Audun Amundsen looks behind the facade of their business, while he himself tries to escape the 9-5, and join the new online riches. He spends thousands of dollars on online programs. What does it take to succeed?
Director’s profile:
Audun Amundsen is an award winning Norwegian Documentary Filmmaker and an online marketing consultant at GonzoDocs (www.gonzodocs.com). He has received governmental and non-governmental grants several times for his films, which have sold to major TV-channels, and screened on festivals worldwide. Amundsen is known for submerging deep into long duration projects and making participatory documentaries (Newtopia and Help, I’ve gone Viral!). Favourite topics are our human nature and future prospects with the goal of raising awareness for the better.
Untitled Timbuktu Documentary
Category: The Five Nordics Showcase
Directed by: Simon Klose
Produced by: Martin Persson, Elin Kamlert | Anagram (Sweden)
Country of Production: Sweden
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.
Roqia
Category: Proof of Concept
Directed by: Yanis Koussim
Produced by: Farès Ladjimi
Country of Production: Algeria, France, USA
Genre: Horror
Language: Arabic
1993. Ahmed becomes amnesic after a car crash. Nowadays. An old raqi, a Muslim exorcist, is suffering from a dazzling Alzheimer. While Ahmed is increasingly afraid of recovering his memory, the raqi’s disciple fears that the loss of his master’s will causes the return of an evil locked up years ago.
In Flames
Category: Buyers Showcase
Directed by: Zarrar Kahn
Produced by: Citylights Media Inc.
Country of Production: Canada, Pakistan
Genre: Horror, Psychological
Language: Urdu
After a fatal accident claims the life of Mariam’s boyfriend, she is haunted by unresolved grief. But, when her thoughts twist into vivid hallucinations, she must choose to confront her past or let her nightmares consume her.
The Barbaric
Category: SANFIC Industria Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Andrew Sala
Produced by: Nicolás Grosso, Sebastián Muro, Claire Lajoumard
Country of Production: Argentina
Original Title: La Barbarie
Genre: Feature film
Language: Español
Runtime: 90min
Completed in: 2022
Nacho flees the violence of his home in Buenos Aires and looks for a home under the protection of his father, a rancher with whom he barely has a relationship. Nacho will have to fight to understand his place as a patron.
Octopus Skin
Category: Thessaloniki Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Ana Christina Barragan Carrion
Produced by: Isabella Parra, Konstantina Stavrianou, Santiago Ortiz Monasterio, Titus Kreyenberg, Rena Vougioukalou + CALEIDOSCOPIO CINE, GRAAL FILMS, DESENLACE, UNAFILM
Country of Production: Ecuador, Greece, Mexico, Germany, France
Original Title: La Piel Pulpo
Genre: Feature film
Language: Spanish
Runtime: 90min
Completed in: 2022
Iris and Ariel are twins, who live with their mother and older sister on a rocky island covered with mollusks and birds, in a sibling relationship that surpasses the limits of normal intimacy. Iris decides to go alone to the city for the first time.
The Sunny Side of the Street
Category: HAF Goes to Cannes
Directed by: LAU Kok Rui
Produced by: Peter YAM, 70 Plus Production Company Limited, Vinod SEKHAR, Winnie TSANG, Soi CHEANG
Country of Production: Hong Kong
Original Title: 白日青春
Genre: Feature film
Language: Cantonese, Urdu
Runtime: 105min
Completed in: 2022
A young refugee boy is helped by a taxi driver to flee Hong Kong. They develop a father-son relationship until the boy discovers that the driver is his father’s murderer.