Projects
Projects
TWO SISTERS
Category: Tallinn Black Nights Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Lukasz Karwowski
Produced by: Nadia Korotushka, Anastasiia Lodkina, Serg Demidov + FILM.UA Group, Ukraine, ZOOM MEDIA, Poland
Country of Production: Ukraine, Poland
Original Title: DWIE SIOSTRY / ДВІ СЕСТРИ
Language: Polish, Ukrainian
Runtime: 110 min
Completed in: 2023
A road movie about two Sisters – Polish and Ukrainian who set off from Poland to Ukraine to get their wounded father back home. They travel by car, hitchhike, on foot through destroyed Ukraine, while avoiding getting raped by Russians.
We’ve Always Treated Women Too Well
Category: Spanish Screenings Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Clara De Bilbao
Produced by: Ficcion Producciones SL & Noodles Production
Country of Production: Spain
Original Title: TRATAMOS DEMASIADO BIEN A LAS MUJERES
Language: Spanish
Runtime: 108'
Completed in: 2023
Remedios Buendía prioritizes its country above everything and everyone. In the fateful fall of 1945, a resistance guerrilla group on the run has the horrendous idea of taking hostage a mail office in the Pyrenees, where Remedios overfilled with joy, tries on her wedding dress.
The Televangelist
Category: Fantastic 7
Directed by: Tom Levesque
Produced by: Kevin DeWalt, Matt Noonan
Country of Production: New Zealand
Original Title: The Televangelist
Genre: Black comedy, Psychological thriller
Language: English
New Zealand International Film Festival
When a Televangelist is convinced a rival is behind his dwindling social media enterprise – Hendrick Powell sets out on a journey of obsession, theatrics and blackmail to reclaim his online followers whatever the cost.
O Filho da Puta
Directed by: Otto Guerra, Tania Anaya, Erica Maradona, Savio Leite
Produced by: Otto Desenhos Animados, Anaya Produções
Country of Production: Brazil
Original Title: The Son of a Bitch
Language: Portuguese
Runtime: 85'
Completed in: 2024
Deep in the far reaches of Minas Gerais is the Casa Rosa, a famous local brothel run by Ismael’s mother, locally known as « The Son of a Bitch ». Fed up with his life, he flees to the big city, with his dog in tow. Along the way, he is confronted with situations that force him back to the reality he is trying to escape.
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.
Correspondances To Inhabit The World
Category: Spotlighted Projects
Directed by: Laura Gabay
Produced by: Vania Jaikin Miyazaki | Ecran Mobile (Switzerland)
Country of Production: Switzerland, Uruguay, Spain
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.
