Projects
Projects
One Person Protest
Category: Queer Screen Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Christopher Amos
Produced by: Christopher Amos | Chrysaor
Country of Production: Australia, UK, Russia
Original Title: One Person Protest
Language: English
Runtime: 80'
Completed in: 2024
One Person Protest is an observational undercover documentary following 73-year-old human rights activist Peter Tatchell’s daring mission to protest at the 2018 FIFA World Cup to raise awareness of LGBTQ+ injustice in Russia and Chechnya.
Fucking Sensitivity
Directed by: Tetiana Symon
Produced by: Alexandra Bratyshchenko | Eleron Pictures
Country of Production: Ukraine
Original Title: Грьобана Чутливість
Language: Ukrainian
Runtime: 100'
Budget: 365 000 Eur
Completed in: 2025
Yasya, a journalist, can not pull out of the mess her life has become. She must admit to herself that she can’t continue working due to professional burnout. By researching the stories of people from the social sector, Yasia decides to find out what helps these people to keep on doing their work.
Written in Bones
Original Title: Escrito em Ossos
Directed by: Tainá Muhringer Tokitaka
Produced by: Angelo Ravazi (Massa Real Filmes, Brazil)
Country of Production: Brazil
Runtime: 90'
Expected Release: April, 2024
Production Stage: In production
Budget: €110.000 (22% in place)
1st Feature: Yes
Looking for: Gap financing, co-producers, strategic guidance, festivals
Synopsis:
One thousand five hundred bodies were buried at an illegal mass grave created by Brazil’s military dictatorship in the 70’s. Decades later, a group of forensic anthropologists try to uncover their identities, but a radical political change threatens their work. During the last five years, we’ve been following the path of these bones. Hidden at a laboratory, they await to tell the story of a Country.
Director’s profile:
Tainá Muhringer Tokitaka is a Brazilian filmmaker. She works as a screenwriter, making films regarding violence, crimes and human rights. She co-wrote the feature film “Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter” which won the Teddy Award at Berlinale 2022. In the same year, the TV series that she worked as a screenwriter, “Evandro’s Case: a Devilish Plot” was nominated for the International Emmy Awards and received a prize from brazilian’s screenwriter association (ABRA) for best screenplay. She also wrote documentaries, such as “God Has AIDS”, that premiered at IDFA and won best film at Queer Porto, and TV series for streaming channels. She graduated both in Film Studies and language and literature. She’s currently writing her Masters Degree, where she studies the use of documents produced by the Brazilian dictatorship in recent films. Written in Bones is her first film as a director.
Producer’s profile:
Angelo Ravazi has worked since 2008 as an executive producer. He graduated in Film Studies and in History. He created his production company, “Massa Real”, based in Sao Paulo, to foment the work of new filmmakers and to produce films that have a social impact. He has produced feature films and documentaries that were exhibited at international festivals. Amongst them, films like “The Arrow and the Uniform », about indigenous populations and the military dictatorship in Brazil, “The Revolution of the Year », about the Arab Spring, and “Us” about people who were killed by the state.
Steve’s Version
Category: Canada Showcase
Directed by: Sofia Bohdanowicz
Produced by: Sofia Bohdanowicz | Maison du Bonheur Films (Canada)
Country of Production: Canada
Original Title: Steve's Version
Runtime: 75'
Expected Release: January 2027
Production Stage: Fine Cut
1st Feature: No
Looking for: Festivals, Sales Agents/Distributors, Gap Financing
Synopsis:
Filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz is asked by her uncle, Steve, to make a film about her grandfather, a violinist long absent from her work. With no archive and few answers, the project unravels. Heartbroken, she travels across Europe with a 16mm camera, tracing absence through memory and performance—until a final act of reanimation reveals what it means to bring someone back.
Director/Producer’s Profile:
Sofia Bohdanowicz is an award-winning filmmaker from Toronto. Her films have screened at Berlinale, Locarno, New York Film Festival, Göteborg, Viennale, FIDMarseille, and TIFF, and have been the subject of a retrospective on the Criterion Channel. Her feature MS Slavic 7 premiered at the Berlinale and screened at the Harvard Film Archive. Her fourth feature, A Woman Escapes (co-directed with Burak Çevik and Blake Williams), premiered in competition at FIDMarseille, where it received an Honourable Mention for the CNAP Prize, and was awarded the Kodak & Silverway Award at the FIDLab. Her latest film, Measures for a Funeral, premiered at TIFF. A Berlinale Talents and TIFF Talent Accelerator alum, she is currently a resident at the Academia de Cine in Madrid, where she is developing her sixth feature, La Tirana.
Sofia Bohdanowicz is also a producer, and founder of the production company « Maison du Bonheur Films », a production company she established five years ago. She has produced all of her feature films to date, developing a body of work grounded in artisanal, process-driven practices that move between fiction and documentary. Her films have been presented internationally at major festivals and cinematheques. As a producer, she is committed to creating intimate, collaborative environments that support formally adventurous cinema. Looking ahead, she aims to expand « Maison du Bonheur » to produce work by other independent filmmakers, with a focus on singular voices and rigorously crafted, artist-driven projects.
When the Fire Sleeps
Category: Docs by the Sea Showcase
Original Title: When the Fire Sleeps
Directed by: Eri Mizutani
Produced by: Sara Skrodzka | Warboys Films (France), Emi Ueyama | Article Films (Japan)
Country of Production: Poland, France, Japan
Runtime: 93'
Expected Release: November 2026
Production Stage: Post-Production
1st Feature: Yes
Looking for: Festivals, Sales Agents, Distributors, Gap Financing
Synopsis:
When the Fire Sleeps is a character-led documentary about Keiko, a Japanese woman in her fifties who teaches pubescent virgins the sacred dance to calm Mount Fuji. When Keiko questions this patriarchal tradition and faces the threat of an erupting volcano, she must choose between resigning or reinventing the tradition. The film prompts reflection on women’s struggle against traditional gender roles.
Director’s Profile:
Eri Mizutani is a director from Kyoto who has made Poland her second home for the last 10 years. She graduated from TAMA Art University in Tokyo and excelled in film directing at the Polish National Film School in Łódź. Her short documentary Their Voices was selected for BBC LongShots Film Festival and DOK Leipzig Panorama, and awarded at the 21st MECAL Pro Barcelona, among others. Daughter of Fuji won Best Pitch at the prestigious European Work in Progress during Film Festival Cologne, took part in the Polish Docs Pro showcase at IDFA 2020, and has received international recognition at DMZ, Sunny Side of the Doc and DOK Leipzig, among others.
Producer’s Profile:
Sara Skrodzka is a Paris-based producer and archival producer, and a partner at Warboys Films, which she joined in 2023. She is currently developing a diverse range of projects that leverage her extensive experience in international productions and archival work. Sara is passionate about supporting projects by committed, inclusive creators and is dedicated to championing both emerging and established filmmakers. Among the films she has worked on is Johan Grimonprez’s Oscar-nominated documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d’État, which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. The film won the World Cinema Documentary Award at the 2024 Sofia International Film Festival, as well as the Audience Award in 2024.Her most recent production includes Closure by Michał Marczak, which premiered at Sundance 2026 and won the Golden Alexander at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival.
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.
