Projects
Projects
Werewolf
Category: Spanish Screenings Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Pau Calpe Rufat
Produced by: Galápagos Media S.L. + Dacsa Produccions S.L.
Country of Production: Spain
Original Title: LLOBÀS (LOBISÓN)
Language: Catalan
Runtime: 104'
Completed in: 2023
Adrià lives from town to town with his brother and his brother’s girlfriend. He is mute, cannot stand closed spaces and finds it hard to keep his attention. But Adrià has a secret: on full moon nights he can’t sleep and wanders the streets, smells blood, searches the chicken coops and eats them.
Corpus
Category: Fantastic 7
Directed by: Pablo Delgado
Produced by: Eva Ruiz de Chávez and Mariana Rodríguez
Country of Production: Mexico
Original Title: Corpus
Genre: Horror
Language: Spanish
Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara
Something is happening in the dungeons of an old seminary in the middle of the woods. A dark and ancient force has risen from the depths to reclaim its freedom.
Hina is beautiful
Directed by: Kenji Iwaisawa
Produced by: Rock'n'Roll Mountain, Yuya Machida (ABC Animation)
Country of Production: Japan
Original Title: Hina is beautiful
Language: Japanese
Runtime: NSP
Completed in: 2026
Set in Izu, Japan. Men are fighting over a woman called Hina. What is it exactly that makes Hina mislead men? As the men try to reveal their true feelings for Hina, strong, muscly men also get involved and the sound of the festival drum signals the start of a confrontation.
Human / Animal
Category: Málaga Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Alessandro Pugno
Produced by: Jose Alba (Pecado Films & First Draft)
Country of Production: Spain
Original Title: Animal / Humano
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Runtime: 92'
Completed in: 2023
In a small misty village of the North of Italy, the son of a funeral home’s owner dreams of becoming a bullfighter. In the sunny Andalusian meadow, a male calf is born. Matteo and Fandango grow up in completely different worlds, but their lives reflect on each other. Only at the end, they will meet.
Salli
Category: HAF Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Lien Chien-Hung
Produced by: Lee Lieh, Dennis Wu, Amanda Man-Yin Reinert, Uilin Ong
Country of Production: Taiwan, France
Original Title: 莎莉
Language: Mandarin, Taiwanese, English, French
Runtime: 110'
Completed in: 2023
An online romance with a foreigner takes a lonely middle-aged farmer to an unknown land. Despite everyone calling it a romance scam, she wants to prove that love indeed exists.
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: Q1 2027
Production Stage: Post-Production
1st Feature: Yes
Looking for: Festivals, Distributors, Gap Financing
Synopsis:
For generations, young Japanese girls have performed Chigo no Mai, a sacred dance said to calm Mount Fuji. The ritual lives on through Keiko, a widowed dance master entrusted with its legacy. But when a new priest questions her authority, doubt spreads, threatening the fragile balance that keeps the volcano at bay.
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.
