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Projects

Goes to Cannes

A House With Two Dogs

Category: Ventana Sur Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Matías Ferreyra

Produced by: Inés María Barrionuevo, Martín Paolorossi, Sofía Castells | Gualicho Cine

Country of production: Argentina

Original title: Una casa con dos perros

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 92'

Completed in: 2024

Argentina, 2001. In the midst of the economic crisis, Manuel and his family have to move to his maternal grandmother’s house. Caught in the middle of a strange war over the occupation of spaces, Manuel finds, in complicity with his grandmother, a particular and unexpected way of resisting.

Goes to Cannes

My Grandfather is a Nihonjin

Category: Ventana Sur Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Celia Catunda

Produced by: Kiko Mistrorigo, Ricardo Rozzino | Pinguim Content

Country of production: Brazil

Original title: Meu Avô é um Nihonjin

Language: Portuguese

Runtime: 80'

Completed in: 2025

Noboru is a 10 year old who turns to his grandfather Hideo as he starts investigating his family’s history. As Noboru digs into his family’s past, he finds out he has an uncle he never met and, even worse, he didn’t even know about.

Goes to Cannes

Lovers farewell with a glance

Category: Ventana Sur Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Rigoberto Perezcano

Produced by: Cristina Velasco L. & Jorge Hernandez Aldana | PALOMA NEGRA FILMS

Country of production: Mexico

Original title: Los Amantes se despiden con la mirada

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 84'

Completed in: 2024

Elida, a young woman who lives in the Oaxaca valley, is forced into an arranged marriage with Damián, an older and haughty man. She refuses to follow these old customs because of the love she feels for Olivo, a young man who constantly invokes his deceased father.

Goes to Cannes

The Virgin of the Quarry Lake

Category: Ventana Sur Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Laura Casabé

Produced by: Alejandro Israel | Ajimolido Films, Tomás Eloy Muñoz, Valeria Bistagnino | Mostra Cine, Diego Martínez Ulanosky, Livi Herrera | Caponeto, Ángeles Hernández, David Matamoros | Mr. Miyagi Films

Country of production: Argentina, España, México

Original title: The Virgin of the Quarry Lake

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 100'

Completed in: 2024

On the eve of the 2001 outbreak, Natalia falls madly in love with her lifelong friend Diego. The romance is interrupted when he meets the more experienced Silvia. With the help of her grandma Rita, Natalia decides to call on incantations and curses to jinx Diego and Silvia’s blossoming relationship.

Goes to Cannes

The Drownings

Category: Ventana Sur Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Juanse Jácome & Mares (Co-Director)

Produced by: Oderay Game and Irina Caballero | AbacaFilms S.A.

Country of production: Ecuador / Uruguay

Original title: Los ahogados

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 87'

Completed in: 2024

A novelist’s sense of reality and illusion becomes blurred when her family confronts a mysterious drowning in the pool of their home.