Ghost Ship

Runtime: 70'

Expected release: March 2027

Production stage: Late developpement

Budget: €599,130 (14.13 % in place)

1st feature: Yes

Looking for: Co-producers, sales agents, distributors, buyers, festivals

Synopsis:

On the shores of Zarzis, Tunisia, an old man offers a symbolic burial to anonymous drowning victims. At the other end of the migratory route, in Senegal, families remain without news of their loved ones who have left for adventure. The absent inhabit the imagination of those who remain. From one territory to another, their dreams take over the void and the silence.

Director’s Profile:

A graduate of Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains, Moïse Togo produces work that questions African beliefs in a contemporary world, new technologies and the social conditions of being. He purues his experimental approach from one production to the next, constantly exploring new forms of cinematographic experiment.

 

 

 

Producer’s Profile:

After working for around ten years at Zadig Productions as production manager, Eugénie Michel Villette set up the production company Les Films du Bilboquet in 2014. Since then, she has produced or co-produced numerous documentary films shown at international festivals, including Tinselwood (Berlinale), A Mansourah, tu nous as séparés (Visions du Réel, IDFA-Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival) L’Ultimu sognu (Doclisboa, DOK Leipzig, Ji.hlava, Rotterdam International Film Festival) and Taamaden (Visions du Réel, IDFA). Joined by Mathilde Raczymow in 2016, Les Films du Bilboquet accompanies films at the frontiers of genres, forms and subjects. Since 2020, Eugénie has been co-directing the Alaka Film Lab, a development workshop dedicated to cinema in Central Africa. She also co-directs the Master’s program in documentary film at Jules Verne University in Amiens, where she also teaches.

IndigoMood Films supports authors and artists in their desire to make individual and audacious films. Documentaries, fiction, movies for museum installations. IndigoMood helps stories blossom from idea to screen, large and small. These films in the making are first or second works that require special attention at every stage of their conception. Founded by Katy Lena Ndiaye in 2013, the production company has a catalogue of titles selected and rewarded at prestigious international festivals. IndigoMood is a member of RESPAC, the Senegalese producers’ network.