If You Wish to Make an Apple Pie

Runtime: 70' / 55'

Expected release: May 2026

Production stage: Production

Budget: €333,000 (80% in place)

1st feature: Yes

Looking for: Festivals, sales agents, distributors, buyers, gap financing, strategic guidance

Synopsis:

After eight years of clandestine interfaith love with her Hindu partner, circumstances force Muslim artist Dorine to return to her family. She is forced to adapt to the strict discipline imposed by her father, a fervent practitioner of Islam, for whom the mere act of drawing a human form is considered a transgression.

Director’s Profile:

Producer, director, editor, and DOP. She founded El Santo Films in 2022, after a ten-year professional career as a freelancer, during which she has trained with internationally renowned artists and worked with professionals from a wide variety of fields in the audiovisual industry.

Closely identified with the social documentary genre, she has participated in film productions in Newfoundland, the Ecuadorian Amazon, Cape Verde, Paris, Algeria, Israel, Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, Mexico, India, and Puerto Rico. She is currently touring festivals with the short film “Wao Zone”, awarded eight international awards to date. She is currently directing and co-producing “If You Wish to Make an Apple Pie”, her feature-length debut, which will be released in 2026. She is also co-producing the feature-length documentary “Before You, My Shadow”, by director Natxo Leuza, which is currently in development.

Producer’s Profile:

Founder of IZAR Films, a film production company based in San Sebastián since 2013. The company specializes in films about human rights and social issues, and they work mainly with women filmmakers. The technical teams are also made up of at least 50% women.
IZAR Films is currently developing the documentary feature film “If You Wish to Make an Apple Pie” in production stage and “Irailak”, a documentary feature film in development stage where she is Director and Producer.