Projects
Projects
Those Were The Days
Category: Málaga Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Bernabé Bulnes
Produced by: Enrique Guzmán (Rakia Films)
Country of production: Spain
Original title: Fueron los días
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Runtime: 86'
Completed in: 2023
Alma, an actress who works as a waitress, receives an offer to audition for the next film by Gabino Robles, a prestigious film director with whom she had an intense relationship seven years ago. The former lovers will meet again and try to find answers to questions that are difficult to respond.
Who Were We?
Category: HAF Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Tomina Tetsuya
Produced by: Hatanaka Mina, TETSUYA to MINA film
Country of production: Japan
Original title: Who Were We?
Language: Japanese
Runtime: 101'
Completed in: 2023
A woman who has no memory of her past falls in love with a man who also has no memory. Who were they before they met?
The Queen of My Dreams
Category: Queer Screen Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Fawzia Mirza
Produced by: Andria Wilson Mirza + Fawzia Mirza for Baby Daal Productions; Jason Levangie and Marc Tetreault for Shut Up & Colour Pictures, Executive Producer Damon D'Oliveira
Country of production: Canada, Pakistan
Original title: The Queen of My Dreams
Language: English, Urdu
Runtime: 95'
Completed in: 2023
It’s 1999. In TORONTO, 22-year-old Pakistani, Muslim AZRA MALIK shows her girlfriend her favourite Bollywood film – ARADHANA, the 1969 hit starring Sharmila Tagore. Meanwhile, across the country in SYDNEY, NOVA SCOTIA, Azra’s mother, MARIAM (52), conservative, watches a similarly-labelled VHS (except Mariam’s recorded over her Bollywood movie with religious teachings) as she and her husband HASSAN pack for a trip back home to Pakistan. An awkward phone call between mother-daughter makes it evident that their relationship is strained. Two nights later, Azra gets another call from her mother: Hassan’s had a heart attack on the trip and died. This film takes place over the next 48 hours, as Azra flies to Pakistan and buries her father. Azra’s journey back to Pakistan incites memories and flashbacks to her – and her mother’s – past, to two OTHER life-altering time periods.
Inheritance
Directed by: Stanislav Bytiutskyi
Produced by: Inna Lastochkina, Valeria Sochyvets |`Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema
Country of production: Ukraine
Original title: Spadok
Language: Ukrainian
Runtime: 90'
Budget: 670 000 Eur
Completed in: 2025
Katya and Anton are a young couple who have just moved into their own flat. They are madly in love with each other, but one day everything changes. Katya and Anton rip off the old wallpaper and notice a small crack in the wall. The bigger this crack becomes, the more their relationship breaks down.
Click The Link Below
Original title: Click The Link Below
Directed by: Audun Amundsen
Produced by: Audun Amundsen (GonzoDocs, Norway)
Country of production: Norway, UK, Germany
Runtime: 52', 90'
Expected release: April, 2024
Production stage: In production
Budget: $452.071 (25% in place)
1st feature: No
Looking for: Gap financing, buyers, distributors
Synopsis:
Click The Link Below is about the murky world of money-making gurus online. Some people are living in extravagant luxury while others are lost in broken dreams. The Norwegian filmmaker Audun Amundsen looks behind the facade of their business, while he himself tries to escape the 9-5, and join the new online riches. He spends thousands of dollars on online programs. What does it take to succeed?
Director’s profile:
Audun Amundsen is an award winning Norwegian Documentary Filmmaker and an online marketing consultant at GonzoDocs (www.gonzodocs.com). He has received governmental and non-governmental grants several times for his films, which have sold to major TV-channels, and screened on festivals worldwide. Amundsen is known for submerging deep into long duration projects and making participatory documentaries (Newtopia and Help, I’ve gone Viral!). Favourite topics are our human nature and future prospects with the goal of raising awareness for the better.
The Barbaric
Category: SANFIC Industria Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Andrew Sala
Produced by: Nicolás Grosso, Sebastián Muro, Claire Lajoumard
Country of production: Argentina
Original title: La Barbarie
Genre: Feature film
Language: Español
Runtime: 90min
Completed in: 2022
Nacho flees the violence of his home in Buenos Aires and looks for a home under the protection of his father, a rancher with whom he barely has a relationship. Nacho will have to fight to understand his place as a patron.
Follower
Category: Film Bazaar Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Harshad Nalawade
Produced by: Vinay Mishra, Jaideep Varma, Saket Gyani, Maulik Sharma
Country of production: India
Original title: Follower
Genre: Feature film
Language: Marathi, Kannada and Hindi
Runtime: 99min
Completed in: 2022
In a territorially disputed town, a radicalized journalist believes in exposing the atrocities faced by his community. But as the line between his professional and personal life blurs, an inconvenient truth makes him reflect back on a simpler time when he had not yet succumbed to radicalization.
The Editorial Office
Category: Tallinn Black Nights Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Roman Bondarchuk
Produced by: Darya Bassel (Moon Man) Darya Averchenko (South Films) Tanja Georgieva-Waldhauer (Elemag pictures)
Country of production: Ukraine, Germany
Original title: Редакція
Genre: Feature film
Language: Ukrainian, English
Runtime: 120 min (rough cut)
Completed in: 2023
Yura, working at a local nature museum, looking for a rare species, witnesses an arson in the forest. He brings the photos to a local newspaper, and gets a job there. With his new profession it dawns to him that the reality around him is a far cry from what is written in the newspaper.
The Sunny Side of the Street
Category: HAF Goes to Cannes
Directed by: LAU Kok Rui
Produced by: Peter YAM, 70 Plus Production Company Limited, Vinod SEKHAR, Winnie TSANG, Soi CHEANG
Country of production: Hong Kong
Original title: 白日青春
Genre: Feature film
Language: Cantonese, Urdu
Runtime: 105min
Completed in: 2022
A young refugee boy is helped by a taxi driver to flee Hong Kong. They develop a father-son relationship until the boy discovers that the driver is his father’s murderer.
Octopus Skin
Category: Thessaloniki Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Ana Christina Barragan Carrion
Produced by: Isabella Parra, Konstantina Stavrianou, Santiago Ortiz Monasterio, Titus Kreyenberg, Rena Vougioukalou + CALEIDOSCOPIO CINE, GRAAL FILMS, DESENLACE, UNAFILM
Country of production: Ecuador, Greece, Mexico, Germany, France
Original title: La Piel Pulpo
Genre: Feature film
Language: Spanish
Runtime: 90min
Completed in: 2022
Iris and Ariel are twins, who live with their mother and older sister on a rocky island covered with mollusks and birds, in a sibling relationship that surpasses the limits of normal intimacy. Iris decides to go alone to the city for the first time.