Projects
Projects
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
Directed by: Sofia Bohdanowicz
Produced by: Sofia Bohdanowicz (Maison du Bonheur Films, Canada)
Country of production: Canada
Runtime: 75'
Expected release: January 2027
Production stage: Fine Cut
Budget: $200,000 (40% in place)
1st feature: No
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
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: November 2026
Production stage: Post-Production
Budget: €259,440 (80% in place)
1st feature: Yes
Looking for: Festivals, Sales Agents, Distributors, Gap Financing
Synopsis:
Daughter of Fuji is a character-led documentary about Keiko, a Japanese woman in her fifties who teaches pubescent virgins the sacred dance to calm Mount Fuji. When Keiko questions this patriarchal tradition and faces the threat of an erupting volcano, she must choose between resigning or reinventing the tradition. The film prompts reflection on women’s struggle against traditional gender roles.
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.
Requiem for a Robot
Category: Proof of Concept
Directed by: Christoph Rainer
Produced by: Loredana Rehekampff, Andreas Schmied // Samsara Filmproduktion and Josef Redinger // Pharos (former ARRI Media)
Country of production: Austria, Germany
Genre: Science-fiction
Language: English
A thrilling sci-fi fairytale about a misfit robot struggling to find his purpose. When the life of his god-like brother is in danger, our clumsy hero embarks on an existential journey to save him.
Falling Stars
Category: Buyers Showcase
Directed by: Richard Karpala, Gabriel Bienczycki
Produced by: Richard Karpala, Gabriel Bienczycki
Country of production: USA
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Language: English
On the first night of harvest, three brothers set out for the desert to see a witch’s corpse.
History and Geography
Category: SANFIC Industria Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Bernardo Quesney
Produced by: Pablo Calisto, Tomás Alzamora (Equeco)
Country of production: Chile
Original title: Historia y Geografía
Genre: Feature film
Language: Español
Runtime: 90min
Completed in: 2022
Gioconda Martínez, a well-remembered comic television actress, decides to return to her hometown to put on a play about the conquest of Chile, to regain the artistic recognition she thought she had lost, but never had.
The Spark
Category: HAF Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Rajesh S. JALA
Produced by: Rajesh S. JALA (Principal Producer-The Elements), Prayas DEEPTI (Co-Producer-Inquilab Studio)
Country of production: India
Original title: CHINGARI
Genre: Feature film
Language: Hindi
Runtime: 105min
Completed in: 2022
A filmmaker on assignment follows a cremator and an old woman in the ancient city of Banaras with his camera. Soon, hidden realities emerge and the filmmaker’s real mission unfolds.
NEW CONTINENT
Category: Thessaloniki Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Pandelis Pagoulatos
Produced by: Nikos Moustakas + Bad Crowd, Bandur Films, Arizona Productions
Country of production: Greece, France, Serbia
Original title: ΝΕΑ ΗΠΕΙΡΟΣ
Genre: Feature film
Language: Greek
Runtime: 90min
Completed in: 2023
“New Continent” is a love drama about the people who wander without a compass. The ones who are constantly trading without rules, wear the role of “evil”, but in reality they survive by sulking between the most infamous streets of the capital. Above all, though, it’s a dead-end love story.
Do you love me?
Category: Tallinn Black Nights Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Tonia Noyabrova
Produced by: Anastasiia Bukovska, Danylo Kaptyukh (Family Production)
Country of production: Ukraine
Original title: Do you love me?
Genre: Feature film
Language: Ukrainian
Runtime: 90min
Completed in: 2023
One has to be brave enough to accept loosing old self for the sake of growing up. Kira becomes adult briskly, watching her family and soviet childhood smashing into pieces. So does Ukraine in the early 90th, launching painful process of transformation into an independent country.