Production: Gema Films (Argentina) Coproduction: Dublin Films (France), Desvia Productions (Brazil) and Mart Films (Mexico) International Sales : Luxbox French Distribution :Epicentre Films
Synopsis: Lalo is a sex influencer: he posts photos of his nude body and homemade porn videos for his thousands of followers on social media. He controls his own life, but in private, when out of character, he seems to live in constant melancholy. Following an advertisement, he passed a casting to play Emiliano Zapata in a porn film about the Mexican revolution. Pornomelancholia approaches pornography as a starting point to reflect on the border between the intimate and the public, the real and the virtual, the desire and the need for affection, in a hyperconnected world.
Shooting: October 2019 – January 2021 (Mexico)
Supported by:
l’INCAA, ANCINE, Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine (production), IDFA Bertha Fund Europe, Mecenazgo Cultural – Ciudad de Buenos Aires et Ikusmira Berriak / Tabakalera – Festival de San Sebastián.
Development: Pitching du Réel – Visions du Réel 2019 – Prix Visions Sud Est et Doc & Film International
Los Cabos – TFI Award
WIP Latam – Festival International du Film de San Sebastián 2021
Festivals 2022 World Premiere Festival international de San Sebastián – Official Competition 2022 (San Sebastian, Spain) – Best Cinematography Zurich Film Festival – Window : San Sebastian Selection (Zurich, Suisse) Rekjavik International Film festival – New Visions Selection (Rekjavik, Iceland) BIFF – Official Selection Clases de Lucha (Bogota, Colombia) FIFIB – Feature Official Competition (Bordeaux, France) – Grand Prix International Feature Competition IDFA – Best of Fests Selection (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Chéris-Chéries – Fiction Competition (Paris, France) Thessaloniki Film Festival – Round Midnight Selection (Thessaloniki, Greece) Taipei Golden Horse Festival – Another View Selection (Taipei, Taiwan) This Human World – Official selection Out of competition (Vienna, Austria)
Festivals 2022 Tournai Ramdam Festival – Official Feature Competition (Tournai, Belgique) Black Movie Festival – “À suivre…” Selection (Genève, Suisse) Belgrade International Film Festival – Official selection, FEST Fokus section (Belgrade, Serbie) – Merlinka Award for Best Queer Film Des images aux mots – Festival de films LGBTQIA+ – Official Selection (Toulouse, France) Festival Écrans mixtes – Official Selection (Lyon, France) Cinélatino, rencontres de Toulouse – Official selection, discovery section (Toulouse, France) Rencontres cinématographiques In&Out – Official selection (Nice, France) Queer MoMenti festival – Official selection (Zagreb, Croatia) Festival de Cine LGTBI Centro Niemeyer – Official selection (Avilés, Spain) OUTshine LGBTQ+ Film Festival – Official selection (Miami, USA) Docaviv International Documentary Film Festival – Official selection, Depth of Field section (Tel Aviv, Israël) Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival – Official Competition for the Warsaw Documentary Award, Se_x Work section (Varsovie, Pologne) Frameline – San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival – Official Selection, Narrative Features section (San Francisco, USA) Fire!! Mostra Barcelona International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival – Official feature selection (Barcelona, Spain) Festival Cinépride – Official selection (Nantes, France) Filmfest München – Official Cinerebels competition (Munich, Germany) KVIFF – International Film Festival Karlovy Vary – Official selection, Horizons section (Prague, Czech Republic) Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Film Festival – Official selection (Los Angeles, United States) FICPBA – Festival Internacional de Cine de la Provincia de Buenos Aires – International Documentary Competition (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Helsinki Film Festival – Official selection (Helsinki, Finlande) Outfilm Poznań Festival – Official selection (Poznań, Pologne) Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest – Official selection (Londres, Royaume-Uni) New York Latino Film Festival – Feature Film Competition (New York, États-Unis) Queer Lisboa – Feature Film Competition (Lisboa, Portugal) Mirage Festival – Official selection (Oslo, Norvège) Pink Screens – Official selection (Bruxelles, Belgium) Mezipatra Queer Film Festival – Documentary section (Prague, Czech Republic)
Executive Production : Burning (Colombia)
Coproduction : Dublin Films (France)
Writer & Director : Diana Bustamante
Synopsis : BREAKING NEWS. Blood is everywhere. Violent images are engraved in our memories. A revisit of those to draw a generation of images and apathy. This collage of images, repetitions, and memories, built through the intervention of the Colombian news archive during the 80s and 90s, is, at the same time a personal journey of my childhood, reconstructing a story linked to a generation, a generation that grew by normalizing violence through those constant repetitions of images.
Development:
Pitching du Réel – Visions du Réel 2019
Prix 24/48 – Catapulta – FICUNAM 2021
With the support of Proimágenes Colombia (FDC), Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine (Nouvelle-Aquitaine Film Workout), ANTV, Fundacion Patrimonio Filmico Colombiano et Caracol Télévision.
Festivals 2022 Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogota – Official Selection National Films (Bogota, Colombie) Zinebi – International Competition (Bilbao, Spain) – Special Mention Doc NYC – Kaleidoscope Competition (New York, USA) Festival de cine de La Habana – Official Latinoamericano Selection (Cuba, La Havane)
Festivals 2023 Festival de Cine Global de Santo Domingo – Competition Opera Prima Documentary “Fernando Báez” (Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana)
Cinélatino, rencontres de Toulouse – Official Selection, Contemporary Colombian Cinema section (Toulouse, France) Festival Internacional de Cine Al Este – Official Competition iberoamerican documentary (Lima, Peru) BAFICI – Buenos Aires Internacional de Cine Indepedente – Official Selection, Políticas section (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Documenta Madrid – Festival Internacional de Cine – Official Selection (Madrid, Spain) FICUNAM – Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM – Official selection, Atlas section (Mexico, Mexico)
National colombian release June 1st 2023, distributed by DOC:CO
Production: Mosaico Productora (Pérou) Coproduction : La Selva Cine (Colombie), Dublin Films
Synopsis : In the Peruvian Andes, two siblings are raised in isolation by their father, a Tablas de Sarhua painter who exchanges his art in the village for supplies, while his children wait for him, cared for by their dogs. A series of unexpected events will drastically transform the only reality they know and will bring Sabina, the older sister, to meet her past and her culture.
Shooting : August 2021
Supported by:
DAFO (Peruvian National Fund) , Ibermedia, World Cinema Fund Europe and Aide aux Cinémas du Monde (post-production).
Development :
Encuentros Cartagena – FICCI 2020 – Prix CNC
Primer Corte – Ventana Sur – 2021 – Prix CINE +
Cinéma en Construction 2022 – Cinélatino Toulouse – Special Mention
Festivals 2023:
Festival de Málaga – Official competition, Zonazine section (Málaga, Spain) – Biznaga de plata for Best Ibero-american film and Biznaga de plata for Best Director for Leonardo Barbuy Cinélatino, rencontres de Toulouse – Official competition (Toulouse, France) Festival de Cinéma Péruvien – Official competition (Paris, France) – Special mention FICG – Festival International de Cine en Guadalajara – Official Iberoamerican Fiction Feature Competition (Guadalajara, Mexico) Festival de Cine Peruano en Madrid – Official selection (Madrid, Spain) Festival de Cine de Lima – Official Selection International Competition (Lima, Peru) CineBH International Film Festival – Official competition (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) CineFest Latino Boston – Official Selection (Boston, United States) Festival du Film du Montreuil – Focus Les inédits de l’Aide aux Cinémas du Monde (Montreuil, France) Panorámica -Stockholm Latin American Film Festival – Official selection (Stockholm, Sweden) Bogotá International Film Festival – Sélection officielle – Colombia Viva (Bogotá, Colombia) AFI Latin America – Official selection (Maryland, USA) Festival Internacional de Cine de Cali – Official selection (Cali, Colombia) Festival Internacional de Cine de Tunja – Official selection (Tunja, Colombia) FILMAR en América Latina – Focus Sud (Geneva, Suisse)
Synopsis :
A funeral car cruises the street of Medellín, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city. He remembers the pre-production of his first film, a Class-B movie with ghosts. The young queer scene of Medellín is casted for the film, but the main protagonist dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 21. just like many friends of the director. Anhell69 explores the dreams, doubts and fears of an annihilated generation, and the struggle to carry on making cinema.
Shooting : Summer 2021 (Medellín)
With the support of Proimágenes Colombia (FDC), Romanian Film Center, sRTV – National Romanian Television, IDFA Bertha Fund Europe, Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Tribeca All Access and FilMedellín
Development: Torino Film Lab 2019 – TFI Network
FIDBA – DOC:LAB – 2020
Cannes Docs – Festival de Cannes – 2020 – Prix VOSTAO (Cannes Docs 2020)
BAM Projects 2020
Forum de Coproduction – Festival International du Film de San Sebastián – 2020
Sorfond Pitching Forum – 2020
IDFA Forum – 2020
Cinéma en Développement – Cinélatino Toulouse – 2021
2022 Festivals
Settimana Internazionale Della Critica, Official Competition, 37th Mostra de Venise – Jury Special Mention – Innovation Award & technical contribution Award DOK Leipzig – International Competition (Leipzig, Allemagne) – Golden Dove Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata – Latin American competition (Mar del Plata, Argentina) – Special Mention IDFA – Best of Fests Selection (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Zinebi – International Competition (Bilbao, Spain) – ZIFF Grand Award Gijón International Film Festival – Official Selection Terres en Trance (Gijon, Spain) – Award FIPRESCI to best feature film. RIDM – Compétition Internationale (Montréal, Canada) – Special Mention Great Prize Feature Film International Competition International Film Festival of India – Intergrade Section (Goa, India) Márgenes – Festival Internacional de Cine – Official Selection – Best Film Prize Muestra de Cine de Lanzarote – Official Selection (Lanzarote, Spain) FIDBA – International Documentary Film Festival – Competencia Internacional de Largometrajes Documentales (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Festival de cine de La Habana– Latinoamericano Selection (Cuba, La Habana) – Feisal Jury’s Prize This human world – Int. Human Rights – Up and Comind selection (Vienna, Austria) World Film Festival of Bangkok – Documentary Panorama (Bangkok, Thailand)
2023 Festivals
Black Movie Festival – Vivre ! section – competing for the Prix de la critique (Geneva, Suisse) Festival de Cine Global de Santo Domingo – Competition Opera Prima Documentary “Fernando Báez” (Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana) DocPoint– Helsinki Documentary Film Festival – Official Selection (Helsinki, Finland) Festival Internacional de Cine de Punta del Este – Official Iberoamerican Documentary Competition (Punta del Este, Uruguay) – Lobo Marino Award for Best Iberoamerican Documentary True/False Film Festival – Official selection (Colombia, USA) Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Official competition Mermaid Award et Open Horizons section (Thessaloniki, Greece) Tempo Documentary Festival – Official International Competition (Stockholm, Sweden) – Stefan Jarl International Documentary Award SXSW Film & TV Festival – Official Selection, Visions section (Austin, USA) CPH:DOX – Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival – Official selection, Artists & Auteurs section (Copenhagen, Denmark) One World International Film Festival – Official selection (Prague, Czech Republic) DOCVILLE – Documentary Film Festival Leuven – Official selection, Outside the Dox section (Leuven, Belgium) D’A Festival Cinema Barcelona – Official selection, Talents section (Barcelone, Espagne) Phoenix Film Festival – Official selection, Spotlight on: the LGBTQIA+ Community section (Phoenix, USA) Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse – Official competition fiction (Toulouse, France) – SFCC Award Ojo Loco, Festival de cinéma ibérique et latino-américain – Official Selection (Grenoble, France) FICCI – Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de Indias – Official Documentary selection “Hecho en casa” (Cartagena, Colombia) CLaP – Festival de cinéma latino-américain de Paris – Official Competition (Paris, France) – CLaP Audience Award Zagrebdox – International Documentary Film Festival – Official International Competition (Zagreb, Croatia) Milwaukee Film Festival – Official Competition (Milwaukee, USA) Hot Docs – Canadian International Documentary Festival – Official selection, Nightvision section (Toronto, Canada) ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival – Official competition IDA (International Documentary Award) (Vienna, Austria) TRANSlations: Seattle Trans Film Festival – Official selection (Seattle, USA) DOXA Documentary Film Festival – Official international competition, Thin Places section (Vancouver, Canada) – Special Jury mention Docaviv Film Festival – Official Depth of Field competition (Tel Aviv, Israel) – Special Mention in the Depth of Field Competition Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival – Official competition Warsaw Documentary Award, “Newsweek Psychologia” Award for the Best Film on Psychology et First Appearance Award, We’re Here, We’re Queer section (Warsaw, Poland) TranScreen Amsterdam Transgender Film Festival – Official selection (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Festival la Fête du slip – Official selection (Lausanne, Switzerland) – Jury’s Prize Kinolatino Film Festival – Official selection (Brussels, Belgium) Festival Construir Cine – Festival International de Cine sobre el Trabajo – Official selection, Perspectivas focus (Buenos Aires, Argentina) DOC-Cévennes – Official selection (Lasalle, France) EPA CINE – Festival International de Cine Independiente de El Palomar – Official selection, Panorama Internacional section (El Palomar, Argentina) FICUNAM – Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM – Official selection, Atlas section (Mexico, Mexico) San Francisco Documentary Festival – Official Competition Jury award and Audience award (San Francisco,USA) International Film Festival Innsbruck – Official Documentary Film competition (Innsbruck, Austria) – Best documentary Festival de Cine Espacio Queer – International Feature Film Competition (La Plata, Argentina) – Best International Feature Film TIFF – Transilvania International Film Festival – Official International Competition What’s Up, Doc? (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) – Best Documentary Award Sheffield DocFest – Official selection, Journeys section and competing for the Youth Jury Award (Sheffield, United Kingdom) – Youth Jury Award Frameline – San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival – Official selection (San Francisco, USA) Olhar de Cinema – Festival International de Curitiba – Official competition (Curitiba, Brazil) – Best Feature Film award & Audience award for Best Feature Film Docs Ireland Documentary Film Festival – Official selection, The Zone section (Belfast, Northern Ireland) Philadelphia Latino Film Festival – Official selection, Los Features Program (Philadelphia, USA) Árbol Rojo – Official selection (Chetumal, Bacalar & Mahahual, Mexico) Kaleidoskop – Official selection (Vienna, Austria) Social World Film Festival – Official international competition, nominated for Best Feature Film, Best Editing, Best Screenplay (Naples, Italy) Zinegoak – KRAK selection (Bilbao, Spain) – Best Feature Film Award Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Film Festival – Official selection (Los Angeles, United States) Iceland Documentary Film Festival – International competition (Iceland) Amor Festival – International Competition (Santiago, Chile) Habitar El Cine – Caracas International Contemporary Film Festival – International Selection (Caracas, Venezuela) Festival Internacional de Cine Guanajuato – International Documentary Competition (Guanajuato, Mexico) DokuFest– International Documentary and Short Film Festival – View From the World Selection (Prizren, Kosovo) Festival Internacional de Cine de las Alturas – Documentary Competition (Jujuy, Argentina) Festival de Cinéma Douarnenez – Gender issues Selection (Douarnenez, France) Fronteira Festival – Closing Film (Brasilia, Brazil) Open City Documentary Festival – Bertha DocHouse Selection (London, United Kingdom) DMZ International Documentary Film Festival – Docu fiction Selection (Suwon, Korea) Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ IFF – (Chicago, United States) International Cinematographers’ Film Festival – “Manaki Brothers” – International Documentary Competition Special Mention for Cinematography in a Documentary Film (Bitola, North-Macedonia) Oslo/Fusion Int. Film Festival – Documentary Competition Honorable Mention & Youth Film Award (Oslo, Norway) Queer Lisboa – Int. Queer FF – Queer Art Competition (Lisboa, Portugal) CineBH – Mostra Int. de Cinema de Belo Horizonte – Mostra Continente – Territories of Latinity Showcase (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival – International Competition (Yamagata, Japan) EDOC – International Documentary Film Festival (Quito, Ecuador) New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival (New York, United States) Bergen International Film Festival – Documentary Extraordinaire competition (Bergen, Norway) Inconvenient Films – Int. Human Rights Documentary FF – International Competition (Vilnius, Lithuania) Molodist International Film Festival – Documentary Competition (Kiev, Ukraine) Costa Rica International Film Festival – Official Selection (San José, Costa Rica) Cinemaissí Latin American Film Festival (Helsinki, Finland) Festival du Film LGBTQI+ Chéries – Chéris – Competition documentaire (Paris, France) Escales documentaires – Festival International de création documentaire – Sélection officielle – Youth Award (La Rochelle, France) Pink Screens Film Festival (Bruxelles, Belgium) Festival du Film d’Amiens – Documentary Competition – Big Screen Documentary Award(Amiens, France)
Colombian national release July 27, 2023, distributed by DOC:CO
Synopsis : Yasmine is a twenty-two-year-old Franco-Maghreb woman who moved away from home to be able to live her life. Her love for N’dé, a thirty-something black African woman is secret. For Eid, she visits her family for a few days.
Yasmine finds her sister, her father and her mother at home. Each relationship is revealed and at the same time opens-up the entrenched warfare where everyone lives enclosed in their own world. Yasmine is overwhelmed by this violence.
Filming: February 2021
With the support of the Région Nouvelle Aquitaine, the Département of Lot-et-Garonne, the CNC (Aide au programme de développement court-métrage et Fonds à la diversité) et Procirep-Angoa
Festivals 2022
Chéris-Chéries – Lesbian Program (Paris, France) Festival des Autrices et Auteurs en Nouvelle-Aquitaine – Saint-Georges de Didonné
Production : Monociclo Cine (Colombia) & Dublin Films
Coproduction : RTVC Play (Colombia) & Amplitud (USA)
Synopsis : Jorge lives on the coffee farm he inherited from his father. He is the only one of his generation who has decided to stay in the countryside. The festivities of his village are approaching and with them the reunion with his ex-girlfriend Andrea, who is returning from the city. Her imminent arrival begins to distance him from his cousin Rosa and to destabilize him physically and mentally, taking him away from his work in his plantation, as his crops slowly begin to be destroyed by a severe plague.
During the chaos of the festivities, Jorge will experience the encounter with a world unknown to him. In the midst of drugs and electronic music, he understands that everything that united him with Andrea has already disappeared and that only fire can turn the ghosts of his past and the plague that attacks his crops into ashes.
Shooting : 2019 (Colombia)
Film Crew : DOP: David Correa Franco
Editing: Etienne Boussac, Juan Cañola
Producers: Alexander Arbelaez, Jose Manuel Duque, David Hurst
Casting : Jorge : Juan Daniel Ortiz Hernandez
Rosa : Paula Andrea Cano
Andrea : Laura Gutierrez Ardila
Development : Cinélatino, Coproduction Forum Festival de San-Sebastian 2017, Cinéfondation Résidence 2017-2018.
With the support of Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine (writing et development), Proimágenes Colombia (FDC – development and production) and FilMedellín.
Development :
WIP Latam 2020 – San Sebastian Festival
Cinéma en Construction – Cinélatino Toulouse 2021
2021 festivals :
World Premiere, Festival international de San Sebastián – Competition, section New Directors (Espagne, september) French Premiere, Festival Biarritz Amérique Latine – Official selection – Out of competition (France, october) ZFF – San Sebastián Window (Switzerland, september) Panorama du cinéma Colombien – Feature length competition (Paris, octobre) Thessaloniki International Film Festival – International competition – Human Values Prize from Grec Parlement (Greece, novembre) Filmar en América Latina – Audience Prize Compétition – Focus Sud Section (Switzerland, november)
2022 :
Regard sur le cinéma d’Amérique Latine – Official selection (Marennes, France) Reflets du cinéma ibérique et latino américain – Official competition (Villeurbanne, France) FICCI – Opening Film (Cartagena, Colombia) Quinzaine du Cinéma Espagnol – Official Selection (Chambéry, France) FECHA, Festival de cinéma hispano-américain – Official selection (Poitiers, France) Images Hipano-américaine – Official selection (Annecy, France) Olhar de Cinema – Official Competition (Curitiba, Brazil) FICG – Official Competition, section Ibero-American fiction film (Guadalajara, Mexico) Beijing International Film Festival – Future Section – Best Artistic Contribution Award (Beijing, Chine)
2023 :
Festival La fiesta del cine – Official Competition (Nice, France)
Rencontres du Cinéma Latino Américain – Official Selection (Pessac, France) Itinérances – Festival Cinéma d’Alès – Official Selection (Alès, France) Cinélatino, rencontres de Toulouse – Official Selection, Contemporary Colombian Cinema section (Toulouse, France) Ojo Loco, Festival de cinéma ibérique et latino-américain – Official Selection (Grenoble, France) Festival Horizon vert – Festival d’écologie et de films en circuit-court – Official Selection (Haute-Vienne, France) Kinolatino Film Festival – Official feature competition (Brussels, Belgium) – Best feature film
Production : Dublin Films International Sales :Manifest
Synopsis: In a cosmos that looks like nothingness, two beings seem to exist only to come into contact.
Shooting: September 202à and april 2021 (France)
Festivals :
Semaine de la Critique – Special screening (Cannes – France) AVIFF Art Film Festival – Official Selection – Grand Jury price (Cannes, France) TiSFF – Thess Short Film Festival – Official Selection (Thassaloniki, Greece) Imajitari International Dance Film Festival – Official Selection (Jakarta, Indonésia) Tirana International Film festival – Official Video & Art experimental selection (Tirana, Albania) International Short Film Festival of Cyprus – Parallel Section Skin to Skin (Limassol, Cyprus) RIFF – Rome Independent Film Festival – Official International Short Film Competition (Rome, Italy)
Festival Tous Courts – International Experimental Short Film Competition (Aix-en-Provence, France) B3 Biennial of the Moving Image Festival – Official Competition (Frankfurt, Germany) IMARP Mostra Internacional de Dança – Official Selection (Sao Paulo, Brazil) Bogoshorts – International Experimental Competition (Bogota, Colombia) – Best Experimental Short in International Competition Interface Video Art Festival – Official Competition (Rijeka, Croatia) Ribalta Experimental Film Festival – Official Competition (Vignola, Italie) In The Palace International Short Film Festival – Official Competition best experimental short (Sofia, Bulgarie) Brussels Porn Film Festival – Official Selection (Brussels, Belgium) La Guarimba Film Festival – Official Selection – Insomnia prize for best experimental film (Amantea, Italy) Mecal PRO Barcelona International Film Festival (Barcelona, Spain) Les instants vidéos (France) Desenzano Film Festival – Official Selection (Garda, Italy)
In a forest in eastern Poland, an archaeologist digs to bring to light the traces of the Sobibor extermination center. Thousands of objects that belonged to the victims are emerging from the ground as fragile witnesses. This research must be completed, because the construction of a new museum-memorial is beginning.
How can the Shoah be commemorated on its own site, today and tomorrow, when an era without witnesses is emerging? How does the Shoah continue to work on the history and memory of Poland, of its citizens, within Europe, in a conflicting political context?
The film looks at these questions by showing and hearing the voices of archaeologists, historians, architects, journalists, curators, and visitors linked to Sobibor.
Shooting : 2021 (Poland)
With the support of CNC (FAI writing & development, FSA), Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine (writing, development & production), Claims Conference, France 3 (L’Heure D, France 3 Nouvelle-Aquitaine), Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah & Procirep-Angoa (Development & Production).
Festivals :
2022 Les rendez-vous de l’Histoire – Historic Documentaries Competition (Blois, October) – Grand Prix Historic Documentary 2022
2023 Miami Jewish Film Festival – Official selection (Miami, USA) FIFAN – Festival International du Film d’Archéologie – Official selection (Nyon, Switzerland) – Best archaeological film Festival international Jean Rouch – Official international competition (Paris, France) Papa Intl Historical Film festival – Official selection (Papa, Hongrie) Foça Film Days – Official selection (Izmir, Turkey) Serbest International Film Festival – Official selection (Kishinev, Moldova) Rencontres d’Archéologie de la Narbonnaise – Official competition (Narbonne, France)
Production : Dublin Films Coproduction : Need Productions (Belgium) & Maelstrom Studios (France) International sales :CAT&Docs Digital Marketing :Elephant
Synopsis :
Khavaj, a young MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fighter, fled Chechnya when his brother discovered his homosexuality and promised to kill him, under the persecution of Kadyrov’s regime. In Brussels, facing the shock of exil, he is struck by mutism. The only link that he keeps with Chechnya are the vocal messages that his mother sends him.
The film traces Khavaj’s first months in Belgium. Forced to live in total anonymity to escape the Chechen diaspora, he will try to build a new identity.
Shooting : October – November 2019 (Belgium)
With the support of Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, CNC (Contribution financière), Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, TV7 Bordeaux and Sabam.
Main Credits : DOP: Arnaud Alberola
Sound: Hélène Clerc Denizot
Editing: Jeanne Oberson
Sound mix : Aline Gavroy
Director assistant: Sonam Larcin
Coproducers: Anne-Laure Guégan et Géraldine Sprimont
Producer: David Hurst
Festivals :
2020 IDFA – Competition for Mid-Length Documentary (Netherlands, November)
2021 FIPADOC – Official competition, National Documentary (France, January) ArtDocFest Moscou and St-Petersbourg – Official competition (Russia, april) ArtDocFest Riga – Grand Jury Prize (Latvia, april) HotDocs international documentary festival – Best Mid-Length Award (Canada, april/may) Millenium International Documentary Film – Best Film award – Young Vision competition (Belgium, may) DOXA Documentary Film Festival – International competition (Canada, may) Pinkapple queer film festival – Official competition (Switzerland, may) One World International Film Festival – Russian Standard section (Czech Republic, may) Diaspora Film Festival – Diaspora in Focus : Rainbow Refugees section (South Korea, may) Biografilm Festival – Special mention – International competition (Italy, june) One World Romania – section No place like home (Roumania, June) Queer Film Days – Queer & Migrant International film (Serbia, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, june) Festival de Brive – International Medium-lenght encounters – Jury Prize – International competition (France, july) DocAviv – International competition (Israel, july) First Look – Museum of the Moving Image (USA, july) Barbican Centre – Programme New East Cinema (England, august) XPOSED Queer Festival – Audience Choice Lolly Award (Germany, august) États généraux du film documentaire – Éxpériences du regard section (France, august) Festival Millennium Docs Against Gravity – Competition, section Man in Film (Poland, September) Beldocs Festival – EleMental and Fireworks section (Serbia, september) Queer Lisboa – Documentary competition (Portugal, september) Corsica Doc – Festival’s prize, short film’s section (France, october) Crocevia di Sguardi festival (Italia, october) Outshine Film festival – Official selection (USA, october) Festival International du Cinéma des Peuples Ânûû-rû Âboro – International competition (New-Caledonia, october) Festival DocsMx – Special mention, Global Docs section (Mexico, october) FLIMM – Out of compétition (France, october) Les Escales Documentaires – Jury Special mention (France, november) Festival Interférences – Competition (Lyon, novembre) International Queer & Migrant Film Festival (Amsterdam, november) Chéries-Chéris – Jury Prize (Paris, november) Traces de Vies – Competition (Clermont-Ferrand, november)
2022
Trieste Film Festival – Carte Blanche Vitaly Mansky section (Italy, january) Antenna Documentary Film Festival – Special Mention, Competition (Australia, february) Ecrans Mixtes – Official competition (Lyon, march) – Jury Prize Zinegoak – Officiel selection Krak (Bilbao, march) – Best Film In&Out – Official Selection (Nice, May) Rencontres Intergalactiques de sports de combat – Official Selection (Grenoble, May) Ânûû-Rû Âboro – International Competition Medium-lenght (New-Caledonia, October) – Best Medium-lenght Film Prize Social Film Festival – Official Selection (France, October) – CAF 75-92’s Jury Prize Festival Vrai de Vrai, Les étoiles du Documentaire – Closing Film (France, November) La Cabina, Amalgama Section (Spain, November) – Best Medium Lenght, Best Film Editing, Best Audiovisual Wrinting, Best Film Youth Jury & Best Film Senior Jury.
Executive production : Dublin Films Coproduction : Macarena + (Colombia)
Synopsis :
In northern Peru, deep in the Amazonian jungle, Amadeo is the last man to speak Taushiro. He is old, his body is tired, he knows he will die soon. We follow him in his solitude and his rituals. He uses his native language to talk to the trees, to the spirits of the animals he hunts and to his brother who died a few years ago. By taking a close look at Amadeo’s daily life, the film questions bigger issues : the destruction of the Amazone forest, the disappearance of indigenous people and cultures.
Shoot : June 2019, Intuto (Peru)
Crew :
Image : Sofia Oggioni
Sound : Nicolás Gomez
Editing : Jeanne Oberson
Sound post-production : Mikael Kandelman
Color control : Emmanuel Fortin
Coproduction : Diana Ramos
Production : David Hurst
With the support of Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, CNC (FSA), Kanaldude, Procirep-Angoa.
Festivals : IsReal Festival – Official compétition (Italy) Bolivia Lab (Pérou, september) Mamut Festival (Colombia, october) FIFAC (Guyana, october) Traces de vies – Hors Frontières Prize (France, december) Babel Film Festival – UNica Prize (Italy, december)