Pornomelancolia

Feature film, Fiction, 95′, 2022

Director: Manuel Abramovich

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.

Nuestra Película

Documentary, 70′, 2022

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)

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Diógenes

Feature Film, fiction, 80′, 2022

Director : Leonardo Barbuy

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)

ANHELL69

Documentary, 75′, 2022

Writer & Director : Theo Montoya

Executive Production : Desvio Visual (Colombia)
Coproduction : Monogram Film (Romania), Dublin Films (France), Amerika Film (Germany)

International Sales : Square Eyes

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 
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.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata –  Latin American competition (Mar del Plata, Argentina) – Special Mention
RIDM – Compétition Internationale (Montréal, Canada) – Special Mention Great Prize Feature Film International Competition
International Film Festival of India – Intergrade Section (Goa, India) 
Margenes – 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) – Lobo Marino Award for Best Iberoamerican Documentary
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)
True/False Film Festival – Official selection (Colombia, USA)
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)
Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse – Official competition fiction (Toulouse, France) – SFCC Award
FICCI – Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de Indias – Official Documentary selection  “Hecho en casa” (Cartagena, Colombia)
D’A Festival Cinema Barcelona – Official selection, Talents section (Barcelone, Espagne)
CLaP – Festival de cinéma latino-américain de Paris – Official Competition (Paris, France) – CLaP Audience Award
One World International Film Festival – Official selection (Prague, Czech Republic)
DOCVILLE – Documentary Film Festival Leuven  – Official selection, Outside the Dox section (Leuven, Belgium)
Phoenix Film Festival – Official selection, Spotlight on: the LGBTQIA+ Community section (Phoenix, USA)
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)
Docaviv Film Festival – Official Depth of Field competition (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Festival la Fête du slip – Official selection (Lausanne, Switzerland)
TRANSlations: Seattle Trans Film Festival – Official selection (Seattle, USA)
ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival – Official competition IDA (International Documentary Award) (Vienna, Austria)
DOXA Documentary Film Festival – Official international competition, Thin Places section (Vancouver, Canada) – Special Jury mention
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)
Kinolatino Film Festival – Official selection (Brussels, Belgium)
DOC-Cévennes – Official selection (Lasalle, France)
Festival Construir Cine – Festival International de Cine sobre el Trabajo – Official selection, Perspectivas focus (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
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)
TIFF – Transilvania International Film Festival – Official International Competition (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Sheffield DocFest – Official selection, Journeys section and competing for the Youth Jury Award (Sheffield, United Kingdom)

Daughter of sin

Short-film, fiction, 29′, 2021

Director : Elhachmia Didi-Alaoui

Production : Dublin Films

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)

The Rust

Feature film, Fiction, 83′, 2021

Director : Juan Sebastián Mesa

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. 

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 selection (Brussels, Belgium)

Special Screenings :

MoMA – Special screenings in the program : Movies from Earth (New-York, May 2022)
La Casa Encendida – Cycle Futuro Imperfecto (Madrid, Mai 2022)

Amo

Short-film, fiction, 20′, 2022

Director : Emmanuel Gras

Production : Dublin Films
International Sales : Manifest

Synopsis:
In a cosmos that looks like nothingness, two beings seem to exist only to come into contact.

Sheol

Documentary, 88′, 2022

Director : Arnaud Sauli

Production : Dublin Films

Synopsis :

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)

Silent Voice

Documentary, 51′, 2020

Director : Reka Valerik
Co-writer : Anaïs Llobet

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.

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.

La Desaparición

Short-Film, Documentary, 57′, 2020

Director : Jonathan Millet

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)

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