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Twelve projects in development and pre-production present their proposals at Porto Industry Days’ Co-Production Meetings. Coming from countries participating in Creative Europe MEDIA, the teams share their cinematic visions with producers, funders, broadcasters, platforms and sales agents.
The session offers an opportunity to identify co-production partners, discuss financing plans and gather creative and strategic feedback. Each team has eight minutes to present its project, including a teaser or mood reel of up to three minutes.
Selected projects
800 Gondomar no Subcontinente
International title: 800 Gondomar in the Subcontinent
Directed by João Nicolau and Alessandro Comodin
PRT · Development
Production: Frederico Mesquita · SEARA FILMES
In January and February 2027, 800 Gondomar take their garage rock on tour across the Indian subcontinent. João Nicolau and Alessandro Comodin follow the three musicians as they encounter audiences, independent promoters, places and sounds. Moving between documentary and fiction, the film builds a mosaic of the journey, shaped by the band’s energy and the relationships formed along the way.
looking for: An international co-producer contributing €50,000. Partners for editing, sound editing, colour grading and mixing between March and July 2027, following the shoot.
Archiveless Memories – For an Imaginary Museum
Directed by Ali Razi
FRA, PRT, IRN · Development
Production: C.R.I.M.
Co-production: Darjeeling
Nawal lives between France and Iran and revisits the legacy of the Iran–Iraq War when a new war interrupts the film she is making with her son. Tehran’s Museum of the Sacred Defense, family archives and destroyed palm groves come together in a cinematic counter-museum. Through the dialogue between mother and son, the film questions official history and how memory passes between generations.
looking for: International co-producers, documentary development and production funds and grants; broadcasters and financing partners aligned with the film’s artistic approach.
El participio del verbo oír
International title: Copy
Directed by Miguel Machetti
ESP · Development
Production: Ángeles L. Guerrero and Tina V. Mollá · Gelatina Películas
Ramón, a young assistant director, starts working on a film starring Camille de Valois, a celebrated French actress returning to cinema after twenty years away following a murder accusation. Struggling to recover from a breakup with his boyfriend, Ramón becomes fascinated by her. Everyone around him wants to know whether she is guilty; he seems indifferent to her past.
looking for: European co-producers who connect with the film’s artistic vision and can help develop a production with international scope.
Európu obchádza strašidlo
International title: A Spectre Is Haunting Europe
Directed by Róbert Mihály and Virág Emma Csuport
SVK, CZE · Development
Production: Anna Mach Rumanová · filmsomnia
Beginning with the myth of Europa, abducted by a bull and carried across the sea, the film travels through the continent in encounters with veterans, lawyers, fishermen and protesters. Borders, institutions and political violence call Europe’s promise of unity into question. From rescues at sea to street protests, this documentary essay also observes the acts of solidarity that endure.
looking for: European co-producers for creative input, financing and local production; access to funds and broadcasters, sales agents and international distribution partners.
Exotic World
Directed by Sarah Moon Howe
BEL · Development
Production: Maxime Coton · RUBIS productions
In the 1990s, Sarah Moon Howe performed striptease at a Brussels agency that promised its artists freedom. Twenty years later, a box of photographs, posters and tapes leads her to reunite with former colleagues and travel to the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas. Combining personal archives, paper-cut animation and a documentary road movie, the film revisits the promises and contradictions of sexual liberation.
looking for: French and German co-producers with access to CNC, ARTE France and German broadcasters; European TV pre-buys and minority co-production of 10–15%.
Journey of an Archive
Directed by Hannah Papacek Harper and Francesco Amoruso
FRA, GBR, PSE · Development
Production: Hannah Papacek Harper, Sinéad Kirwan and Yazeed Abu Khdeir · PYROCLAST PRODUCTIONS
Co-production: Enemy Films and 48K Productions
To preserve the journals in which he has recorded life under occupation since 1969, Palestinian writer Raja Shehadeh sends them from Ramallah to the University of Edinburgh. In Scotland, dancer Farah Saleh turns his words into movement. Raja’s voice, animation and dance follow the archive’s journey and ask what happens to a people’s memory when preserving it means taking it out of the country.
looking for: Minority co-producers, broadcasters and funds, prioritising production support in Palestine and Scotland; collaborators in animation, archives, sound and post-production.
Larga Distancia
International title: Long Distance
Directed by Miguel Eek
ESP, PRT · Development
Production: Miguel Eek and Jaime Muguruza · MOSAIC
Co-development: The Stone and The Plot
A railway video diary crosses Europe from Lisbon to Kiruna in northern Sweden. On trains, in stations, cafés and waiting rooms, Miguel Eek observes landscapes and meets people travelling for work, love, fear or survival. The journey from south to north reveals a continent of contrasts, where movement coexists with a sense of stillness.
looking for: European co-producers, broadcasters and distributors to complete financing and the international production structure, and support development and circulation.
Naš jezik
International title: Our Language
Directed by Barbara Knezevic
SRB, IRL, AUS · Development
Production: Jelena Angelovski · Obol Film
Co-production: Knezevic Studio Ltd and Sign12 Pty Ltd
Ivan Meštrović’s Kosovo Cycle, conceived in 1908 as a vision of South Slavic unity, intersects with the history of SBS, established in Australia to serve migrant communities. Connecting sculpture and broadcasting, the film explores how language, art and memory shape diaspora identities and forms of belonging beyond borders.
looking for: International co-producers experienced in creative documentary, essay film, contemporary art and archives; partners for financing, access to institutions and circulation.
პამიდორი · Pamidori
International title: Tomato
Directed by Giorgi Parkosadze
GEO · Development
Production: Giorgi Parkosadze · Attic Docu Films
Paata, now in his late sixties, retraces a one-day journey with his filmmaker son. Three decades earlier, he travelled from Tbilisi to a summer camp to bring a parcel to his wife and children. Returning to places that have since changed, father and son confront their memories with the present and revisit the upheavals of 1990s Georgia, asking what repeats and how to resist.
looking for: Co-producers experienced in essay cinema, offering creative collaboration and access to financing; interest in partners in Switzerland, Belgium and Hungary.
Traçadas
Directed by Tânia Dinis
PRT · Development
Production: Catarina de Sousa · Foi Bonita a Festa
In Minho and Galicia, women from different generations share experiences of agricultural, textile and care work. The gestures of weavers, former factory workers, healers and carers reveal how labour and social class shape bodies. Moving between documentary, fiction and poetic essay, the film combines oral histories, archives and landscapes to follow a memory passed on and transformed in the present.
looking for: A Spanish co-producer, preferably based in Galicia, to deepen artistic collaboration and support development, financing and international circulation.
Un Viento Lúcido
Directed by Luana Bovet and Pau Berga
ESP · Development
Production: Crema.film
A near-death experience transforms Sento, a 76-year-old man living in a remote valley in the Sierra Nevada. Returning to life, he turns to his neighbours for answers about what he experienced and the loss of his daughter. Moving between documentary and fiction, members of this community re-enact their own experiences in a film about ageing, grief and other ways of inhabiting the world.
looking for: An experienced production company from Europe or Latin America for co-production, creative collaboration and involvement in forthcoming shoots and, particularly, post-production.
Žiūrėk, ką sakau
International title: See What I Say
Directed by Arturas Jevdokimovas
LTU, UKR, ITA · Pre-production
Production: Ringailė Lescinskiene · Zero Copy Reel
Co-production: POPCult srl and WAYA Production
In bars in Bologna, Vilnius and Kyiv, hearing customers adapt to communication with Deaf staff. Live video feeds connect the three spaces, but Italian, Lithuanian and Ukrainian sign languages also differ from one another. Inside and outside the bars, the film follows these negotiations, shaping its narrative and editing through gestures, bodies and the rhythms of communication.
looking for: Co-producers for creative collaboration, access to national funds, financing and post-production services; international distribution and a European festival release.
