800 Gondomar In The Subcontinent

João Nicolau and Alessandro Comodin

PRT · Development

Production · Frederico Mesquita · SEARA FILMES (PRT)

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. Filming in January–February 2027; partners for editing, sound editing, colour grading and mixing from March to July.

Archiveless Memories — For An Imaginary Museum

Ali Razi

FRA, PRT, IRN · Development

Production · C.R.I.M. (PRT)

Co-production · Darjeeling (FRA)

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.

A Spectre Is Haunting Europe

Róbert Mihály and Virág Emma Csuport

SVK, CZE · Development

Production · Anna Mach Rumanová · filmsomnia (SVK)

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.

Copy

Miguel Machetti

ESP · Development

Production · Ángeles L. Guerrero and Tina V. Mollá · Gelatina Películas (ESP)

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.

Exotic World

Sarah Moon Howe

BEL · Development

Production · Maxime Coton · RUBIS productions (BEL)

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

Hannah Papacek Harper and Francesco Amoruso

FRA, GBR, PSE · Development

Production · Hannah Papacek Harper, Sinéad Kirwan and Yazeed Abu Khdeir · PYROCLAST PRODUCTIONS (FRA)

Co-production · Enemy Films (GBR) and 48K Productions (PSE)

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.

Long Distance

Miguel Eek

ESP, PRT · Development

Production · Miguel Eek and Jaime Muguruza · MOSAIC (ESP)

Co-development · The Stone and The Plot (PRT)

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.

Our Language

Barbara Knezevic

SRB, IRL, AUS · Development

Production · Jelena Angelovski · Obol Film (SRB)

Co-production · Knezevic Studio Ltd (IRL) and Sign12 Pty Ltd (AUS)

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.

See What I Say

Arturas Jevdokimovas

LTU, UKR, ITA · Pre-production

Production · Ringailė Lescinskiene · Zero Copy Reel (LTU)

Co-production · POPCult srl (ITA) and WAYA Production (UKR)

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.

Tomato

Giorgi Parkosadze

GEO · Development

Production · Giorgi Parkosadze · Attic Docu Films (GEO)

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: Experienced co-producers with an affinity for essay cinema, offering creative input and access to financing; interest in partners in Switzerland, Belgium and Hungary.

Traçadas

Tânia Dinis

PRT · Development

Production · Catarina de Sousa · Foi Bonita a Festa (PRT)

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.